Category: Podcast

1 July, 2013 / Podcast

Our intrepid Geek Whisperers are back in action this week sharing stories of “Things I’ll Never Do Again.” What projects have been so unexpectedly challenging that our social media practitioners have sworn them off, like that one time as a 10-year-old I ate so much caramel corn that I couldn’t…

14 June, 2013 / Podcast

This week is a rare behind-the-scenes conversation of three big names in the brand advocacy / social influencer space: Citrix Technology Professional, VMware vExpert and EMC Elect. Our guest, Perrine Crampton, joins your regular Whisperers on a journey behind the scenes. A Disclaimer: This week the team is talking about their…

13 May, 2013 / Podcast

Your hosts of John, Amy and Matt come together for the first time in person since the podcast began! While live from EMC World 2013, we dig into a few hot topics: What’s it take to be a Geek Whisperer To mandate or not to mandate social media usage Activity…

6 May, 2013 / Podcast

While we’re all social media users, no one quite uses it like this week’s guest. Rakesh Bharania has the unique need to use social in kevlar as part of the Cisco Tactical Operations  [TacOps] team. He walks the usual team of Geek Whisperers through what it’s like to be in real-world disasters and…

29 April, 2013 / Podcast

This week our intrepid Geek Whisperers tackled their favorite floating dinner party, professional community, and time sink — Twitter. Our special guest was Sunshine Mugrabi, @sunshinemug,  a social media consultant and recovering journalist and PR person. More specifically, we wanted to answer the question we get asked a lot: How…

22 April, 2013 / Podcast

Your regular Geek Whisperers crew dive back into the depths between corporate and personal brands.   We work at answering some hard hitting questions: Which is more important? Where should you put your energy? What’s the risk of someone with a big personal brand? Bonus Question: Is John Troyer unemployable?…

15 April, 2013 / Podcast

We tackle Google+ this week on the Geek Whisperers podcast. So far for many people Google+ seems a lot like sex in high school. You hear stories about other people doing it, but you have a dearth of personal experience. And I’m not sure if this is like sex in…

9 April, 2013 / Podcast

This week we tried to talk about metrics but ended up talking about listening programs as well, which are indeed related but not the same thing at all. Since the Geek Whisperers gang is focused more on fostering human interaction than counting points, we brought in the smart and capable…