March 4, 2010 50 Comments

What I Told Them at LikeMinds

I had a great time at LikeMinds in the UK last week. It was a wonderful event seeking out meaning around people-to-people. It was a brilliant event. My part? I shared a bit of the mind behind the like. Here’s the video:

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  • http://twitter.com/mistressmia Mistress Mia

    I loved your presentation at #likeminds but more than that I love that I got to sit at home in Australia and watch you present in the UK in real time.

    There is something about your lack of spacial awareness that makes you real. (with all affection)

  • http://twitter.com/DickieArmour Dickie Armour

    Chris you were truly awesome! It was so great to meet you and thanks for signing my/your book before the event started.
    I loved, absolutely loved with a capital “L” your idea about making people and customers feel SPECIAL!
    We all want to feel special and recognised and for me you were right on the money!
    Thanks Chris for coming all the way over for LikeMinds and sharing your ideas and views with us.
    I look forward to the day when I too can be known as a Trust Agent!
    Everybody who hasn't yet got Chris & Julien's book Trust Agents – go buy a copy today!

  • http://whatleydude.com James Whatley

    Definitely porno music… ;)

    (PS. Yay for Iron Man!)

    “How many numbers do you have?”

  • http://twitter.com/Ungvall Torbjörn Ungvall

    It's all about attention and how we should interact with eachother – act more like humans. And it's great to see how you get the audiences attention by just beeing yourself – you really get your message through. Great inspiring speech!

  • http://scottgould.me/ Scott Gould

    It was awesome hey Dickie – loved it!

  • http://scottgould.me/ Scott Gould

    #bodger

  • http://scottgould.me/ Scott Gould

    “We take Chris everywhere twice, the second time to apologise”

    Look forward to the second time mate :-)

  • remarkablogger

    That was totally fun and insightful. You got me thinking about the proportions of different types of communicating I do on Twitter, so thanks for that.

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  • http://twitter.com/Jeffrey_Fass Jeffrey_Fass

    Thanks for sharing this Chris! Great presentation.

    If I had watched this video first, I wouldn't have had to read Trust Agents :-()

    Best, Jeffrey
    @SuccessflPursts

  • http://www.robertpickstone.com Robert Pickstone

    It was great meeting you Chris and you make some great points in your speech that businesses will now be going away and thinking about how to impliment into their “guests'” expeiences.

    Your jokes were also good too!

    Look forward to more of your posts and hopefully sharing more ideas.

    Rob

  • http://twitter.com/AJBombers AJ Bombers

    Thanks for sharing this Chris. We couldn't be more proud to be one of the stories that you tell. Much appreciated.
    Joe

  • http://happyandblue2.ca Happy and Blue 2

    That was good. Thanks for sharing it.
    Watching you does make you more human. Which is a stupid thing to say really, ha,ha..

  • http://www.dogwalkblog.com/ Rufus Dogg

    Not sure if this was the point of not, but my take-away on this post was: it seems if you want folks to stay at your hotel or visit your business, get a dog. The Broadmoor has Ruger, the Roger Smith has Henry. I wonder what other hotels have dogs?

    http://www.dogwalkblog.com/hotels-are-going-to-…

    Oh, yeah, funny stories, great presentation, totally agree, really awesome, etc, etc, etc.. :-)

  • tpompa

    “It is not about the technology, it is about being human.” How true is that, I wrote a post (http://pr-mom.com/2010/02/18/networking) on why businesses think social media does not work, and one of the reasons is because they do not humanize their company.

    Loved the speech.

  • http://twitter.com/Chris_Eh_Young Chris Eh Young

    Very informative. I'm going to google the burger joint in Milwakee now.

  • http://twitter.com/mckra1g mckra1g

    Takeaways: respecting the way you are spending someone *else's* time. It sounds SO cliché, but *are* you adding value? To whom? For whom? Are we just talking to hear ourselves talk (BTW, I actually pulled the car over and used that chestnut on my kids when they were little – scared the crap out of me).

    I jotted down the search ratio: search/@replies/content creation. Ditto the search function. Before we talk, we MUST be relevant.

    You make me laugh; you make me think. I'm glad you're out there. Thanks, Chris. Best, M.

  • http://twitter.com/JohnAtkinson JohnAtkinson

    Heh-heh… I always wonder what Europeans are thinking when Americans do “their” accents.

    When Nicole Kidman does a US accent, we're all like “wow, she sounds like us”

    …I wonder if that's what the LikeMinds audience was thinking?

  • Christine Sternberg

    Loved your presentation at Like Minds, thanks for posting here. I am in the measurement obsessed dm biz, climbing up hill to get folks in my organization to think more about social media – I will be sharing this with them. Thanks again.

  • http://twitter.com/BahamasDread Fabian Christopher

    Definitely a good presentation. It was like watching Ricky gervais doing standup but highly informative. I'm sitting here after dying with laughter, and mentally reciting all the tidbits you imparted.

  • dahlpil

    Very good, the phone analogy was great!

  • http://twitter.com/jbigay John Bigay

    Great talk, Chris. Thanks for posting

  • http://twitter.com/BTRIPP Brendan Tripp

    Fun presentation … thanks for sharing it!

  • http://fabricecalando.ca/ Fabrice Calando

    Great talk! Can't wait to see you in Montreal!! You should definitely walk in to some Metallica :)
    I like the time breakdown…good reminder to spend more time listening and that you don't necessarily need paid monitoring tools…it's easy!

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    As a European, I thought it was cringey but funny :-)

    Go Wallace and Gromit!

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    Our lives haven't been the same since you were able to spend some time with us. So happy to see your Like Minds fans as excited to see you as we were. Thanks again for your continued generosity.

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    Chris, I agree wholeheartedly with your assertion that people want to be seen and these new technologies are only useful insofar as they advance a real interaction between people.

    My quandary is, how do we deal with popularity? In the world of face-to-face there was a physical constraint regulating the number of people who could interact with you. Now an unlimited number of people can vie for your attention through various online mechanisms.

    You can't possibly respond to every email, tweet, and blog comment. Where do you draw the line? How do you decide how your limited resources get allocated?

    Something has to change socially–a radical shift away from celebrity–before we can truly interact in the personalized way you're describing. I hope that day comes soon.

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    Any speaker that can make me laugh out loud at least once is high on my list of “someone I can't wait to see live.” That's the type of speaker I hope I am. Super message, Chris. I'm learning a lot from you.

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