Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Authentic. You can’t turn around in the social media echo chamber without bumping into this word. The problem is, beyond the social media land of unicorns, authentic isn’t relevant. As I explored in Don’t Be Authentic: Real Social Media Marketing Advice on SpinSucks , we don’t really want to see authentic in social media. It is an idealized view that for most organizations is as unrealistic as it is attractive. ( Aaron Wagner makes some great comments about this in the di

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Chris Koch shared Four Reasons to Hate Thought Leadership earlier this week. He made some great points in his call to end the use of the phrase thought leadership, but ultimately I disagree with his conclusion. We don’t need to stop using the phrase, we need to start using it right. The problem is thought leadership has become a catchall for any marketing that includes content.

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Digital B2B Marketing

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Although it has not been publicly announced, it appears QuinStreet has purchased Ziff Davis Enterprise , the publishers of eWeek, Baseline, CIO Insight and Channel Insider (not to be confused with Ziff Davis, the publisher of PC Magazine, or ZDNet, which is owned by CBSi). If you follow the B2B technology publishing landscape, you are almost certainly familiar with the Ziff Davis Enterprise brands.

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