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Chris Brogan
Social Media Thought Leader
When it comes to Social Media, Chris Brogan is at the very top of the list of advisors people seek out. Chris uses social media and technology to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. It's all about authentic conversations between co-workers, customers, and even competitors. He is one of the rising stars in the independent, small media publishing world. Chris epitomizes the word evangelist. He's a prolific writer about much more than just technology, and he gives freely of himself advising scores of people about what social media is and how to get in the game.
Chris's strength is in connecting passionate people together for business, collaboration, and networking. Chris blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at www.chrisbrogan.com. He is expert at new media creation (blogging, podcasting, videoblogging) as well as social media community building (through sites like Facebook, Ning, Twitter, and others).
Chris is cofounder of the PodCamp UnConference series (with Christopher S. Penn), exploring the use of new media community tools to extend relationships and build value. There have been over 40 PodCamps all over the world, including Sweden, South Africa, and Australia, as well as several cities in the United States.
Chris is also Vice President of Strategy and Technology at CrossTech Media.
Click the tabs above to listen to the separate episodes corresponding to the four catalysts of Personal Brilliance - Awareness, Curiosity, Focus, and Initiative or listen to the complete interview if you prefer.
Links to Chris's websites mentioned in this podcast:
http://chrisbrogan.com
http://crosstechmedia.com
http://podcamp.org
http://www.twebinar.com
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews social media expert Chris Brogan, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Awareness in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Awareness for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Social Media defined
- Corporate resistance to Social Media
- What really is a conversation?
- Velvet Rope Social Networks
- Portability across Social Networks
- Various goals for building a network
- The most important thing not to do
- Listening
- How Chris uses Awareness to "make meaning"
Sites referenced in this episode:
http://www.sermo.com
Interact with both Chris and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews social media expert Chris Brogan, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Curiosity in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Curiosity for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Why curiosity is core to Chris's work
- Why "What has my attention?" is so much better than, "What are you doing?"
- Comments a vital feedback loop
- Blogging as a conversation catalyst
- The questions a company should ask when jumping into Social Media
- What's the strategy?
- The impact of 'Will it Blend?' on the business world
- The most important question
Interact with both Chris and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews social media expert Chris Brogan, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Focus in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Focus for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- The realization that you are responsible for you
- Chris - a weirdo? Getting it all done
- Why go solo when you don't have to?
- Velocity vs. Excuses
- Continuous partial attention vs. 360 degree focus
- Thinking while you're doing something else
- "Social media lets you go wide, but YOU have to make it go deep."
- Beyond business to non-profit causes
- The origin of PodCamp and the secret sauce that makes it work
- The origin of Twebinars
- The mission - Empowering humans to do better things
- Simply providing serving suggestions
- Personal Brilliance and empowerment of the individual
Sites referenced in this episode:
http://podcamp.org
http://www.twebinar.com
Books referenced in this episode:
Lou Gerstner - Who Says You Can't Get Elephants to Dance?
Jack Welch - Winning
Interact with both Chris and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
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In this episode of Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical, Jim Canterucci interviews social media expert Chris Brogan, exploring how he uses the Personal Brilliance catalyst Initiative in his successful life. Jim Canterucci has some tips on Initiative for you as well.
Some of this episode's highlights:
- Giving people your ideas
- Consultant vs. Advisor
- Follow your own advice - Project Dog Food
- Feedback as a motivator
- What do you do when you're shy on ideas?
- Ways to push the corporate needle
- The measurements that make a difference
- Social Networks - like toilets???
- The fear of Social Media
- How to take the first steps
- Authenticity - Gary Vaynerchuck
- Success in a commodity business - Christopher S. Penn
Sites referenced in this episode:
http://projectdogfood.com
http://tv.winelibrary.com
http://christopherspenn.com
Books referenced in this episode:
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff - Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies
Interact with both Chris and Jim with your questions. Click here and comment on the blog post.
This is the complete Chris Brogan Personal Brilliance - Up Close and Practical interview with Jim Canterucci.
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