Last week, I traveled to Las Vegas for 36 hours to meet with a client that I’m working with to hire some new employees. We were attending a conference for his industry, as he was a featured speaker. It was really great to learn from him about his business and industry, but me sitting in the crowd listening to his talk. It was certainly time well spent.
The speaker right after him started off his presentation with a video that looked somewhat familiar – but totally awesome. The bummer of the deal was that the speaker after my client sure did ACT like he took credit for the video. Here is the video he showed – very compelling. Once I did some research, I realized that the reason it looked familiar was because it was from the same guys that did Shift Happens – a video that Bill Hildeblot, current President of PLANET showed our Executive Management team a few years back in 2007. Here is Did You Know 3.0:
My research, however, found that here was a newer, more compelling version (Fall 2009) of this video (which of course begs the questions why the speaker in Vegas used a year old video?) – I found it fascinating as it addressed more of the social networking part of our fast moving business world and social culture. Check it out, and comment. It’s pretty stinking amazing, in my opinion:
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Agreed!
I have used both videos in private consulting and public speaking platforms. It really sets the stage for a conversation around the revolutionary social shifts in how we communicate, coordinate, and exist – taking the focus off of the tools (“shiny toys”) that foster all of that. I also reccommend this video from the folks at Socialnomics: http://bit.ly/qCmT8.