AdHocnium: Creative Catalysts - Latest Comments

Re: Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists

murrayrossnewlands — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:45:54 -0000

GUURRR

How did I miss this great opportunity. Let me know when you do it again.

Re: Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Recruit Thru Social Networks

davidwood — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:20:34 -0000

This is a great article. I've been thinking about recruiting through social networking for some time - I think I'm going to put a little bit more attention on it now. Keep the great posts coming!

Re: Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists

Sue — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:01:14 -0000

YES this story is interesting to me. I thought I was the only person with ideas that seem crazy to some, at the same time feeling compelled - "helping people buy" is a beautiful way to put it. The key is finding what's right for the client, which is often not obvious from the glossy product demos. My little agency is going through an identity crisis, and it's pretty wild to be throwing the old-school mentality out the door without knowing WTF is coming.

Re: Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Recruit Thru Social Networks

mlm prelaunch — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:25:54 -0000

Yes, this is very true, timely and practical. Nothing can beat a good relationship in developing a business. For starters, its best to do it at a friendly level until you get the trust, you cannot build good connection.

Re: David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides

Backpackerresources — Wed, 13 May 2009 21:45:04 -0000

For travelers especially those who are doing backpacking travel, this is another venue to ease info gathering.

Re: Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists

Linda Mae Vorthman — Sun, 10 May 2009 18:47:47 -0000

You say: "stop selling and start helping people buy"? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that was BASIC to marketing. Getting beyond the idea that a salesperson sells... it's all about marketing.

Re: The Social Side of Skittles

licensed boston movers — Sat, 09 May 2009 15:43:47 -0000

good article.
Thanks for sharing it.

Re: Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists

chrisheuer — Sat, 09 May 2009 03:53:26 -0000

Seriously Mel Webster, why are you such a hater and a troll. That is pretty sad in itself.

Might as well go back into your box and never look outside it to see or try anything different. Its not necessary to do this, we are making plenty of money as it is, the story above is the reasoning. Period.

Re: Up for auction, two creative, social media strategists

MW — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:12:53 -0000

Seriously, I think this is pretty sad and says a lot about the state of social media as a real business, Smacks of desperation despite your explanation.

Re: David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides

Hilton Head Vacation Rentals — Fri, 08 May 2009 08:49:46 -0000

They are currently offering customizable guides for 30,000 of the most popular cities worldwide....................

Re: Top 5 Reasons Why You Should Recruit Thru Social Networks

Best SEO Package — Sun, 03 May 2009 05:32:17 -0000

It's a good thing to have those lessons..
thanks a lot for sharing.

Re: David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides

B&B Blackpool — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:23:35 -0000

This would be a very useful tool for anyone unfamiliar with an area or Country they are travelling too!! That said most of the information collated is in the public domain and can be researched by the end user by use of our old friend google.

All that said though if you are in a hurry and need access to information quickly than can be printed off as an ebook to go then this could be for you.

I looked at my hometown and I particularly liked safety information about where not to go after dark. It was up to date and certainly topical. This is perhaps something that would have to be discovered by local knowledge or a deep root around in google.

Re: David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides

India luxury hotels — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:33:40 -0000

Unlike many travel guides which were written over a year ago by a travel writer who quickly popped in and out of the city you will be visiting, Offbeat Guides are customized with the most up-to-date information written by locals and put together by travel editors and curators.

Re: David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides

Domestic Flights in India — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:32:07 -0000

All you have to do is go to the Offbeat Guides website, enter your name, your destination, where you are coming from and, if you have accomodation, where you are staying.

Re: David Sifry’s New Venture: Personalized Travel Guides

Accommodation — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:28:02 -0000

Once your travel guide is complete you can preview it online, make changes and customize chapters.

Re: Are Your Strategic Objectives in Harmony?

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Re: Noded! The Way We Work

Jon Moss — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:54:24 -0000

Thanks for posting! Very enjoyable. I'm a big fan of the noded concept and have really come to embrace it over the past 18 months.

