Brian Solis has contributed his latest article to Influencia, one of France’s leading magazines on innovation. In this article, he explores the end of business as usual and how to harness the power of connected consumerism. It starts with change, but it takes a change agent. Le peuple est le premier acteur du changement ! Les médias sociaux ont posé les fondations d’une révolution, celle de la façon dont les gens apprennent, communiquent et se connectent entre eux. Aucune marche…
24 Doodles that Visualize This Year’s Pivot Conference Agenda
I’m looking forward to seeing you at next week’s Pivot Conference in New York. We published our formal agenda here. Our friends at doodle.ly though, decided to re-imagine the concept of what an agenda could be by visualizing portions of it as doodles! I hope you love them as much as I do… Click here to see the original gallery. More about our speakers here. I’ve created a story arc around the importance of integrated experiences and digital transformation. We’ve…
3M Features Brian Solis at Innovation ThinkTANK
3M invited Brian Solis to keynote the company’s inaugural Innovation ThinkTANK event in St. Paul, MN. Solis challenged strategists and executives for leading brands in attendance to embrace Creative Destruction to create a culture of innovation where disruption isn’t something that you do or that happens to you, it’s the result of competing for the future…today. More here.
AlwaysOn Ranks Brian Solis as a 2013 Power Player in Technology Business Media
AlwaysOn announced the first annual Power Players in Technology Business Media list, honoring the technology journalists who are keeping the Global Silicon Valley connected and informed. Brian Solis was included in this list for his work across multiple publications, LinkedIn Influencer‘s program and also for his award-winning blog, BrianSolis.com. Introducing the 2013 Power Players in Technology Business Media Byron Acohido Technology Reporter USA Today Kiran Aditham Editor Mediabistro Erin Ailworth Business Reporter Boston Globe Mickey Alam Kahn Editor in Chief…
NPR Invites Brian Solis to Discuss Twitter IPO On Air
Twitter gave potential investors the first peek at its financials as the company heads toward its initial public offering. Twitter plans to raise $1 billion in its IPO and will trade under the ticker symbol TWTR. While Twitter has quickly transformed the way people communicate and comment on events, it has yet to establish itself as a business. NPR’s Steve Henn interviewed Brian Solis to discuss Twitter’s S-1 filing and what lies ahead for the company as it makes the…
Time Magazine asks Brian Solis about the state and future of Google+
Credit: Andrew Kelly / REUTERS In a piece entitled, “Google Is Far From Losing the War Over Social,” Time’s Verne Kopytoff examined the state and future of Google+. At 390 million users, Google’s social network is 60% larger and much younger than Twitter. But two years after its launch, many still question its progress. Koptoff interviewed Brian Solis where the two spent an hour discussing every aspect Google’s rise, strategies, and the meaning of Google+ within the company’s greater ecosystem…
The Wall Street Journal asks Brian Solis to weigh in on Twitter’s S-1 filing
Twitter filed its S-1 on October 3rd, 2013 in its quest to raise up to $1 billion in a public offering. The company reports up to a quarter billion users and also a quarter billion in revenue for the first six months of 2013. While revenue doubled this year over last, its net loss grew by 40% to $69 million as a result of ballooning expenses. In its story covering Twitter’s IPO plan, The Wall Street Journal asked Altimeter analyst…
Author Paul Gillin interviews Brian Solis for Huffington Post
Paul Gillin, author of many popular business book including Attack of the Customers, his most recent release, interviewed Brian Solis to discuss the upcoming Pivot Conference along with his views on the state of customer experience and business innovation. In an article meant to shake things up starting with the headline, “It’s the Customer Experience, Stupid,” Gillin and Solis explore disruption, innovation and the need for businesses to change at the top. Solis believes customer experience is the only sustainable…
StarkInsider Highlights Brian Solis Keynote at 2013 C2SV
StarkInsider was on hand to catch Brian’s keynote at the inaugural C2SV festival in San Jose. Bringing culture, technology and music together in one place, C2SV brought together luminaries to share their thoughts on the past and future of their fields. Performances and conversations featured the likes of Steve Wozniak, Iggy Pop and the Stooges, John McAffee, Jello Biafra among others. Brian focused on technology’s impact on business and society and how to innovate in a world where new technology…
A Conversation with Adobe on the Future of Marketing and Disruption
Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to present in London at a special Adobe event to celebrate the launch of What’s the Future of Business: Changing the way businesses create experiences. Immediately following the presentation, I joined Adobe’s Jeremy Waite to shoot an episode of Marketing Minute. As the title suggests, each episode is supposed to last 60 seconds. However, this conversation wrapped just shy of 10 minutes. And, I think you’ll see way. As Adobe explains, “In this…
