More than a handful of brands publish more content now than a major media property such as Time Magazine did 25 years ago. Despite the overwhelming and ever-increasing trend toward content marketing, and the need to continually feed an ever-increasing portfolio of content channels and formats, most organizations haven’t yet addressed content on either a strategic or tactical level. It’s high time they did, and hopefully my new research report, Organizing for Content, will help. It … [Read more...]
Social Business vs. Social Media: Take Altimeter’s 2012 Survey
October 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
Businesses may be seen as having a “successful” social strategy by virtue of citations in case studies and speaking at conferences. But, by far, the best metric of success is concrete examples of how the organization creates business value via social technologies across multiple departments and dimensions of their business. In our upcoming research report, we will take a closer look at successful social business strategies that are clearly aligned with strategic business goals AND have … [Read more...]
The Imperative For Social Risk Management
August 9, 2012 By 3 Comments
Note: This post originally appeared in Alan's blog Ronin Research. Everyone likes to point out how wonderful social media is - how they connected with lost friends from high school, they met new friends with similar interested, and all the cool things they learned. Marketers love it too because it gives them a great new channel to to connect and engage with customers in But social media has a downside too - just ask Mat Honan, or Bank of America, or Nestle, or Kenneth Cole about social … [Read more...]
The Converged Media Imperative
July 19, 2012 By 9 Comments
In the late 20th century, when the commercial internet was in its infancy, there was no end to the griping about “silos.” Back then silos referred to That Which Is Digital and That Which Is Not Digital. The gripe (from the digital side of the equation) was that the not-digital team got all the budget, and didn’t even accord the digitals a place at the table. So ingrained was the silo grudge that no one, but no one, grew to understand silos better than the digitals. In a scant … [Read more...]
New Enterprise Mobility Report: “Power To The People”
June 7, 2012 By 5 Comments
Today marks the publication of Altimeter Group's newest enterprise mobility research report, authored by analyst Chris Silva. We began with a hypothesis that, as the age of mobile = email has come to a close, are mobile employees being served with the proper applications to make them be more productive? Our guess was that they weren't, and largely, rollouts are just getting started but there are already some lessons to be learned. The most important is that different roles have different needs … [Read more...]
Webinar Replay – Content: The New Marketing Equation
April 27, 2012 By 2 Comments
If you missed Jeremiah and I presenting our webinar Content: Thee New Marketing Equation based on our recently published research report, you can watch it here or on SlideShare. Please watch and share the video, as it's freely available as open research. How to Rebalance for Content as Part of the New Marketing Equation with Rebecca Lieb and Jeremiah Owyang View more videos from Altimeter Group Network on SlideShare For those of you who were waiting for this post (several of you were kind … [Read more...]
Report: Making The Business Case For Enterprise Social Networks
February 22, 2012 By 66 Comments
In 2011, the US hit a milestone — more than half of all adults visit social networking sites at least once a month. But when it comes to using social-networking technologies inside organizations, many business leaders are at a loss to understand what value can be created from Facebook-like status updates within the enterprise. Some organizations have deployed social-networking features with an initial enthusiastic reception, only to see these early efforts wither to just a few stalwart … [Read more...]
Rebalancing for Content – The New Marketing Equation
February 16, 2012 By 9 Comments
There's been a rash of news stories recently with headlines so misleading it's hard to believe they passed editorial muster. Yet a quick search of Google News reveals no less than five articles with ledes very much like this one: P&G to cut 1600 staff after CEO discovers digital media is free. Any serious marketer knows "free" is nonsense. As with SEO, content marketing shakes marketers loose from the expense of the media buy. But budgets, staffing, skill sets, education, agency … [Read more...]
Buyers Guide: A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation (Altimeter Report)
January 6, 2012 By 12 Comments
Get account control now --or risk a career of continual social media sanitation. To match the growing consumer adoption of social media, many companies have launched social media efforts with little planning. As social media spreads beyond corporate communications and marketing, business groups are deploying social media without a standardized process. In fact, enterprise class corporations (those with over 1,000 employees) have an average of 178 social media accounts and this number will only … [Read more...]
