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Oracle’s Updated Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

All blogs, wikis, forums, and social networks hosted or sponsored by Oracle (e.g., Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. com ) of Oracle‘s Corporate Communications team to discuss work related blogs. Please contact blogs _ us @ oracle.

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Direct Marketing Doesn’t Have to Suck

Paul Gillin

Is it any surprise that forecasters expect direct-mail marketing to decline nearly 40% over the next two years? It’s a prime source for my Newspaper Death Watch blog. And then I thought about what that says about the state of direct marketing today. Have we sunk so low that we need to trick people into reading our messages?

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Oracle’s Social Media Policy

Paul Gillin

All blogs, wikis, forums, and social networks hosted or sponsored by Oracle . Your personal blogs that contain postings about Oracle’s business, products, employees, customers, partners, or competitors. Don’t use company resources to set-up your own blogging environment, even if you are blogging about matters related to Oracle.

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Live Blog: Lotusphere 2012 Opening Session

Paul Gillin

Improve forecasting effectiveness. IBM’s internal think tank, the Institute on Business Value, discovered that collective intelligence delivers three major benefits: Discover new ideas. Leverage skills and distribute workload. Alistair Rennie at Lotusphere 2012. “Ultimately, Social Business is a competitive differentiator.”

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How to Calculate Social Marketing ROI

Paul Gillin

whose blog-driven search strategy yielded a six-fold increase in leads in just one quarter, and Clickable , whose Gurus drove a 400% one-year growth in billings. These are two simple examples, but they both require confident forecasting based upon accurate historical data. They include Indium Corp.,

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