Last week I had the opportunity to teach the social media component of the strategic communications course for a group of U.S. Navy senior leaders, both military and civilian, at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey. A difficult place to be, I know. I covered the basics of how a senior leader in the...
Read more →According to Sgt. Gary Stein of the U.S. Marine Corps, he was just exercising his First Amendment right to free speech when he criticized President Obama by putting the President’s face on a “Jackass” movie poster on Facebook. After all, it went out to just the people in his network, and any U.S. citizen should have the right to...
Read more →Moving social technologies from being totally outward focused towards customers and constituents to inward focused has the potential to provide amazing levels of value for governmental, non-profit, and regulated organizations. Altimeter’s latest report is on Enterprise Social Networks (ESN) from our own Charlene Li looks at how ESN’s can drive value inside the organization....
Read more →Black and white. On and off. There are not many things in our experience that are truly dichotomous. Republican and Democrat? An endless set of variations. North and South? Truly depends upon where you sit. Freedom and Oppression? Shades of grey to the end of the human experience. Hot and Cold? Then what is...
Read more →We started revving up the research engines here at the Altimeter Group last fall and now you will begin to see the results of that effort. First new piece of research out of the gate will be my colleague Chris Silva with his report titled Make An App For That: Strategies For Winning Retail Mobile Strategies....
Read more →Almost 49 years ago, President John F. Kennedy stood at a podium in the divided city of Berlin where he proudly proclaimed that the wall that divided the city was an affront to basic human freedoms, that it was a symbol of the failure of communism and its ability to effective govern nations. Twenty-four...
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