Announcing the BIF-3 Blogjam!
All of the storytellers at our upcoming BIF-3 Summit share an irrepressible and near infectious trait - a passion for what they do. It’s the stuff that makes them different from regular working folk and propels them ever forward. To help capture their stories and experiences, I’m happy to announce that the Business Innovation Factory will host the 2nd annual BIF-3 Blogjam. Each one of our guest bloggers are experienced and insightful innovation practitioners who also wield a mighty pen.
Please join us online at the BIFSpeak blog on October 10th and 11th when a group of really interesting people will gather together under one roof to share some personal stories about innovation. We'll be posting live throughout the day. Don't miss it!
Our blogjam participants include:
Dominic Basulto is Director of Editorial Strategy + Content Development at ElectricArtists. Prior to that he was the Editor of FORTUNE magazine’s Business Innovation Insider. His personal credo: Re-mix. Re-invent. Re-think. Dominic blogs at Endless Innovation.
Josh Catone is a Lead Author at Read/WriteWeb, a popular weblog that provides web technology news, reviews and analysis and is ranked among Technorati’s Top 30 blogs in the world. He hails from Rhode Island, USA, and has been a R/WW writer since March 2007. Josh is also co-founder of the web's largest community dedicated to Ruby on Rails development, Rails Forum.
Rachel Clarke blogs about digital marketing, looking at how brands use digital to promote their products and how this fits in with their more traditional channels; during the day she works as a Social Media Digital Strategist for an ad agency, advising on best practices for using web marketing. Rachel's blog is BehindTheBuzz.
Jeff De Cagna is the chief strategist and founder of Principled Innovation LLC. After serving as an association executive for more than a decade, Jeff founded Principled Innovation to help associations realize their full potential through the pursuit of sustainable innovation. Jeff blogs at Principled Innovation.
Erica Driver is a principal analyst at Forrester Research. She is a leading expert on enterprise messaging and collaboration strategies and platforms and information workplace strategies and platforms. She also covers information rights management. She is a contributing blogger at Forrester's Information and Knowledge Management blog.
Francois Gossieaux is president of Corante, Inc. He has a long history with online media –having implemented an Intranet for a large multinational in the early 90's; and being the organizer of the first large scale virtual event–InterAct'96–with Time Magazine and Infoworld. Francois blog - named a Power 150 Marketing Blog- is Emergence Marketing.
Steve Hardy is the founder of Creative Generalist, a popular weblog for curious divergent thinkers who appreciate new ideas from a wide mix of sources. He is formerly the Business Director of 2004's Magazine of the Year Maisonneuve (eclectic curiosity) and currently manages the brand team at Airborne Entertainment in Montreal.
Steve blogs at Creative Generalist.
Dean Hering is the Chief Innovator of innovation consulting firm OVO, Dean currently leads the innovation team at OVO and spearheads the Innovate on Purpose Initiative, which applies leading innovation thought leadership to producing products and services. Dean is a 'v-logger' and will be producing the first-ever BIF-3 video blog entries from the summit.
Brian Jepson is an O’Reilly editor, programmer, and co-author of Mac OS X for Unix Geeks and Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther. He’s also a volunteer system administrator and all-around geek for AS220, a non-profit arts center in Providence, Rhode Island. Brian's rants and raves from Kingston, RI can be read here.
Lois Kelly is the author of Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word of Mouth Marketing and cofounder of marketing communications firm Foghound. She writes regularly with her no-nonsense point of view about how companies can more easily talk about their business or product in interesting ways. Lois' blog is Bloghound.
Brian Reich is Director of New Media at Cone and author of the upcoming book Media Rules!. He also writes about innovation for the Fast Company Experts blog as well as his own blog ThinkingAboutMedia.
BIF-3 Storyteller Euan Semple is a well-known writer, thinker, public speaker and independent advisor on social computing for business. The former head of Knowledge Management for the BBC, Semple pioneered the use of weblogs, wikis and on-line forums. He blogs regularly about how businesses can prepare themselves for challenges and opportunities that come with new technologies. Euan's blog is The Obvious?
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And then there's me - curator and primary blogger for the Business Innovation Factory. I'm a sucker for well-written conference recaps. Many of our guest bloggers are returning for a second year primarily because they're great writers. (Welcome to our new members - you're in for a treat.)
Time is precious and many of us just aren't in the position to travel the country and attend conferences. BIF-3 is different. Someone asked me recently why he should attend the summit. My answer is this: All too often, in both our personal and professional lives, we find ourselves playing defense. We defend our position, we defend against competition, we defend our intellectual property. You get the gist. Yet innovation is on the offense - it forces us to look outward. It depends on complex, continually changing streams of information that can't be contained by any one source.
BIF-3 is a rare opportunity to leave the confines of our nest and spend some time meeting crazy fascinating people from all walks of life. It's about the power of developing and nurturing interpersonal relationships. All company pitchs and new product ideas are checked at the door. And don't expect to hear much of anything around business process either. BIF-3 is about great people telling great stories. Looking forward to meeting you there.
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