It's been a light posting week. I've been in Houston working with Emerson subject matter experts from across many of the Emerson Automation Solutions business units. Look for a number of new Emerson voices sharing their expertise here on the blog and in Emerson...
We're putting together a one-page Twitter "Getting Started" Guide for next week's Emerson Exchange. I thought I'd share it with the readers of this blog to get an advanced copy. There's definitely a lot more that could be said and if you have some additional thoughts,...
Today at 10am Central North American time (15:00 UTC), I'll be hosting a Twitter 101 primer webinar for those who are planning to attend the September 27-October 1 Emerson Exchange event in San Antonio, Texas. And, if you're not planning to attend, but would like to...
We're but two, short weeks away from the Emerson Exchange in San Antonio, Texas. I hope you've already made your travel plans to join us. If not, make sure to check out the action virtually. We're hatching a number of ideas to help make snippets from the event...
I like to use the application TweetDeck first thing in the morning to quickly scan Twitter posts from the trade press and trade analysts, #PAuto (the established hashtag for "Process Automation"), Emerson folks and brands, and specialized searches on DeltaV, Emerson,...
Chris Chiappinelli, from the Managing Automation blogs, has an interesting post, For Manufacturers, a Reason to Tweet. What caught my eye was: Thinking of Twitter as primarily a sales development tool, however, is the wrong approach, according to the post. Instead,...
Most if not all the major automation suppliers have events for their customers to provide a face-to-face way to exchange ideas on applications, technology developments, and even more importantly, catching up with old friends. Emerson's version of this is the Emerson...
In an earlier post, I discussed thought leadership as a reason you might consider using the people-to-people connecting social media applications like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc. This topic is one of the items Deb Franke and I will be sharing in our...
I came upon these statistics on the growth of social media applications, often dubbed Web 2.0: Propelled by the growth of Facebook Inc. and LinkedIn Corp., social networks are now more popular than e-mailing on the Internet, according to a Nielsen study. I mention...
It is Spring Break week here in Austin, Texas for the schools and universities in the area. Unlike most people who did a family vacation, I took a couple of vacation days to attend the local SXSW Interactive conference. From their website: Attracting digital creatives...
If you'll pardon some self-indulgence, today marks the final day of my third year of the Emerson Process Experts blog. Time flies when you're having fun! It began with this February 28, 2006 welcome post. The mission of the blog has remained largely the same over the...
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