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Bestselling Author John Mackey – Conscious Capitalism 2013 Book Tour Chicago Stop

By on January 31, 2013 in Business Strategy, Change Management, Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship, Leadership

John Mackey came to Chicago Wednesday and gave a powerful , paradign-shifting soul-awakening speech about his new book Conscious Capitalism to the Economic Club of Chicago. The event was led by John A Canning Jr., Chairman of Madison Dearborn Partners. Question and answers were moderated by Mary Ann Childers. Later, I attended a second event [...]

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Everything I Know About Marketing I Learned From Google : Aaron Goldman Book Blog Tour

By on August 30, 2010 in Chicago, Entrepreneurship, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media

I’ve known Aaron Goldman since 2006 and he stands out as someone who has made himself accessible and friendly in the search engine community. Every few months we share a conversations about what we are both up to and aspire to, it is always fun. Aaron has encouraged me to continue evangelizing my message about [...]

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Barney Harford Now Orbitz CEO – Welcome to Chicago

By on January 12, 2009 in Change Management, Chicago, Customer Experience, Metrics, Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Social Media

For the past few years, I thought that there might be a new entrant to Chicago’s Internet scene. It was exciting to me because Chicago could certainly use some geographic diversity in it’s leadership. For a long time, it looked like that person would be Mark Cuban, but it now appears that he will not [...]

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Chicago Cubs Pitcher Carlos Zambrano Throws Cubs First No Hitter Since 1972!!!

By on September 14, 2008 in Chicago

Wow!!! Go Cubs!!! Magic number is now 7!!!

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TECH cocktail CONFERENCE Chicago – Creating Change For The Future

By on May 31, 2008 in Blogging, Branding/Buzz/Viral, Change Management, Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship, Interactive Ads, Social Media, Venture Capital

Wow! That was tiring, I stepped on the L at 7:30AM and didn’t get home until 1:30AM the next morning! 18 hours of pure madness! Most people noticed the great speeches by Gary Vee from Wine Library TV and Dick Costolo (aka ask the wizard) and others. But what I really appreciated was the other [...]

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TC08 Chicago – Ask The Wizard Live – Dick Costolo Talks Entrepreneurship

By on May 29, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital

Dick Costolo gave a really raw, heartfelt talk about Feedburner, venture capital fund raising and venture capital. I won’t dwell on it here, but even though I’ve never worked directly on anything with Dick, we’ve had an amazing exchange of ideas and conversation over the years. Someday I hope I can take that relationship to [...]

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TC08 Chicago – Designing With Users In Mind

By on May 29, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship

The following is a brief summary of the session that Former Feedburner folks Matt Shobe and John Zeratsky (I need to spend some time with that guy sometime) put on at TECH cocktail Conference 08. Without further delay, here’s their tips on designing with users in mind! Be Yourself – informal, fun Be Fast – the [...]

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TC08 Chicago – Looking at Technology For Your Business In New Ways

By on May 29, 2008 in Chicago, Customer Experience, Entrepreneurship

TECH cocktail CONFERENCE 08 in Chicago got started with Mike Domek, after which the guys from Threadless gave a simple and fun session with some practical insight… Problems Scaling…printers, vendors, etc Inventory is hard…. The Internet is Serious Business Dealing with problems that we are not prepared to deal with… (can be an advantage too) Advantages [...]

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