On Foursquare I have: 1,700 checkins, 41 badges and 11 mayorships. I’ve met new friends using the app and I keep in touch with many other friends through viewing and commenting on their checkins. Nonetheless it still feels like early days with LBS. New applications continue to come to market, existing applications are adding checkin …
– Please join me, Zach N. Hofer-Shall, Sarah Glass, Suresh Susara and David Deal this Tuesday, May 17th at 2:00 eastern for the next #IMChat. The topic will be social influence measurement. Here is Zach’s post on the event. – Details #IMChat is a weekly online chat focused on Interactive Marketing topics It’s every Tuesday …
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innovation can be stifled when 100% of resources are allocated. Conflicts arise when new ideas must compete with resources that have already been allocated. Promises have already been made. Expectations are already set. These are difficult obstacles to overcome when trying to move innovations forward in this system. The only way innovations can move forward is either increasing available resources (which usually takes too long to be effective) or to delay in flight projects. This means breaking promises and resetting expectations. It’s not a comfortable process for anyone.
I wasn’t in attendance at the most recent #iciconf, but these are some great points from the conference.