Notes from Sean O’Driscoll’s Webinar on Social Media and Communities hosted by SAP Salon

(Above Graphic: Sean’s suggests that word of mouth will travel through networks at different speeds, and with different accuracy depending on the network. He lists many attributes that will impact the speed of sharing) Sean O’Driscoll, who did a fantastic job, who has extensive experience … Continue readingNotes from Sean O’Driscoll’s Webinar on Social Media and Communities hosted by SAP Salon

Demographics, Psychographics, and Technographics

The job of a Marketer is to connect products with customers. While it’s often native for marketers to know their products, they often fail at truly understanding their customers. Today, customers are much more than just recipients of messages, they create their own messages, share … Continue readingDemographics, Psychographics, and Technographics

Innovation Watch: Fast Company Reports On Community Efforts

Edward Sussman, the President of Mansueto Digital and built the new FastCompany.com has responded to my analysis. He’s done a great job addressing the many points I made, and has responded both on my blog and on his site, where I cross posted. He’s shared … Continue readingInnovation Watch: Fast Company Reports On Community Efforts

Etsy, eCommerce With a Focus On The Unique

Etsy created this “electronic press release” to show how hand made products are created, shared, sold, and discussed on their community site. All of the products are hand made and are unique, unlike the mass produced commercial products are sold. Think back a few years, … Continue readingEtsy, eCommerce With a Focus On The Unique

TV is Participatory: Live Tweeting the Academy Awards

With the success of the Twitterbowl experiment (read the premise or view results) a few weeks ago, the Twitter community is self-organizing to make TV a participatory sport. How? Those on Twitter can comment, discuss, praise or criticize the stars, their outfits, and their self-important … Continue readingTV is Participatory: Live Tweeting the Academy Awards

Crowd Sourcing your Brand: How the Data Portability Group leans on the Community to design, vote and reward it’s new logo

Fedora and Data Portability Logos, too similar for comfort. (image via Techcrunch) Turning over the logo creation to your community For a few years now, we’ve been saying that the brand is really owned by your customers, not your MarCom brand police team. Today, we’re … Continue readingCrowd Sourcing your Brand: How the Data Portability Group leans on the Community to design, vote and reward it’s new logo