Monday NRF social media recap

The NRF Big Show was in full swing Monday, January 12th. The expo floor was open and the schedule was full of Keynote, Big Ideas, and Breakout sessions.

The Keynote address by Lee Scott, President and CEO of Wal-Mart, and Tracy Mullen, President and CEO of NRF, generated a lot of tweets early in the day. Most of the comments were about Mr. Scott’s appeal for retailers to help play a part in solving current economic and social concerns. For example:

bizuser: Are retailers ready to walk the talk of Lee Scott’s at #NRF “delivering shareholder value AND solving community problems” http://is.gd/fxMs

retailweek: #NRF: Wal-Mart’s Lee Scott says retailers must work to improve society http://tinyurl.com/a8z7ch

kadrorlj: lee scott gives political speech at #nrf, sounds like he’s running for office.

A transcript of Mr. Scott’s comments is on the Wal-Mart website. In addition to the Retail Week article above, the NRF posted video of the speech on the show’s blog.

I recently had conversations with retailers about their charitable programs for my holiday 2008 article. Most retailers have some form of community outreach, but the CarMax Community Cares program certainly incorporates what Mr. Scott mentioned.

Analytics found its way onto Twitter as well. Analytics in retail is what this blog is all about.

bizuser: anything new?… tons of data, need for actionable analytics, customer centricity… stop talking, start doing… #NRF http://is.gd/fy3k

I can’t agree more, start doing!

Finally, several people commented on the international crowd:

wandac: Seems to be a larger international contingent this year at #NRF

hayesdavis: Crowd here is very international which is very cool. This pre-session video montage is less so. #nrf

If you are a member of Twitter, you can view all the tweets from the show at http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23nrf.