Paul Gillin

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Engineering360 Joins Expanding World of Vertical B2B Communities

Paul Gillin

The site is posting original news daily, most of it written by freelancers with apparently good domain knowledge. Formerly known as IHS GlobalSpec, it was relaunched last week with an expanded news and community focused. Their feature stories are mixed with a steady stream of un-bylined news shorts.

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3 Branded B2B News Services That Get It Right

Paul Gillin

Bonus points to Adobe for nabbing the domain. Adobe wisely hired a professional editor at the outset – veteran tech journalist Tim Moran (right) – to oversee content at the outset, and the site has benefited from his steady and experienced hand.

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B2B Blogging Excellence

Paul Gillin

It was 2005, and blogs were widely perceived to be the domain of teenage diarists and scandal-mongers. It took two years for Jim Cahill and Deb Franke to convince the management at Emerson Process Management that a blog was a good idea. Their reticence was understandable. Why would anyone want to get mixed up with that?

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The Other Social Network

Paul Gillin

You can subscribe to questions in your domain using an RSS reader, which ensures that you will never miss one that matters to you. Here are a few ways B2B companies can leverage LinkedIn for prospecting and promotion: Ask and Answer.

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David Ferrucci on Building the World’s Smartest Computer

Paul Gillin

It’s harder for the machine to understand different domains. Because of the limited ontology in that domain, it’s somewhat easier to tackle health care than some other areas. In health care, you don’t have as much training data and the input is not just a small graph.

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How to Promote an Event with Social Media

Paul Gillin

Use a page under your own domain and use EventBrite (or similar services) for registrations. If there are several events in the series, creating unique landing page for each. EventBrite is a great service, but I recommend against using it as your event landing page. Publish an announcement on Yahoo’s Upcoming or Eventful.