{"id":159,"date":"2010-11-22T10:17:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/?p=159"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:31:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T14:31:24","slug":"what-marketing-needs-to-know-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2010\/11\/22\/what-marketing-needs-to-know-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"What marketing needs to know about IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the <a href=\"http:\/\/sipaonline.com\/events\/miamiagenda\">SIPA marketing conference in Miami<\/a> I gave a presentation with that title. The presentation is based on my own experience as well as quite a few interviews with marketing and IT professionals. <\/p>\n<p>Some of the slides might not make sense on their own (like the ones about the bicycles), but if you&#8217;re interested in viewing the slides, here you go. <\/p>\n<p>Slides for <a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/resources\/IT_and_marketing.pdf\">What marketing needs to know about IT.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>And feel free to post questions. <\/p>\n<p>So &#8230; about those bikes. <\/p>\n<p>There are lots of things that you think you know &#8212; like what a bicycle looks like &#8212; but when you have to get down to details, you often miss some important things. Not because you&#8217;re stupid, but because that&#8217;s how your brain works. <\/p>\n<p>People make funny mistakes when they try to describe simple, everyday things. For example, when some people draw bicycles, they&#8217;ll connect the chain to the front and back wheels, or forget the seat, or something like that. <\/p>\n<p>The relevance to &#8220;what marketing needs to know about IT&#8221; is that you can&#8217;t give an engineer a half-baked drawing of a bike and say &#8220;build this&#8221; any more than you can give IT a half-baked web concept and expect them to make it happen. It doesn&#8217;t work. <\/p>\n<p>The two drawings in my slides are from two helpful marketing professionals, and they actually did pretty well. But there are some minor problems. See if you can spot them. <\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s something else, just for fun. I wish I&#8217;d had it for my presentation. <\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/waeqYEBaSH0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/waeqYEBaSH0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the SIPA marketing conference in Miami I gave a presentation with that title. The presentation is based on my own experience as well as quite a few interviews with marketing and IT professionals. Some of the slides might not make sense on their own (like the ones about the bicycles), but if you&#8217;re interested &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/2010\/11\/22\/what-marketing-needs-to-know-about-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;What marketing needs to know about IT&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregkrehbiel.com\/marketing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}