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Hutch Carpenter

Hutch Carpenter

VP of Product for Spigit (http://spigit.com). Father of two young 'uns who misses running marathons. San Francisco, CA.
Damn > Posterous shuts down for good April 30. http://blog.posterous.com/thanks-... Anyone come up with a Tumblr transfer tool?
#nofearzone How to start from grass roots for innovation effort? Develop innovation network. Start there, expand around each network node.
If there is fear of social & transparency in innov. efforts, leverage a classic enterprise tool: reporting. Analyze the effort. #nofearzone
Innovation fear: social and transparency. When laqunching innovation program, recognize and work with existing tools in place. #nofearzone
RT @michelemcconomy: Fear #5 - Going Social and Transparent - if you can't beat them, join them - the social age is not going away #nofearzone
Idea for dealing with innovation political issues: enlist middle mgrs to be ambassadors to business units. Make them advocates. #nofearzone
Innovation fear #4: political fallout. Will efforts be stymied, run into buzzsaw? Mitigate w/ dev an internal innov. network. #nofearzone
What is fear? It falls along a spectrum, based on your org's risk profile. Mitigate fear by mapping effort to your risk profile. #nofearzone
Got one of those LinkedIn "Top X% viewed profiles" emails. Nice, except it's several days after media covg of it. So the effect is reduced.
Pope Benedict to resign at end of the month http://www.cnn.com/2013... > With next Pope, does Vatican continue conservative trend or tack back?
#sfgiants single game tickets went on sale at 8 am this morning. I'm in the "Virtual Waiting Room", awaiting my turn to buy tickets.
Was wondering what all this Nemo talk was...it's the storm in the northeast. http://www.businessweek.com/article... > Weather Channel is doing some branding
eBay is back! http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2013... by my cousin-in-law (seriously) @JPManga > Leveraging its deep ecommerce experience to help retailers
What is someone going to stop doing when they start using your product? http://37signals.com/svn... - @jasonfried > Ties into 9x adoption challenge
Postal Service to Cut Saturday Mail - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/postal-... > Great. One less day to go throw out junk mail.
. @jamesallworth Love it. #JTBD: When I go to run, I want to avoid getting wet. Success: Stay dry when I run > Dark Skies is a good solution
'Social' as a term for collab/sharing software will fall out of circulation in 12-18 mo http://estebankolsky.com/2013... - @ekolsky @BrianVellmure
On Quora, @jasonlk is practically writing a book on SaaS startups, and entrepreneurship in general. See: http://saastr.quora.com/
RT @wimrampen: I just posted: Building Customer Communities For All The Wrong Reasons http://wimrampen.com/2013... #scrm #jtbd
RT @jowyang: Superbowl Ad Summary: Hashtags Up, Facebook Down, Google+ non-existant http://www.web-strategist.com/blog...
WSJ: Crowdsourcing Takes Center Stage in Businesses http://blogs.wsj.com/cio... Spigit client Fidelity: "Gives us opp to tap entire firm’s brains"
Another parenting moment...awaiting the 6 am opening of a website to register for a popular summer camp. Like an Oklahoma land rush.
49ers score their third #poweroutage touchdown. #superbowl
49ers score 17 #poweroutage points. #superbowl
49ers score their second #poweroutage touchdown. #superbowl
49ers get their first #poweroutage touchdown. #superbowl
RT @DanielHonigman: Dear @Oreo: the eight year olds in the room loved your commercial.#brandbowl > Can confirm my 8 yo was cracking up
GoDaddy ad = my eyes! <goes to retch> #superbowl
Everyone who does a @ThisAmerLife report must receive lessons in low key, understated speaking styles.
75% of my 8 y.o. son's conversations with me start, "In Minecraft..." Thanks @notch! :-p
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