B2B Memes

JUNE 30, 2010

For a movie made nearly 50 years ago, it remains remarkably relevant, not just for its treatment of addiction, but also, surprisingly, for its critique of corporate marketing and PR. It offers no similar shot at redemption for corporate PR. PR was about controlling the message, not addressing the truth.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 11, 2011

In preparation for my talk in an ASBPE webinar on ethic s next week, I’ve been speaking with B2B editors about how they use social media. Like Steve, she is an outspoken advocate of social media and an active blogger and Twitterer. Do you manage a social media account for your magazine?

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 8, 2010

For B2B journalists and editors, the transition to the social-media era can be daunting, especially if they rely on their employers to lead the way. As an ASBPE-Medill survey of B2B editors showed last April, traditional publishing companies have offered little new-media training or guidance. Be media neutral. Be a brand.

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B2B Memes

JUNE 28, 2010

In a comment today on a recent B2B Memes blog post, “ Content Marketing’s PR Problem ,” a reader by the dubious name of Ant Miles raises an interesting point about content marketing and journalism. As Miles notes, journalism is often biased in hidden ways by PR and marketing.

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

As I familiarized myself with B2B marketing blogs, though, I realized that while these goals may never fully align, in the social-media era they are coming closer together. For that reason, I’m including a profile of him my forthcoming ebook, the New-Media Survival Guide: For Journalists and Other Print-Era Refugees.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 4, 2010

In a blog post today, Ian Burrell, the media editor for The Independent offered fresh evidence that, at least in the UK, the growth of brand journalism (i.e., journalists moving into content marketing ) is more than theoretical. Companies that have a story to tell and the money to get it told.&#.

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B2B Memes

APRIL 20, 2010

Their purpose is emphatically not PR, he says: “People can smell marketing and propaganda coming around the corner, and they know when the pitches and puff pieces are missing that edge of neutrality.”. Tags: Content Marketing Ethics corporate journalism new media objectivity. But my optimism is theoretical.

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