Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Read this snippet below from Google’s blog post about social search. Case in point, I use my Twitter followers and also the people I follow on Twitter as a de facto RSS feed for information about the work I do and the research I need to do my job. No, they are now joined at the hip sharing the same clothes!

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Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 9, 2012

I’ve been somewhat neglecting the blog over the last few months but I have a good excuse er… reason. So that means you’re just going to pull in everyone’s RSS feeds? Others are getting my good content. Being a content producer is brutal, it’s hard and it never ends. Either choice is not a good one.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Some of you may or may not know this but we are feeding off of each other. But really it may have evolved with Linkedin, but it started with blogging. In fact, today’s social elements were born out of the early days of blogging which were veiled in a sensibility of “us versus them&# camaraderie.

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Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

In social you have to have the ability to create and manage a strategy, understand and manage social analytics, create blogs, wikis, microblogs, manage profiles and activity feeds, create and manage communties, create tags, create and manage campaigns and then rinse and repeat. Social has virtually the same amount of moving parts.

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