Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Let me explain… 2009 was the year Social hit its tipping point and from here on out we will never be able to go backward. So my prediction is that next year you will see Social Media start infecting all areas of the company in making them more social not just the Marketing and Communications departments.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 11, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. What’s your Social Media diet? Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 18, 2010

So I ran across some interesting stats last week when I picked up a tweet from Jeff Bullas on the 15 essential social media facts and figures for B2B Marketing. I don’t know how you feel but I certainly feel like everything I read about Social Media is the same old thing just a rehash of something else I read before. Tweet This!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 27, 2009

An obvious win for companies looking to jump into Social Media is in the Customer Support area. As more and more customers voice their opinions online, the choice is not if you should be responding using Social Media, but when are you going to start responding! Tags: social media Customer Support.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2009

2009 was the year Social hit its tipping point and from here on out we will never be able to go backward. So my prediction is that next year you will see Social Media start infecting all areas of the company in making them more social not just the Marketing and Communications departments. Tags: Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2009

2009 was the year Social hit its tipping point and from here on out we will never be able to go backward. So my prediction is that next year you will see Social Media start infecting all areas of the company in making them more social not just the Marketing and Communications departments. Tags: Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2010

The question is – What is the appropriate level of budget to support social media for a B2B company? If you blow up the chart you can see that Social Media as a percentage of your overall interactive spend has grown from 13 percent of budget to 14 percent of budget for B2B Technology Marketers. What’s your Social Media diet?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 20, 2009

If you read the last two blog posts on Social Search could it be a Google Killer and When is Amazon go Social , you would begin to get a glimpse of the web in the next 24 months. Websites will also present themselves very differently if you use your social profile on them though Facebook Connect.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

Word spreads quickly in Social Media – sometimes more quickly than you can keep up with. There are several types of conversations that you can encounter out on the social web anything from a complaint to a compliment to what I like to call the Expressed Need. Related posts: Why is measuring Lead Gen in Social Media so hard?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 13, 2009

This grouping was a little bit different with: Twitter Power, Social Media Marketing an hour a day, and LinkedIn for Dummies. Amazon should connect search on its site to my social profile (say on Facebook) thereby making a truly personal search. Tags: Facebook. Again not a bad recommendation but also not exactly “personal”.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 1, 2009

So if you agree with this premise I would say that those work samples should be the “social presence” of your candidate. Moreover he expects online vetting of dates, baby sitters etc will only increase and “having an online social presence will be the required price to play.” Tags: social media. Do they have a blog?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

Yet many companies limit the use of Social Media at work which I think is very short sighted. "Of Of those not allowed to use social media at work, 65 percent said their managers block access to sites like YouTube, Facebook and Flickr because they're afraid employee productivity will suffer."

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 18, 2009

Right now you have to think of ways to use social media as an “outpost” for your content and use that outpost to drive back to your website. I think in the next few years you will have ways of tagging pages with 1x1 pixels so you can effectively track the traffic to and from things like Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 27, 2010

One of the biggest challenges for organizations today is managing the flow of information about their brands, products, and services that occurs in social media channels, including microblogs (such as Twitter), social networking sites (such as Facebook), blogs, and online forums. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JANUARY 21, 2010

Ok ok – based on the great response I got from my readers on my last blog post The 4 C’s of B2B Marketing I thought I would try to apply the same principle to Social Media Marketing. It combines a few things you might have read about into one new concept around social media – the 4 P’s of Social Media marketing.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

In the last post called Just 4 People doing Social Media? we discussed how social media like email will eventually be in the hands of everyone in your organization. But in Social Media that approach wont work. The reason being is that each Social Media site has its own “norms” of behaviors that go with them.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

I quickly asked my social network if it was worth it and I got a unanimous YES back from my Twitter and Facebook connections. There is a customer service lesson in here for all B2C and B2B Marketers – this is the type of support customers are expecting today on the social web. So I decided to give it a try. Stumble upon something good?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 31, 2009

We just launched a new product that is a true leap frog from where most enterprises are today and will make it easier for enterprises to integrate social technologies like Facebook into their overall communications and contact centers while saving them real dollars in the near term. OK so imagine this.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

