Brand Advocacy and Word of Mouth: The Everyday Influencer

Last month, eMarketer.com released a report, looking at brand advocates, word of mouth and how to scale it using these advocates. Advocacy obviously is not new. It builds further on the  model of reach, acquisition, conversion, retention and loyalty Jim Sterne and Matt Cutler described in their paper “E-Metrics, Business Metrics For The New Economy”, […]

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IROI: Immediate Return on Investment

This is the era of Social Media. With over a billion consumers offering opinions, sentiments, and insights online, Social Media has in a few short years eclipsed many traditional forms of expression in terms of volume and importance. As a result, the professional world is abuzz with discussion of this new form of communication and […]

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#waywire, Cory Booker’s Personalized News Startup, Uses Video To Give Youth A Voice

Waywire Cory Booker“There’s an oligarchy in the media and that needs to be broken up” Newark, NJ mayor Cory Booker tells me. So he’s building #waywire, a news site that features original and syndicated video content, but that also lets viewers record and share their responses.

“Traditional news sources aren’t in any way talking to millennials” Booker says, so #waywire is designed to deliver them content from their perspective. It’s now taking registrations for its upcoming private beta.

#waywire’s got big name investors including Eric Schmidt and Oprah, some serious digital expertise, and a mission to disrupt both traditional news outlets and the social networks that surface them.

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Driving Social Engagement (Part 2) – How You Can Include LinkedIn with your Social Media Marketing

When talking with B2C oraganizations about social media, Facebook and Twitter roll off the tongue fairly easily. Sometimes the conversation steers toward the social darlings based on popularity, or because their customers are living on these social networks. When speaking with B2B companies, LinkedIn may be the shining star of opportunity for your brand, products […]

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Driving Social Engagement (Part 1) – Facebook’s "Like" and"Share" Buttons and How They Can Work for your Social Media Marketing

When talking with organizations about social media, it’s clear that there are different levels of comfort and awareness across various industries. Some companies are effectively using social media to their advantage, some are looking to correct an approach that is not working,and others don’t know where to begin or are simply afraid of it. In […]

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Social Business: Rethinking Business Processes

Social media has profoundly impacted society and business. People can connect, collaborate, consume and create, using technologies and platforms they adopted at a pace never seen before in human history. Various technological innovations, including cloud computing, mobile, big data and the next-generation  web technologies, are changing the way we live, organize and do business. Some […]

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