Spreading the Word: Interview with Jalali Hartman
I love meeting visionary people who have the determination and the smarts to turn their visions into business realities.
One such person is Jalali Hartman, Founder and CEO of the Yovia network, whom I met last year at the Blogworld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, where Yovia had a stand. From talking with Jalali I was inspired enough to join the Yovia network.
Now, several months later, I’ve at last had the pleasure of interviewing Jalali for this Social Media Show.
In the conversation we touched on a number of subjects, including:
- how even experienced tech hotshots can learn from high school kids about the possibilities of the Web
- how to deal with corporate resistance to the introduction of social media
- why the Yovia motto is “Spread the Word”
- why some 2,000 bloggers and even whole villages in Africa are part of the Yovia network
- how to keep a human balance in the midst of the pressures of a tech startup
- how to get paid to blog by hooking up with Yovia
and more.
Listen to the interview here or download the MP3 file for your iPod or other player.
Previewing Digital Media Release Workshops in China
This podcast incorporates a fairly impromptu, 30 minute conversation I had on June 4 with Professor Lonnie B. Hodge, CEO of culturefish Media, a Guangzhou, China based company specializing in online marketing, seo and reputation management in the China market. I’m an Associate of culturefish Media.
The conversation is about the four one-day workshops on digital media releases which Lonnie and I are presenting in July this year, in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Proceeds to the Dreamblogue Handicapped Intern Program, The Library Project Earthquake Fund and the Reading Tub Literacy project.
We talk about our aims for the workshops, the concept of a social media release, having fun while learning, Twitter, meteor showers and flashlights.
Event details and bookings:
(UPDATE: due to the current restrictive regime on travel into China and related challenges in obtaining visas, it was necessary to postpone the arrangements for the workshops. We are working on alternative plans now.)
Hong Kong (18 July): http://pr-20-hongkong.eventbrite.com
Shanghai (21 July): http://pr2-0.eventbrite.com/
Beijing (23 July): http://pr-20-BJ.eventbrite.com
Guangzhou (25 July): http://pr-20-gz.eventbrite.com
For more information, please contact us.
Enterprise 2.0 for Real People: Peter Evans-Greenwood
One of my aims in establishing this podcast site was to find and interview people who have wide-ranging and profound knowledge of the technical side of Enterprise 2.0 issues and can relate the application of the technology simply and clearly to how real people operate and work. One such person is Peter Evans-Greenwood, a Chief Technology Officer with leading consulting firm, Capgemini Australia.
I first heard Peter speak at the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum in Sydney in February. Last week I interviewed him.
We talked about a number of issues, including:
- Google Apps
- cultural change issues that come up with the introduction of Web 2.0 technology in the enterprise
- the emerging role of Enterprise 2.0 in the government sector
- how the technology helps companies get measurable business value from their knowledge work processes.
In the interview we make reference to a document available as a free download from the Capgemini website - Enterprise 2.0 For the Rest of Us - which I found well worth the read.
Interview with Peter Evans-Greenwood
Interview with David Holloway of The Metaverse Journal
What’s the business case for a company researching and even investing human/financial resources in Second Life or other virtual worlds?
Does the potential upside outweigh the risk?
What will peers - or shareholders - have to say about executives who argue for more engagement with the metaverse?
This interview with David Holloway, Editor-in-Chief of The Metaverse Journal, touches directly or indirectly on these and related questions. Of course, in the space of a 30 minute or so interview it does not provide all the answers. But it does provide some context and illustrations for a sensible discussion on the subject.
In Metaverse Journal Partners With Enterprise 2.0 Thinkfest on my deswalsh.com site, I’ve posted summary notes of the interview and some comments, and a couple of pictures, including one of David Holloway.
This is the second interview to be posted here on the Social Media Show and the second in a series relating to the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum - Sydney, February 19, 2008.
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Launching the Social Media Show
Thank you, Leo Laporte!
The idea of setting up this site was inspired by my attending the superb keynote by award-winning podcaster Leo Laporte, at last October’s BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas.
Up till then I’d had the idea of doing interviews and other podcasts and posting them on my deswalsh.com site. But after listening to Leo I decided that I would either start a show on an existing network or else set up my own site. That firmed up into a decision to start my own site. More work in setting up, but I like the idea of being answerable to myself on this project.
It won’t stop me looking at network podcasting later.
Interviews galore
As part of the process of thinking about the site, I sat down one day last year and, over a cup of coffee and off the top of my head jotted down the names of about fifty people I would like to interview for this show and whom I felt confident would be willing to be interviewed. So I don’t see myself running out of people or topics any time soon. And looking at some of the names, I know there are going to be some stimulating and informative conversations.
An initial round of interviews is already underway, in connection with the Enterprise 2.0 Executive Forum next Tuesday, February 19, primarily in Sydney, Australia, and with speakers also via streaming video from the USA and Europe.
Inaugural interview
I’ve already done one of those interviews, with knowledge management expert Stephen Collins. So Stephen is the inaugural interviewee. Here is the interview:
Moving right along
Tonight I’m interviewing someone who is very knowledgeable about Second Life and the metaverse story generally. That should be fun as well as being informative.
If you have topics you would like addressed, and/or people you would like to hear interviewed, please leave a comment here or drop me an email to deswalsh (at) gmail (dot) com. Yes, you can nominate yourself if you feel you have a good story to tell about social media and business.
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