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The summer of Frank part deux?
When Attachmate completed its purchase of Novell and I found myself “on the street”, I thought I was all set for another summer of Frank. The great news, however, is that I received a job offer about 48 hours after … Continue reading
Posted in Random Musings
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Are benchmarks for losers?
In baseball, there is an old adage that “stats are for losers”. This refers to the fact that fans often resort to talking about the stats of their favorite team or players when they are losing. In pro sports, winning … Continue reading
Corporate Social Media: After the Buzz
Back in June I was a guest on This Week in Social Media hosted by PJA Advertising + Marketing. The show was rebroadcasted last week. I had a chance to listen again and thought there were some interesting nuggets. Mike … Continue reading
Seven things a blog post is not…
A direct response marketing program – This means we need to avoid the urge to include conversation stopping things like hyperbole, canned benefits statements and a call to action. Few things shut down a blog conversations faster than “act before … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Marketing, Practical Social Media
Tagged blog, case study, direct response, pagerank, podcast, press release
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A 21 day plan for creating your own Internet radio or TV show
Image via Wikipedia Wake up everybody. The age of plentiful bandwidth is here. This means a streaming radio show can sound like the host is sitting right next to you. Last summer I blogged about my learning from producing a … Continue reading
My social media reading list
I’ve been accumulating news stories and blog posts for a B2B social media training course. As much as I like Digg, I felt like Delicious was a better way to organzing the articles. Here is the link I particularly like … Continue reading
The summer of Frank has become the winter of Novell
If you haven’t figured it out yet, I joined Novell as the Director of New and Social Media back in October. I am superstitious and don’t like to announce things for 60 days (it is a long story about potatoes … Continue reading
Posted in Practical Social Media
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23 social media things for your next software marketing announcement
In no particular order: Blog it Tweet it Digg it Stumble it Post in LinkedIn groups Add to email signature Tweet it again later today Post to Facebook group(s)/fan page(s) Update your LinkedIn status Share in customer forums Reddit Create … Continue reading
Posted in Internet Marketing, Practical Social Media
Tagged b2b social media, software marketing
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Calling the top of the social media market?
So what is tangy these days? I think it might be time to call the top of the social media market. I know, I know, people have been doing this since mid 2007 but I think we finally might have … Continue reading
