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Co-Creator of Twitter and Author of 140 Characters
Dom Sagolla helped create Twitter in 2006, and shipped his first book, 140 CHARACTERS: Style Guide for Short Form, in October of 2009.
We don't need Hemingway to show us (though he did) the incredible impact that well-written short sentences can have. In the digital age, it has become increasingly important - crucial, even - to harness the power of the short form (evidenced by Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, MySpace, etc.).
Dominic Sagolla's 140 CHARACTERS: Style Guide for Short Form aims to do for the short form what Strunk & White's The Elements of Style did for good writing on paper; via lessons in grammar and composition, but also discussing the importance of simplicity, honesty, and humor.
Dominic, a graduate of Swarthmore and Harvard, worked as a developmental engineer at Odeo when it became Twitter in 2006, and was involved in its initial stages of development. He is an engineer with AdobeAir, the founder of DollarApp, an iPhone application development company, and was responsible for the official Obama '08 iPhone Application.
140 CHARACTERS includes a foreword by Jack Dorsey, the engineer who conceived of Twitter, and current Chairman of Twitter. The book was released simultaneously as an interactive iPhone application (with full text) from DollarApp and in print & e-book form by John Wiley & Sons.
Areas of Expertise: Information Technology, Intellectual Capital, Internet/E-Commerce, Branding, Entrepreneurship/Small Business, Innovation and Creativity, and Social Trends.
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| Twitter : Changing the World with 140 Characters - With over 100 million users worldwide, Twitter has become an instant part of our culture. Not only is it changing the way we communicate, but it has proven to be a tool for social and political change. In this presentation, Dom tells the story of Twitter and introduces the concept of “tweets per capita,” giving us a snapshot of our current status as a planet. He’ll also provide a glimpse into the future of writing and journalism, as well as information and social networks, concluding with a lively Q&A session. |
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| Success Through Simplicity: Apps For Everyone - What does the phenomenal success of the iPhone and iPad and their Apps tellus about what consumers want? Dom Sagolla knows. After his success withTwitter, he founded DollarApp, an iPhone development company, and helped build the official Obama ’08 iPhone Application. Dom has spent the last four years building the world’s largest independent developer community for the iOS, iPhone Developer’s Camp. He is uniquely positioned to explain the explosion of Apps, and what this says about technology culture and how we live today. |
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| Culture of Innovation: Creating A Marketplace of Ideas - Twitter started out as a podcasting company but is now the world's fastesttext communications channel. Blogger began as project management softwareand is now one of the most popular publication tools in history. Google began with a search box, and is now the world's largest advertising network, changing its identity almost yearly. Adobe started out shipping printer drivers, and is now producing the standard in professional content creation tools.
Dom Sagolla has been a part of some of the world's most renowninnovation pipelines. From HP Laboratories to the MIT Media Lab, from Harvard Law, Medical, and Education schools to Adobe Labs, Sagolla noticed some common patterns. When absent these patterns and processes, innovation fails to emerge and ideas are squandered. Sagolla believes that any company, no matter what size, can foster the kind of innovation that drives the most aggressive startup.
Sagolla maintains that innovation lives in small teams operating as independently as possible, listening to customers, providing a unique experience, and actually creating demand where there was none.
Using case studies from Apple and other American companies –both large and small- Sagolla explores the truth behind Brian K. Smith’s famous quotation,"On a good day, we fail in a really interesting way."
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