Category: What We’re Thinking About

Internal Engagement Marketing

How many books have been written in the last twenty years about the value of getting your employees to be more than “employees?” You don’t want drones and…

How Steve Jobs Learned the Value of Corporate Structure

Harmut Esslinger, the man who made more of an impact on Apple’s design philosophy than anyone who isn’t named Jobs, is releasing a book called Keep it Simple…

The Post-Optimized World

It was once the promise of the internet: to democratize all communication, to give anyone who wanted it a newspaper, a record label, a book publishing house, a…

The Periodic Table of Mobile Event Apps

At FLIRT, we say “treat your co-worker as a consumer.” In a nutshell, this means treating even internal audience members and event attendees like they are your customers….

The Power of an Internal Launch Kit

Again this year, like Capistrano clockwork, the geek press fixated on Apple’s launch event, in which the latest version of the iPhone was to be unveiled. In previous…

The Goldilocks Problem of Delivering Strategy

Strategy is a very messy idea, especially on the corporate level. For one, new books come out every year attempting to define strategy as an idea, implying that…

Automated Internal Communications? Oh Yeah.

If you’re not as obsessed with our blog as we are, you may have missed our previous post on automated marketing, a system that uses cool off-the-shelf web…

Your Automated Future!

Your customer is a real person. They have needs, worries, fears, aspirations and desires. Heck, they even have names. What they also have is their own timeline. They…

The Data Port in Your Head Already Exists

I always wanted to learn French. Of course, I could learn French, but I don’t feel like going to classes or reading books and doing homework answering questions…

Sharing is Caring: Meet the Collaborative Economy

Last weekend, my parents came in from Houston to visit me. Aside from re-arranging the furniture and going shoe shopping (the usual parental visit stuff, I guess), we…

How to Measure the Value of Your Event App

If you’ve gone app shopping lately, you know that even if you go with a straight-forward (or even bare-bones) solution, mobile event solutions are not cheap. Besides the…

The Secret of Successful Virtual Meetings (Part 2)

In the last blog post we showed you the secret to getting the most out of virtual meetings. If you missed our surprising metaphor about two guys in…

The Secret of Successful Virtual Meetings (Part 1)

Virtual meetings are all the rage. They claim cost savings, convenience and value to anyone who will listen. But when it comes to virtual meetings, the people who…

Do You Know Your Event’s Real ROI?

At some point, either on paper or in your head, you’ve tried to do the math as to how valuable your event is. But even if we’ve all…

Stop Ignoring the Power of Mobile

“The future is here. It just isn’t evenly distributed yet.” – William Gibson The case for mobile at your event or campaign is simple: It’s already here. Halfway…

Infographic: What Kind of Event Mobile Solution Do I Need?

At last count, there are hundreds of different mobile app and app solutions out there for your event. And while we’ve talked to almost all of them, you…

FLIRTcasting: Bringing Home the Cup Edition

Last week was pretty exciting! Not only did the Blackhawks win the championship, they swung by our office to show off Lord Stanley’s Cup (well, to be fair,…

The Execution is the Strategy

In the next twelve months, you will go from a world in which a dedicated event app is an occasional occurrence to one where it is standard. Every…