{"id":2651,"date":"2008-07-25T05:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T12:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/will-you-submit-to-the-groundswell-awards\/"},"modified":"2008-07-25T09:34:17","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T16:34:17","slug":"will-you-submit-to-the-groundswell-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/will-you-submit-to-the-groundswell-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Will you submit to the Groundswell Awards?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jeremiah_owyang\/1552155855\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2128\/1552155855_aba1f99cf1_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Left Image: Josh Bernoff, on his Keynote Presentation at Forrester&#8217;s Consumer Forum 07, demonstrates a &#8220;Judo throw&#8221; &#8211;a metaphor of deflecting negative  brand attacks into momentum for your energy, although they sustained a few bruised ribs, I often think of Dell (previous Groundswell Award winner) as a good example.<\/p>\n<p>Forrester is recognizing excellence from companies that are accomplishing business objectives using social applications and technologies.  We want to hear how you&#8217;ve used the many tools out there to actually make a difference with your customers, prospects, or maybe employees.  <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.forrester.com\/charleneli\/2008\/07\/soliciting-en-1.html\">Colleague Josh Bernoff has more details on the blog<\/a>, if you&#8217;ve worked with me, you know I&#8217;m interested in seeing actual business results &#8211;show how you&#8217;ve moved the needle.<\/p>\n<p>So, if you work for an agency, brand, or maybe are with a boutique, get your case study together and submit.  I&#8217;m looking forward to reviewing all the great work folks have done.  I look forward to recognizing your great work, on a related note, check out my posts tagged <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/category\/case-study\/\">case study<\/a> or read my reports to see what I think is effective.<\/p>\n<p>Also, Josh&#8217;s &#8220;assailant&#8221; seen tumbling through the air is a martial arts expert, and coincidently the editor of my last report, thankfully <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/rb\/analyst\/harley_manning\">Harley Manning<\/a> is alive and well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left Image: Josh Bernoff, on his Keynote Presentation at Forrester&rsquo;s Consumer Forum 07, demonstrates a &ldquo;Judo throw&rdquo; &ndash;a metaphor of deflecting negative brand attacks into momentum for your energy, although they sustained a few bruised ribs, I often think of Dell (previous Groundswell Award winner) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/will-you-submit-to-the-groundswell-awards\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Will you submit to the Groundswell Awards?<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-groundswell","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}