APRIL 21, 2010

When it comes to Social Media data the same holds up to a point! There is clearly a spectrum of Social Media data that can be collected by any listening platform like a Radian6 or a Networked Insights. Moving up the chart from monitoring into analytics is where you see higher value from all that monitoring of your social data.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. But wait, social media hasn’t been around that long!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Many agencies today are offering Social Media services (if they aren’t they need to). But for many of them it is often hard to architect the strategy since so much of the knowledge of ‘who to go to’ for ‘what type of Social Media conversation’ is very internal knowledge. Tags: social media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 23, 2009

A web that brings your search results based on what your friends clicked on and a buying experience based on what others in your social network (like Facebook) have bought. What it means is that your Social Capital will be a very important asset to you. (see Tags: Facebook social media. I know who I would rather have.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We are at an interesting inflection point with Social Media today. Social Media already has changed Marketing forever. Marketing is still playing catch up and will be for a while since we are still at the very early stages of the Social Media game. technologies when Social Media hit. Tags: social media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MAY 6, 2010

Imagine a world where B2B Marketers could target specific decision makers in specific companies using Social Media ads. Tags: Advertising Facebook Interactive Marketing Lead Generation Pay Per Click Social Media. Think that sounds like the future years from now? Think again – it happened to me last week!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 29, 2009

Someone can (and will) connect search to my social profile (say on Facebook) thereby making a truly intelligent search engine that will know where I work, and who my friends are. 24 months from now Social Search should be common place – we should see social tools like Facebook Connect or OpenID which are already out there, used for search.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Now that we are beginning to feel the relief of the economic uncertainty that has been hanging around us for the past few months, I am beginning to hear a lot about the invention of some new roles inside organizations looking to get “social media”. But wait, social media hasn’t been around that long! Just 4 People doing Social Media?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 25, 2009

It’s a little like social networking in the sense that – success breeds success! But what is really interesting to me is the fact that beyond Tier 3 tactics (according to the chart) you start to see the social media tactics. Tags: social media Buying Cycle. But these are long term goals and take many years of work.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2010

But focusing on the Extrovert angle for a second, I began to wonder if you need to be an extrovert to be in social media. Certainly internally in your organization you need to be an extrovert if you want to organize a Tribe or movement in your company to take on social media. Send this page to Print Friendly. Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Firey laptop batteries, defective chips, tainted foods, toothpaste that stains teeth – these are just some real examples of issues that struck companies recently that might have been headed off at the pass by Social Media. With the speed of Social Media these days – wouldn’t you love to have a few day head start?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

AUGUST 4, 2009

Every company today is headed for a Brave New World of eCommerce – and that is the world of Social Commerce. Almost a year ago, July 23rd 2008, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook Connect, which gives any website the power of a social network like Facebook right there on its own website. So what you say?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 18, 2010

In the last post we covered how to create a Social Media Lead Flow. There is a growing number of listening platforms devoted to Social Media – everything from highly customized services that are managed for you, to free tools you can manage yourself. But what if you don’t have a listening platform? Email this to a friend?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 15, 2009

But this is not a dig at Dell it’s a dig at all of us marketers who say they don’t understand how to calculate an ROI from Social Media. And at this point in social media or even in the development of the web - we have plenty of ways to track and measure lead generation coming from Social Media.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

MARCH 9, 2009

This got me thinking about how it could apply to Social Media and how long it would take to become a Social Media Expert. But 1 hour a day x 5 days a week means you would be a social media master in about 38 years! So if I factor that into my calculation – 3 hours a day x 5 days a week means I could master social media in 12.8

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

The topics they look at are what I might call social media literacy skills. tools, I find that there are still many people who haven't heard of many of these tools - blogging, tagging, RSS, etc, let alone have incorporated them into their daily professional work practice.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 5, 2008

Digital Literacy, Pragmatism and the Social Construction of Reality. Pragmatism , reality , Research , social construct , society , thesis , William James. NextGen Teachers Social Network. Digital Literacy, Pragmatism and the Social Construction of Reality. « Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 22, 2008

Social Bookmarking 2.0. Diigo: By far the best social bookmarking tool out there! Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Social Bookmarking Tutorial: Using Del.icio.us Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You. Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You. & Social Bookmarking. Site: Home.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late… posted in Uncategorized |. The answer is NOT always social media/community - that would be another warning sign if it was. 6) Social Media is not new…just digitizing the norm: Reminded of this all the time. I think the same is true for the bevy of social tools.

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