Bird's Eye View: Nov 11 Digital Veterans Day Now Even Cooler

About Bird's Eye View

Hello…

From global dialogues engaging thousands, to tete-a tetes, to everything in between, I’ve got the greatest gig in the world: I get paid to engage the world’s greatest business and thought leaders in conversation. Significant conversation. I do a lot of other stuff, too, but basically I’m obsessed with conversation.

I’ve been asked to share my views on the power of conversation—especially as it’s exemplified in word of mouth marketing techniques. My preference is the gold standard of conversation” the kind of face to face, one-on-one dialogue that’s getting increasingly rare.

If you think about it, face to face conversation is the new luxury.

It’s so easy to “communicate” through technology-assisted means that some of us have trouble remembering the last truly fascinating, life-changing conversation we’ve had.

So there’s something a bit weird about my writing a blog about the most memorable conversations I’ve had. But I’m doing it to stir your appetite for significant conversation. We’ll share some of the remarkable conversations I’ve been privileged to have with people all over the world. Some are extraordinary leaders in business and public life; others just ordinary folks with extraordinary things to say. And I’ll throw in some conversational tips along the way, as well as comments from other people on the subject of talk, conversation…even just plain gab.

Whichever way you like it, I hope you’ll find inspiration here to go off and have a scintillating conversation of your own.

I’ll give you recommendations for initiating meaningful conversation as well as for places and activities that are worth talking about. Let me know what you find especially provocative or fascinating or enlightening or all the above. And, of course, tell me if any of this is wrong-headed, stupid, arbitrary or, worst of all, boring.

October 27, 2009

Nov 11 Digital Veterans Day Now Even Cooler

I've talked in a few previous posts about the amazing Digital Veterans Day "DVD" taking place November 11.

It's all thanks to a passionate group of vet supporters applying 21st century tech and marketing know-how to the MyVetwork on-line community's efforts to scale its membership big-time. Their audacious plan is to take this military family on-line community to the max. A core group of marketing gurus from P&G and other corporations has invited military, corporate and techie types to come to Cincinnati November 10 and take part in this to-the-max blowout, viral style.

About 100 of us will gather at the headquarters for Bridge Worldwide, a company with big rep for totally cool tech/media work. Bridge's Marty Boyer is pulling out the stops in terms of providing the space, the computers, and all the rest of the wizardry needed that night.

But before we even get started in Cinci, a group in Geneva Switzerland will officially launch DVD before doing a hand-off to another team in Afghanistan. From there, the DVD will bounce to Cincinnati.

And the project has just gotten even cooler. As tempting as gathering in Cinci (or Geneva and Afghanistan) is, some folks have said they'd like to take part wherever they are in their own town, at home, school, in the office, with a bunch of people at Starbucks. So the DVD team has responded.

So as long as a satellite site has a computer webcam, a remote group will be good to go to participate real time in the DVD wildness. The DVD guys will set up a video link-up with web conferencing software that works via a web browser that can accommodate concurrent users, wherever they are.

We're going to learn first-hand how a carefully orchestrated viral promotional effort is done on-line, taught by world experts at this.

And ultimately, it's all about our military service men and women. Can't imagine a better way to spend Veterans Day, November 11, than as part of the DVD team. And if you just want to help promote this effort to serve our service men and women, contact Jay for banners and widgets that you can put on your own site or blog or just email to a friend. Spread the word: Digital Veterans Day is coming!!!

Posted at 03:51 PM | Permalink

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83452408569e20120a6252e10970b

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Nov 11 Digital Veterans Day Now Even Cooler :

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

Posted by: |

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Your comment could not be posted. Error type:

Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Post a comment

About Susan W. Bird

Author of I is for Intercourse: The ABC's of Conversation, Susan Bird is the visionary behind Wf360, and a sought-after speaker around the world for her views on leadership, the strategic importance of conversation, entrepreneurship, and the role of women business leaders.

Susan's provocative addresses are geared toward helping people and organizations use conversation strategically to achieve no less than the transformation of their businesses, their careers, and the world. Learn more about Susan

Bird's Eye View

Subscribe to Bird's Eye View
E-mail Updates

Twitter Updates

Find me on:

Subscribe to this blog's XML feed

Clustermap

About Bird's Eye View

Some Good Conversational Blogs

Age of Conversation

October 27, 2009