One thing that surprises many, if the Corporate Social Strategist does their job well, it goes away. Don’t believe me? Fine. But this isn’t just my opinion, it stems from research, In fact, I encourage you to first read the Career Path of the Corporate … Continue readingWhen The Corporate Social Strategist Role Goes Away
I’m speaking to 1000 attendees here at KMWorld in Washington DC, on building your social business in the right way. I’m here to share Altimeter’s recent research on Social Business Readiness (read full report) which researched how advanced companies are preparing internally, you can read … Continue readingKeynote Slides: Social Readiness: Architecting a Connected Enterprise #KMW11
What would you tell 600 marketers from the largest global brands who have European initiatives? That’s exactly what I was tasked to do here at Bazaarvoice’s Social Commerce Summit in London today. These brands, which are quickly moving into the space, have adopted social technologies … Continue readingKeynote Slides: Prioritizing the Coming Year, Achieve “Escape Velocity”
Left: The Customer Hourglass looks at the entire customer experience –beyond the marketing funnel. Today, 82% of marketing departments have formalized social media programs, and are just spreading to other business units such as 30% of customer support and a mere 16% of product teams … Continue readingRecording: Apply Social Across the Customer Hourglass
Left Image: Startup Alley features 200 emerging startups, I talked to as many as I could. In my quest for ABR (always be researching), the Three Web Strategy Spheres, I had a day to focus in on the technology sphere (the bleeding edge of it) … Continue readingDisruption at Disrupt? Not Quite, but Here’s a Few Gems
What’s a crises? We did analysis on the list of social media crises aka “punkings” to find out what went wrong, why, and what should have been done. First, a workable definition on Social Media Crises for this report: A social media crisis is an … Continue reading(Report) Social Media Crises On Rise: Be Prepared by Climbing the Social Business Hierarchy of Needs
We’re measuring how companies are using social media technologies to connect with their customers and have data back from the field of over 140 enterprise class corporations, many of which have the coveted social strategist role and formalized programs. To find out how far reaching … Continue readingFinding: 1 in 330 Employees Publishes on “Official” Social Media Accounts
As we continue to conduct research in the social business arena, it’s important to point out the trends in the space. In particular, a role that is so key to success for customer engagement (marketing and service) is the challenging (and often under-appreciated) community manager … Continue readingTrend: Some Community Management Activities to be Outsourced
I’ve updated the list of Corporate Social Strategists, for 2011, see it here. These are the hard working open leaders within corporations that are making cultural change using new technologies to connect with customers and employees. It’s important to salute their efforts. I wanted to … Continue readingUpdated List of Social Media Corporate Buyers: Corporate Social Strategist
Recently, I got my hands on the new Chromebook, a light featured laptop using the Chrome browser as an OS, and a Samsung laptop as its physical frame. While the market is still discussing the end state of HP’s Web OS, now’s a good time … Continue readingGoogle’s Browser OS “Chromebook” is Start of New Lightweight Era –Yet Lacks Productivity Features
