According to a survey from the ANA, public relations, word-of-mouth and social-network-based efforts are among those marketing activities whose spending will at least be maintained if not increased as companies make budget cuts to ride out the recession. While marketers signal they’ll be decreasing budgets for media buys and event sponsorship they will, according to [...]
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As Mike teased a couple weeks ago, Voce hit WordCamp SF 2009 this past Saturday in full force not only as a sponsor of the event but also in terms of people on the ground. Michael Moeschler, Ryan Lack, Melissa Walker, Josh Hallett, Beverly Nevalga and Chris Thilk were all on hand throughout the day, [...]
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Employees worth their salt struggle with something every time they post an update to Twitter, Facebook or even their personal blog: “Will this post/update reflect positively or negatively on my employer or clients?” Sometimes they make the right decision and sometimes they don’t. That’s just the way things are. Companies and agencies are struggling with [...]
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If you ask anyone who’s keeping their eyes on developments online what the next big development is, odds are the conversation will sooner or later include the term “the real-time web.” If you’re unfamiliar with the term, it’s meant to encompass the perception that conversations on the web are happening even faster than search engine [...]
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David Berkowitz from 360i just posted a great article on MediaPost about the importance of looking at social media programs as more than just a campaign–or as he aptly calls it, “the deadly c-word.” His last two sentences are what really resonate: “If you’re a marketer, you may only be able to sign short-term contracts [...]
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I joked (mostly) about social media expert-itis in a previous post, but if you really had to try and dig into what makes someone a “social media expert,” it’s really not that difficult of a thing to deconstruct, I mean, if you just focus on direct experiences. So…uh…that’s what I did. Well, it’s a start [...]
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When it comes to some really cool movement/evangelist work Brains on Fire has always been the agency I’ve thought of. I’ve always admired what Geno and Spike and the whole Brains on Fire crew have done. Within WOMMA they’re legends and Geno has recently rocked the NewComm Forum crowd with some great case studies. With [...]
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Video search will soon rival text search thanks to the following factors: If done well, videos can convey an idea more quickly – it takes a site visitor time to thoroughly read and understand your text message, whereas a video can do the same in 3 minutes or less. Even a candid interview (complete with [...]
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In a previous post I said that not every online mention of your brand/product/service needed responding to. But in addition to there being times where it’s just not appropriate or welcome, there might be times where it’s not necessary – even when an article contains factual errors debatable points of opinion – because other readers [...]
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I wanted to expand on something Mike wrote in his quick-thought post “Integrated is the new normal” and use what he says there as a spring-board for what I’ve been thinking about lately. Most of the time when your marketing efforts are said to have stuck out it’s meant as a positive. Your message or [...]
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