CRM Playaz with Host of Whispered Insights Esteban Kolsky
You may know him as The Irascible One, or Digital Pestilence, or by the single letter E. Well he's all of them, but he's also the host of the award winning (we just made up an award so we could give it to him) #PPN show #WhisperedInsights, the one and only Esteban Kolsky joins for what will no doubt be an interesting show. Plus another fun-filled #StumpTheGodfather segment. Who'd want to miss that?
What can be said about the CRM Playaz that hasn’t already been said? We hate the Patriots, love the Rams, love the Yankees? That’s clear. Maybe that Playaz is a 13-year-old show with a global audience. Known for the depth of discussion on all matters customer facing –not just CRM, CX or customer engagement – and for the fun that guests and the hosts, industry analysts and BFFs Brent Leary and Paul Greenberg have. All are welcome to the show. Deep audience participation is our hallmark. At least we like to think so.
We've got about a month to go until Labor Day, which means the fall conference season is right around the corner. So we thought it would be a good time to speculate a bit about what we're likely to see when e head back out to the big vendor conferences like Dreamforce, CloudWorld and many (many) others. And we're to have superstar analysts Laurie McCabe, Sheryl Kingstone, Keith Kirkpatrick and Ray Wang join us to get their takes on what to expect, what they'd like to see, and what they don't want to see when they go back out on the road in September. And the cherry on top of all of this is The Venerable Paul Greenberg's favorite - Stump the Godfather! So join us and share your thoughts on what you want to see when you hit the fall conferences in a month.
Bob Fernekees, VP/Group Publisher of CRM Magazine, and Len Klie, Editor in Chief of CRM Magazine, join us for a special announcement. And of course Stump the Godfather is back!
We're back from our two week hiatus! And Rpb Garf, VP and General Manager or Retail and Consumer Goods for Salesforce, joins us for the first time. We'll dig into Amazon Prime Day aftermath and se how non-Amazon retailers fared and what signals for the overall economy we should be paying attention to. Plus Stump the Godfather is back too! #CRMPlayaz #Salesforce #Retail #Amazon #PrimeDays
We've made it. through the first half of the year., cuz we're not going to anymore events this season! So now we can talk about what we liked, what we hated and what was WTF..... Join us and give us your takes on what you thought about the events you attended this spring conference season! #CX #AI #CRM #customerengagement #Pegasystems #Genesys #Zoho
It has become a tradition unlike any other, and I'm not talking about The Masters. I'm talking about Pegasystems founder and CEO Alan Trefler joining us as things are ramping up for the company's annual PegaWorld Inspire event. And as always, we have lots of questions to ask Alan, and some of them will actually be about Pega.... So join us for what is always a fun and insightful conversation leading up to the big event.
There has already been a ton of industry events this spring, and there are still lots to go before we get to the end of June. So we'll give you our takes (and please join us and give us yours) on what we've seen so far, and what we think we'll see before we're done with this season - The Good, The Bad, The Ugly....and The Teddy Bear (you'll have to watch for that one). And of course #StumpTheGodfather!
We've been celebrating this being the 15th year we've been doing the CRM Playaz. And just last week Esteban Kolsky had Doc Searls on #WhisperedInsights to mark 25 year since he co-authored one of the most influential books on the industry, The Cluetrain Manifesto. But ten years before that Jon Ferrara, founder of Nimble and industry pioneer, co-founded Goldmine - which along with ACT! put us all on the path to where we are today with CRM/CX. So we are excited to have Jon back again to share his thoughts how things were back in the beginning, and to hear what he has to say about where we are today. And, of course, we can't do a Playaz ep without Stump the Godfather!
John Taschek, SVP of Strategy for Salesforce, joins us for the first time this year! We'll get into the current state of analyst relations, and The Venerable Paul Greenberg will get into another episode of #StumpTheGodfather! Join us, if you dare...
He's back! He being Ecom #AI Boss founder John Lawson, (aka The Cold One, The Bold One) is back for the first time this year. Plus another edition of everyone's favorite - ESPECIALLY The Venerable Paul Greenberg - Stump the Godfather is also back. So join us if you can. We'll leave the light on for you...
You're the guest this week, with you being whoever shows up. Join us on the show for a few minutes by putting a topic in the comment section. From there we'll bring you on to talk about it. We'll bring on as many as we can fit in, that is after we do the thing the Venerable Paul Greenberg likes the most - another #StumpTheGodfather segment!
Industry thought leader, and CEO and Principal Analyst of Amalgem Insights, Hyoun Park joins us for the first time! And of course PG's favorite segment #StumpTheGodfather is back!
