We’re more than a little thrilled to give you a quick recap of our successful first season of Bizintelligence TV. Bruno highlights just a few of the many great episodes we had the pleasure of bringing to you, our faithful audience in our first season. Catch the highlights in our thank you video and be sure to keep tuning in; we’ve got some great content (and more cool apps) coming to you in our second season! Watch the video all the way through and catch some bloopers we collected along the way. And once again, thank you for your continued support!

We’ve all had that memory from our past that we can’t quite recall all the details of no matter how hard we try. This week, we talk with Jim Gemmell, co-author of Your Life, Uploaded, who tells us why this won’t continue to be a problem in the near future. With data storage getting cheaper by the day, the rapid adoption of self-measurement and recording devices, and software to organize this data, humans will have the ability to record virtually every aspect of their life if they choose to. In essence, we will be able to access our lives with the click of a button. Bruno discusses with Jim the explosion of cheap data storage, implications on our personal lives, and how it will allow companies to measure and store aspects of their business that weren’t previously imaginable. They even discuss new and innovative ways of finding the millions of documents we now store with search terms “find all documents saved on days when the temperature outside exceeded 90 degrees!” Watch our late

WPC 2011 is coming up, and we are very excited to see the turnout this year. BI is continuing to receive more and more attention, and Bob Baker, Director of BI Partners at Microsoft tells why you should bet on Microsoft BI. Watch the video and learn more about why you don’t want to miss this conference!

Foursquare has been no stranger to news headlines in the relatively short time the company has been around. In the last two weeks alone, the company celebrated 10,000,000 members and just this week announced they had signed up 500,000 businesses on their location-based social platform. In the latest episode of BITV, we sat down with Naveen Selvadurai, co-founder of Foursquare to get the story of why this venture was created and how user data is being utilized. Watch the video and learn more about how the company is creating a digital city guide for consumers, and why the open API is a benefit to their users!

You have your brand up and running on Facebook and Twitter, but how do you grow your audience of followers? Bruno sat down recently with Dan Anderson, Emerging Media Manager at T-Mobile to get his perspective on social media. Dan shared tips on how this large corporation has grown it’s customer following from 18,000 to over 375,000 on social media channels, and how it uses these channels to support customers. Learn how these Web 2.0 technologies have even proved at times to be cheaper avenues for customer support than traditional methods!

Social Media has been the buzz recently for the impact it has on businesses, but a lot of people forget about the effect it can have on individuals personally. Bruno recently sat down with Mike Whitmore, President and Co-Founder of Fresh Consulting, a company that specializes in business strategy and digital marketing services. In this unique interview, we get the perspective of a person who is passionate about social media for both personal and business use. Watch the video and learn about how the power of social media through some great real-world examples!

Today is Social Media Day, and we are excited to share our interview with Brian Solis. Brian is well-known in the social media space and has written a number of books that deal with this topic including his most recent, Engage! He is also a principal at the Altimeter Group, an advisory firm dealing with disruptive technologies. Bruno and Brian cover many different topics including companies that “get” social media, the concept of Nine-Inch Marketing, and measuring effectiveness of social media campaigns. Watch the video and learn more from the man Bruno titled a “Social Media Anthropologist!”

In the latest installment of BITV, Bruno sits down with Sara Lingafelter, a social media practitioner at REI. REI is an American retail company that sells outdoor recreational equipment, sporting goods and apparel. Sara takes Bruno through the evolution of REI’s customer service approach with social media. REI embraces a very open dialogue through social media, helping the company establish strong relationships with both hardcore and recreational enthusiasts. Watch the video and gain some insight on how this popular retailer is utilizing social media tools as a piece of its overall strategy for building loyal customers.

How do you sell a product that nobody wants to buy and when they buy, hope they never use it? While this sounds like a very tough sell, PEMCO Insurance does it very well. What’s the secret to the company’s success? Rod Brooks, VP & CMO discusses with Bruno about how PEMCO employs social media for relationship management. Watch the video and learn how this regional insurance company uses relationship metrics, giving them a customer service reputation that is considered second to none industry.

