If Gangplank is a piece of software, it would most probably be a Wiki!
It’s a a true collaborative space, where they don’t charge you to participate. If you’re a ‘permanent resident’ (what businesses that have their offices here are known as) you don’t pay rent. But you get to use the utilities and the workspace as if it was your own.
Our guest on the show, Derek Neighbors, co-founder of Gangplank, prefers to use the term ‘social capital’ that residents are expected to invest. It could be something as simple as helping teach an iPhone class.
Gangplank is all about nurturing the community –businesses that are literally “within one and a half to two mile radius of our building,” says Neighbors. A member of Gangplank is on the board of every board or commission in the City of Chandler.
Gangplank’s permanent residents –known as ‘Anchors’ – include Authority Labs, Dev-Fu, Drawbackwards, Forty, HeatSync Labs, Integrum, myKB, Page.ly, RoughEdge, rYnoweb, and VUURR. Just today two new companies, Big Red Eight, and Circle Studios came on board, and they plan to expand, adding another 9500 square feet in an adjacent building, soon! We asked Derek to elaborate on who they are and what they do. You could find out more about them here.
We also asked him to comment on the ideas that Derrick Mains presented this Monday, at the launch of the SustainAZility movement –and the Wiki– that has similar goals for crowd-sourcing the best ideas from our ‘permanent residents’ here in Arizona! More about this could be found here.
At the front end of the show we also had Abigail Rethore, one of our on-the-ground correspondents, file a report. Enjoy the podcast!
“If somebody in your industry becomes responsive to social media,” observed Jay Baer, ”then your silence becomes deafening.”
He was talking of how listening in for customer feedback, and hiring employees who are attuned to these kinds of feedback mechanisms, have huge implications for business. “Everybody in your company is in ‘marketing,’ whether they are in Marketing or not.”
Jay, a social media strategist, much sought-after keynote speaker, and author of an award-winning blog, Convince and Convert, was our first guest on the show.
We paired him off with Patty Van Leer, Exec/ VP. and Chief Strategy Officer of NAS Recruitment Communications.
We decided to do a show to talk about HR practices, and how talent acquisition (and retention, and employee engagement!) has changed and is changing. Employees today live a greater part of their personal and professional lives online. “HR is still process driven, she observed, so resumes are still used because of application tracking systems. “We still live in two worlds,” she admitted, but also recognized that for generations coming out, building a resume isn’t the first thing that employees do. Building an electronic profile is going to be their gateway to introductions with companies.”
Great show, touching on the hot-button issues of branding, customer service, marketing, and workplace behavior.
At the front end of this show, we also launched On The Ground With Abigail Rethore, a new segment, that will become a weekly sustainability report from different parts of the country.
In the last 10 minutes of the show, Derrick Mains officially announced the launch of a Sustainazility grass-roots movement, and the launch of the wiki -at www.Sustainazility.com.
As we warned you, it’s a jam-packed show!
On this week’s show, we featured two terrific guests Joe Turturica and Stan Alpert. More about them here.
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