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Shel Israel Video Chat with Robert Scoble

I enjoy listening to Shel and got to attend a workshop he lead earlier this year. I’d love to get Shel and Seth Godin together to help us wake up folks inside Intel to the fundamental shift in behavior and approach to sharing and communicating. Shel and Seth would be GREAT together, especially if we could find a way to end the talk by showing how to use available tools that help us connect with the right individuals and communities, and grow relevance over time.

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kenekaplan Intel, IT, Podcast, PodTech, Social Media, Web 2.0

Trying New Ways to Connect & Share

The move is on.  Change is constant, but slow down when you can and see how things are happening.

The mad rush towards social media grows more momentous every day.  It’s easy to get ahead of ourselves, running passionately just after truly realizing it’s time to change our behavior and shake our old ways.

A big ship turns slowly, but if many people can connect and paddle in sync…the ship can reposition more quickly.  That’s what’s happening now.  The step forward when Intel began blogging openly in January was followed by a few additional groups blogging, even from other parts of the world.  They’re seeing the real value of participating through social media.  They’re also learning first hand how to carry a forceful, engineer and ROI-based company out in the open among crowds of more people.  There are groups of friends out there, sure, but there are also groups of not-so-friendly people and people who could really care less.  But many of the paddlers believe the efforts have upside, the chance to better connect with friends, fans, families, counterparts, clients, governments, experts, interesting people, who can all can somehow help make the company better.

Moving from blogs to building communities is a way to spur the next wave for connecting and collaborating with others who have expertise and similar drive to advance technology.  It might’ve been a good idea to join existing IT communities rather than try and build a new one from scratch — ala Open Port.  But just look at the world and it’s many cultures, types of food and music.  Look at the media.  We’ve been seeing and hearing about major media consolidation, but to me media appears to be more fragmented than ever before (and now people are socializing media!).  Compared with 10 or even five years ago, I have more choices to find what I really like on TV, Radio or the Internet.  So let’s help build new communities and have the right communities intermingle where and when appropriate, and create bonds that make them stronger together.   If some communities or parts of communities don’t grow, or even atrophy, then the efforts were no wasted.  Instead, choices were made that didn’t click or add value to people who found what they wanted in other communities. Learn by doing and trying new ways to communicate better.  Share passions and knowledge more freely and timely and from there the truth stands out.

Below are a variety of videos related to Open Port.  They have similar flavor, but each video tries to connect with particular audiences.  It’s good to remember that we have more things in common then not, but the more invovled we get, the more the world opens up — like the Powers of 10 (here’s the more official Powers of 10).  And that is why I believe the move towards nurturing communities will be valuable, if and only if valuable content, discussions, resources, trust and insight are shared vigorously.  Let the naysayers and ranters rail against trying.  This is a time for building and networking, not time for over-strategizing perfection or clinging to status quo.

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kenekaplan Facebook, PodTech, Tech, Tom Foremski

Facebook App-makin’ in Silicon Valley

Tom Foremski captures a group of Facebook application creators in Palo Alto. I’m one of the millions loving the fun apps on Facebook that help tie together different social media tools I’m using. Great stuff! Thanks, Tom.

From the PodTech site:
Video | 13:45 | Posted by Tom Foremski | August 28th, 2007 9:30 am

I spent Saturday afternoon crammed into a room in Palo Alto with a couple of hundred people listening to presentations from young developers creating Facebook apps. The enthusiasm was great and there was a sense of being at the start of something big.

Also on TechOne: RedMonk’s Michael Coté interviews Zane Rockenbaugh from Liquid Labs

Tags: Facebook apps, Coté, Zane Rockenbaugh, Liquid Labs

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kenekaplan Gaming, Podcast, PodTech, video

Gaming Gets The Reboot

PodTech’s Rio Pesino has been producing some cool reports on gaming for a while now, so it’s GREAT to see his new show hit.  The intro is sweet!  The graphics are slick and the pace is just right.  Nice production and big variety of game-lovers interviewed.  Gaming is not just for boys and girls, grappas are in on the action, too!

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kenekaplan History, HP, Intel, Moore'sLaw, Podcast, PodTech, Silicon Valley, video

Silicon Valley History — People Doing Things That Change The World

 Even if you’ve read about it, seen photos or event stopped to visit, seeing the HP founders’ garage is inspiring. It’ an icon of for that spark of imagination and innovative spirit that still spreads through the arteries of Silicone Valley.

Watching this made me think how cool it is to have a legacy.  For HP it goes back a while.  They skyrocketed to greatness and managed through tough twists and turns to become one of today’s leading computer companies.

