After a power meeting with Justin Kirby, founder of Yooster (a word-of-mouth opinion poll) and author of Connected Marketing, I thought it worthwhile to comment on two of Justin’s key mantras: 1/ “Social media is a misnomer.” Social media (“SM”) sites such as Twitter or Facebook are technologies where people come to deposit content. Such [...]

Social Media is a misnomer; Word of Mouth is an outcome, not a technique

The diminishing returns of friends? Trust on the decline.
The winnowing out of the blogs you read, the tweets you click on and the brands you will buy into is the result of a natural, Darwinian process of selection. In a constantly evolving landscape, people and brands will need to learn the value of their online credibility.
#LeWeb 2009 Paris Conference: Part III of III
This post was originally published on Dec 14 2009 on a new defunct blog. It is the third in a series of the key learnings from LeWeb 2009 conference (Dec 9-10). As I have written before, I attended the LeWeb Conference 2009 in Paris, and have collected my thoughts here over a collection of three [...]

Why does a Social Media strategy succeed or fail in a company?
I am often asked what makes a social media strategy work or fail for a company or brand? What makes a social media campaign succeed is quite a vast topic. For this post, I thought I might address what I consider to be the four main causes of failure which can serve as a guideline, [...]
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