What’s your Klout? By now you may have heard of the social media scoring company, but how do they measure influence? We recently sat down with Dave Mariani, VP of Engineering at the rapidly growing firm. Dave has a history of working with big data, and is right at home with Klout. Dave discusses how Klout works, the networks they currently measure and plan to expand to, and how they are helping brands connect with consumers. Watch the video and see how analytics and social media are being combined in a unique way!

Recent estimates state there are 175 million registered users of twitter and 140 million tweets sent each day. These are daunting numbers, especially for individuals and brands looking to measure their impact on twitter. There are many tools out there, but none that query from Excel. That has now changed with the release of Analytics For Twitter. In this unusual installment of BITV, we learn how Analytics for Twitter was developed after Pej discovers a problem his new application can solve for his co-worker Emilie. Watch the episode closely and you may be able to catch a cameo from our regular host Bruno!

Today we have the pleasure of interviewing Robert Scoble, a legend in the social media space. Robert currently runs the technical blog Scobleizer, the startup channel Building 43, and was also responsible for the inception of Microsoft’s own Channel 9 among other successful projects. Bruno caught up with Robert in California where they discussed topics ranging from strategies on starting a successful video blog to how companies are using social media well. He was also able to gain some great insight from Robert on upcoming trends in data and social media. Watch the interview and learn more!

Today Bruno sits down with Bethany Rodenhuis, VP of Corporate Planning at Northwestern Mutual. With $167 billion dollars in assets and 21 billion in revenues, Northwestern Mutual is the #1 individual life insurer in the United States. Bethany shares her experience decomposing metrics, learning what drives them, and how sensitive they are to change. Watch the episode to see how this large organization not only implements business analytics, but how it tests these metrics to better understand them.

In this latest episode of BI-TV, Jeff Huckaby, a recent recipient of the Information Management top 25 Information Managers award, sits down with Bruno and shares success stories as a BI Supervisor at Pilot Travel Centers. Pilot Travel Centers is one of the largest privately-held companies in the US with revenues of over $18 billion. Learn how this multi-billion dollar company with a complex business model was able to not only successfully merge with another large firm, but also absorb 190 million rows of their product data in a matter of hours!

With the great advancements in technology and personal computing devices, it is now easier than ever to measure aspects of the human body that were never able to be quantified before. This proliferation of devices has created multiple data streams, making it very difficult to get a snapshot of how we as individuals are doing overall. That’s where GravityEight comes in. In this special episode of BITV, Bruno sits down with Dave Wamsley, CEO of GravityEight. Dave’s mission is to integrate all of these different devices, giving individuals a central place to access and understand all of this data. By simplifying and pulling all these data feeds into one central location, Gravity Eight seeks to help improve the overall quality of life through measurement. Watch the video and gain a different perspective on BI; personal analytics!

Dennis Sherry, Senior VP in the Office of Strategy at Mercy Health Partners, discusses how sweeping changes and reforms in the health care industry require new levels of performance measurement. Health care providers are becoming more accountable for patient care yet still need to maintain profitability in a changing market. Listen as Dennis describes how quality benchmarks and satisfaction levels will hold organizations to high standards and drive performance and innovation in the field.

Osmair Garcia, Corporate Controller & Strategy Director at Volkswagen Brazil, discusses how important metrics are to developing a successful strategy and how essential a good strategy is to profitable business. Watch as Osmair shares the crucial steps taken to turn a division of Volkswagen from losing market share to being one of the most profitable plants of the second largest automotive manufacturer in the world.

In this special episode of BITV, Bruno Aziza shares thoughts on the upcoming trends in information management and their adoption into mainstream thinking. Some prominent topics include the rise in number of information management tools, external influencers in decision making, and data mashups. Tune in as Bruno talks not about the next big thing, but the next big things in information management!