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I hate “quality” “products” (and so should you)

From wordpost
November 22, 2011 at 12:30 am
image credit: debaird™ on Flickr (see below for link) There are plenty of cliché business words and phrases I hate (“optimize,” “low-hanging fruit,” ... (more)

We’re not all marketers now

From wordpost
July 16, 2011 at 1:35 am
image credit LongitudeLatitude on Flickr Perhaps I’m just piddling in semantics, but it really bothers me when the “marketing” term is applied to any and every ... (more)

What’s Davos done for you lately?

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February 2, 2011 at 12:34 am
image credit: World Economic Forum / photo by Moritz Hager Nothing. Davos has done nothing for you lately. Unless, of course, you’re one of the global elite who managed ... (more)

War, Meaning, and the Future of Social Business

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January 11, 2011 at 11:37 am
image credit: The U.S. Army Global capitalism in the last century has been a conquest. “It’s a dog eat dog world,” we say without much thought. ... (more)

When marketing (and Santa) isn’t enough

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December 22, 2010 at 1:41 am
yes, I'm really sitting on his lap. yes, it was a little awkward. While I was traveling home last weekend from Dallas, a few artificially bubbly college kids ... (more)

Business and WikiLeaks: There’s nothing to fear

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December 21, 2010 at 2:40 am
I normally love the Economist, but every once and a while the mag gets it slightly wrong. So it was for a brief article regarding WikiLeaks in the December 11th ... (more)

An Open Christmas Letter

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December 12, 2010 at 10:47 pm
image credit: scottfeldstein Family, Friends, Followers, and those I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting: Happy Xmas. So this is Christmas / And what have ... (more)

What Is A Facebook Impression Worth?

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December 2, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Consider this from Nes Desmond recently posted on Business Insider: What is the value of a Facebook impression? Consider pricing today for products like e-mail and online advertising. […] We ... (more)

Process won’t solve ambiguous problems

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November 9, 2010 at 3:02 am
image credit: dok1 Ever since Henry Ford gave us the assembly line, the business community has been addicted to process. Now after more than 100 years of shooting ... (more)

On leadership and social business

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November 2, 2010 at 10:49 am
We’ve been talking about how community management is as much of an internal process as it is external for a while now, but I was glad to see some affirmation of our argument ... (more)

5 lessons from 4 months away from social media

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October 29, 2010 at 1:53 am
About four months ago, almost to the day, I fell off the face of the social media earth. Originally it was because I was moving from St. Louis to Nebraska and ... (more)

There are no blog how-tos for the hard stuff

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June 24, 2010 at 12:37 pm
image credit: mikebaird You won’t find the secret to business success online. So stop looking. Because everyone is scrambling to produce better content ... (more)

The Stressless Manifesto

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June 4, 2010 at 2:25 am
Disclaimer: This is not another self-help pitch. Given Amazon returns over 31,000 books on stress, and WebMD has a “Stress Management Center,” there ... (more)

The Voice of the Org in Social Business

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May 13, 2010 at 11:13 am
As the roles of marketing and PR orient themselves away from the industrial practices of the last century to something more socially aware, I think it’s ... (more)

The Open/Closed Fight is About Philosophy, Not Facebook

From wordpost
May 4, 2010 at 9:55 am
image credit: openDemocracy The catalyst Not surprisingly, Facebook’s Open Graph has raised a series of complaints about lack of objective “openness” in the whole ... (more)

Facebook found a way to Kill Google

From wordpost
April 22, 2010 at 3:15 am
image by jaycameron Okay, so maybe Facebook won’t kill Google, but I’m predicting they will supplant them as the largest and most ubiquitous web app. In ... (more)

Broadcast 2.0 v. Open Market

From wordpost
April 7, 2010 at 12:24 am
Beyond all of the iPad hype, beyond the lovers and the haters and the blenders, there’s a really serious question lurking, and Doc Searls nailed it in his ... (more)

Why the iPad won’t save Publishers (and what to do about it)

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April 1, 2010 at 9:52 am
Photo Credit: Renato Mitra With print sales falling faster than tween girls are falling for Justin Bieber, book publishers are getting a bit panicky. In not so ... (more)

Happy Birthday wordpost

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March 24, 2010 at 11:11 am

A little over a year ago I launched wordpost.org with an observation about the Bernie Madoff Experience. So I guess it’s birthday time.
If you still remember

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A case for rethinking product and brand

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March 23, 2010 at 5:02 am

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Although I originally submitted a variation of post below as an entry for the Social Business Edge 4×4 Slam, I’m fairly certain

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A couple of facts about revolutions

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March 17, 2010 at 1:35 pm
The Internet in all of its social splendor is revolutionary, some would say the most revolutionary change in the the history of the world when to comes to the way humans communicate. It’s ... (more)

Back to Basics: An Open Letter to Publishers

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March 12, 2010 at 1:35 pm
image credit: Dave Bleasdale Dear Colleague: As a fellow member of the publishing industry, I’ve been struggling a bit lately to wrap my head around our ... (more)

Think Small: Rapid Innovation

From wordpost
March 9, 2010 at 9:59 am
image credit: Feliciano Guimarães In my most recent post, I asked if enterprise should think small. But as a close friend said to me, it’s one thing to ... (more)

Should Enterprise “Think Small”?

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March 3, 2010 at 3:01 am

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As social business concepts emerge, there is a clear and growing divide between those companies that have embraced social modes of work and those that are

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On Shifting Online Business Models: Death to Ads!

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February 23, 2010 at 10:29 am
image credit: A. Drauglis Furnituremaker It’s one thing to talk about how to leverage new social platforms to do business better. It’s another to talk about shifting ... (more)