Social Media not a campaign it’s a commitment

A while back I created a post called – There is no “campaign” in Social Media because when marketers use the word “campaign,” it tends to suggest an initiative to get a message out to a targeted group of constituents. It also implies there will be a beginning and, somewhere down the road, an ending.

And [...]

February 2nd, 2010 | Category: Blogging, Communications, Crowdsourcing, Customer Support, Enterprise 2.0, Reputation Monitoring, Social Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 | 14 comments

LinkedIn Search Optimization (LSO) Critical for B2B Marketers

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via natural search results. This gave birth to a whole industry centered on optimizing search results for a given term. For B2C or B2B Marketers this was a huge revolution.

But for B2B Marketing [...]

January 7th, 2010 | Category: Enterprise 2.0, Lead Generation, Search, Social Media, Thought Leadership, Web 2.0 | 11 comments

Web 2.0 Expo – cool stuff seen on the floor of the show

Here are a few companies in alphabetical order I thought had shown some real promise at the Web 2.0 Expo

Ascentium – A model for the agency of the future

I spoke to the CMO, Romi Mahajan who explained Ascentium’s go-to-market strategy to me. They are the nexus of a digital marketing company mixed with a technology [...]

September 22nd, 2008 | Category: Advertising, Buzz Marketing, Communities, Enterprise 2.0, Interactive Marketing, Lead Nurturing, Social Media, Social Networking, Web 2.0 | Comment

Unleash your Community on the Election!

One of my most trusted friends and mentors recently joined a very intriguing company called – SuccessFactors (stock symbol SFSF). They specialize in HR software with a SaaS product that is second to none in the market.

From a marketing and social media perspective several things about this company got my attention and my envy as [...]

June 9th, 2008 | Category: Communities, Enterprise 2.0 | One comment

BlogCouncil.org - Solving the Challenges of Corporate Blogging

How do you enable legions of bloggers if you are a company like Microsoft? What policies and procedures do you put in place? What approval process can handle thousands of blogger posting each day? Who owns the corporate blog, Corporate Communications or Interactive?

Andy Sernovitz, with input from early participants like Sean O’Driscoll from Microsoft started [...]

February 10th, 2008 | Category: Blogging, Buzz Marketing, Enterprise 2.0 | Comment

Ideas for putting RSS to work in your organization

Many organizations continue to suffer from information pain points – information overload, too little information, siloed information, or overflowing email that is worthless to many in the organization. RSS is gaining traction within organizations to help ease the pain, so here are some ideas for using it exclusively inside your firewall:

RSS for SalesTrack leads, opportunities, [...]

July 30th, 2007 | Category: Enterprise 2.0, RSS | Comment

Using RSS and Wikis for Enterprise Collaboration

Eastern Mountain Sports is using Web 2.0 tools to encourage collaboration internally by rooting it within their business intelligence (BI) analytics dashboards. They use the RSS feeds to report on exceptions and alert users when certain operational metrics are out of tolerance range.

By integrating Web 2.0 tools with their BI tools, decision makers can quickly [...]

June 22nd, 2007 | Category: Enterprise 2.0, RSS, Web 2.0, Wiki | Comment

Marketing in a Wikinomics World, a podcast with Don Tapscott

I love my iPod, but apparently so do scores of tenacious hackers. These rogues have created a number of iPod hacks even though Apple hasn’t opened its architecture. The iPod’s closed architecture is good at keeping competitors at bay. But it also limits what users can ultimately do with the device.

But here’s the real question: [...]

May 9th, 2007 | Category: Communities, Enterprise 2.0, Wiki | 3 comments

How to Start a Wiki, a podcast with Ross Mayfield

Whether you are a beginner or an expert in wikis, you need to hear Ross Mayfield co-founder and CEO of SocialText Wiki software. He will describe the best way to roll out a wiki, how to build adoption of your wiki, real life examples of successful wikis, and what is the first project everyone tries [...]

April 4th, 2007 | Category: Enterprise 2.0, Wiki | 4 comments

90% of Collaboration happens via email

Here is a fun stat, there are 200 Billion emails a day, which equates to 30 emails per living person (and I am absolutely over my daily allotment) but worse than that is 70% is reported to be spam.

Big deal you say, well actually it is if you think about it from an efficiency perspective. [...]

April 2nd, 2007 | Category: Enterprise 2.0 | 2 comments
 
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