Permission is the Enemy of Speed

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This week I’ve been writing about speed and response expectations for business on the social Web. Ultimately, speed wins. The companies that engage customers on Twitter and Facebook within minutes are making a none-too-subtle statement about their embrace of the social telephone and the primacy of the customer. In comparison, slow response or no response

Are You Slow Enough to Succeed in Social Media?

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Does this sound familiar? Within 12 months of its invention, 1,200 companies entered the radio “business” in some form or fashion. So said Malcolm Gladwell in a stirring speech given Monday to the AAA Annual Meeting in Scottsdale. In his own, story-filled way, he emphasized the point that we are in a period of unusual