Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Silicon Valley insider, provides rich insight into technology trends, markets and building companies. Christopher Rollyson attended his presentation at SxSW and provided a substantial rundown. A main snippet? Web 3.0 would “arrive sooner and be stranger than we think.”
Management
How Facebook has quietly created a gold mine for marketers
Inside the huge banner opportunity created by Facebook Facebook’s development schedule epitomizes the “white water, fast iteration” approach to serving company and customer. Although its mishaps are legendary, it succeeds in consistently fielding a mind-numbing array of features, so it is difficult to keep up and very easy to miss the significance of things. To […]
A blueprint of how to succeed in social media
Conversation trumps content: It’s the human spark of knowledge and caring that carries true value As adoption of social technologies spreads into even the most risk-averse industries and companies, executives have questions about where social media could take them and where the different kinds of social media consultants can guide them. Depending on how […]
Word of mouth marketing flaws exposed
“Miracle on 34th Street”: Lesson for today’s marketers? Only 15% of word of mouth marketing campaigns show results, but WOM drives sales — when companies honor and nurture it Word of mouth marketing is seen by many marketers as the economic engine of social business (or social media) because people recommend products and services […]
Starter kit for a social media strategy
Creating a plan from scratch? These 7 tips will get you going ‘We need a social media strategy.” I hear this all the time. And companies have meetings upon meetings to discuss this. I’ve been a part of many of those meetings and it can be tiring to go through endless internal discussions as to […]