May 4th 2012
One of the students I’ve gotten to know pointed this out as inspiring them to “make great marketing”. But it also raises the question about the centrality of words as the web makes greater use of video. Take a look and let me know what you think.
April 9th 2012
Get an hour of mobile strategy and development insight from the guy I am fortunate to go to for advice, Gene Ehrbar. You’ll get a great view of how responsive design can keep your digital marketing “Future Friendly” even as delivery devices continue to proliferate.
March 29th 2012
Tonight, Thursday March 29, ISITE Design is hosting a book launch event for Content Strategy at Work by Margot Bloomstein. Besides being a really fun, smart person, Margot’s wrestled over how to help organizations approach online publishing, and she has great stories and examples to share. Hope to see you tonight, at 6:30 in the Back Bay.
December 12th 2011
Hey, it’s time we caught up! ISITE Design is sponsoring a free webinar in which I get to share the five things you need to do now to drive your digital business’ success. This has been an amazing year of working with great marketers around the world. I’m thrilled to have a chance to share [...]
October 10th 2011
Here’s my quick introduction to why curation is a big deal in digital marketing, and how I use a free service called Paper.li to publish automatically publish a roll-up of what digital agencies are sharing on Twitter. You of course, can apply this to whatever topic you like.
May 16th 2011
As the journalism business becomes fixated on hyper local coverage, the value of a “second paper” has never been greater. I’d like to tell you about three of my favorite global second papers: The Christian Science Monitor, the Epoch Times and GlobalPost.
March 3rd 2011
Four social media voices explain where they draw the line on ghost writing and social media outsourcing. Where do you draw the line between authenticity, posing, and deception?
January 12th 2011
Like politics, strategy is the art of the possible. And as strategy pursues corporate goals, it has to navigate the pecularities of the organization while marshalling its assets. In this video, I share some thoughts on the FutureM conference on the Future of Digital Strategy, as well as some words from Harvard’s Perry Hewitt, who [...]
November 8th 2010
Have you noticed firms that do content marketing with such an SEO focus that it gets in the way of their user experience? Too often firms follow SEO tactics which are really an arbitrage of marginally useful actions that often have no value other than to influence Google. Here are some good SEO practices that [...]
October 18th 2010
A “happily ranty” how to on ditching tired social media formulas to write stronger content, and be a social media statesman rather than another social media windbag.
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