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Does HP Need a Plan for Broken Promises? Do You?

Well before the social media age, we all learned that trust and reputation are important currencies in this thing called life.  That's why our parents, professors and parish priests have taught us to be honest and honour our promises.  And most of us try and do just that.  It doesn't always work like we want, but largely we get by.  Or if things go wrong, we apologise and try to make amends.

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Comments (5)Posted on on 31 August, 2009 - 14:18
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Branding No-Brand Brands

Street fashion designer Rick Klotz has announced that he's going to forsake any brand logos or names on his Freshjive products next year. Is it an anti-branding move, or something more?

I say something more.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 31 August, 2009 - 13:39
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The Four Horsemen

I know that you're working hard to make sense of the changes in the mediascape, so the following observation might not be altogether helpful: I worry that we have seen the Four Horsemen of the Marketing Apocalypse. 

 

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Comments (0)Posted on on 30 August, 2009 - 22:28
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Lead Nurturing ROI and Content Mapping

Guest Post by: Maria Pergolino

This week Marketo released the final chapter of our Definitive Guide to Lead Nurturing which focused on calculating the ROI of Lead Nurturing. This was my favorite chapter as it not only provided best practices and examples, but also included workspace for marketers to calculate the impact of lead nurturing at their organization.

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Comments (2)Posted on on 30 August, 2009 - 20:12
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Social Media's Top 10 Dirty Little Secrets

1. Social climbers are attracted to social media
That's right. The same people who climb their way up the social food chain in the real world tend to do well in the social media world. They'll be your friend for a while, until they find someone else with more Twitter followers to tweet with.

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Comments (0)Posted on on 29 August, 2009 - 23:43
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Collecting Visitor Info: Reward vs. Reciprocity

Many of us work with websites that depend on collecting user information – lead generation sites, charity sites, etc. Often, these sites have information useful to those visitors. The knee-jerk reaction is often, “Force them to give up their info before we show them the good stuff.” If there’s a search engine optimization person helping with the site, the immediate objection will be, “You can’t put your best content behind a registration form – it won’t get indexed by Google or even linked to, and your traffic will tank!”

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Comments (0)Posted on on 29 August, 2009 - 21:58
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The Early Adopters Aren't Always Who You Think They Are

Within the tech world, the explosive growth of Twitter has (literally) been front page news over the past six months, with Twitter appearing on the cover of TIME Magazine and New York Magazine, among others. What's interesting is that Twitter's phenomenal growth hasn't come from where you'd think it would come from -- early adopters in the young teen demographic.

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Comments (1)Posted on on 29 August, 2009 - 21:28
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Business Models Beyond Profit - Social Entrepreneurship Lecture

by: Alexander Osterwalder

Last Monday I gave a three hour lecture on Business Models Beyond Profit at Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany. It was in the context of impACT, a pan-European student competition in social entrepreneurship. Find the slides of my presentation below.

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Comments (3)Posted on on 28 August, 2009 - 22:48
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The Evolution of an iPhone App

The product development process is, if nothing else, a highly iterative process. In this fascinating two-minute clip from tap tap tap, it's possible to see each and every change that went into their final iPhone app Convert. Gizmodo calls it "an illuminating video if you're never thought about how much goes into good design."

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