Benefits Of Social Networking For Small-Business Owners – Interview Notes
This is a response to a columnist who asked: “Is online networking (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, etc.) more effective than formal in-person networking (i.e., BNI, LeTip, etc.) or it is a question of totality?” I don’t know that social networking is either more or less effective than in-person marketing so as much as it is different. I [...]Steve Rubel On The Power Of Personal Brands In The Twitterverse
June 29, 2009 · Categories: Blog Marketing, Conference/Event, Conversational Marketing, Internet Branding, Interviews, Lifestreaming, Micromarketing, Podcasts, Reputation Management, Social Networking, Text Messaging, Video · View Comments
This is Steve Rubel addressing the 140 Character Conference and discussing personal brands and Twitter.
Found at Blip.tv through Albert Maruggi’s Marketing Edge podcast, a must-listen. Albert has a great interview with Rubel in his last podcast.
Microsoft’s Uphill Marketing Battle: Googling With Bing
This parody of a Bing commercial from CollegeHumor sorta sums up Microsoft’s difficulties gaining marketshare from Google.MinnPost Continues To Experiment With Online Advertising Formats
June 28, 2009 · Categories: Advertising, Internet Marketing News, Interviews, Local Internet Marketing, Marketing Trends, Minnesota, Online Advertising, Online Journalism, Polls/Surveys, RSS/XML, Technology, Trends, Video, Widget Marketing · View Comments
First there was the microsponsorship of David Brauer’s blog at MinnPost, Braublog. Now MinnPost is experimenting with “Real Time Ads,” essentially creating ad inventory for advertisers’ RSS feeds.
The concept is not new but MinnPost’s experiment will give us a local example that will fun to watch.
Publisher Joel Kramer discusses the experiment:
Fortune 100 CEOs Are Bravely Leading Their Companies Into The Past
June 27, 2009 · Categories: Minnesota, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Online Strategy, Organizational Dynamics, Productivity, Social Networking, Technology · View Comments
Dan Haugen’s excellent piece at MinnPost about Best Buy’s new social media savvy CEO Brian Dunn, points out just what an anomaly Dunn is, based on a report by the UberCEO blog.
In the last section of his article, Haugen warns that “By avoiding them, these leaders could be putting their own image and their company’s [...]
HTC Hero To Challenge The iPhone
June 27, 2009 · Categories: Internet Marketing News, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Mobile Marketing, Technology, Trends, Video · View Comments
The biggest news about this phone is the built-in Flash support. The Mirror lists five reasons to love the HTC Hero.
The One Big Thing: The Revolution Will Be Crowdsourced
June 26, 2009 · Categories: Citizen Journalism, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Photo Sharing, Political Marketing, Social Networking, Technology, Video, Video Marketing · View Comments
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is the role citizen media and the social Web played in reporting the popular revolt over the Iranian election results.
I won’t give you a play-by-play but I will offer a few thoughts:
Information Wants To Be Free
The first and most obvious thing was that the [...]
Financial Reporting In Today’s Economy
June 26, 2009 · Categories: Conference/Event, Online Communication, Online Journalism, Organizational Dynamics, Video · View Comments
A panel of leading financial reporters assess the global crisis and discuss the ‘perfect storm’ of events that led to it. Aspiring journalists will hear how to avoid the perils and pitfalls of the profession, and media observers can decide for themselves if the media is to blame.
Speakers include Charles Gasparino, on-air editor, CNBC; author [...]
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June 25, 2009 · Categories: Keepin' It Real, Lifestreaming, Online Behavior, Social Networking, Video · View Comments
As usual, they identify another aspect of online behavior for hilarious ridicule:




