Belated greetings!  Any rumors of the demise of the CI podcast are over-stated.  The MBA and the day job are keeping me very busy, and I'm looking forward to a day when I am able to get back to interviewing CI experts.  In the interim I wanted to say hello and bring to your attention a few interviews I have given recently-- it's something to be on the other side of the microphone or paper.

First, let me bring to your attention the Jenerous podcast.  Producer Eric Mattson has put together a great podcast to help innovative marketers share their expertise with other marketing professionals.  The podcast is specifically geared towards technology entrepeneurs.  You can hear the interview here.


CI Podcast friend Alessandro Comai (interviewee for episode 19) co-edits a Spanish-language magazine for CI professionals called Puzzle.  In the latest edition they published a translation of my interview about the relevance of podcasting for CI as a tool for training and sharing CI products.  I've included the interview as published (as well as the text of my original interview in English) here.

I am very eager to hear your suggestions for future episodes of the CI Podcast.  Please send me an e-mail if you have thoughts, suggestions or contributions about the following:

1. Any real-world war stories about CI collection or presentation.  What worked, what didn't and what did you learn?
2. Primary and secondary collection methods
3. Best practices in CI collaboration
4. What does a quality CI product look like?

Thanks for your continued support and all the best!

Recently I came across several podcasts from the annual conference of the Special Libraries Association (http://www.sla.org).  I thought these were very useful programs.  I am working with SLA to get the appropriate releases to share all of these programs with the CI Podcast listening audience.  

In this session J.P. Sherman talks about search engine optimization and how this relates to competitiveness and competitive intelligence.  Randy Marcinko discusses the important relationship between content and meta-data.

Mike Lyden and Dan Bukowski, recent graduates from the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies share their experiences and lessones learned from the Wiki on Global Diseases project conducted in conjuntion with the National Intelligence Council.  Mike Lyden is currently an analyst with McManis & Monsalve Associates (http://www.mcmanis-monsalve.com/).  Dan Bukowski works for Booz Allen Hamilton (http://www.bah.com).  More information about the Mercyhurst Institute for Intelligence Studies can be found at http://www.mciis.org.  The Wiki on Global Diseases project can be viewed at http://nie.wikispaces.com.

In this episode of the CI Podcast we hear from Roger Phelps, Principal of Phelps Business Solutions LLC. Roger shares some tips on how to use LinkedIn as a primary research tool and some of the basics to quality primary research techniques.

This is an interview with Alessandro Comai, co-author of "Mapping & Anticipating the Competitive Landscape."  Alessandro and co-author Joaquin Tena outline a framework for applying multiple analytical frameworks to gain a very deep understanding of an enterprise environment. http://www.mappingthelandscape.com.

Interviews and Impressions from SCIP 2007.

In this episode of the CI Podcast August engages in some shameless self-promotion in preparation for SCIP 2007.  The main topic at hand is creating engaged CI customers and developing products that will resonate with those customers.

Greetings CI Podcast subscribers!  Thanks to the support of Max Nelson and the fine people at Frost & Sullivan I am able to share with you the PDF of Max's presentation referenced in episode 16 of the podcast.

This week I had the opportunity to interview Max Nelson, Director of Strategy and Competitive Intelligence with General Dynamics.  Max studied analysis at the RAND graduate school.  In this episode he shares his impressions of the Frost & Sullivan conference and gives us an intro into quantitative analytical intelligence.  Your analytical horizons will be expanded!

This is a hodgepodge episode of the CI Podcast. Caling all CI veterans for their war stories!! CI applications for a new on-line media transcription tool. August sees CI everywhere in the MBA program. A podcast recommendation. Fortune says Google doesn't look at the competition, but we know better.