Business Insight Zone

(For values of “neat” including “gratifying in a narcissistic way.”)

1. Yesterday, my buddy Aaron Strout — CMO of Austin’s own Powered and the kind respondent to my questions about Yammer — published an interview with me on his blog. So if you want to know (much!) more about my thoughts on social media, head on over.

2. Last night I had a great time talking to some of the worthies from Bootstrap Austin. My presentation was called “You Can Create a Customer Anywhere,” and aimed to apply some timeless ideas about business — in this case, Peter Drucker’s analysis of entrepreneurship — to the “placeless” world of online business. We met at the nifty Conjunctured coworking space in East Austin, which I had never visited before. Good times.

At some point, I’ll likely post the deck from last night’s talk, though I can’t guarantee I’ll give it the full-annotation treatment like I did with last month’s HIMA talk.

And now back to our regularly scheduled less-narcissistic programming . . .