Even short-run start-ups have legacies in Silicon Valley.  While many seem to disappear, their efforts actually are the growth seeds, ideas and drive that drives the innovation collective.   And sure it’s the great breakthroughs and computer applications that blow the mind, but it’s the people, characters past and present, who are the core of the best stories about Silicon Valley.

This is a nicely produced visual story (kudos!) about people and technology inside HP.  The second video is another nicely produced video that looks at a major change to the tiny, ever shrinking transistor — arguable the real engine of possibilities we all think of when we hear two words:  Silicon Valley.

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kenekaplan Intel, Podcast, PodTech, Social Media, Tech

Sustainable Strategies: Energy Star* – Intel Chip Chat – Episode 6

Andrew Fanara, Team Leader for the Energy Star Products Group with the EPA, discusses how Energy Star impacts computing platforms from both a client and a data center perspective.

Related stories:
Intel, IntelMooresLaw

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kenekaplan Intel, IT, Marketing, Measurement, PodTech, PR, Social Media, Tech, video, Web 2.0

When Talk of IT & Social Media Has an Open Port

Tom Foremski of PodTech and SiliconValleyWatcher posted a timely video about the challenges of getting your company’s IT department to use or implement social media tools.  Timely because Tom will be hosting a similar panel at the Intel Developer Forum, but this panel will feature IT pros, legal experts and bloggers rather than marketing and communications pros — more here.

More people are having these kinds of experiences at work and it’s helping us all learn and actually try new things with some grounded expectations — i.e. getting people to engage and interact rather than clocking the number of hits or downloads.

Before we move to the video, here is a brand new effort by Intel — Open Port, where IT pros and enterprise technology experts/enthusiasts can come and learn, ask questions, vent, meet people and help people understand how to use the latest tech tools for businesses.  At first this will seem heavily voiced by Intel propaganda, but most of the stories, studies and information is about things Intel IT pros are learning as they work inside Intel and with IT shops at other companies.  I hope this helps break down any walls that are keeping IT pros from running as fast as they’d like to use new technologies that help people do what they want, like and need to do in life.  Of course security and risk awareness is important, but these are two issues that IT pros will has out when they gather around together with open minds and share.

Here’s video posted by Tom Foremski.

Josh Hallett and Alex Kim, from Solution Set, talk about building social media platforms within enterprises and the roadblocks that IT departments create. Lots of good advice on overcoming those obstacles. A Silicon Valley Watcher report from a meeting of the Third Thursday club held at Voce Communications, in Palo Alto. Also on TechOne: Larry Magid’s report on Google Docs and Spreadsheets; and Michael Cote talks with William Hurley about commercial open source.

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kenekaplan Intel, Marketing, Podcast, PodTech, Social Media, video, Web 2.0

Intel Blogfather — Internet Strategiest Bryan Rhoads

Lots of great people hanging (read: drinking) and learning from each other up at Portland’s Internet Strategy Forum Summit in July. I watch from Cali as pals like Josh Bancroft helped organize folks for dinner. And folks like Intel Blogfather Bryan Rhoads was their “tapping pools of knowledge capital.” He is a great guy to learn from — big heart, good experience and great stories. Nice to hear him hook up with our PodTech pals Jeremiah and Scoble. I’ve learned so much from these guys, yet sometimes it feels like it’s just the beginning.

Bryan is Intel’s first Blogfather — they’ll be sequels — who led the first successful Intel blog pilot IT@Intel that later paved the way for a family of Intel blogs like Technology@Intel, Research@Intel and a handful of others. He has coined some of my favorite phrases like “there were pioneers, but now the settlers” are diving into social media. One of my favorites was: “One of my roles is to get out of the way” and let the bloggers do their thing. But one to live by: consensus building helps you get management to “get your back” so you can run and try things.

Watch for much more wisdom and greatness from the Blogfather staring in a new role inside Intel.

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kenekaplan career, Marketing, Media, Podcast, PodTech, PR, Social Media, video, Web 2.0

New Rules of Marketing & PR

David Meerman Scott talks with Jennifer Jones of Marketing Voices about his new book The New Rules of Marketing and PR. Engagement of a community, and having good content are key to success in this new environment.PR is focusing more on public relations rather than media relations these days, but the meaning of Public and Media are both important and ever changing.   It’s really about building and maintaining meaningful relationships.

There are lots of new rules out there, and this book hits an important moving target.

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Larry Magid talks with Guy Kawasaki

Larry Magid is a great Bay Area-based radio personality and lover of tech. We have had the pleasure of working with him many times, including one time when we set him up to talk with Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. Here;s Larry talking with blog legend Guy Kawasaki.

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