Paul Gillin

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

With the acquisition of Sun complete, Oracle distributed its social media policy to employees this week, and I was forwarded a copy. Chris Boudreaux has assembled an amazing database of 167 social media policies from businesses, government agencies and nonprofit organizations that you may also find useful. REQUIREMENTS.

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The Changing Rules of B2B Marketing

Paul Gillin

Dell TechCenter and other initiatives like it are microcosms of the changes that are sweeping across corporate America as a consequence of the rapid growth of social media tools like blogs, communities and user-generated multimedia. In fact, B2B companies were among the earliest adopters of social media.

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Two B2B Social Marketing Initiatives Worth Checking

Paul Gillin

One is Element14 , a social community for engineers sponsored by an electronics distributor of the same name. I wrote in B-to-B magazine early this year about a Make magazine-like video series they started last fall that appeals to engineers’ passion for tinkering as well as for fun. It respects its audience.

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B2B Blogging Excellence

Paul Gillin

I was privileged to moderate the BtoB magazine Social Media Awards Breakfast in New York this week. There I got a chance to meet some remarkable people who took chances on social marketing before it was fashionable and won. Emerson Process Experts was born. Those stories are rich in the keywords that customers use.”.

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Social Marketing Hangover

Paul Gillin

I was recently quoted on Internetnews.com making the following prediction: “Look for marketing’s love affair with social media to give way in 2011 to the sobering reality that a Facebook fan page and Twitter account don’t solve problems of poor products or positioning. I responded that no slight was intended.

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Social CRM: Curb Your Enthusiasm

Paul Gillin

Tags: B-to-B Social Media influence socialnetworks CRM socialcrm socialmap.

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Waiving Speaking Fee for Book Buyers

Paul Gillin

My book Social Marketing to the Business Customer with co-author Eric Schwartzman was released last month and is now available through Amazon , Barnes & Noble , Borders and other booksellers. Everyone seems to be interested in the concept of using social media to reach a focused, select group of individuals.