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Ryan Holmes
Canadian
Businessman
Born:
Dec 30
,
1974
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Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
Ryan Holmes
Communication
Social Media
Seen
Email
Since
Most
Form
Social
Communications
Media
Humankind
Last
Disruptive
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
Ryan Holmes
You
Busy
Everybody
Tools
Invest
Sharpening
Longevity
Your
Lives
Need
Workflow and usability are not afterthoughts; they impact the core of any project and dictate how it should be engineered.
Ryan Holmes
Project
Impact
How
Dictate
Any
Should
Engineered
Core
Don't be scared to try new things, but remember to hold on to the vision of your company and the initial successes that defined your brand.
Ryan Holmes
Vision
Remember
Try
New Things
Defined
Scared
New
Brand
Hold
Successes
Your
Initial
Company
Things
Social media teams tend to be decentralized - a motley mix of in-house experts, off-site consultants and international partners. The result: Confusion, rogue tweets, and off-message posts are almost inevitable. The worst gaffes live on in social media infamy.
Ryan Holmes
Result
Confusion
Social Media
Inevitable
Live
Worst
Posts
Tend
Consultants
Almost
Partners
Mix
Motley
Infamy
Rogue
Decentralized
Experts
Social
International
Tweets
Teams
Media
Entrepreneurs, by disposition, are built to think big. When a role no longer affords those opportunities, it might be best to leave it in capable hands and move on.
Ryan Holmes
Best
Opportunities
Big
Move On
Disposition
Think
Those
Entrepreneurs
Longer
Built
Leave
Role
Hands
Affords
Move
Capable
Might
Think Big
As an entrepreneur, one of the biggest challenges you will face will be building your brand. The ultimate goal is to set your company and your brand apart from the crowd. If you form a strategy without doing the research, your brand will barely float - and at the speed industries move at today, brands sink fast.
Ryan Holmes
Today
You
Challenges
Entrepreneur
Will
Face
Building
Research
Strategy
Speed
Crowd
Industries
Without
Doing
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Sink
Brand
Brands
Move
Form
Biggest
Biggest Challenges
Apart
Barely
Your
Company
Float
Fast
Set
As technology has improved, our digital lives have only grown more tangled and cluttered.
Ryan Holmes
Technology
Digital
Our
More
Only
Tangled
Improved
Cluttered
Grown
Lives
My first real venture was a paintball company I started in Grade 10, when I was 16. After hearing about it from a friend, I realized my town didn't have a playing field. I did some research, spoke with other paintball company owners, and I started my own field the following summer.
Ryan Holmes
First
Own
Field
Research
Other
Summer
Some
Following
About
My Own
Spoke
Town
Venture
Real
Hearing
Friend
Did
Grade
Owners
After
Realized
Company
Started
Playing
Playing Field
Anyone working at HootSuite will tell you that I don't sugarcoat my opinions. I heavily encourage feedback and suggestions - partly because I'm blunt about offering the same in return.
Ryan Holmes
You
Feedback
Will
Tell
About
Partly
Return
Because
Opinions
Encourage
Offering
Same
Anyone
Blunt
Working
Suggestions
If you catch me lying, it's probably because I'm about to surprise someone for their birthday, or hide away the specific details about a company getaway to a strange but amazing place.
Ryan Holmes
Birthday
Me
You
Strange
Hide
Amazing
Lying
Details
About
Someone
Catch
Because
Surprise
Place
Company
Away
Specific
I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what they're doing.
Ryan Holmes
Needs
People
Amazing
Seen
Young
Think
Hundreds
Way
Hundreds Of People
Boot
Boot Camp
Vancouver
Entrepreneurs
Put
Tens
Names
Involved
Accelerate
Well
Doing
Camp
Canada
Just
Forward
Program
I often talk about the PayPal mafia out of San Francisco, people that were in PayPal and got out of PayPal and continue to reinvest in other start-ups and create a huge pay-it-forward type of network there.
Ryan Holmes
People
Other
Type
Francisco
Out
Mafia
About
Network
Talk
Got
Were
Continue
Huge
Often
San
San Francisco
Create
PayPal
Reinvest
I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.
