We had a packed house yesterday at VRM Day 2013a — more than fifty people — prepping for IIW , which starts today and runs for two more at the Computer History Museumin Mountain View. IIW is an unconference. No keynotes, no panels, no sponsors controlling the agenda. At the beginning of each day, particpants [Read More →]
Identity is personal
May 1, 2013 — Doc SearlsIt’s as simple as that. Identity is not corporate. That means no company is going to “win” at personal identity, any more than any company can win at being you or me. It makes no sense. But meanwhile, there’s this big war going on over identity, that Mike Elgan of CultOfMac covers (from the Apple [Read More →]
Outlining -> VRM
April 30, 2013 — Doc SearlsDave Winer‘s SmallPicture is a vendor I’ve been relating to from the start, mostly by cheering on development, for example of Fargo, the online outliner I describe here. Now that SmallPicture has a reader, I can copy and paste the HTML from my Fargo outline into WordPress under its HTML tab. This makes piling up and [Read More →]
Prepping for #VRM Day and #IIW
April 20, 2013 — Doc SearlsThe 16th IIW (Internet Identity Workshop) is coming up, Tuesday to Thursday, 7-9 May, will be tat the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. As usual, VRM will be a main topic, with lots of developers and other interested folk participating. Also as usual, we will have a VRM planning day on the Monday preceding: 6 May, [Read More →]
Intentcasting mojo
April 8, 2013 — Doc SearlsNice piece on Intently.co and intentcasting in 7 Days. Titled Intently.co – the new website where the firms come to you…, it’s right up the VRM alley. An excerpt: A global site or rather ‘intention engine’ called Intently.co is making it possible for suppliers who are listening to respond to buyers’ requests in the UAE [Read More →]
VRN Linkage
April 3, 2013 — Doc SearlsA roundup of VRM-related tweets and posts… Tweets: williamheath @williamheath @felix_cohen Well, indeed. There is a better way, and I think Unis will lead the way #VRM #Mydex Gary Rowe @garyjrowe 4 Apr Discovering Identity: LinkedIn Should Use Connect.me http://www.discoveringidentity.com/2013/03/30/linkedin-should-use-connect-me/ … #IDM #Tech #LI #VRM Expand Enzion Xavier @NZN 4 Apr What is UDPO? http://www.moxytongue.com/2011/10/what-is-udpo.html … empower people so that they are no longer held captive [Read More →]
The best VRM post, ever
March 28, 2013 — Doc SearlsOne of the most mind-blowing one-liners I ever heard tossed was this one: “All the significant trends start with technologists.” It was uttered by Marc Andreessen during an interview I did with him for Linux Journal, in May 1998, for the August issue of the magazine, following up on Netscape’s open source release of Mozilla. [Read More →]
VRM Roundup
March 17, 2013 — Doc SearlsSome collected items, some old, some new… Products I Want, an intentcasting post by Johannes Ernst. On cricket, riots, trust and customer advocacy and The Dimes; a modern retail fable, by JP Rangaswami. Own your identity, by Phil Windley, responds to The VRM perspective. On personal clouds: The personal clouds wiki Introducing SquareTag, An API for my [Read More →]
Explaining VRM
March 15, 2013 — Doc SearlsIn Rallying cry for innovation – and faith, Mark Sage puts up some long excerpts from a post I made to the ProjectVRM list, explaining VRM to a skeptical marketer. The bottom lines: VRM isn’t complicated. It’s only about giving customers means toward two things: independence and engagement. To see how that can be done, one needs [Read More →]
#vrm on twitter- RT @kaplandaniel: RT @dsearls: For personal data, use value beats sale value: http://t.co/2ZlrR1WzUD #VRM HT @brisbourne @Privowny, @MydexC…
- A #Datamining love story. When CRM and recommender systems are no longer relevant, the #VRM begins http://t.co/w9l6SthQx9 RT @StefanGalissie
- Je haie ma soeur #vrm
- RT @kaplandaniel: RT @dsearls: For personal data, use value beats sale value: http://t.co/2ZlrR1WzUD #VRM HT @brisbourne @Privowny, @MydexC…
- RT @dsearls: For personal data, use value beats sale value: http://t.co/2ZlrR1WzUD #VRM HT @brisbourne @Privowny, @MydexCIC @intently_co