Month: February 2010
What the Cluetrain Manifesto teaches us about social media
Marketing & Innovation
26/02/2010
What the Cluetrain Manifesto teaches us about social media
OK, “markets are conversations” but keep on reading anyway … How many times have I heard consultants open their presentations with the ultimate quotation from the 1999 Cluetrain manifesto to justify the need to jump on the social media bandwagon: “Markets are conversations”; QED (or so they think). What the Cluetrain…
Argenti Warns Social Media Revolutionises Corporate Communications
Marketing & Innovation
25/02/2010
Argenti Warns Social Media Revolutionises Corporate Communications
The following video is a December 2009 interview of Paul Argenti (Corporate Communications Professor at Tuck University) following the release of his book dedicated to how “Web 2.0” (even though the term is a bit outdated). The book describes how Social Media transforms corporate communications. Here are – in a few words…
CSF in successful enterprise social media implementation
social media & social networks
21/02/2010
CSF in successful enterprise social media implementation
What are the key success factors in a successful enterprise social media implementation. Futurity media‘s Stewart Baines has posted a few interesting questions on his blog. My answers are long-winded, but I think there are rightfully so. This is a difficult subject, and writing short yet sensible answers would be a…
Increasing brand advocacy with Social Media
digital Transformation
04/02/2010
Increasing brand advocacy with Social Media
On Nov 10th, 2009 I was in Atlanta presenting at Blogwell on behalf of Orange Business Services, presenting our social media strategy and explaining how, why and what we did online to increase our brand advocacy. Increasing brand advocacy with Social Media According to the influencermarketinghub, Brand advocacy is the…
My top 10 tips for social media implementation within businesses
social media & social networks
02/02/2010
My top 10 tips for social media implementation within businesses
As Andy Sernovitz is keen on putting it, setting up a blog for oneself is easy, social media implementation for a business is a different kettle of fish. Once upon a time, I was contacted by a marketing representative of a large European company who was showing interest in some of…