Social Media Success May Depend on HR

mark schaefer

Guest post written by Mark W. Schaefer. Mark is a consultant, college educator, and author who blogs at {grow}. There is a growing gap between the social media “haves” and “have-nots.” Some companies I visit have embraced social media enthusiastically and are moving into some pretty advanced ideas. Other companies are simply checking the box.

Why YouTube Annotations Can Make the Difference Between Viral and Lame

Andy Harvard

Guest post by Andy Harvard, a Marketing Executive at Skeleton Productions, a UK based Internet video production company. YouTube Annotations have always been a hard tool to grasp for both user and viewer. In the early days,  YouTube users sometimes used Annotation to spam their viewers. These Annotations were never ‘cool’ or user friendly, they

Don’t Tell Me I’m Wasting My Time

Dont tell me im wasting my time

Guest post by Marjorie Clayman, resident blogger at www.margieclayman.com. She works at Clayman Advertising, Inc., her family-owned full-service marketing firm. I know that it is impossible to please everyone in any scenario, but most especially in the online world. Because of that, I most of the time let snide remarks roll off me like water off a

It’s About Response, Not Engagement

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Guest post by Jeff Molander, Author of the new book, Off the Hook Marketing: How to Make Social Media Sell for You and adjunct professor, Loyola University Business School. He blogs at http://www.jeffmolander.com/blog/. We’re all listening, engaging, sharing, posting, updating. But with what business outcome in mind? When we say engagement, might we really mean

Social Media Lessons From the Offline Real World

Location-based services

An interesting report released from Pew Internet Research about the use of location-based services among adults found that only 28% of American adult cell phone owners use services such as maps or recommendations based on their location. In addition, 4% of all American adults use check-in apps such as Foursquare and Gowalla. Conversely, in the social

Audience Segmentation Lessons from Google Plus

rebekah henson

Let me get this confession out of the way first: I’m kind of a Google fangirl. So I was pretty excited when the search giant announced Google+, their foray into social networking. I’m pretty fed up with Facebook and its constant changes (that don’t really improve my user experience) so I signed up for an

Diversifying Yourself Into a Platform Business

The Age of the Platform

Guest post by Phil Simon, a technology expert and the author of three books. You can back his latest project here. My forthcoming book is about the platform as an important and relatively new business model. I have learned from personal experience that building a platform is not only beneficial, but also imperative for many

The 3 Building Blocks of Social Business Evolution

Michael Brito

Guest post by Michael Brito, Vice President at Edelman Digital. He writes the Britopian blog, and wrote the new social business book, Smart Business, Social Business: A Playbook for Social Media in Your Organization (available July 26) Building a business is easy. Start with an idea. Find a wicked developer who is willing to work

The Fallacy of Round the Clock Social Media

give the brand a break

Guest post by Chris Hall an interactive content specialist at Off Madison Ave who specializes in writing for humans, not robots. It’s 11PM and the world around you is getting ready for bed. As a mobile obsessive, you instinctually check your Facebook, Twitter and all the rest of your social media accounts while you brush

Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School

Bill Murtha

Guest post by Bill Murtha, President and CEO of Roberts Communications, a leading independent advertising agency with offices in New York and Minnesota. Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer.