Social Media

Santa, You Forgot To Give Me More Content Marketing Ideas

27 December 2011

I recently guest-posted again over at MarketingProfs’ Daily Fix about an unconventional way to source ideas for content marketing: your personal Facebook feed.  In this case, a few co-workers and Facebook friends sparked the idea.  I can’t take credit for the idea – that goes to Stacey Clement and Bettina Giemsa.  But I wrote it [...]

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Digital Detective: How to Get Smart on Practically Anything on the Internet

6 December 2011

We are awash in the biggest information deluges we’ve ever faced, and its showing no signs of letting up.  That’s both a blessing and a curse, because with loads of content, one needs context.  How can we mine that and make sense of it all for something useful?  This is what I will explain today. [...]

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A Content Marketing Appetizer

23 November 2011

As we roll into Thanksgiving, it occurred to me that content for content marketing is in lots of places.  It’s even around you as you prepare your Thanksgiving dinner (for those of you in the US that do so). (can’t see the video? pop out to see it here: http://youtu.be/zsvxsGCNWwc) In this short video, I talk [...]

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The Anatomy of a Twitter Handle – Eight Common Styles

21 November 2011

What’s in a name?  Quite a bit. Especially when it’s the written word. Seeing a name for the first time is the modern-day first impression. When I get a new follower on Twitter, I go through a quick process to determine whether not I follow back.  And part of that process is looking at your [...]

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Newsjacking Book Review

14 November 2011

If you look up ‘drafting’ in the dictionary, one of the definitions you’d see, relative to racing, is something like “to stay close behind another racer so as to take advantage of the reduced air pressure created by that leading racer”.  As in, the trailer is taking advantage of the effort from the leader. Media [...]

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The Academics of Social Media Marketing

24 October 2011

About a week ago, I guest-lectured at Babson (go Beavers!), one of my alma maters.  I was speaking to an Enterprise 2.0 class, and the topic of this particular session was applying social media lessons to marketing.  In my chat with the students, who posed some great questions, I covered a few things…   Getting [...]

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