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Social Media and Your Ever-Expanding Brand

Socialized

What is a brand, and, as caretaker of your company’s brand, how does social media affect you? And finally, I define a brand as “the sum total of our experiences with a company, its products, services, and employees, and the way those experiences shape our perception of the company.&# Consider PCs.

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COI: Cost of Inaction United Breaks Guitars

Laurel Papworth

United Airlines broke a guitar. What ensued online was comprehensively a brand trashing and demonstrated what happens if you don’t pay attention to social media – even just monitoring it – it can cost your company $180,000,000. In other words, it’s a typical airline stock.What do you think?

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Reputation Management with Dissatisfied Customers and Word of.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Here are three cases that were blown way out of proportion but could have been handled a lot better if the companies thought of the consequences before acting. There’s a bottom line: it’s a lot harder to sweep your mistakes under the rug, especially as a company in a world of conversing markets.

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Why Your Corporate Website Needs a Blog

Bill Hartzer

If you are in charge of a B2B (business to business) corporate web site, you might have wrestled with the decision of whether or not your company should create a blog. The Nuts about Southwest blog is the corporate blog of Southwest Airlines. You don’t need to be a blogger to take advantage of the newest blogging methods.

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Reputation Management Seminar to be Held in Dallas Texas May 13

Bill Hartzer

If you search for your name or your company’s name in the search engines, what shows up in the search results? Tony and Derick will delve into the details of the strategies and techniques they have developed over the years to monitor and improve a brand or companies reputation online. Share this on Technorati. Tweet This!

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List of Brand-Side Corporate Social Strategists: Twitter Edition

Webbiquity SMM

Airline. • Morgan Johnston – Manager Corporate Communication at JetBlue Airways. • Bowen Payson – Manager of Online and Digital Marketing at Virgin America. Share this on Technorati. Anyway, on to the list! List of Corporate Social Strategists for 2011. Honigman – Social Media Manager at Sears Holdings Corporation. Tweet This!

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

companies use Facebook and 45% Twitter. All major hotel brands, airlines and other travel suppliers, as well as all OTAs are now present on the social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc. If you do not have the internal bandwidth or resources to manage social marketing, outsource to a hospitality social media expert company.

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