BlogWell features eight great case studies on the best social media programs at large corporations. No agencies, no startups — just big companies sharing what they’ve learned. On the afternoon of August 9th, BlogWell will be at the Future of Flight Aviation Center in Mukilteo, Washington, just north of Seattle. The conference moves from city [...]
Borrowing, By Definition, Means Giving Back
July 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
All’s fair in love and aggregation. Uh, not exactly. Recently, Ad Age writer Simon Dumenco cried foul when he was over-aggregated by a HuffPo “writer,” who has since been dismissed. Reflecting on the scene, Lewis DVorkin, Chief Product Officer of Forbes Media, offers a good explanation for value-added aggregation. …the trick to rewarding aggregation for [...]
Whatever You’re Selling, Content Marketing Can Help Make The Case
July 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Content marketing gets a lot of play in these pages. So much play, you’ve probably heard me use these words before: Every Company Is A Media Company. Sometimes the formula is expressed like this: EC=MC. There’s a lot of meaning packed into that little formula–in fact, we could discuss said meaning for hours, preferably over [...]
How Do You Grow A 21st Century Media Company? Ask Om.
June 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
What began as Om Malik’s personal blog 10 years ago, is now a growing media company backed by venture capital, a sales team and a cadre of reporters covering broadband, voice over IP, telecom and other new technologies. GigaOM.com, along with Mashable, ReadWriteWeb, PaidContent and TechCrunch are blazing new media trails. I don’t know about [...]
Facebook (And Everyone Else) Takes A Drudging
May 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
David Carr, who writes “The Media Equation” in The New York Times, reminds us how wildly influential Matt Drudge and his website are. “With no video, no search optimization, no slide shows, and a design that is right out of mid-’90s manual on HTML, The Drudge Report provides 7 percent of the inbound referrals to [...]
7 Tips for Navigating All the Marketing Advice on the Web
May 5, 2011 By 3 Comments
Are you drowning in a sea of advice? Having trouble resisting those enticing Twitter posts that promise you immediate gratification in the pursuit of knowledge? I feel your pain. And I have some advice: Beware of any point of view that’s simply too definitive to allow for a contrarian view. Sorry, the world simply isn’t [...]
Free Content Is The Sampler, And The Sampler Is Running Dry
March 22, 2011 By 1 Comment
Thom Chambers of In Treehouses made a guest post on SocialMouths about the need for remarkable content and how to get paid to produce it. How Your Blog is Like Wikipedia Blogging has become boring. It’s not remarkable that you’re writing really good posts a few times a week, putting in hours of your spare [...]
Tech Journalists Weigh In At SouthBy
March 19, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Are you fatigued buy all the SouthBy coverage on this site and others? I ask because there’s more than one week’s worth of content nuggets to unearth. For instance, Pelpina Trip of WebBeat.TV spoke to Richard MacManus, founder of ReadWriteWeb about his team’s use of Beluga’s group messaging service, and about Marshall Kirkpatrick’s breaking story [...]
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