(Being) SOCIAL (for) BUSINESS - Or, what I learned at SXSW and SBS2010

March 19, 2010
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I just returned from a great week in Austin, attending the fantastic Social Business Summit (hosted by the Dachis Group) and the SXSW Interactive conference. It was a great time, and I learned A TON! Other folks have posted some great recaps, so I won’t rehash those. But, just some of the lessons I took [...]

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Mad Men Marketing Lessons: Speaking in their language - the secret of effective message development

February 15, 2010
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In a season 2 Mad Med episode, Don Draper decides to send two staffers to a West coast aerospace conference, an account executive and a copywriter. He tells the copywriter, “I am sending Campbell (the account exec) to do the talking. I’m sending you to listen.”
Among the many memorable quotes from Mad Men that marketers [...]

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Conversations are replacing content on the Web

December 6, 2009
Conversations replace content on the web

OK, so maybe conversations are not REPLACING content, but it is clear that interaction and the discussion of ideas ARE changing the dynamic of the web. Just as static pages that you visit on websites are giving way to Social Distribution Streams of content you can consume anywhere, people no longer need to “publish” to [...]

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Islands in the social content stream

November 23, 2009
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The social distribution system is a key aspect of why the web is becoming more about people and ideas and less about content and its static-object, connected-to-places (pages/sites) form…
I have had this post floating around in my head for literally about a year, but it hasn’t come out in written form until today. When it [...]

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Most important social media strategy…be awesome, or else.

July 13, 2009
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Brand and message control is an illusion…so your product and service had better be awesome.
The current rush by companies to implement a social media strategy is interesting to watch, but often misses the point. Too many marketers are still thinking in a uni-directional way…asking “how do we use social media to get our message [...]

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Your social media voice - Be real!

June 17, 2009
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You don’t need to yell your sales pitch through a bullhorn.
Social Media is not simply another platform for interrupting people with your sales pitch. Don’t get me wrong. There is nothing wrong with selling stuff, and to do so takes a pitch of some kind. But, even I, the sales and marketing [...]

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