Archive for the ‘Social Computing’ Category

This video is well worth the watch. If you are a digital strategist, you will be cheering. If you are new to social media in your marketing mix, it may change your life. Newell Rubbermaid: Social Media from a Multi-Brand Perspective, by Bert...

(x-posted on RTCRM.com) Despite my outgoing personality and insane level on social media involvment, I'm not very good at the conference/cocktail party networking thing.  I attribute this to my being an INTJ and a Virgo.  The "I" of INTJ means I tend...

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(x-posted from RTCRM Blog) Last week I had the privelege of speaking at a 4As (American Association of Advertising Agencies) meeting of Kansas City advertising agencies executives. They were in NYC for a day of marketing & advertising fun for the...

I'll be heading up to NYC this week for a fun-filled day of Social Media presentations.  The day will start off with a presentation to the American Association of Advertising Agencies, better know as the 4As.  Their are having their annual Kansas City...

An article in Online Media Daily illustrates how privacy illiterate most people are.  Most people are so privacy illiterate they don't even know that they should care.   In the article, author Nina Lentini discusses Facebook's Social Ads and...

| View | Upload your own I think I'm officially in love with "Bonafide Marketing Genius."  No, it's not just for dropping the f-bomb in this presentation. It's for voicing what every client and have the people I work with ask me -- and then giving...

I scoffed at Brand Tags when it launched, but this article from Digital Influence Mapping has compelled me to check it out again.  The battle of the brands was interesting, but what I'm really finding fascinating is the "guess the brands"...

Originally Posted by Carly & Art on Flickr A lot of my clients at RTCRM are pharma companies, so I read quite a few Pharma blogs. They are constantly complaining about the lack of Web 2.0 and social Web elements in Pharma marketing. For example...

see more crazy cat pics I love when a company actually takes the time to know its customers well enough that they would think of a promotion like this. Jones Soda is a quirky micro-brew soft drink company that makes bizarre soda flavors like Turkey...

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Everything is Connected

Everything is connected if you can see what's not being said, what's missing, and read between the lines. Understanding those connections not only makes us people, but better marketers. In the end, it's all about understanding how what you are doing is relevant to someone else.

My job is to understand those connections and be able to help you to not only be able to see them, but also use tthose connections to improve the world around you. Sometimes it's just why someone would care about your product. Sometimes its understanding how services like Twitter are help return a lost sense of community.

Either way, it's about making connections.

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Through the Years

This site has been through many iterations since I first launched it in the Summer of 2000. Every iteration since 2001 is actually captured in the Internet Archive.

  • Take a little tour down memory lane