I’ll keep this short. It’s not about me, it’s about *you*, my friends around the world who create a business network that empower me to reach people and accomplish things that I could never do all on my own. To all of you who practice the words below, I love you and thank you for [...]
Happy 2nd Blog Birthday
by David Dalka on May 16, 2008 in Blogging, Change Management, Customer Experience
Hello Dell “Community” Lurkers
by David Dalka on May 16, 2008 in Customer Experience
Dell has not fixed the design flaws and workmanship quality issues of my poorly built laptop Insiron 1505. They instead have chosen to play word games like they have with thousands other victims of Dell Inspiron purchases. Just Wednesday night I met two more Dell Inspiron quality victims when attending a local meetup group on a different [...]
Sent My Dell Inspiron 1505 Back to Dell For Repairs
by David Dalka on May 14, 2008 in Customer Experience
After way too many emails, I sent my unreliable Dell Inspiron laptop back to Dell this week. It has had the following problems: slow boot times, frequent blue screens, unreliablity connecting to the Internet due to a flaky Internet card, weak and broken hinges due to a poor design in fact, the Inspiron line got rid of [...]
Google’s Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations to Present at NASDAQ OMX 21st Investor Program in London
by David Dalka on May 13, 2008 in Google (GOOG)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — May 13, 2008 – Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) announced today that Omid Kordestani, Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Operations, will participate in a question-and-answer session at the NASDAQ OMX 21st Investor Program in London. The session is scheduled for 9:45 a.m. Eastern Time / 6:45 a.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, [...]
Best of Show: Chicago Global Food and Style Expo 2008
by David Dalka on May 11, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship
This year the Global Food and Style Expo did not have the FMI show co-located along with the All Things Organic, Fancy Food Show and the U.S. Food Export Showcase so it was a slightly smaller show with less foot traffic. But it was filled with innovative products and amazing entrepreneurial stories! it’s a shame [...]
Remembering SOBcon08 – My House Guest Andrew Dubber…
by David Dalka on May 7, 2008 in Blogging, Change Management, Customer Experience
I got a call from Liz Strauss to claim my apartment’s extra space a day or two before the event. It was determined that Andrew Dubber would be my house guest during SOBcon08. Andrew, pictured on the left below, has a personal blog and his primary blog, New Music Strategies. Andrew was a fascinating guest! [...]
Eco-Safe – Nice Idea – Needs Much Better Execution
by David Dalka on May 3, 2008 in Blogging, Social Media
Just saw Eco-Safe installed on Chris Brogan‘s blog. It looked super cool and was excited to try it so I emailed a file to my self. I was massively disappointed by what followed… A giant and unnecessary pdf file weighing in at a hefty half a megabyte arrived in my mailbox. Giant pdf files are [...]
Who is David Dalka - Twitter: @dalka
David Dalka is a digital business strategy professional experienced in realigning organizations to capture customer demand while improving margins. David is a business keynote speaker providing customized business strategy services and corporate executive retreats. David has been cited in the following business publications