Tag: social
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What comes after Facebook? A social world?
Almond Butterscotch named his photo Connected and lonely That’s one of the most common questions I get when I’m giving speeches or meeting clients. Hell if I knew but the last couple of weeks I’ve been giving it some thoughts, new thoughts though. If you’d asked me one year ago I’d dreamed up some sort […]
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Dress your brand in quality…not quantity, when content explodes online.
Over the years I’ve spoken and written tons of times of the importance of content. The online world has been a Klondyke for people who early understood that when content is free to publish content will also be what drives traffic. And as most
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Stay Ahead Of The Competition – Here is How I Do It.
Back in 1980, Michael Porter (most famous of creating Porter’s Five Forces) published the study Competitive-Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors. It was more or less the beginning of what you today would call Competitive Intelligence – the action of defining, gathering, analyzing, and distributing intelligence about products, customers, competitors and any aspect of the […]
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I'm On The Jury ›› The First International Social Media Award Show. The Bees Award
I am pretty darn proud to announce that I’ve been picked as a member on the jury of the first international social media award show for communication and marketing professionals. The award show called The Bees Award will be held in San Francisco on November 9 later this year and it’s open for submissions as […]
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The Essential Guide On How To Start And Configure A Blog That Rocks The World
I have gotten the question over and over again from people, organizations and brands: “How do we start a blog the right way” – I’ve decided to put my advice into writing. Some of you might think this post is unnecessary. Other people have written about this already. I thought so too until I started […]
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Turn Your Business Into A Smarter Social Business
A common question I get from companies is “How do we get people inside our company to spend time on our intranet”. My answer is always – “make sure you tie your intranet closely to your daily operations”. Make people feel visiting the intranet has something to do with their work and not only for […]
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3 Social Media Models That Will Guide Your Brand Into The Conversation Landscape
Think social media and conversational marketing might be the next train to heaven for your brand but don’t know where to board? Well, here’s three social media marketing models that will make sure you’ll find your station. If you wanna get moving into the social country of love where conversation rules you’ve gotta get one […]
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Seduce us or excuse us – 11 ways to bring your brand up to date
We’re fed up with boring old school advertising. We don’t want your information and rational explanations. We wanna dance, laugh, feel and love. We do not want be treated like idiots! James Dean knew how to seduce people while looking pretty darn boring. But face it. He’s dead and would be pretty out of date […]
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Dear The Economist – it’s MY thinking space, not yours!
Yesterday I was sent an email from The Economist through their social communication agency We Are Social. The mail presented their latest campaign – Thinking Spaces. A campaign presenting a number of opinion leaders and their ‘Thinking Spaces’. One part of the campaign contains a social component where they’re asking bloggers to contribute with our […]
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And now for another crowdsourcing experiment
The Japanese group Sour was about to create a new music video for their latest song ‘Hibi no Neiro’. What to do? Get some fans together from around the world, put them in front of a web-cam and let them co-create the video for you. Once you’re done – put it on YouTube and another […]
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WWRD – 36 things Ronnestam would do differently if he had control of brand that delivered broadband, telecom and television services
I am sitting on a plane between Chicago and Hawaii reading Jeff Jarvis book ‘What Would Google Do, WWGD’. (after seeing a recommendation on Daytonas site). This got in me in the mood to write a blog post that gives you my point of view what the big triple play telcos should do differently if […]