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February 25th, 2010

Social Strategy Webinar Slides Now Available

Jeremiah Owyang and I held a webinar entitled “Developing A Social Strategy” that had over 495 participants asking very insightful questions — we had a great time sharing the information and got new ideas on how to develop our thinking…

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January 20th, 2010

“Socialgraphics” webinar slides and recording now available

Thanks to everyone who attended the webinar we held today on “Understanding Your Customers’ Social Behaviors“. Many people wanted to attend the webinar but weren’t able to because of schedule conflicts. So we’re making the slides and a video recording…

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July 20th, 2009

New study: Deep brand engagement correlates with financial performance

I’m releasing today a new research report that I wrote in conjunction with Wetpaint called “ENGAGEMENTdb“. The study looked at how the 100 most valuable brands — as identified by the 2008 BusinessWeek/Interbrand Best Global Brands ranking — engaged in…

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June 14th, 2009

Would you invite 16 bloggers to spend 24 hours with your company? The Navy did.

(I previously wrote an intro and link post about the bloggers who went on the USS Nimitz.)
When the Navy issued the invitation for 16 bloggers to spend a day on the USS Nimitz, I thought there had to be…

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April 8th, 2009

MLB.TV Blog - MIA

I was tipped off by IDG report Juan Carlos Perez that Major League Baseball had pulled their MLB.TV blog earlier today, after opening day problems for the paid service that broadcasts games in real time. (The service starts at $14.95/month…

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March 26th, 2009

Bloggers On the USS Nimitz

I was recently invited to participate in a Blogger Embark to visit and spend the night on the USS Nimitz off the California coast along with a dozen or so other bloggers at the end of May. When I got…

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March 4th, 2009

Skittles bravely lets social media take over the homepage, redefines branding

On Monday, Skittles changed it’s home page over to emphasis social media, specifically a Twitter search for “skittles”. I’ve included a screenshot of it (click on it to see it full size). The result: “#skittles” was the top trending topic…

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February 2nd, 2009

Super Bowl Twitter Chatter map from the New York Times

This is a very cool mashup application using time lapsed “tweets” created by the New York Times to track what was capturing the people’s attention during the Super Bowl. The tweets are shown on a map of the US to…

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December 15th, 2008

Predictions for 2009

As Peter Kim writes, "Community and collaboration are a wonderful thing." Pete took the initiative to wrangle 14 social media bloggers to give our predictions for 2009. He's summarized some of the top predictions in a blog post, and also…

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