In a recent online discussion with the ABV team for the pilot, I talked about being distracted by opportunities for visibility instead of focusing on community-building. One team member shot back, “I disagree.” He pointed out that visibility is important…
I finally got it the other day when someone said that ABV is about creating change from the bottom up. It used to be that change could only come from the top down or required a massive organizational effort from…
Dave Taylor gave the keynote at the opening of the Thin Air Summit. And what an opening! He’s a pioneer in the use of the Internet, going back to the ’80s. With that experience comes a wise perspective. I found…
I recently had the opportunity to catch up with Chris Wendel, one of our A Bigger Voice pilot clients. Chris and his brother Tim are the sports fans and history buffs behind the blog Buffalo Nation. Their new book, Buffalo,…
Networking is one of the tools we use to build community at A Bigger Voice. I’m pleased to introduce Ellen Ingraham as our networking expert. Ellen comes to us after a successful career in building extraordinary sales teams in the…
I first heard about Twitter nearly two years ago and at the time, I didn’t get it. I gave it another try last fall, after seeing Twitter in use at the Thin Air Summit by afficionados. I saw enough to…
What happens when you put an Internet icon (Dave Taylor), a marketing expert at the crossroads of new media and old media (Dave Webb), and a digital immigrant who bridges top down with bottom up approaches (Kim Dority) on a…
The last year I worked for Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, I was supervised by a woman who destroyed my faith in my skill, intelligence, and competence. She raged at fellow employees in front of me. She called me in to…
After a two-week hiatus, I’m back online. It seems that all around me, change is in the air. Later this month, I’ll announce changes for A Bigger Voice, a shift in the focus of our efforts for 2009. In the…
Pilot Project Exploring the Five Modules of ABV
In addition to providing examples of ABV at work and deepening my own learning of the concepts through blogging, I’ll also be “pulling back the covers” occasionally on parallel efforts. One of these is a pilot that I’ve started to…