Daniel Brent Patton

Product Content Strategy & UX Writing

The Sales Enablement Numbers Game

Steve Diamond over at Oracle delivers a whiteboard (thanks BNET) that speaks to the dollar impacts of some fairly straightforward Sales 2.0 initiatives—CRM for 360° opportunity management, a meritocratic email campaigning environment, pricing analytics, and (my...

An Exploration of Corporate Storytelling Practice

Heard the one about the role of storytelling in knowledge management? Many of today’s most respected businesses and thought leaders are transporting this age-old practice from around the watercooler directly into the repositories of intellectual capital. Moral...

“Chicago” is 15!

Now featuring coverage of electronic publishing as well as a grammar and usage chapter all its own, the Chicago Manual of Style is in its 15th edition. Buy it. Read it. Mind the gaps. Perhaps most importantly, remember to (as Linda Halvorson, chief editor, puts it)...

Texaco’s John Old in Fast Company

  John Old, of Texaco, makes salient—though still fairly broad—statements regarding knowledge management in September’s Fast Company. Mostly it’s about people. First, to paraphrase a paraphrased paraphrase (from David Snowden): “One, knowledge...