Re: How You Use Social Tools is Up To You

JoeDuck — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:03:46 -0000

Thanks to you and Chris for opening a timely and interesting conversation on this topic even though we are in disagreement about some of this - what I think I'll be blogging soon as "Twitter elitism". Along these lines I've also been calling for a "blogging revolution" in the same vein to avoid the growing challenge of A list bloggers "sticking together", esp. with respect to linking, which has too often confined the conversations too narrowly. I'm hoping this "A list" problem will be self correcting without a revolution because I'm too lazy to lead that anyway.

Although I agree that nobody should dictate how others use social media, I'm definitely in what one might call the Scoble camp of "massive friending" because I think that approach is the most consistent with the new social media sensibilities and against what I see as a *huge* growing threat to blogging which is the old type of legacy media elitism where a limited number of influential voices define the conversations. More than anything I want new media to do something old media could not do - open the conversation to everybody and expose everybody to new perspectives and ideas.

I'm obviously not recommending folks friend somebody who is marketing to them in ways they don't like or abusive or other annoying things, but I guess I am suggesting that a very cool aspect of Twitter is the ability to get a sense of the pulse of a smart community as it swirls on the web - without following a lot of people you lose out on this intriguing aspect of Twitter although I supposed you could spend time at the "public" timeline for that. However as I moved from following small to large numbers I found there was also a neat aspect of feeling part of a very positive community experience.

I should caveat this with the fact that a lot of the current growth in Twitter seems to be in the PR and Marketing sectors. To the extent folks are only friends so they can pitch MLM schemes the massive friending may break down but I think we'll find that problem regulates itself as "selfish" users will lose friends or those communities will simply spin up among each other.

Re: Why Don’t Consultants Display Their Rates?

AdHocnium — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:25:22 -0000

Thanks Sheila - I think if you are providing real value and not
selling fool's gold the rate is really based on how much you value
yourself and how you are perceived in the market. There is nothing
wrong with making a good living, yet so many believe that insights,
knowledge, information and services should be free that people are
beginning to think that time is free too, but its not. It is our most
valuable assett in the knowledge economy and increasingly our right
brain creativity is what is most highly prized by the market
(entrepreneurs, movies, books, games, media, software, green tech,
corporate communications and even biotech to name a few).

The display rates feature will be part of the new Social Media
Professionals Directory of Social Media Club - finally completing the
requirements doc today. (among a dozen other things)

Re: Why Don’t Consultants Display Their Rates?

Sheila Scarborough — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 00:25:03 -0000

Thanks for this; I've been very frustrated by the whole "what to charge, what's the going rate" discussion. As a military veteran, I come from a world where the pay chart is set, we all knew what everyone else made in salary, and we worried about other stuff.

In Austin, Connie Reece, Jennifer Navarrete and I are offering small-scale, entry-level workshops on social media, some consulting services and our corporate training is starting to pick up. We aren't out to make a boatload of money, just a fair exchange for our knowledge and efforts. Many of our clients are small businesses, solo entrepreneurs or nonprofits, so we are very price-sensitive. We work hard and don't want to undervalue what we offer, but neither do we want to be seen as golddiggers or opportunists who charge too much.

Thanks for this frank discussion; it's helpful to the whole industry.

Re: Introducing AdHocnium and Our Creative Catalysts

Todd Defren — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 16:44:20 -0000

Good luck, my friends. Let me know how SHIFT can help. Wishing you the best for the holidays, and for the new venture!

Re: Introducing AdHocnium and Our Creative Catalysts

Richard McInnis — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:45:09 -0000

Congrats Chris, I love the approach - greatly needed by so many firms. Looking forward to watching things grow here for you, Brian and the rest of the network.

Re: Introducing AdHocnium and Our Creative Catalysts

chrisheuer — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:08:43 -0000

Thank you one and all :) (I love that phrase heidi)

there is still a lot to be figured out, but its a good start there are several other very well known and uber smart folks who will be joining us very soon, so stay tuned...

Re: Introducing AdHocnium and Our Creative Catalysts

Ronna Porter — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:05:32 -0000

Happy to support in Germany, Chris!

Regards, Ronna

Re: Introducing AdHocnium and Our Creative Catalysts

heidi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 01:43:48 -0000

this sounds amazing! Congratulations one and all