Alec Saunders SquawkBox » Tech & BusinessA daily round table on the tech industry with experts and callers from all over the globe. Join us as we pick apart the news and get to the meat of what\'s happening out there.Twitter drives referral traffic- September 22, 2008 Ever wonder about the impact of Twitter on your business The WebGuild has written a small case study of a business called Coverity which used Twitter as one of their marketing tools. You can read the full piece on their web site. The key takeaway is in this graph: Overall, Coverity saw a 40% increase in ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/22/twitter-drives-referral-traffic/ Get more from your business!- September 21, 2008 Lets face it, weve all sacrificed for our careers and businesses at one point or another in our lives. Weve also known people whove become trapped in that cycle of sacrifice and the result is often financial or personal disaster as friends, relationships and family suffer. Tuesday evening Ill be hosting a teleclass on Calliflower ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/21/get-more-from-your-business/ Thomas Howe Company takes first!- September 19, 2008 Thomas Howe may have lost his bet with Dean Collins over the survival of Ooma (at least that&8217;s the way that this judge sees it), but he won something much bigger today. Taking first place in the Broadsoft Xtended Voice Mashup contest for his Disaster Dispatcher, he also takes home a $5,000 cash prize. From ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/18/thomas-howe-company-takes-first/ Three ways to tweet later- September 18, 2008 A while back I discovered a service called TweetLater. It lets you schedule and send a twitter message at a later time, when you might not be able to do so. I use it for reminders, and to send notifications out about the SquawkBox. I literally cue up two or three tweets for the SquawkBox ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/18/three-ways-to-tweet-later/ Squawk Box September 17: Live from ITEXPO with Dan York.- September 18, 2008 Dan York guest-hosted the Squawk Box live from the Los Angeles Convention Center this morning where the Communications Developer Conference is co-located with the ITEXPO West show. With one day of the show behind, discussion ranged from SIP Servlets, to the integration of the web and VoIP, to small PBX systems from Microsoft, Jazinga, and ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/17/squawk-box-september-17-live-from-itexpo-with-dan-york/ A Hypnotist on the Loose- September 17, 2008 Nokia launches their Nokia Legends campaign today. A quirky mix of urban legend film vignettes told by veteran character actor and author Ron McClarty, it consists of a series of oddball stories with a distinctly Twilight Zone feel about them in a clever interactive site designed to look like a newspaper. The stories cleverly mix ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/17/a-hypnotist-on-the-loose/ Squawk Box September 16: Beyond PR with guest host Robyn Tippins- September 17, 2008 Beyond PR: Can social media actually impact the regular customer Robyn Tippins talks about some recent customer service horror stories of her own, how her blog attracted executive attention and got results. One, Comcast, came via the Comcastcares twitter account. The other came from Capitol One patrolling mentions of their name. Both resulted in mostly ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/16/squawk-box-september-16-beyond-pr-with-guest-host-robyn-... Thanks for the memories, Zone5!- September 16, 2008 During my time at Microsoft presentation scores were a kind of blood sport &8212; a source of pride after a particularly good presentation, and one that conferred bragging rights. Presentations delivered at the Executive Briefing Center or other functions were graded on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the best and then ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/16/thanks-for-the-memories-zone5/ SquawkBox Conference Call Sept 15: Trapster.com- September 15, 2008 Our guest today was Trapster.com's Pete Tenereillo, who I met last week at DEMO. Trapster is a social network for reporting speed traps. Integrating GPS, mobility, the web and social networks, it's a pretty interesting use of technology to solve the age old problem of the speed trap. We caught up with Pete, and asked him about Trapster and some of his other projects, including Awarespot and JotYou.http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/15/squawkbox-conference-call-sept-15-trapstercom/ Phoneboy dumps on EQOs new strategy- September 15, 2008 Phoneboy dishes on EQO this morning in a piece titled Why I Think EQO is Doomed. I agree with him that the hardest mobile strategy of all involves convincing carriers to put your software on their deck. Carriers move slowly, and view the deck as a distribution platform that the software developer should be paying ...http://saunderslog.com/2008/09/15/phoneboy-dumps-on-eqos-new-strategy/ |