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The social web is still a relatively new phenomena and its characteristics not yet completely understood -- often leaving room for questions and the need for some workable frameworks to come at the new things we face. What was a selfie before a few years ago? Who used the term content marketing and what did that mean? How did you go about operationalizing... Read More
I'm thrilled to be joining the folks at Vocus for their Demand14 conference in Washington DC, June 5-6. Im also excited about joining Christopher Penn of SHIFT Communications and Nichole Kelly of Social Media Explorer. Content Marketing and What the Future Holds: We kicked off our discussion with a little Q&A over on the Vocus blog talking about Content Marketing and what it looks like... Read More
Ever stop to think about how things change? I know that is trite to say but are your assumptions up to date about the way you use online tools and social networks? Ever just stop to think about it? Social networks are in constant change. But, it is not just the software or networks that change. How we use them changes with time. Stop and think about your own interactions and behaviour,... Read More
I recently had an opportunity to chat with (interview) 4 very large companies (that have stewardship of thousands of brands). We discussed how their journey as “Brands as publishers” was going. The conversations focused on changes to organizational structure and operations, resources, skill sets and agency roles. I promised the interviewees anonymity, although they have each approved... Read More
CIOs and CMOs partnering like never before. Customer Service, Communications, Marketing, Product Development/Engineering working together. We all need the expertise of Business Intelligence and better data applications and understanding. In recent research of marketers and communicators in large companies we see alignment around customer centricity as the key issue of 2013 -- in both the... Read More
If content marketing require connections, it also faces filters. The content filters come into play before you hit the top of your business marketing funnel. In other words, content marketing does not impact awareness let alone any other part of the marketing funnel unless you get through the content filters. To a large extent the content filters are what we talked about in the last post,... Read More
To avoid content commoditization and getting lost in the growing avalanche of information on the Web, content marketing must deliver value. That value will come from not just the content, but also connectivity and ultimately "community" that businesses build. I touched on the challenge of content commoditization and how the actual information of content marketing has to have value in the first... Read More
Note: this is one in a series of impending posts about challenges as we think about "content marketing" Content marketing; it is all the rage. Beyond being all the rage, organizing for it has become an imperative. In fact, the recent Altimeter report notes “the average organization is responsible for continual and increasing content demands of 178 social media properties, to say... Read More
Social marketing. Content marketing. Real time marketing. Social customer support…app of the week/month (are we there?) and, of course, the all important and overarching: social business. You can read lots of posts across the Web (like a billion posts) about social marketing. Don't get me wrong, I am not minimizing the value and role of social marketing or content marketing, and... Read More