Ryan Holmes
Love
Build
Brand
Legacy
Amongst high unemployment rates, a competitive job market and a shrinking global economy, the emerging social media industry only continues to grow.
Ryan Holmes
Social Media
Job
Market
High
Emerging
Rates
High Unemployment
Only
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Industry
Unemployment
Social
Grow
Media
Shrinking
Amongst
Competitive
Certification programs for social media are blossoming as a response to the demand for more social media training. Both industry professionals and recent graduates are tapping into tactical training programs to help them stay up to date as the industry grows.
Ryan Holmes
Training
Social Media
Programs
Response
Stay
More
Tactical
Date
Both
Demand
Industry
Tapping
Up
Up-To-Date
Blossoming
Graduates
Social
Them
Help
Media
Professionals
Grows
Recent
Companies and managers that find a way to harness social media stand to gain.
Ryan Holmes
Social Media
Harness
Way
Find
Managers
Gain
Social
Stand
Companies
Media
From its humble origins in college dorm rooms, social media has quietly crept into the boardroom.
Ryan Holmes
Humble
Social Media
College
Quietly
Dorm
Social
Rooms
Media
Origins
Sales departments use social to nurture leads and close sales. HR posts job openings and vets applicants. Community and support squads mine networks, blogs and forums with deep listening tools.
Ryan Holmes
Listening
Nurture
Job
Community
Tools
Mine
Posts
Networks
Support
Leads
Openings
Blogs
Sales
Close
Departments
Social
Use
Forum
Deep
When my company was first getting off the ground, we were completely lost in the shuffle, despite our best efforts. In 2012, however, we had a 28-foot-long, 15,000-pound secret weapon. To stand out amid the gala parties and blow-out bashes hosted by much bigger tech companies, HootSuite decided to take to the streets.
Ryan Holmes
Best
First
Lost
Secret
Despite
Our
Secret Weapon
Out
Weapon
Take
Had
Parties
However
Were
Off
Efforts
Getting
Bigger
Decided
Much
Stand
Ground
Companies
Company
Tech
Tech Companies
Shuffle
Streets
One of the most important principles I've learned is, every so often, just drop everything. Stop racing from one party to the next.
Ryan Holmes
Drop
Important
Party
Every
Everything
One Party
Most
Learned
Principles
Often
Just
Stop
The Most Important
Racing
Next
The reality is that SXSW is packed with brilliant entrepreneurs, investors and partners. They're everywhere, zipping back and forth like thousands of atoms. Your chances of colliding with one actually improve just by standing still.
Ryan Holmes
Reality
Brilliant
Atoms
Back
Everywhere
Thousands
Entrepreneurs
Investors
Like
Partners
Still
Improve
Just
Packed
Forth
Your
Standing
Actually
Chances
When you think of technology that gets people excited - long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists - the first thing to come to mind probably isn't thermostats. Then, along came Nest.
Ryan Holmes
You
Technology
People
Mind
Long
First
Think
Enthusiastic
Nest
Excited
Along
Come
First Thing
Came
Passionate
Lines
Reviews
Gets
The First Thing
Stores
Then
Evangelist
Thing
Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.
Ryan Holmes
Game
Ride
World
Increasingly
Approach
Valley
Locally
Embrace
Phrase
Able
Silicon
Silicon Valley
Only
Recruit
Prospects
New
Talent
Along
Town
Identify
Around
Different
Decentralized
Different Approach
Centers
Them
Younger
Companies
Homegrown
Tech
Bring
Understanding and respecting your roots is critical not only to winning the tech talent wars but leaving a legacy that transcends bottom lines.
Ryan Holmes
Understanding
Respecting
Critical
Only
Winning
Bottom
Talent
Leaving
Lines
Legacy
Transcends
Roots
Your
Wars
Tech
For some people, staying grounded means doing yoga. For others, it's spending time with family. Social media, too, can be a lifesaver.
Ryan Holmes
Time
Family
People
Social Media
Some People
Too
Others
Spending
Spending Time
Some
Staying
Doing
Yoga
Social
Means
Grounded
Media
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