Every now and again it is important to get out and catch up with a colleague.  This week I’ve pulled our Director of Analytics, Naoshi Yamauchi, away from his data dashboards and testing software, to buy him a pint and learn a little bit more about what makes him tick.  Take a look and listen closely in this first (of many) Pint Conversions: Converting pints into answers with Brooks Bell employees.

I recently watched this TED talk from TED’s lead Curator Chris Anderson titled, “How YouTube is Driving Innovation.” In his talk he brings up the notion that online video creates “crowd accelerated innovation” because the world is now exposed to the latest and greatest in the topic. He cites three factors to this newly created innovation phenomenon: Crowd, Light, and Desire.

A while back, I read a book by Tim Templeton called The Referral of a Lifetime. The book is basically a story about how referrals are your best resource in any kind of business you run, or venture you take on, and it gave some ideas on keeping in touch. One of the ideas in the book was a regimented Keep In Touch program. After reading the book, I scoured teh internetz for a ready-made Keep In Touch program, and didn’t find one.

Back in my October 2009 post, I talked about how we used The Cloud to host customer landing pages.  We’ve continued to do so and even host a micro-site to test registration paths for one client.

In that October Cloud post, I didn’t mention the other ways BBI uses The Cloud and SaaS applications.  Here’s a snapshot of what we’ve been using: