Thoughts on Strategy & Operations
It’s been a while since I’ve dropped a shameless plug. What better to do on a Friday night, right? Skadden’s LA office just posted its final set of up and coming artists. The collection has a number of striking pieces — go check ‘em out.
The marketing team in LA is great to work with and has some pretty cool “conversation” pieces coming later this year.
Today the Skadden Alumni program formally launched a new service: a group on LinkedIn, the social networking site for professionals. Groups are a great way to keep in touch with other alumni and helps to start conversations. Plus members get a cool icon to display on their profile:
LinkedIn has grown from 1.7 to nearly 5 million users in the last year, making it the fastest growing network site. As social networks decentralize through OpenSocial and other development APIs, it will be critical to leverage existing resources. Failing to do so would put an organization at a strategic disadvantage.
While the days of coding are in the past, I still like to play around. Google gadgets have been tugging at me… specifically, how can iGoogle be leveraged to promote a brand, connect with your community and have a little fun.
I came up with this: http://tinyurl.com/25375f
No one I’ve sent it to has commented yet, but that may not be a bad thing.
The response to the Skadden Handbook has been fantastic… a number of new pics were uploaded, most outside of North America. I think the picture below speaks for itself.
And no, this is photoshopped, but I would love to see someone send one in!
This was just launched for the Energy group of Skadden, Arps. Think “Amélie” meets BigLaw:
The Skadden Energy Regulatory Compliance Handbook
This is a great feature… rich, visual content with value added components for the user in both download content and an opportunity to send in more pics. While you would expect FERC and other D.C. landmarks, there are a few that are just plain silly (see below):
