Agile Digital Business

During my conversation Brielle Nickoloff, lead, product marketing, for Witlingo, she and I discuss the value of moving quickly in the voice platform. Hear how Amazon Alexa searches data sources to respond to voice search as well as insights about voice portals for your customers. Nickoloff has a background in linguistics and neuroscience and user interface design. Her unique combination of degrees...

You can now search your Alexa app or the Amazon store for the Alexa Skill, "Agile Digital Business." When you enable it for your device such as an Amazon Echo smart speaker, it will pull in the news from the podcast in to your Flash Briefing. When you use a phrase such as, "Alexa, play my Flash Briefing," you will hear the news from each of news briefs you have enabled. Developing an Alexa Skill f...

Transitioning with your customer in the digital realm before it's too late – businesses, prepare for voice search by @vickiemaris #teachinspireconnect #agiledigitalbiz Agile Digital Business Episode 12 featuring news, references and commentary about the voice platform and voice search   From the Resources Handout prepared for a conference session talk in June 2019; revised for a talk in September...

Gary Vaynerchuck is on the Voicebot List for 2019 Top 10 Influencers in Voice. Neil Patel is a marketing thought leader, and named by Entrepreneur Magazine as a creator of 1 of the 100 most brilliant companies. Both are preparing their companies for voice. Between the two of them, they have many successful businesses. In Episode 11 of Agile Digital Business, I summarize both their sense of urgency...

You may have heard of voice search, or use of voice-activated assistants such as Alexa which is the assistant for the Amazon Echo smart speaker. There is also the Google Home Assistant or Microsoft's Cortana, Apple's Siri, and other others. You may have also heard the older phrase of "voice attendants." As people gravitate towards voice for search, it has brought about a marketing niche that is of...

Podcast Movement 2019 Conference , August 14-16, 2019, in Orlando, Florida, has many conference tracks, sessions, meet-ups and networking events to consider. As the host of Agile Digital Business podcast, I'm excited to be attending the conference and to get to meet up with many of my friends and colleagues who are in the podcasting arena. As an author, speaker and instructor in digital leadership...

In my conversation with Mike Jackson for Agile Digital Business, we take a departure from digital marketing and transition of content to the digital realm, and talk teamwork. Mike enjoys the sport of field trials and raising and training bird dogs. He has trained some of the best English Pointer dogs in the business and participates in field trials from the back of his Tennessee Walker horses. His...

Whitney Kilgore, PhD, of iDesign, shares her perspective on blended learning, open educational resources, and more of her insights on the design of learning experiences in this Part 2 of my interview with her. This is Episode 7 of Agile Digital Business (formerly, Online Course Connections) podcast. Whitney provides pointers on how to guide a subject matter expert (SME) who often wants to lead wit...

Jeff Jennings is with Missouri S & T, and is a former middle school teacher turned instructional designer. In Episode 6 of the show, Jeff and I talk about learning experience design and working with faculty in the mapping of a course plan.  Jeff earned his MS degree in educational leadership through an online program at the institution that is now called Trident University. He did his graduate wor...

Amy Skyles, Missouri S & T, is my guest on Episode 5 of Agile Digital Business (formerly, Online Course Connections). She and her colleagues are helping you keep students on pace towards graduation by working with instructors to create alternatives for the design and teaching of lab classes. She tells us about the reasons behind decisions at her institution and how they are answering faculty, stud...

You can join other entrepreneurs and business owners in the Youpreneur community hosted by Chris Ducker. In this episode, I share a very unscripted perspective of life as a Youpreneur, and the support that comes from being an engaged member of the community.  Previously, the site was only opened to new members a few times a year, but it is now open throughout the year. If you're an entrepreneur wh...

Melissa A. Venable, PhD, and Jon Ernstberger, PhD, co-presented during the 2016 OLC Accelerate Conference on their experience using Periscope as a platform for their Higher Ed Scope podcast. Sit in on a conversation I have with them in Orlando at the conference.    Melissa is the education editor with the Center for Online Education at OnlineColleges.net and faculty in instructional design at St....

In this episode of Agile Digital Business (formerly called Online Course Connections), Whitney Kilgore, PhD, of iDesign takes a student-centered approach as she talks of techniques she uses to help faculty and content experts get more comfortable in recording videos for online courses. She also shares several tools and resources that you will find helpful, no matter if you're doing online course d...

Here are three approaches to developing content for an online course platform such as Udemy.  I describe techniques I have used including: Creating an online course around a topic in which you have a high level of expertise and passion. Invite a content expert(s) to join you in developing a course. This person could also serve in an on-camera role for course videos. Journal your experience in lear...

This edition of the introductory episode, recorded in January 2022, covers the launch of Season 4 of the show, and the focus on personal development, team development, leadership, and team communications. Host of the show, Vickie Maris, started her consulting business in November 2020 and became an Authorized Partner - Everything DiSC and The Five Behaviors in 2021. She is a certified trainer and...