CRM Playaz Episode 11 - Microhoo!, Big RTs and Jigsaw CEO Jim Fowler
Posted by Brent Leary on Tue, Aug 04, 2009 @ 07:05 AM
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As always the music plays and we are set free.
Music
Opening:
Use Your Experience by Charles Bobus. Courtesy of
The Podsafe Music Network Closing: Got My Mojo Working from the album, The Lost Tapes by Muddy Waters.
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This time around we talk about the latest big deals, including Microsoft-Yahoo! and IBM-SPSS. We give our takes on what this means for business in general, and for the CRM industry in general. More importantly, we try to figure out what deals are coming next, and why Oracle and Salesforce should never merge.
C-Level Smackdown
This week's C-Level Smackdown guest is Jigsaw CEO Jim Fowler. We find out that Jim is a big time sports fan, loves playing Poker, how he personally uses Twitter, and surprisingly is not a big fan of puzzles. We also get Jim's thoughts on the Microsoft/Yahoo deal, and why it's good for the consumer. Finally Jim fills us in on Jigsaw's new initiative - Data Fusion.
The Prankster of Social CRM
Paul has some of the coolest nicknames in the industry, including being called the Walt Whitman of CRM, and....wait for it... The Godfather of CRM. Well thanks to BatchBlue CEO Pamela O'Hara, I have a new nickname - The Prankster of Social CRM. Find out how I earned that name when Pamela visited me at the radio station.
The Big RT
My other new nickname I recently picked up was The Big RT. This came about because last Tuesday I decided to do nothing on Twitter but retweet other people's tweets w/o adding any commentary. I fill in Paul and Jim on the experience and what I learned from it.