December, 2019

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Lesson learned from Explainify's amazing process

Jake Jorgovan

Recently, I worked with Explainify on an explainer video for Lead Cookie. It's always amazing how whenever you become a customer of another company, you pick up tips and tricks on how you can improve your own. In this article, I share some of the things I learned from Explainify's productized process for creating an explainer video. But before that, be sure to watch their 60-second explainer video below so that you can see the quality of the output.

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Ten Things to Do For Your Business During the Holidays

Ground Floor Partners

Most businesses slow down once or twice a year, typically either around the holiday season starting in November, or in late summer. Whenever your slow season is, it is a good idea to take advantage of this time to regroup, reconnect, and recharge. Here are ten things you can do to get the most out of this down time. Research. The one thing you can be absolutely sure of in life is that things change.

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How Should Human Rights Advocacy Balance the Opportunities & Risks of Artificial Intelligence?

Partnership on AI

How might artificial intelligence (AI) technology be best leveraged for human rights causes while also mitigating the risks? Are resource-constrained human rights organizations able to tap into this technology, and are there particular applications where AI will create the most impact? PAI Partner, Intel – along with other distinguished voices from Arizona State University, Numina, and Benetech – explored this set of questions in a PAI convened panel at the recent AAAS Science, Tech

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Task boards mobile experience

SamePage

Last week we released one of our most significant features for Q4. The tasks boards (aka kanban). With the task boards, it was never easier to manage a project in Samepage. You can define your workflow with custom columns and quickly move tasks around with a mouse. Pretty easy and straightforward. Language.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How To Achieve Better-Together Partnerships

Successful Channels

Like chocolate and peanut butter or caramel and sea salt, your partnerships can be the best and the most complementary relationships possible. Imagine if all your channel partnerships were 1+1=5 where both parties win all the time. This is not as elusive as you may think. All your partnerships can be as good as donuts and coffee, or any of these examples above if both parties are committed to each other’s success.

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Why Principles-Based Collaboration Is Essential For Agile Ecosystems

Phoenix Consulting Group

as published in Forbes.com. As we enter an “Era of Ecosystems,” we need a different approach and thinking to manage these multi-dimensional and multi-lateral business relationships. I believe the partner management processes that have been developed as a profession are still relevant, but we do need to rethink how we apply them. Nine-way governance models just aren’t efficient and agile.

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Selecting the Right Firm, or What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Ground Floor Partners

Eventually, every business, no matter how well run, hits a rough patch. While large businesses are used to hiring consultants, and have people and processes in place to get the most out of such consulting engagements, most small business owners do not. Consider the following – fictitious, but unfortunately all too common ? story about a small business owner who hired the wrong firm, and paid a steep price for his mistake.

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On AI & Media Integrity: Insights from the Deepfake Detection Challenge

Partnership on AI

Coordinated, multistakeholder work that brings together researchers, technologists, advocates, and other experts in the AI and media ecosystem is vital for countering the emergent threat of AI-generated mis/disinformation. With our involvement in the Deepfake Detection Challenge (DFDC), the Partnership on AI (PAI) is helping shape the development of technologies built to identify video manipulations and promote media integrity.

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The feature all video calling is missing

SamePage

When on a call on Samepage, you now can react with an emoji to let others know what exactly you feel about the discussed topic. It shows with animation, so it gets noticed and then fades away as the topic of discussion changes. Language.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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A Channel Marketer’s Fantasy: Closed Loop ROI Management

Successful Channels

One of the biggest fears of a channel executive is making investment decisions with incomplete information on activities with uncertain forecasted outcomes. It is particularly anxiety producing to invest in marketing or sales actions, where the supplier marketer has little control over how it is planned, executed or measured. Channel executives today are being measured on the return they can generate on all channel investments and need more certainty in the way this process is managed.

