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Ben Franklin - the First Blogger

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Poor Richard, Richard Saunders , Silence Dogood.was he the first blogger ? Ben Franklin's 300'th birthday is today. And he was tempted, but gave to good judgement, to almost be one of the first famous vegetarians ? Daylight Savings Time: While in Paris, Franklin was the first to propose the idea of Daylight Savings Time.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Richard Fouts of Gartner talks Social Media and Communications

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You still need to study and research the market, develop products, plan, execute, communicate, and evaluate. For example, blogs help us solicit input about new products. Dell for example, woke up one day to a crisis situation due to an angry blogger named Jeff Jarvis, who lambasted Dell for its lousy customer service.

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MarketingSherpa Marketing Summit, Richard Fouts of Gartner talks Social Media and Communications

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You still need to study and research the market, develop products, plan, execute, communicate and evaluate. For example, blogs help us solicit input about new products … and they help marketers and salespeople have conversations, not just engage in one-way messaging. And they aren’t the only originators of the message.

Gartner 100
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Building a Demand Gen Tribe: The Seth Godin Lead Gen Program

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The highlight of my day was listening to Seth Godin, blogger and author on topics b2b sales and marketing folks devour. He cited the Apple tribe -- all of us who rush out and buy new apple products just because. One part of Seth's talk was on building a tribe.

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