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Read MoreVickery Father’s Day Roundup – This Grumpy Cat Becomes a Softie
I owe this digression from my planned blog post to Geoff Livingston and Ken Mueller. Their blog posts and tweets prompted an emotional response that led to this unexpected post. Thanks, guys…I hope you enjoy my Father’s Day Roundup. Meanwhile, if you do not like personal blog posts, now would be a good time for you to go ahead and close this browser tab. The Cornerstone Putting it simply: I am...
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Read MorePulse Analytics Social Media Monitoring – Independent Look Under the Covers
If you follow this blog, or any of my social profiles, you get an earful of Pulse Analytics evangelism. I think it is a great representation of the software development, business intelligence, and agile project management capabilities of Mantis Technology Group. Even if a prospective Mantis customer has NO INTEREST in social media monitoring, I often show Pulse Analytics just so people can get a glimpse of...
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Read More12 Most Bodacious B Behaviors of Great Leaders
This post continues my Letters of the Alphabet Leadership series. You can read the 12 Most Awesome “A” Attributes for Great Leaders to catch up. Meanwhile, let’s check out the Bodacious B Behaviors… 1. Beaming Mother Teresa said that “Peace begins with a smile.” Meet your team with a beaming and sincere smile each morning, and see how productivity and morale increase. 2. Believable Believable...
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Read MoreThe Influence Marketing Guys were WRONG – and Then They Made it RIGHT
At this point, I am sure the authors of Influence Marketing – Sam Fiorella and Danny Brown – are saying “What the…” as their Google Alert picks up on this blog title. If they are doing sentiment analysis on blog titles, using a product like Mantis Pulse Analytics (shameless product plug there), then the initial sentiment score would be negative. That sentiment analysis would...
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Read More5 Community Management Lessons Learned in a Library
Sometimes a topic comes along that squeezes its way onto the editorial calendar (as if I keep a calendar). The recent Community Manager discussion comparing community managers to librarians prompted this post. Here are 5 Community Management Lessons Learned in a Library… 1. Libraries are the Hubs of Strong Communities Walk into your local library and observe the diversity. In one corner, you have...
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Read More12 Most Awesome A Attributes for Great Leaders
When I wrote the 12 Most “In Words” to be in Leadership, I knew I wanted to get around to an alphabetical series of adjectives describing strong leaders. Doing my simple math, that would be 12 x 26 = 312 adjectives to print out and keep in a desk drawer — or make a mural! In my opinion, if we carry off just 12 of these adjectives our teams will flourish. I will try to throw some curves — some...
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Read MoreWho Is YOUR Scapegoat – Story of the 3 Letters
Have you ever heard the Story of the 3 Letters? I decided to tell my own version in the following vlog as lead-in to a discussion on scapegoating. Story of the 3 Letters A young manager is going through a job transition with an outgoing manager. The outgoing manager cryptically imparts his wisdom in the form of 3 letters. The instructions are simple: The first time “stuff hits the fan”, open...
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Read MoreWe ALL Support Double Standards
I’m usually trying to get creative with a sports analogy that I can tie to a social media or leadership lesson. Trust me, there will be a sports reference in this post, too. However, I’d like this post to be more of a discussion topic around double standards and unreasonable expectations. As a society, we’ve only gotten worse as we’ve become more digitally connected,...
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About Brian Vickery
I love my wife and two daughters. I am blessed as a principal and EVP of the Rocky Mountain Region for Mantis Technology Group. I am excited to promote our Pulse Analytics social media monitoring and sentiment analysis solution as well as our software development and business intelligence services. I love football, basketball, tennis, and judo. I graduated UT-Austin. Follow Mantis
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