tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18701253745867579912024-09-04T03:41:45.914-07:00Championing Purposeful ConnectionsKim Riviellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12961450727949574242noreply@blogger.comBlogger19125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1870125374586757991.post-58315192425156339652009-11-18T12:54:00.000-08:002009-11-18T13:04:58.393-08:00

one of my favorite interview questions of all time is "if you could invite 3 people living or dead to a dinner party who would they be"... It's very interesting how the answers to that questions evoke so much emotion and are so telling about the personality and the nuances of the person you're talking to. I've heard everything from Jesus to Martha Stewart to Steve Jobs. It's often the combination

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I'm sitting on the train this morning reading the WSJ and I see once again an ad touting in person meetings and how you can't end a meeting with a handshake over email. It's an ad for British Airways. As anyone who has ever read anything I've ever written - this is what I'm all about. But for some reason today, it almost struck me as odd that we NEED a pr campaign for human contact. Could we be

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Yesterday, a great friend and business partner Cheryl Swanson forwarded me yet another email inviting people to "reinvent". At this point, we both agreed, we've reinvented so much it's time to reinvent the reinvention. When really what we all want to do, is be back to prosperity which for many was the way things were before. Cheryl's suggestion - and I quote "Reverse Engineer? :>) Devolve,

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Ever feel like everything stops during budget season? Like an TV episode of Flash Forward only instead of losing consciousness for 137 seconds its more like a month - the only difference? The rest of the world has been ticking right on by reagrdless of the budget induced paralysis. So, while you're planning the future and submitting projections which in this uncertainty is pretty much

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I've always believed passionately in the need to connect in person.Maybe because I wasnt born with an iphone in my hand and I actually had real life girl talk when I was a teenager - not just Facebook and IM. I hate to date myself, but I remember using a pay phone to call home for rides from the mall. When I tell my kids that, they ask if I was picked up on a horse - they can't begin to

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In a great article I just read, Scott Anthony (one of the many keynotes at Front End of Innovation Europe 2010) writes about how this past year could have potentially marked the end of the Innovation Movement - and yet, how a year later Innovation is more important now than ever. Whew.AN interesting fact - today a company that enters the Standard & Poor 500 index will stay on it for less than

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Recently I was talking to some colleagues about purging my garage of all the the toys and lifesize playhouse, barbie cars and "stuff" I wanted out to make way for something I havent had in a while - SPACE. A less fortunate gentleman who had been handing out fliers offering painting services happened to pass by and to his surprise and delight the treasures were on the sidewalk waiting for local

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Way back when, when we started doing Innovation events, the word was powerful, inviting and articulate. We're all intrigued by innovation - the foundation for growth and prosperity. The key to survival we are told. But nowadays, when we see innovation plastered all over everything - ironically on the least innovative "innovations" it makes me think - has it become such a buzzword that we're

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Kudos to all those people fighting against"no budget" and winning!These true leaders who've chosen long term over short term thinking have taken matters into their own hands and I applaud them for making it happen. These people get it - they recognize the need to participate in business conferences to jumpstart innovation. These events arent boondogles - they're brain food - you get to exchange

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I recently watched the movie Waitress with my family. In the movie, Kerri Russell is referred to by one of the other waitresses as a "pie genius". She has an uncanny ability to dream up and concoct the most interesting and delicious pies from the most unlikely combinations of ingredients. Fact is, she's remarkably talented and was trained by her mother (the original pie genius) for years to be

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I've never been much into magic. Although in our business, I do think that a perfect conference is a bit of science, art and intuition all wrapped up in an experience - driven of course by a web (not that web!) of relationships - all spanning networks and time. If i had a crystal ball, i'd say things across the board are about to be reinvented - the strong will survive - persevere and end up even

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Reboot. One of my esteemed colleagues and producers Krista Vazquez used that term as a theme for next years FUSE event. After speaking with hundreds of people from branding, marketing, design - it's a common thread. It's a way of thinking about where we are and where we want to be. No doubt with Krista on it, Debbie Millman and Cheryl Swanson collaboring and chairing that's exactly what will

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No matter what industry, which company, title, function everyone is saying the same thing. We're in a state of flux - uncertainty - all is BEING rewritten but nothing has actually "been published". We know there are new rules, but noone knows exactly what those rules are. Hurry up let's get this going - we all have business to do.

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Its all about the Value Proposition....Inevitably, Seth godin always tops my list for one of the best conversationalists out there. Two time keynoter at THE Conference on marketing - he has a real knack for hitting the nail on the head. I loved his recent post The CPM gap http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/07/the-cpm-gap.htmlin a few lines, he sums up the value proposition of

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Hold Your Head Up High Marketers...I'm so excited about resurrecting an event we did back in 2003 called Accountability of Marketing. It was initially a marketing mix modeling conference, that turned ROMI, then evolved into the accountability theme. Pat Lapointe has accepted a role as chairperson and I couldnt be more thrilled. He is clearly the most well versed marketing analytics guy I have

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Face2Face - a novel ideaThe whole idea of this blog is really to celebrate the power of great conversation - and I had a great one recently with Doug Stone of Maddock Douglas. We're working on a project together and I was talking about how much I hate hearing such negativity towards the conference industry. There's someone who keeps talking about "the death of the industry". As Debbie Millman so

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I just read a great article on "conversation marketing" and I have to say i just love the term. There's nothing more powerful than a genuine conversation that inspires you to do even one thing differently - or connects you with someone who might just become your partner in changing the world.

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So often I'm asked who I think the best speakers are - since I did about 45 events out of the division last year - and considering I've been with IIR for over 14 1/2 years - I've pretty much heard all of them...It's so hard to say, and some people have even suggested doing a yearbook, which i think would be so cool and super valuable - it's on my "list" right under "writing a book". Someday...

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