We sit down with #Zoho cofounder and CEO Sridhar Vembu in McAllen, TX during Zoho's analyst event to discuss everything from #transnationallocalism to the potential of Apple's #VisionPro headset in the enterprise.#ZohoDay24
We welcome back a familiar face in a new place as Celia Fleischaker joins us for the first time since joining isolved as their CMO! And of course #StumpTheGodfather is back too!
Steve Gillmor, one of the true pioneers of podcasting and new media and host of the Gillmor Gang, and Esteban Kolsky, #PPN's Whispered Insights host, join us again to share what they are looking at today in the rapidly evolving media space, what they like, and what they don't...
Mike Szilagyi, SVP, Product Management for Genesys, joins us for the first tme to give us the scoop on the company's recent acquisition of Radaar, a social media engagement platform that enables organizations to improve their customer experience business strategies. And of course we're back for another Stump The Godfather segment!
Marta Federici, Global Head CX & Data Insights at Henkel, a 145 year old German consumer goods company with annual revenues of $20B+, joins us to share her thoughts on the year ahead in CX and AI from a global perspective. And, of course, another fun-filled episode of everyone's favorite segment - Stump the Godfather! Not (EVER) to be confused with Tickle the Godfather....
Don't call it a comeback (because we've been here for years....and years), but it's the first show of the new year! And joining us for the first time is longtime friend and industry leader Chuck Schaeffer, Go To Market Leader, Strategy + Technology, Global Business Services for IBM, And it's the first #StumpTheGodfather segment of the year! So join us if you can!
Is this the end of the CRM Playaz? Well, no it was far from it. Of course this is as close as we would come to clickbait if anyone actually cared about the end of the CRM Playaz, but this is our year end and next year is our 15th anniversary so we have to close this year with a great discussion and be ready for next year with great plans.
We haven't done an open mic ep lately where we invite show watchers who comment during the show to actually join the livestream for a few minutes to talk about what's on their minds. So it's about time to bring it back...with a twist.With it being smack dab in the holiday season, we thought we'd combine our fondness of the open mic, with the CRM Playaz favorite holiday - Festivus! So if you join us on the show to talk about something that's on your mind, we get to talk about how you've disappointed us during the course of the year, in accordance with one of the main tenants of Festivus. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?So help us celebrate our most sacred holiday by letting us share just how disappointing you were to us this year! #FestivusForTheRestOfUs#PPN
You may know him as The Irascible One, or Digital Pestilence, or by the single letter E. Well he's all of them, but he's also the host of the award winning (we just made up an award so we could give it to him) #PPN show #WhisperedInsights, the one and only Esteban Kolsky joins for what will no doubt be an interesting show. Plus another fun-filled #StumpTheGodfather segment. Who'd want to miss that?
On last week's show SugarCRM CTO and longtime industry leader Rich Green announced his retirement,. And while we said farewell to Rich, this week we welcome back a very familiar face to the space going back to his Oracle days - Amplience CEO Anthony Lye. Plus America's favorite game is back (well it's PG's favorite for sure...) #StumpTheGodfather!
One of our favorite guests, longtime industry stalwart and current CTO of SugarCRM, Rich Green, joins us with a big announcement to share. And your FAVORITE game, #StumpTheGodfather, is back with another tough (but fair) question for The Venerable Paul Greenberg! So join us at 3pm et Thursday for another great CRM Playaz episode.
We've been to a lot of events since getting back on the road after Labor Day. And while there still events to go to, we figure we've got more than enough to talk about with the ones that have already taken place, including #Dreamforce, #CloudWorld and #AdobeMax just to name a few. So we're assembling the crew once again to hear what people thought of what they saw and heard at the events they took in. The crew being:Bob Evans, Cofounder and Analyst, Acceleration EconomyLiz Miller, VP and Principal Analyst, ConstellationJohn Reed, co-founder, diginomicaPJ Jakovljevic, Principal Industry Analyst, TEC Join us and let us know what you think of the #CRM / #CX conference season thus far. #PPN
The meteoric rise of #GenAI is already having implications across the enterprise, including on the relationships they have with its partners. And we're glad to have Indira Gillingham, Salesforce VP of Partner Alliances, join us to discuss. As is another round of America's favorite virtual gameshow - Stump the Godfather! #Salesforce #IndiraGillingham #Partnerships #StumptheGodfather #EnterpriseTech
CRM Playaz Live from Dreamforce with Vala Afshar and Charlie Isaacs
Dr. Geeta Nayyar, aka Dr. G, a nationally recognized leader in healthcare information technology, joins us to talk about the role of AI in healthcare, and to give us a preview of her upcoming book "Dead Wrong: Diagnosing and Treating Healthcare’s Misinformation Illness".
