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Social Media Marketing, Enterprise Style

March 18th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Marketing, Social Media for Business, Tools & Technology

After wrestling with taxes and Sched­ule C arcana, it’s a relief to blog. (I’m sure the IRS would pre­fer my cre­ative ener­gies go else­where…!) While work­ing with a client on ini­tial strate­gies for social media mar­ket­ing, I keep being reminded of how much murkier the B2B social media land­scape is. Almost all the pun­dits you […]

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Should the Medium Be the Message?

March 16th, 2009 · Comments Off · Marketing, Social Media for Business

Some of my B2B clients are start­ing to encour­age blog­ging by their employ­ees. Cor­po­rate guide­lines, such as do’s and don’ts, are amply pro­vided. Iron­i­cally, cor­po­rate blog­ging guide­lines are often pro­vided via Word doc­u­ments, instead of an inter­nal blog that might be bet­ter at encour­ag­ing dis­cus­sion or address­ing employ­ees’ ques­tions. It seems to me that these […]

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Conflicts Looming? Personal Brands versus Corporate

January 9th, 2009 · Comments Off · Marketing, Social Media for Business

If you’ve read the Clue­train Man­i­festo, you know that blog­ging orig­i­nated from people’s burn­ing desire to let their authen­tic voice be heard. Early blog­gers were react­ing against the watered-down, polit­i­cally cor­rect mes­sages they were read­ing in the pub­lic media or writ­ing for their employ­ers. I’m now start­ing to run into clients who want their employees […]

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