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As anyone who has been to SXSW (a huge music, film and interactive conference happening now in Austin, TX) knows, after you have registered for your badge, you have the chance to go downstairs to a different room where you will pick up your "big bag." It’s the canvas bag with all the brochures, flyers, … Read more
I spent the day this past Friday speaking and participating in the Wharton Business Technology Conference in Philadelphia where I moderated a panel all about the future of marketing and interactive media. For those of you who have been following my last few events, you know that many of the more recent ones have been … Read more
At every conference or tradeshow, you get a badge. I have a box full of them on my desk, an increasing number of them with the title of "Speaker" affixed beneath my name. I recently had a conversation with some colleagues about the importance of being a speaker at an event. Often, the most important … Read more
One of the big themes for Intel’s effort at CES this year is the extreme. Extreme computing and extreme gaming. There is a big truck in the Central Plaza where gamers can check out new superfast systems, play games, and win a chance to go on a Zero G flight operated by a company called … Read more
What happens in Vegas this week won’t stay here for too long. If you have been watching or reading any media at all this week, you have seen all the rampant coverage of everything from CES. Being here at the epicenter of the hype has been an interesting experience. Think of it as a cross … Read more
Blogging live from the WiMax shuttle and embedding a YouTube video below. Will be posting more about this later today: Update – See badge for Flickr Images from today: www.flickr.com This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from Intel CES 2008. Make your own badge here.
The first thing I should say is that I was planning to write about Blogger Social 2008 anyway. You’ll see why I started with that disclaimer in a moment … Just about everyone in any kind of communications role has probably reach out to at least one blogger at some point to share something of … Read more
This is a great sign. Today there is a very unique event happening throughout the day – the Personal Branding Summit is a telesummit of some top speakers all talking about the topic of personal branding. It is a topic that is very close to my heart and one that I have been and will … Read more
I am on my way to New York today for a morning panel discussion about how brands can "create talkability." This is a topic I have been spending a lot of time on recently, because it brings together a lot of diverging ideas and is central to what most brands are trying to do. In … Read more
I give a good ten minute presentation. In fact, if you think about the usual types of speaking outside of keynotes, ten minutes is really all you get. This is not just for public speaking, but also in front of clients. Talking for a long time rarely pays off. On conference panels, the people rated … Read more
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Rohit Bhargava is a trend curator, founder of the Non-Obvious Company and the 3-time Wall Street Journal bestselling author of ten books.
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In addition to Non-Obvious Thinking, Rohit is the author of 10 books on trends, the future of business, building a more human brand with storytelling and how to create a more diverse and inclusive world.