With #Dreamforce right around the corner, Colin Fleming, Executive Vice President of Global Brand Marketing for Salesforce, joins us again to talk about the evolution of Salesforce+ as it enters its third year, and how its role in this year's Dreamforce has transformed the event from a virtual audience standpoint.
Special guests Bob Fernekees and Len Klie - publisher and editor of CRM Magazine, join us to share some cool news on this year's CRM Magazine Awards. And longtime #PlayazPal Sameer Patel joins as well as another installment of America's favorite game (at least in our eyes) Stump the Godfather - and this time you can win a Panasonic Lumix GH5 camera for playing along. So join us!
Zoom's new terms of services update announcement caused a ruckus this week, but did it dignify something that goes beyond just one company? We know a few folks who have some opinions, and we bet you have some too. So join us as two of ore favorite Playaz Pals Josh Greenbaum and Alan Berkson share their thoughts on the situation as we try to figure out if the veil of privacy has been lifted or if a new privacy renaissance has been jump started. #Zoom #privacy #TOS
Brian Solis - best-selling author and more importantly the first ever graduate of the CRM Playaz Playa-in-Residency program -joins us for the first time since becoming Head of Global Innovation for ServiceNow. This conversation took a turn that was amazing and surprised all of us. #generativeai #genai #creativity #artist #contentcreator
We welcome Meg Bear, SAP Successfactors President & CPO, to the show for the first time. Plus another round of America's (well, mine at least) favorite game - Stump the Godfather! And you, if you join us!
That question was posed by Peter van der Putten, Director of #AI Labs for Pegasystems, on a recent Linked post of his. So we're excited to have him join us to discuss how #generativeai and other tech may play a role in getting us to the #autonomousenterprise. Plus we spend "a few good minutes" with the host of the latest PPN show Whispered Insights - the one and only Esteban Kolsky - for a sneak peek to find out what's in store when the show launches next Tuesday at 2pm et. So join us!
We've reached the halfway point in the year, which for the most part brings a close to the spring industry conference season. So now's as good a time as ever to assemble the crew to get their take on what they saw. Joining us are Don Fluckinger, Liz Miller, Rebecca Wettemann, and making his show debut is pricing optimization expert Mark Stiving, who will not only unravel the mystery that is pricing but be part of this esteemed panel of jurists - errrr, analysts.
Jon Reed (aka cofounder of diginomica aka The Bad Boy of ERP aka Th Brohammer) is back to discuss his new dbook "Reaching the B2B Informed Buyer". Plus the latest installment of #StumpTheGodfather!
Katrina Gosek, Vice President of Product Strategy & Marketing for Oracle #CX, joins us for the first time! And the latest installment of STUMP (not to be confused with STOMP) the Godfather is back with an all new look!
The CRM Playaz, Paul Greenberg and Brent Leary, will stream their show live from #Outperform23. Guests include PROS Chief #AI Strategist Michael Wu, PROS CMO Grad Conn, and #PROS customer, Lasership's Ziying Zhang
In order to replace guests Jeff Wartgow and Stig Feldspar, Brent Leary and Paul Greenberg substitute and talk over things. The Microsoft sponsored Stump the Godfather segment appears once again and Paul gets 1 of 2. Watch and guess along with Paul and the crowd. Plus of course we speak of things #Oracle, #Pegasystems, #Verint, and #PlayazProductionsNetwork among so many other things. AND "I Dream of Jeannie" and Barbara Eden...back in the day.
It's been a while since the last time social commerce expert John Lawson joined us for a mashup/crossover episode where CRM Playaz collides with Pass the Mic. But the time has come for The Cold One, The Bold One (aka John "ColderIce" Lawson) to join us to talk/discuss/argue about as many hot button topics as we can fit in to this hour. This should be a good one.
For the first time since 2019 Adobe Summit is back in Las Vegas next week, and Adobe's Doug Anderson joins us for a sneak peek of what's going to happen! And meet Ron Kimhi, CRM Product Lead for Monday.com to tell us the how, why, when, where and who about Monday.com's year old CRM product.
