I attended the NewComm Forum earlier this year in sunny San Francisco and Joe Jaffe founder of Crayon was one of the session speakers. During his speech he mentioned that companies need to make a wholesale commitment to engaging in social media and that testing the waters was not a good idea (I am paraphrasing big time). Of course, I had to challenge that idea. The Photo to the right, taken by read more...
Integrating Social Media Into Your Public Relations and Marketing Plan and Brand
The NewComm Forum 2008 kicked off yesterday in Santa Rosa, Calif., and Geoff Livingston from The Buzz Bin and I gave a three-hour workshop on Integrating Social Media into your public relations and marketing plan. Today we will do a second and shorter seminar on Building Brands with Social Media. We have put both presentation up on Slideshare (see above link for yesterday), but I am putting today's session here for you to look at. read more...
The Future of Corporate Blogs is About Communication, Not Tools
Earlier this week I served on a panel at SXSW called The Future of Blogs with Lionel Menchaca, the lead blogger at Direct2Dell; Mario Sundar, the community evangelist at LinkedIn and was moderated by Mack Collier, a talented marketer and blogger at the Viral Garden. There are some great overviews of the session from live bloggers:
- Scott Monty was pretty read more...
Polluting the Social Media Channels: An Opportunity for Public Relations
As social media become more mainstream, there is a real threat that the channels will become just as polluted as the ones from which most consumers are tiring. As reported in the New York Times Google took another step in that direction today with its Adsense for Video: Overlay video ad formats have been gaining favor with marketers, as an alternative to the more common and intrusive preroll ads...." YouTube read more...
If the Shoe Fits…Social Media in Seven Boxes
. I have been talking to a lot of college and graduate students lately. First, to a graduate class at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio this past Monday and then yesterday to Kelli Matthews class at University of Oregon.
One of the things I emphasize when I do one of these overviews is that Social Media encompasses a broad variety of things. In fact, there are so many types of platforms read more...
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