BLNW blog

My top ten list for what I’d love the the speakers to say at Business Leader NW:

1. The way you networked before is still alive and well. It’s just on Twitter, Facebook and your blog
2. Leaders emerge from online communities. Look for people in your company who demonstrate a keen sense for adding to conversations. Get ready. They may work in the mail room
3. Banning blogs and blocking services like Facebook is a sign that you have a sick company culture
4. Giving is an online community practice that pays huge benefits to the companies that learn how to treat their knowledge as a gift they may provide their customers
5. We’re in the first year of a 15 year cycle. The companies that adjust to the new social wave will kick butt
6. Leadership comes with how well your employees can filter information from the community, package and distribute
7. Markets really are conversations
8. Embrace open source practices
9. Buy all your employees a Flip camera and ask them to post a video about the company. Then ask the employees to comment on what their colleagues posted
10. Make sure your managers get the memo. The social web is here to stay