There have been non-stop announcements the past few weeks from industry heavyweights like Microsoft, Salesforce, HubSpot and others around their offerings concerning #generativeai, #largelanguagemodels, #chatgpt, etc. But it's not just the big boys announcing stuff. John Carini, founder and ceo of iEnterprises, joins us to talk about how his company is joining the party make it easier for folks to be more productive with the tools they use every day to get their jobs don. Plus don't miss another exciting episode of Stump (not stomp) The Godfather....
Zoho's corporate band RMD (Rendu Mani Dosa) won the best video category of the inaugural CRM Playaz Bring Your Own Band competition for their song From Chennai With Love. And after a small group of analysts (PG and I included) spent the last week in Chennai as guests of Zoho for an immersive experience to learn more about the company, the video and song take on even more meaning. So this week we are joined by a number of our friends who also made the trip to share our experiences and learnings about Zoho now that we've returned from our trip. So join us on Thursday, and in the meantime check out the video from RMD that won best video - From Chennai with Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFpI4wB6fYY
Just over a month into 2023 and things seem more tense than ever. While most of us thought more certain days would be ahead of us as the pandemic moves to the rearview, every day feels like it comes with multiple layoff announcements (with thousands of people impacted) and mixed economic signals. So what does it mean for CRM - both the industry and the actual use of it within organizations? That's what we'll toss around with industry experts Liz Miller, Denis Pombriant, Anand Thaker and Rebecca Wettemann....and we're hoping you'll lend your thoughts to the conversation too
"Microsoft creates an 'iPhone moment' for AI with new ChatGPT support". That was the title of a SeekingAlpha article posted after Microsoft announced a $9B investment in #OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Now that's a pretty big statement to make about anything, but could that headline actually be true? That's what we're looking to find out as we welcome three recognized experts in #conversationalai - Conversational X's Mitch Lieberman, Opus Research's Dan Miller and Webio's Paul Sweeney - to find out if we are entering the AI's golden era.
On January 26th 2009 The Venerable Paul Greenberg announced on his ZDNet blog the beginning of something we called the CRM Playaz. It was a "show" where the two of us talked about stuff going on in the #CRM industry, had some guests on every now and again, smacked down a few C-level execs, and just talked about whatever came to mind in a way that talked about stuff when cameras and recorders weren't running. Which pretty much is the same thing we're still doing with the CRM Playaz fourteen years later. So join us this Thursday - January 26th 2023 - for a fun Playaz hanging as we continue to talk about whatever comes to mind, have a few guests join us, and generally do what we do when the cameras aren't on.... although now the cameras are better when they are on. BTW here's the link to that post from fourteen years ago:https://www.zdnet.com/article/announc...
There's a lot going on right now due to the economic uncertainty gripping the tech industry. And with all that going on the business of technology still has to go on. Dealing with inquisitive analysts is already a tough job, but how much more difficult is it when layoffs and other tough news makes the questions even tougher? Three of the best AR people in the business - Sarita Kincaid of SugarCRM, Blake Stowell of Adobe, and Ryan Zuk of Verint joined us to discuss.
Playaz-in-Residence, past and present, come together for group convo on what's going on in the world of #CRM, #CX, #CustomerEngagement and anything else that might come up. Welcome back Ginger Conlon, Rebecca Wetteman, Jamie Anderson, Bob Stutz, Anand Thaker, EL Nicole France and our newest PIR Alan Berkson!!
TechCrunch Enterprise Reporter Ron Miller joins us to discuss the surprising news of Salesforce Co-CEO Bret Taylor stepping down. What does this mean for the company and the industry? We'll get into it and want to hear your thoughts as well. So join us if you can for this one!
Portia Mount, VP Marketing & Business Development of Trane Commercial Americas, joins us for the first time
SugarCRM co-founder Clint Oram and Courtney Eaton, President of Logistics for Sneakers 4 Funds talk business, football and SugarCRM, Zac Sprackett, CPO SugarCRM talks gear in a Playaz led geekout.
CRM Watchlist 2022 Reveal Party aka Show
This was year 19 of the CRM Watchlist, a prestigious (if we do say so ourselves) award given to the companies in the CRM/CX and customer engagement universe who have had the most impact and at the same time are organized and ready to have impact continuing three years going forward. If you don't have both you don't win. If you do have both, you might win. Its tough so watch us as we reveal the 2022 winners and get ready for 2023!
CRM Playaz - On the Road to Dreamforce w/Colin Fleming
Dreamforce is over and we'll be showing you what we did there soon. But right before it started we had the pleasure of once again chatting with Colin Fleming EVP of Salesforce+ and former Red Bull race car driver. Salesforce+ ran the entire media presence at Dreamforce and it was truly remarkable. Find out what they did and how they were thinking about it.
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