Leadership Think Tank

"Can't wait for the inevitable release of iOS 6 to get an Apple-sanctioned standalone podcast app of your own? Great news! Those rocking 5.1 and higher can roll on over to iTunes to pick up the straightforwardly named Podcasts, right this very second. The iPhone / iPad-friendly app is designed as a repository for the manner of pre-recorded talk radio-killing entertainment that Cupertino inadvertently helped name. We downloaded the app and took it for a spin."

Via John Evans

The more successful you become as a leader, the more other people will demand of your time. 

 

 As a result, if you are going to maintain margin for your most important priorities, you will have to make some difficult decisions about your accessibility.

 

Recently, I was listening to Andy Stanley talk about this very topic. He said,

 

"The harsh reality of leadership is that the more successful we are, the less accessible we become. As things grow and as more people become involved, a leader can’t be equally accessible to all people. So then we are faced with the dilemma of who gets my time and who doesn’t, when do they get it, and and how much of it do they get."

 

Your time is a zero sum game. When you say yes to one thing, you are simultaneously saying no to something else. The more successful you get, the more difficult this becomes.

 

You find yourself saying no to good things—worthy things—in order to say yes to your most important priorities.

Via donhornsby

To be sure, there are many different flavors of social business intelligence just as there are many reasons why organizations will want to create business processes around the feedback loop that forms. Currently, many of the processes involved are manual and ad hoc as the industry has felt its way forward and learned how to engage more meaningfully with social media. A few companies on the leading edge have increasingly formal social business intelligence processes based on sets of capabilities they’ve acquired or built. Other firms have hardly any technology at all, other than perhaps some reports and spreadsheets.

Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL, juandoming

Social media can be applied to all kinds of activities, including staying in touch with relatives, getting advice, and playing games.
Via MAUREAU

Photographers who enjoy capturing video on their iPhone smartphones and would like to add extra filters for effect.
Via Timo Ilomäki

We all love getting something great for free! However, hunting down the good free iPad apps from the terrible ones in the jungle of the App Store can be a difficult job.
Via Timo Ilomäki

At this point, no single customer engagement channel can deliver marketers a complete picture of consumer behavior. Google knows what you’re interested in, but not what you’ve done. Facebook knows who your friends are, but not what you buy.

 

Social media measurement is critical to success, but brands have been unable to get their arms around what it is and what it means.

Aimia, a loyalty-management firm, has unveiled a new segmentation model that analyzes trust and control as drivers of 6 distinct social media personas. The model is detailed in Staring at the Sun: Identifying, Understanding and Influencing Social Media Users. The report argues that specific social media personas can be identified and directly engaged.

 

“Today’s approach to social media measurement – racing to rack up the most likes, retweets, followers, and recommendations – is the wrong approach. Marketers must define success not by social media activity, but rather by customer value and engagement,” said Aimia senior VP Doug Rozen, lead author of the report. “Marketers often struggle to understand the true motivations and purchase intent behind customers’ social media activity. Proper segmentation allows marketers to appropriately identify, understand and influence customers through social channels.”

 

(TDS) - good infographic:  http://socialmediatoday.com/pamdyer/564409/6-types-social-media-users ;

Via Tina Stock, donhornsby, juandoming

From official website:

"KYCK is a digital media platform that discovers, curates, and delivers personalized and highly relevant soccer content to our users.

Here are some key features:

TOP KYCKS: Hand selected content (sort of) that's based off of all your favorites.My Events: Follow the matches you care about. Because we care about your experience. Never miss a goal, reaction, or a chance to offer your commentary again.My Teams & Players: Select your favorite teams or players and stay up to date on the most exceptional news and information.My Profile: Tell us how great you are, show us how good you look, and share your favorite teams and players.My Feed: Filled with the information from your friends, old and new, along with your teams, players, and favorite accounts...all in real time.

From review on Mashable:

"With Euro 2012‘s knockout stage underway, there are a number of ways to follow the action — Twitter, TV, online news, or one of the social sports apps that have been proliferating over the past several months.

Kyck lets you follow and be followed by other users and get content delivered based on the teams and players you support. Following users means their posts — whether photos, comments on live matches or takes on club or international squads — are delivered to a stream that resembles something of a cross between Twitter and Tumblr feeds.

You can tag your own posts by player or team so that they’re filtered into specific conversations. A Top Kycks section, meanwhile, delivers content the app’s algorithm deems most relevant to you for quick browsing according to the favorites you list in your profile.

The app is still in private beta."

Check out it and request an invite here: http://kyck.com

Read article on Mashable: https://mashable.com/2012/06/21/kyck

Watch KYCK demo video: http://youtu.be/mMNgQFYqzVs

Via Giuseppe Mauriello