Jason Yormark

JULY 22, 2009

While community is a hot buzz word these days, it’s still quite a ways before most businesses truly embrace the idea. Companies like Starbucks , Dell , even my previous employer Microsoft Advertising , all do community incredibly well and it has paid off for all of them many times over.

Communities 190

Communities Tools Strategy Message Boards 190

Convince & Convert

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Tweet Guest post as part of the virtual book tour by Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer to explore concepts from their new book Open Community : a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. We come from the association industry and for many of us “membership” people, community is old hat. It’s what we do.

Skills 126

Skills Communities Collaboration Organization 126

Harp Interactive

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Build blogs and teach conversational marketing and business relationship building techniques. Build community platforms around real communities of shared interest. Try out a short series of audio podcasts or video podcasts as content marketing and see how they draw. Consider the value of hiring a community manager.

Social Media 232

Social Media Press Release Marketing Widget 232

SocialFish

JANUARY 11, 2011

We have some great stuff in the works, including a new Open Community case study series by Deirdre Reid , and an interview series where we’ll be talking to several top association CEO’s about the ideas in our little book. The Science of Social Media Marketing. Community Management Resources.

Postrank 170

Postrank Handbook Case Study Press Release 170

Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

Communities 117

Communities Groups Groups Social Media 117

Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. Twitter is a communication tool, so there is no surprise that mainstream media wants to capitalize on the service.

News 40

News Twitter Foursquare WordPress 40

Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Epic News Alerts On Twitter In my continuing saga to understand everything about Twitter , I wanted to see how mainstream news is contributing. Twitter is a communication tool, so there is no surprise that mainstream media wants to capitalize on the service.

Foursquare 40

Foursquare News WordPress CoTweet 40