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Alan Weinkrantz

 

USER NAME alanweinkrantz TITLE Pres ORGANIZATION San Antonio Express News/Alan Weinkrantz & Co LOCATION San Antonio, TX BADGE TYPE Interactive MOBILE 210-820-3070 EMAIL alan@weinkrantz.com ADDRESS 3737 Broadway   Suite 280 COUNTRY USA

Biography

Alan Weinkrantz has more than 30 years of direct marketing, public relations, and social media experience.
Google Profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/alanweinkrantz

He is a prolific writer, blogger and is considered the leading consumer facing blogger covering AT&T’s three-screen strategy. Still deep in the trenches of pitching, Alan has worked with leading technology companies from inception to IPO or acquisition including AudioCodes, Mercom Systems, Spectrum Cellular Communications, Envara, Shopping.com, Answers.com, and many more.

Early in his career he worked for subsidiary company of Commodore that helped launch the home computer revolution, the world’s first cellular modem, which helped foster the concept of mobile data communications, and was credited by The New York Times as helping to create one of the first cyber cafes at InfoMart in Dallas.

Alan is a recognized expert in working with Israeli high tech companies, often helping them translate complex technologies into compelling idea such as the commercialization of Internet Security, WiFi, VoIP, the tablet PC, and home networking.

Alan is a monthly contributing columnist to the San Antonio "Express News," where he writes about social media, PR, and AT&T, and Guest Lecturer at The University of Texas at San Antonio. His blogs have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger Magazine, CNet, BusinessWeek, ZDNet, Good Morning America, NPR, and others.

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Many moons ago, it was all about Six Sigma.

Now, George Colony write about Social Sigma.  

George says that while Six Sigma is a discipline for improving products through better process, Social Sigma is about improving products through social feedback. It's about using social networks as a means for customers (and potential customers) to continually critique, analyze, and offer suggestions about your products. It's a powerful tool for continually increasing the value of what you make. 

The column and this video are just a sampling of who's doing what. And there's more coming.

I'll be teaming up with Nan Palmero from SalesBy5 to do daily reports for the online edition of the paper known as MySA.com.

Stay tuned for more and thanks for reading.

During the Texas Israel Chamber of Commerce's Cleanovation event in Austin, I had a chance to catch up with Mark Ellison, Associate Vice Chancellor for Economic Development - Office of Technology Commercialization with the Texas A&M University System.

Mark is on the Board of Directors of the Texas Israel Chamber, and formerly ran the Texas Emerging Technology Fund.

The goal is simple:  if you're an Israeli technology company looking to land in the U.S., Texas has a great economy, world class universities, and innovative programs like Mark is driving.

Yes, I'm gonna buy an iPad.

1. I am a self-confessed Apple fan-boy. I'll pretty much buy everything Apple makes. Part of my fan-boyism is from the fact that their stuff is really good, well designed, and well.... very cool.

2. What I have not decided upon is which version. One side of me says just to buy the $499 version and use it purely as a mobile writer, reader, surfer, on the go Keynote builder.

I will use it as an extension of my MacBook Pro and iPhone and sync everything I do, and store my stuff up via MobileMe / iDisk.

3. As for the 3G option.... I'm on the fence. Part is the cost and part is giving AT&T more of my money. For what's it's worth, I've also been an AT&T fan boy through my 3Screens blog, where I was the first consumer blogger to go public - and actually covered U-verse before AT&T launched U-verse.

4. On the other hand.... I sort of know myself. I'll find an inadvertent way to fill up my iPad - rather quickly. In that case, I should just go for it, and buy the whole enchilada with 64GB.

I've got two months to think this through.

What about you? Now that they hype has (sort of) settled down, are you gonna buy an iPad?

I will be speaking today at 10:30 AM at The University of Texas at San Antonio on the subject of personal, corporate and technology branding.

The focus of my discussion will be about story telling and how to get your story told and be found on the social web.