David recently visited Columbus, Ohio and met with several entrepreneurs and IT managers and came away pleasantly surprised. One of the movers and shakers there was Ben Blanquera. By day he is an app dev manager for a healthcare firm, and his alter ego has him involved in a series of social networking, meetups, and startups [...]
Entries Tagged as 'socialmedia'
81: Making connections in Columbus
November 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · commentary, socialmedia, socialnetwork
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76: Spread the Viral Love
October 23rd, 2008 · 1 Comment · PR, commentary, socialmedia
This week, our hosts talk about viral marketing and questionable PR practices. Paul’s new book, Secrets of Social Media Marketing, shipped from the printer this week. More than 20 reviews have already appeared on blogs, Twitter and the reviews section of the book site. The reason? Publisher Quill Driver Books distributed nearly 5,500 copies in [...]
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74: Corporate Bloggers See No Evil
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments · PR, blogs, commentary, socialmedia
Paul did an informal audit of 15 corporate blogs this week and discovered that the financial crisis that has fixated the nation is blissfully absent from their coverage. Just two of the blogs even mentioned the turmoil on Wall Street, and only one of those blogs was in the US. Paul and David wonder why, [...]
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73: A Naked Conversation
September 29th, 2008 · No Comments · PR, blogs, interview, socialmedia
In an interview set up via the great democratizing agent called Twitter, our hosts spent a half hour with Shel Israel talking about the continuing evolution of markets into conversations.
71: Mr. LinkedIn
September 19th, 2008 · No Comments · PR, interview, socialmedia, socialnetwork
Who says you can’t reinvent yourself after 20 years in the business? Not Chuck Hester. A veteran of technology public relations going back to the days of print, Hester has become a disciple of the business networking service LinkedIn. He uses LinkedIn to organize meetings and group dinners during his frequent travels and to maintain [...]
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70: Social secrets of David Nour
September 5th, 2008 · No Comments · interview, socialmedia
This week Paul and David talk to David Nour from Atlanta. He is a champion of using social networks for business purposes, both in terms of using the tools to extend his own networks and also to enhance the connections within corporate types. David met David at the annual National Speakers Association conference last month [...]
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66: How to Connect With CIOs
July 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, interview, socialmedia, trade journalism
Do CIOs use the Internet? Perhaps not the same way mere mortals do, but IT executives have intense information needs of demand a unique focus in perspective. As managing editor of CIO.com, the online wing of the venerable technology magazine, Michael Goldberg is charged with keeping close to the needs of this highly coveted audience. [...]
65: Getting Answers on LinkedIn
July 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Uncategorized, socialmedia
This week we talk to Bill Nigh, an IT professional from Bluenog.com who is among the most frequent contributors to LinkedIn’s Answers section. This is where anyone can ask and answer questions of large and small importance. Nigh does his answering out of a general sense of goodness and kindness to others, but we can [...]
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64: The Spinfluencer
July 16th, 2008 · No Comments · PR, Uncategorized, events, interview, socialmedia
If you’re a PR professional, you can’t afford not to listen to On the Record…Online. For the past three years, this podcast has offered a steady stream insight on how journalists, marketers and new media innovators use the Internet to report the news and promote their businesses. Host Eric Schwartzman has anchored all 120 programs [...]
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86: Building on the Groundswell
January 9th, 2009 · 1 Comment · blogs, commentary, interview, podcast, socialmedia
Forrester Research Analyst Josh Bernoff co-authored the number one Internet marketing book of 2008: Groundswell: Winning In A World Transformed By Social Technologies. The book he co-wrote with former Forrester analyst Charlene Li broke new ground by applying innovative principles of audience segmentation and measurement to social media marketing campaigns and by relating a litany [...]
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