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Bing Moves Past Google on the Social Side of Search
I have been writing a bit about the invasion of social capabilities into all online tools. Fairly soon this will no longer be news. I remember in 2004 bloggers were excited every time some big shot started blogging. Now that is a yawner. Now...Moxie Spaces Enhances Customer Engagement
I have written Moxie before see (Moxie Provides a Social Workspace Through Employees Spaces). Recently I spoke with their CEO, Tom Kelly, about their latest offering. Spaces converges customer communications with employee collaboration into a single...Aligning Web Content Management with Digital Business Goals Inside and Outside the Enterprise
Web content management has way gone beyond the Web 1.0 role of publishing Web pages. My friend Geoff Bock recently wrote an interesting post, Web content management's new role: Fueling digitally driven businesses, that address ways to move your use...The State of the Blogosphere 2011
Brian Solis recently posted on the results from Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2011 survey. This survey is something I have followed for a while. Here are some thoughts on the State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006. Brian begins with a...My 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference Notes: Enterprise Social Collaboration & Innovation - Strategy & Implementation
Here is the last in a series of notes on the 2011 Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston. This covers the session: Enterprise Social Collaboration & Innovation - Strategy & Implementation. The speaker is Karthik Chakkarapani, IT Director,...Five Stages of Social Media Maturity
Forrester has released a new report, Accelerating Your Social Maturity: How To Move From Social Experimentation To Business Transformation, which you can also find as a new chapter in the newly updated paperback version of the...Enabling the Human Side of Content Monitoring
Thierry Hubert and I recently gave a webinar on the Human Side of Content Monitoring through the Marketing 2.0 network run by the Human 1.0 group. Human 1.0 is in business to help you turn your customer-facing processes into social processes. I...Combating Information Overload on the Web: Part Two: Popularity Versus Temporal Correlation Ranking
This is the second in a series on how the Darwin Awareness Engine™ addresses some of the key problems generated by information overload on the Web. The Awareness Engine is a Web aggregation utility for anyone needing to maintain awareness of...Business Analytics and Cloud Computing on the Rise in Mid-sized Businesses
Last week I wrote about the continued rise of social media usage and monitoring in top tier mid-market firms. Here are some related trends. An updated IBM mid-market study shows new investments in the majority of companies surveyed for innovation...McKinsey Finds that Enterprise 2.0 Provides Value You Can Measure
Here is some good news to start the year. A new McKinsey report, The rise of the networked enterprise: Web 2.0 finds its payday, suggests that there are many benefits to be derived from using “collaborative Web 2.0 technologies.” aka enterprise 2.0...Will the Foursquare Concept Spread to Media Checkin?
Foursquare has become huge as a location checkin service. There are others, as well in the field. I have not gotten the bug but it took me a while to warm up to Twitter. However my Darwin colleague, Thierry, is a big player. Now, as Mashable...Twitter Moves Ahead of Blogs in Fortune 500
The team of Nora Ganim Barnes and Eric Mattson at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have been dong a number of studies on social media and business (see for example: Thinking Like A Blogger: Is...Social Media Marketing Continues to Move Forward
Alterian has conducted its seventh annual survey on online marketing. This year's sample covered 1068 marketing professionals worldwide. It found that 66 percent of respondents will be investing in social media marketing in the next 12 months....Changes in Media Consumption: TV Rises in Popularity, Unlike NewsPapers, While Mobile Devices Also Move Up
Television does not appear to be suffering the same way as its older mainstream media cousin, the newspaper. Deloitte's 2009 “State of the Media Democracy” survey reports a 26 percent increase in the Americans choosing TV as their...The Future of Publishing/Media and Web Analytics
Last week I attended the the Webtrends Engage event in New Orleans. I sat in on the Future of Publishing/Media Panel. As this is topic we often cover on this blog I want to share my notes. The local newspaper, the Tines Picayune, was...Nielsen 2010 Report on Ten Best Intranets: Becoming More Social and Mobile
The 2010 version of the well-respected annual report on intranets by Jakob Nielsen was recently released and I was pleased to receive a review copy. Jacob said that, Many winners offered sophisticated social networking features and several...91 Journalism Blogs and Websites That Facilitate The Broadcast-Web Crossover
Here is a list of 91 Journalism Blogs and Websites You Will Love that I found from Bob Stepno through Twitter. In this post I want to bring your attention to Bob's own Other Journalism Blog where he discusses online journalism. His blog...Webcom 09: La Peur Mal Placée des Médias Traditionnels
Ceci est une translation en français d'un blog Webcom 09: The Misplaced Fear of the Mainstream Media publié récemment afin d'atteindre les communautés de langue française et anglaise qui s'intéressent aux...Long Tail Fans...Television's Survival Might Rely on Hyper-Local Coverage Online
MediaPost recently reported that Akamai Technologies CEO Paul Sagan warns that television is about to experience the major impact that print and music have already felt. Akamai Technologies facilitates more than one-fifth of the world's Web traffic...How Best to Collaborate within Enterprise 2.0?
Jacob Morgan asks this question in his post, Collaboration in the 2.0 Enterprise. He begins with the broad Wikipedia definition of collaboration. Then points out that while collaborate may be relative simple when it involves a few people, what...
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. ...”