digital marketing
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Global Social Media Event (Live at 4:00 pm CET) #SMDay
On June 24, visionary marketing will take part in a social media day hangout with Mashable and my community manager (US). The subject will be that of the global Web. There is a great deal to say about the social Web being global. Think about it: in Twitter, you are…
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Reinventing Marketing at Adobe Summit 2014
The first presentation I attended at Adobe summit 2014 in London today was the morning keynote and it’s so packed with information that I still wonder, while I’m writing these lines, how I can summarise so much information. Here is my account of this morning’s keynote in which Adobe delivered…
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Web design and user experience: simple is beautiful
I am sick and tired of hearing people focus on web design when they should be focusing on user experience and content. User experience and content aren’t about html5 (let alone Flash! Heaven forbid…) but about optimising quality, interest, readability and click-throughs. Web design and user experience: simple is beautiful…
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Brands on Social Media: Start With Strategy, Not Listening
On Social Media, brands should start with strategy, not social media listening Lahaix declares. Today’s selection is my friend Dominique Lahaix’s piece on Ecairn’s blog. Ecairn is a leading social media influence measurement and management tool, primarily aimed at gauging influence and building networks of bloggers in a co-creation spirit.…
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Email: is it a necessary or unnecessary evil? – with Luis Suarez
I have been a long time fan of Luis Suarez whom I was supposed to meet at the Enterprise 2.0 summit except that my clients decided otherwise. Fortunately, I was able to reach out to Luis and send him, ironically, my questions via email. That’s my point precisely. Email is…
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Is Marketing Automation A New Marketing El Dorado?
Judging by the numbers delivered in this Salesforce Slideshare presentation, I would tend to say “yes”. Judging by the response I’m getting from my clients, I’d say “definitely yes”. There is this realisation by companies that nurturing visitors, leads and clients can lead to something. Marketing Automation adoption on the…
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Social media adoption: Europe Seen from down under (1000heads' @JoanneJacobs)
We, in Europe, see ourselves as whingers (Britons are supposedly nicknamed “whingeing poms” by Australians) and on both sides of the Channel, one keeps hearing complaints about this and that and the other. Yet, seen from down under I realised that our image and potential is probably a lot better…
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Enterprise Social Networks: Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris Feb 10-14
A few days ago, I had the opportunity to interview Bjön Negelmann, the creator and organiser of the enterprise 2.0 summit which is due to take place in Paris on the 10 – 12 February 2014. This event is the unmissable conference on the subject of enterprise social networks and…
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Enterprise Social Networks: How to Get them Off The Ground
According to European analyst Lecko, 70% of firms have set up enterprise social networks this side of the Atlantic. Yet, is it working? Opinions are, in that respect, a lot more nuanced. So, what elements are key to building strong enterprise communities? What initial considerations need to be made before…
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How Digital is changing the Media (Jonathan Taplin)
The media is being revolutionised by digital media Is the media world being reinvented by digital media? That sort of question has definitely escaped the realm of geeks in order to be debated by media experts themselves. So when I was invited by HAVAS‘ Dominique Delport to attend a conference…
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Google Plus Engagement Leaves Big Data Experts Nonplussed
Is this piece in Adweek about Gigya’s insights regarding Google Plus and the fact that, although it is said to be the second biggest social network in terms of users, engagement on Google’s social platform is still low and even at its lowest. Google Plus Engagement Leaves Big Data Experts…
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Corporate Blogging is Dead, Long live Content Marketing!
I am not certain that Google will maintain Google alerts for very much longer. It seems, to put it in Forbes’s words, that it is broken. There is another cool innovation from the olden times which is still working though, I mean Google web trends. I still find it very…
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