Industry publication Reseller News recently did an overview of their annual Partner Breakfasts, which bring together business leaders looking to bring digital transformation to life in their organizations, citing Brian Solis’ report with Capgemini’s Digital Transformation Institute on the subject.
Make Tweet Love – Top Tips for Building Twitter Relationships
be tweet Twitter is an incredible medium for listening, learning, and sharing. And, for those in the media and communications industries, it’s also a rapid and immersive education in meaningful, two-way micro messaging that helps both parties walk away with a new form of value. While there are no shortage of posts that offer tips and tricks to help you boost your Twitter followers, it is by no means a popularity contest. The surmounting ploys, friending races, theatrics, and contests…
Twitority & Twithority Rank Tweets and Keywords By Authority
As online conversations continue to gain in prominence and relevance to any customer and market-focused business, it becomes critically important for marketing and service professionals to listen. It’s the listening that serves as the foundation for identifying, guiding, and establishing meaningful engagement. Twitter is one of the more active and influential communities that can effectively recruit affiliates, incite action, and spark trends. Until now, the only way to measure conversations or keywords by authority in Twitter was either manually or…
The Art of Conversation – It’s About Listening Not Marketing
Discussions and debates on the viability, necessity, and effectiveness of conversational aka social media marketing continue to roar across the Social Web. There are three sides to this equation: – New media pioneers and practitioners who defend and evangelize the art of conversations because they’re investing in people and their feedback and have the experience to showcase value and ROI. – Social Media marketers who embrace social tools and promote their use in corporate/brand marketing and Public Relations, learning in…
The Art of Conversation – Thoughts and Observations
We all purport to be social media experts these days, yet most of us are truly students. Many of us overlook some of the most rudimentary elements that define and inspire the socialization of content, especially the social sciences involved with observing the culture, behavior, and conversations within online societies. We’re excited, and maybe even obsessed, by the tools. We frantically rush from service to service in an exhausting attempt to keep up with our peers, fearing that we may…
The Essential Guide to Social Media – A Free eBook
Iāve been involved with Social Media since the beginning and the more I work, write, and speak, the more I learn. Over the years Iāve observed a series of questions and reactions that Iāve documented along the way and have actively included them in my posts, ebooks, contributions, as well as at my speaking appearances. Over the last year, Iāve assembled the most commonly asked questions and the answers into a free, downloadable ebook as a way of contributing to…
Livermore 25th Annual Harvest Wine Celebration
For those of you not going to Burning Man or spending the long weekend catching up on blog posts, consider heading up to wine country this holiday weekend. No, not that that wine country, the other one. I canāt even say that, there are way too many wine country regions around here, so I better be a bit more specific. Livermore Valley is hosting its annual Harvest Wine Celebration, and this one appears to be the grandest yet. Labor Day…
