GL Chat – Enchanting in the Face of Adversity – Highlights from Guy Kawasaki talk

Steve Ressler

14 years ago

“If you’re not failing every now and then, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative” – Woody Allen

We had an awesome live video chat with Guy Kawasaki today about “How Government Can Be Enchanting?”

Well, I’d better preface that to say we had awesome content

…but had technical difficulties with getting video streaming and background noise eliminated. Honestly, we spent a lot of time preparing and testing internally but it didn’t turn out like our tests. But as a community we preach taking risks and embracing failure…and that’s what we did here – tried a new technology, had a few wrinkles…but as Woody Allen said if you’re not failing every now and then, you aren’t innovating

and as Guy wrote to me right after ” Anyone can be enchanting when everything goes right. :-)”

Here’s some highlights and quotes from our GL live chat:

Guy Kawasaki Live Chat

jonlee11 Checking out @govloop live chat with Guy Kawasaki talking about Gov being enchanting. In a fairy tale kind of way? We’ll see

jonlee11 It all starts with likability and trustworthiness. #govloop #livechat w/ Guy

adrielhampton “Twitter and Facebook are gifts from God to government.” – @guykawasaki on @govloop. #gov20

jonlee11 Facebook/Twitter are like gifts from God for gov. You can’t communicate cheaper/better/faster #govloop #livewithGuy

adrielhampton Cool live chat with @guykawasaki now! https://www.govloop.com/ “Your real enemy is ignorance.”

Shannon: “GovLoop and Gov’t blogs help to fight ignorance and make government more enchanting” –Guy Kawasaki

exilauren The optimal number of slides in ppt is 10 @guykawasaki #govloop

Candace: Fighting ignorance…how timely given the recent nuclear crisis.

pjfiorenza From @GovLoop live chat w/ @GuyKawasaki on social media – it can empower and engage in ways that never could have been done before – #gov20

aloup Can #Government Be Enchanting? #quote: “If responding to citizens isn’t the role of gov’t, I don’t know what is.” @GuyKawasaki @govloop

Adriel: “If responding to citizens isn’t the role of gov’t, I don’t know what is.” Rock on, Guy!

munigov20 Listening to Guy Kawasaki on GovLoop talk about ignorance is our enemy in gov-we need to make gov enchanting let people know the good stuff

pjfiorenza Apple, Virgin America and Zappos – Top 3 Enchanting Companies – from @GuyKawasaki on @govloop

Cindy: True, Zappos was the first time I bought shoes online

Holly: Now I’m having visions of Astronauts wearing my adult Healys I bought on Zappos 😀

adrielhampton “Clearly you’re not doing it for the money.” ~ @guykawasaki, Author of “Enchantment” thanks gov’t workers.

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More to come in our upcoming live chats. And once again thanks for taking out the time to be with us and apologize for the challenges.

Enchanting links from Guy

Web quiz: http://great.guykawasaki.com/
Facebook quiz: http://www.facebook.com/enchantment?v=app_6009294086
Speech video: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/video/
Bio and background: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/background/
Pictures: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/pictures/
Facebook fan page: http://www.facebook.com/enchantment#!/enchantment?sk=app_4949752878
Badges: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/badges/
Infographic: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/infographic/
Wallpaper: http://www.guykawasaki.com/enchantment/wallpaper/

and, of course, to buy:

http://amzn.to/dIRQHC

Guy Kawasaki: guy@alltop.com