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 […]
Social media marketing: Facebook & Twitter aren’t enough
Facebook and Twitter have brought new discipline to the practice of traffic generation, branding and customer engagement on the Web. Still, there are clear signs that Twitter and Facebook aren’t enough.
Taking 50 million as seriously as one WSJ reporter
I must admit right away that I am a disciple of the seminal book on the Internet revolution and what it means for business, The Cluetrain Manifesto. The main premise of the manifesto is that markets are conversations and that no matter how ardent and impassioned the man at the lectern may be, the audience […]
Social businesses: Glimmers of a macro trend
Social Business Design (CC image by Dachis Group) Annual look at the best strategies, tactics, case studies & insights in the enterprise space Compared to 2009 and 2008, the past year was a relatively calm one because the amplitude of market gyrations clearly diminished and businesses began to find a new floor on which to […]
Highlights of BlogWorld Expo 2010
Last week’s BlogWorld & New Media Expo was one of the best social media gatherings I’ve attended in some time, and not just because of the Las Vegas nightlife. The conference is attracting an increasingly robust set of tracks that highlight leading thinkers from sectors like social health, nonprofits, travel, mobile and social media business. […]