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Tomorrow I will be leading a fantastic panel of social media personalities talking about the art of creating and fostering a brand personality through social media. As I have shared before, I am extremely excited about this session and in particular about learning from the panelists who are participating about how they have managed to … Read more
I recently read a insightful piece from Ben Hunt about the future of the web2.0 social experience. It was particularly relevant as I am heading to the Web2.0 Expo here in San Francisco today and will have a chance to see many new technologies later this evening at the "Booth Crawl" event at the opening … Read more
I had the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion yesterday at the Search Engine Strategies show in NY all about Social Media Optimization. It was interesting to see how the idea has progressed and search pros are implementing tactics and techniques for social media marketing. Though I didn’t agree with all of the views … Read more
For several months now, I have been struggling with my own social media identity crisis. It is a crisis that many others will be able to relate to and has mainly to do with the multiple identities I have on sites across the Internet. Though I sign up for and try about 5 new sites … Read more
Several weeks ago, I noted an interesting story about how Dole is offering "farm codes" printed onto stickers that are placed on organic bananas offering consumers the chance to get to know more about the farm that grew the banana by visiting www.doleorganic.com. On Dole Organic, you can see such information as a description of … Read more
Whether you believe in karma or not, making your blog a success often has a lot to do with a series of seemingly disconnected events. Every post you make, person you contact or comment you leave adds to the sum total of your efforts in the blogosphere. Building relationships is important in any industry, but … Read more
Two months ago, Charlene Li of Forrester produced a report on the ROI of blogging by comparing the relative spend on blogs to the spend required for focus group based research. While some people immediately pointed out flaws in this reasoning, it was a great first step towards trying to define a model for measuring … Read more
Over the next week, I’ll posting some of the other insights I will be taking from the event, but in the meantime here are just a few marketing ideas that struck me as remarkable or noteworthy from SxSW: Using the tag as the tagline. Everywhere you look there are signs posted telling you what tag … Read more
Last night I had nuclear tacos. You’ve probably never heard of them until last night, but as part of Mozilla’s BBQ event, the nuclear tacos were out in force. Today there are lots of images of Flickr of people experiencing nuclear pain and several images of the actual tacos and event (including the one at … Read more
This might be an odd title to a post about SxSW since the event has been going on for several days now and the "SxSW" tag is already at the top of the Technorati WTF buzz index. But regardless, I just arrived today at the midpoint of the Interactive event at South by Southwest and … Read more
Non-Obvious Thinking is my upcoming book about the 4 secrets of becoming a non-obvious thinker - coming 10/01!
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.
