I would like to give a round of thanks to our friends at eBay and x.com for sponsoring the Social Media Club dinner party last Thursday and supporting our Clubhouse activities while in Paris, France to Le Web. eBay launched their X.commerce platform, which is an e-commerce technology platform designed for all the ways consumers choose to [...]
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SMCH7: Marco Tempest is a magical genius
Marco Tempest is a Cyber Illusionist. An Adventurer. A Scientist. A Dreamer. He is also a Virtual Magician. The first time I saw Marco was when he spoke wat TED about the ‘Magic of Truth and Lies‘. Simply brilliant. If you have not seen this presentation, stop what you are doing now, click that link [...]
SMCH7: The Power of #RamonWOW. How Great Customer Service Can Drive Sales.
I’ve known Ramon De Leon for some time now. He is a positive force within our Social Media Club Chicago community, and has inspired (and mentored) several people to launch Chapters in other cities as well (hello Social Media Club Guanajuato!). Ramon owns six Domino’s pizza parlors in the local Chicago area and has been [...]
SMCH7: The Social Media Club International Dinner Party
On Thursday night we had a great dinner in Paris. Scratch that. On Thursday night we had an incredible dinner in Paris. With the support of the x.commerce team, we invited several of our international chapter leaders (Paris, Amsterdam, Stockholm, San Francisco and Copenhagen) as well as friends and supporters of Social Media Club to [...]
SMCH7: Don’t Build a Company, Build a Cause.
Big request from Ben Parr to every single entrepreneur in the world, one I hope that folks at Le Web, as well as on the livestream, heard loud and clear (can you see a theme starting to form for me here on the blog?). The first half of Ben’s presentation shared some of his thoughts around trends for [...]
SMCH7: Learning From Failure, Wise Words from Bill Gross
Bill Gross, the CEO of Idealab, knows a thing or two about starting a business. He has helped launch 196 companies. He has been involved in 300+ rounds of financing. He has had 35 succesful IPOs. He has also had 40 failed businesses. Entrepreneurs can learn a thing or two from him. Bill gave several key learnings [...]
SMCH7: Live sketching at Le Web
There are two groups doing some amazing visual work and capturing the conversations taking place at Le Web over the three days here in Paris. One of my favorites, Jess3, has produced a series of infographics based on the keywords in the conference tweets pulled via Radian6. And the fellas from livesketching have been capturing [...]
SMCH7: Eating our way through Paris.
Chris and I arrived in town around 8:30am on Sunday morning and as soon as our bags hit the floor of our apartment, we were out the door and on the hunt for a local bakery and fromage (cheese) shop for some baked goods for breakfast. A mere block and a half from our apartment [...]
SMCH7: The thing about traditions, they are meant to be kept.
Four years ago, there was a food shortage during lunch at Le Web, so Claude Malaison and Chris Heuer decided to take matters in their own hand and walked down the street to a local market to collect various yummy treats to build a little picnic for themselves, wine included. In 2009, while there was [...]
SMCH7: Android to be a developers dream in six months?
Eric Schmidt, Chairman of Google, was another one of my favorite Le Web sessions today – mostly for his obvious passion for the good and the health of, the Internet. The only fault I see in Eric is his undying love of Android. Ha. Some of the key phrases he shared today are: “If [...]
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