Comments on: Look Ma, I’m on TV! (no, not the YouTube TV, I mean the real one)

By: A new job, a new opportunity | Adam Christensen

A new job, a new opportunity | Adam Christensen — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:14:02 +0000

[...] identity. Over the past few years I’ve spoken at dozens of conferences, given dozens of media interviews, and spoken to countless IBM clients about IBM’s social business efforts. How do I separate my [...]

By: Ben Berkowitz

Ben Berkowitz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:49:40 +0000

Great review,

Its time for you to bring the wife up to New Haven for a food tour or we could skip all that and we could just go to http://www.Bentara.com.

By: Laura

Laura — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:21:51 +0000

Adam,

I’m working on an internal branding capstone project for my Master’s in Communication Management and the subject of social media seems to be a hot topic that most organizations are tip-toeing around. IBM is clearly far ahead of everyone on this and that really changes my perception of the company. Kudos to you!

Laura Gardner
http://www.facebook.com/lauramgardner
http://www.twitter.com/Bostonnatian

Laura

By: jkings

jkings — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:00:54 +0000

Adam – a good example of social media at work: the ability to expand on the subject of the interview and get all your thoughts on the table.

Good stuff and congrats on making Power Lunch.

Joseph Kingsbury, Text 100

By: adamclyde

adamclyde — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:55:41 +0000

J-Schmoe, whew, but thank goodness there are brilliant people like you in the world to keep it running while the rest of us waste all of your hard earned money.

By: JackSchmoe

JackSchmoe — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:37:28 +0000

Wow, what a job you must have. It sounds like you really don’t do anything and make big bucks! What a load of garbage that social networking is some big opportunity. Again, I am just flabbergasted that a company has an actual position like yours.

By: Chetan Dhruve

Chetan Dhruve — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:25:44 +0000

Adam, I’m an ex-IBMer and also worked for Cisco in the late 1990s, just as the internet boom was starting. Many companies at the time shut off employee access to email sites such as Hotmail. Cisco did no such thing – Cisco had a policy that simply said, “we trust our employees”.

Also, when the telephone was invented, many companies feared that employees would waste their time on the phone, and hence shut off access to phones – something that would be considered crazy today.

Of course, as an internetworking company, it was in Cisco’s self-interest that people use the internet more and more. But Cisco was also walking its talk with tremendous results – productivity was extremely high.

Moreover, in technology companies, it’s critical that employees use these social networking sites – and anything new that comes along. Employees need to be clued into what’s going on in the outside world, both from a technology and social standpoint.

Chetan Dhruve
Author, “Why Your Boss is Programmed to be a Dictator”
http://cvdhruve.com

By: Luis Benitez

Luis Benitez — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:14:43 +0000

Adam,

Just catching up on my feeds now!!! Great job.. !!!

This should be posted on the ibm.com site for Lotus Connections.

By: Ray O.

Ray O. — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:28:53 +0000

Nice tie and no taco stains! Great job

By: Dan H

Dan H — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:17:20 +0000

Nice work! And great choice of cable networks…