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Impartner Announces New Chief Marketing Officer

Impartner

Kerry Desberg promoted to lead Impartner’s global marketing organization. Salt Lake City, Utah – Dec. 16, 2019 – Impartner, the world’s fastest-growing, most award-winning Partner Relationship Management (PRM) and channel management platform provider, announced today that it has promoted Kerry Desberg to Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). As CMO, Desberg will be responsible for leading the strategy, planning and development of Impartner’s global marketing initiatives and continuing to build a worldw

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Does luck play a part in business success?

Company Partners Blog

Given that today is Friday the 13th I thought it interesting to look at the role luck plays in business success. Firstly it would be wrong to say that luck, or being in the right place at the right time is non-existent – it does happen. Think of those who bought property in places like London some time ago, never thinking that prices would sky-rocket.

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3 Ways Building Your Personal Brand Boosts Your Career by Cynthia Johnson

Dinkel Business Development

In recent years, personal branding has become a very popular buzzword. Everywhere you turn, it seems as though someone is talking about building your personal brand. Through the overuse of the term, it is no wonder why people have lost sight of what it really means. For instance, is personal branding about fame? No, it isn’t. Instead, personal branding is about influence.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee

Partnership on AI

The post AI and Media Integrity Steering Committee appeared first on The Partnership on AI.

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The new chapter of Samepage: Task boards

SamePage

Today is a big day that marks the future of Samepage development. We have a new document type called Task Board to please all the task lovers and project managers. Language.

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Quarter 4 Volume 1

Borgman Capital

Read our Quarter 4 Volume 1 newsletter. Newsletter.

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Natural Interface Solutions Leader Wacom Chooses Impartner to Manage Partner Networks; Microsoft Dynamics 365 Integration Key to Decision

Impartner

Impartner PRM-powered partner portal rated 5 stars by partners. Salt Lake City, Utah – Dec. 5, 2019 – When Wacom, a leading creative digital pen manufacturer set out to take its global partner experience to the next level, choosing a Partner Relationship Management (PRM) solution that could easily integrate with their Microsoft Dynamics 365 solution was key.

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The Essential Guide to the Buying Experience of the Future

Your buyers’ lives, preferences, and expectations have changed. Over two-thirds of buyers prefer remote or digital interactions — and they expect those interactions to be substantive and valuable. They hold sellers to a high standard, and that means the buying experiences of the past — in-person meetings, transactional conversations, and linear sales funnels — no longer deliver.

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How to Plan, Manage, and Measure Strong Channel Business Partnerships

Successful Channels

I have been looking for inspiration on the “how-to” process for building deeper channel partnerships. Specifically, I am looking for what producers (i.e., manufacturers, software companies, etc.) can do to build stronger and more committed partnerships for their channel. I decided to look at what great thinkers from today and before having had to say about how to build lasting collaborations.

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Introducing SafeLife: Safety Benchmarks for Reinforcement Learning

Partnership on AI

The Partnership on AI (PAI) is today releasing SafeLife – a novel reinforcement learning environment that tests the safety of reinforcement learning agents and the algorithms that train them. SafeLife version 1.0 focuses on the problem of avoiding negative side effects—how can we train an agent to do what we want it to do but nothing more? The environment has simple rules, but rich and complex dynamics, and generally gives the agent lots of power to make big changes on its way to completin

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World-Leading Satellite Operator SES Chooses Impartner to Power Global Rollout of Partner Program

Impartner

Impartner’s partner relationship management solution helps SES expand their scope and market reach, and generate new business opportunities. As world-leading satellite operator SES expanded its core business from delivering video services to include new, flexible satellites that suit the needs of any enterprise customer anywhere, they knew they needed a partner network on the ground to deliver the technology on the ground to customers.

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The Ultimate Partner Performance Dashboard

Successful Channels

Consolidated Channel Dashboards are as Rare as Some of the Greatest World Treasures: Channel executives have been searching for solutions to provide comprehensive dashboards for their partners and channel managers for many years unsuccessfully. The promise of a single place to monitor, manage and measure all elements of a channel program has been simply unattainable.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.