In mid-October, at BAI Retail Delivery in Chicago, I went to one of the most widely attended sessions of the conference. It was a Q&A style interview of Randi Zuckerberg by Ron Insana, Senior Analyst, CNBC. Zuckerberg is the former Head of Marketing at Facebook and Founder and CEO of R
For the past year, I’ve had the pleasure of serving on the communications team of the National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness (NCB-P), of which SAS is a partner and the analytics provider. That experience was heavy on my mind as I recently watched the film Contagion. I may drop some minor
Does your company have an internal social network, wiki or blog network? We have all three - and more - on the SAS intranet. Karen Lee, Director of Internal Communications at SAS, was recently interviewed by World at Work about the use of social media internally at SAS. In this
A poll of The Premier Business Leadership Series audience revealed that very few business leaders need convincing that social media is changing the way organizations interact with customers and other stakeholders. The only doubts revolve around how and what to do about it. A panel discussion on the impact of
Occasionally, I give presentations to analysts and investigators in the insurance industry regarding how they can use social media websites like Facebook and Twitter during their investigations. Special Investigation Units (SIU’s) are increasingly turning to social media websites during their research as discussed in this recent Los Angeles Times article.
I consider myself a fairly tech-savvy person (or at least a tech-gadgety person). I sport an iPad, an iPhone, a Droid phone and multiple other devices. In fact, when I travel, I practically have a separate suitcase for my chargers (and it doesn't fit under the seat). I have a
I’m attending a Bank Administration Institute (BAI) event in Las Vegas this week. BAI is well-respected for its research, professional development and networking opportunities for banks and banking professionals. The conference, BAI Retail Delivery, is primarily attended by community banks and large regionals, but the topics are anything but colloquial.
In a recent Datamation article, "Business Intelligence Software and Predictive Analytics," Jeff Vance asks, "What exactly is predictive analytics?" His answer, in part: "Take traditional business intelligence, combine it with data mining and add on statistical analysis and you have predictive analytics. Math geeks will squabble over the nuances, say,
I attended journalism graduate school and graduated in May 2007. I tell you the date, because it was a blink ago. While there, graduate students researched ways to save our dying newspaper industry. One model being tested was convergence: Broadcast stations and newspapers could align to reduce costs and improve
At the Premier Business Leadership Series in Las Vegas, I made an effort to talk to everyone I could about social media. It's fun to consider how differently these conversations might have gone four years ago when I started my first personal blog. If I had tried to talk to
