Get More Bait in the Water

How can you catch more fish? By using more poles.
If you’re going to create social media content to establish or perpetuate thought leadership for you, your company, or your clients, you can’t silo your ideas.
The old method of thought leadership was to create a white paper. A carefully crafted, highly edited, incredibly boring, 18-page tree [...]

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Make it Bigger – The 4 Types of Corporate Blogs

Is your blog broad enough?
Despite all the hoopla and teeth gnashing about micro-blogging like Twitter, and medium-blogging like Posterous, the good old blog isn’t going anywhere.
For many social media objectives, the blog just works better. It’s more searchable, more convincing, and more flexible. But often, it’s also too narrow.
Yes, I’ve advocated strongly that your company [...]

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Audit Your Intellectual Capital – 7 Ways to Find Your Stories

Guest post by Elizabeth Sosnow (@elizabethsosnow), Managing Director of BlissPR, a New York City based public relations firm. She develops and supervises strategic communications programs for major companies in professional and financial services, with a particular emphasis on the legal, consulting and insurance industries.
Boy gets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy slips on banana peel, [...]

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Build Thought Leadership Through Social Networking

Remember, social media is about people, not logos. That’s why the most powerful form of social capital is personal, not corporate.
That was the theme of my day-long workshop for the Association of Management Consulting Firms last week in New York. My friend and client Elizabeth Sosnow of BlissPR co-presented with me.
Titled “You’re a Rock [...]

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9 Ways to Humanize Your Brand (with real humans)

Many companies are reluctant to fully dive in to social media, either because they are afraid of losing control, or because they believe their customers aren’t using social media. The latter is especially prevalent among B2B companies, and when viewed from a purely numerical perspective they may be right. (photo by The Dana Files)
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