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Does Your CEO Deal with Customers Directly?
photo credit: Ingrid Sørensen Last week, I got a call from CEO of WinWeb, fellow blogger at The Small Business Blog and friend, Stefan Töpfer, about a blog post (I’m the CEO, Sorry!) that he recently wrote about an experience that he had had...Phone trees in social media to drive your word of mouth?
I was watching a film that we received from Lovefilm the other day. The film was Milk, which is the story of Harvey Milk, and his struggles as an American gay activist who fought for gay rights and became California’s first openly gay...Three Strategic Pillars for 2011
It’s the end of the year and inspired somewhat by Seth Godin’s post yesterday and by Lyn’s post here, I thought I’d do a review of what has happened over the last 12 months and a bit of a look forward too. Not another ‘Year in Review’ post,...Social media is not free
This post follows on from a post that I wrote a couple of weeks ago called Social Media: Are you a chicken or a pig? and expands on part of a list post that I wrote back in June called Social Media for My Business: 16 Lessons Learnt so...Social Media: Are you a chicken or a pig?
This post follows on from a post that I wrote late last month called Social Media – The More You Do The Better You Get and expands on part of a list post that I wrote back in June called Social Media for My Business: 16 Lessons Learnt so...Social Media – The More You Do The Better You Get
This post follows on from a post that I wrote last week called Managing Your Brand in The Internet Echo Chamber and expands on part of a list post that I wrote back in June called Social Media for My Business: 16 Lessons Learnt so Far...Managing Your Brand in The Internet Echo Chamber
This post follows on from a post that I wrote last week called Social Media and Bringing Projects to Life Across Geographies and expands on part of a list post that I wrote back in June called Social Media for My Business: 16 Lessons...16 Lessons on Using Social Media for Business
It's been over 6 months now since I started this blog with the aim of sharing a few ideas, developing my own book content and learning about the social web. As a result, I've learnt a few things along the way that I wanted to share with you so...Leadership: What's engagement costing your business?
A couple of days ago I wrote a post about leadership and developing an open book style of leadership and the impact it can have on growth and performance. On the back of that I got some great comments from Karen at...Your Internal Brand is One of Your Most Important Marketing Tools
When you hear the word ‘marketing' what do you think about? Most people will think of marketing to new or existing customers. Simply, they will think of marketing as an externally-focused business function....Decisions in the Social Space... are you a creative or a reactive leader?
Are You a Creative or a Reactive Leader? A good leader always seem to be the one that can find or facilitate the solution to a persistent problem and tends to more creative in their thinking rather than reactive. In business, they...
Jonathan Salem Baskin is an author who writes a regular column on Advertising Age & posts on his award-winning blog. More »
John Bell heads up the 360° Digital Influence team & teaches graduate studies in Digital Influence at Johns Hopkins University. More »
Don Bulmer is Vice President of Communication Strategy at Royal Dutch Shell More »
John Byrne is chairman & editor-in-chief of C-Change Media Inc. & the author or co-author of eight books. More »
Gini Dietrich Gini Dietrich is the founder and chief executive officer of Arment Dietrich, Inc. More »
Vanessa DiMauro is the CEO of Leader Networks & has been creating successful online communities for over 15 years. More »
Maggie Fox is the founder and CEO of Social Media Group & was named one of the Top 100 Marketers in Marketing Magazine. More »
Laurent Francois I lead the marketing&development hub @ Express Roularta Services, a media company. I focus on 2 main brands (L'Express, More »
Rachel Happe is a Co-Founder and Principal at The Community Roundtable & a blogger at The Social Organization. More »
JD Lasica is a consultant who is considered one of the leading authorities on social media & user-created media. More »
Brian Solis s author of Engage and is recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders & authors in new media. More »
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Crisis Management & Communications in a Digital Age Workshop
When: Fri, 2012-05-25
Public Relations in Vietnam Conference
When: Thu, 2012-05-31
Interactive Day San Diego
When: Wed, 2012-06-06
The Virtual Executive: How to Act Like a CEO Online and Offline - Webinar with Debra Benton
When: Thu, 2012-06-07
Crain's Tech Talk Live
When: Mon, 2012-06-11
SEO in the Sun
When: Sat, 2012-06-16

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“I would compare Facebook Like-Gates to capturing email and other contact information by offering ebooks and whitepapers. Without these, you'd be providing great content but that doesn't mean that everybody would go out of their way to dish out their contact details. It's a way to incentivize content providers to continue to generate great articles, inforgraphics and videos. And unliking a page is ...”
“Nonverbal communication is as important as our verbal or written messages. And how we appear in photographs on the web-- and specifically on Linkedin--can be critically important to our personal brands and our messages. The research you cite about warm and cold impressions is critical to how we are perceived. Thanks for the insightful post, Victoria, and I'm looking forward to the future posts. ...”