Should you outsource your social media initiatives?
On Monday Paul Jacobson shared his thoughts on whether a company should outsource their social media initiatives. In a comment on his post I shared this: Paul you are spot on with this. We have been involved in numerous discussions on this topic with several businesses. Because it happens on the web, the mentality is [...]
Does your business get it? – lessons from Australia
During the past week Adam Ostrow published a piece on Mashable entitled How a 40,000+ Company trains it’s Employees on social media The company being discussed was Telstra (Australia’s equivalent to Telkom). Here is a copy of their interactive social media training guide There are several take-aways from this move by Telstra: The company clearly [...]
Learning to speak digital – a must have skill for 2010
Back in July Josh Bernoff wrote a post entitled Advertising will change forever at the end of this insightful article he concludes: “Pundits have been declaring the end of mass media and advertising for years now. From my 14 years of experience analyzing this stuff, I’ve learned that things die very slowly, but there are [...]
Building a social media presence for your business
As more and more business owners and entrepreneurs begin to understand that it is impossible to ignore the social media trend, we see larger and larger numbers of businesses wanting to have a social media presence. Often the desire to do so is as a result of competitors who are using social media. There is [...]
Why there is an incredible window of opportunity for small business owners
It’s becoming very apparent that there is an incredible opportunity for small business owners to make inroads into markets that have traditionally been dominated by the big players. Over the last while we have witnessed firsthand how difficult it is for large companies to integrate social media into their business models. It’s a little like [...]
"Maturity" needed for the social media space
Recently while having a chat to Graham Wallington CEO of WildEarth TV about all things social media, we discussed how certain markets are much more “mature” in their adoption of social media as part of their business model and are more keenly aware of everything involved in the process. This actually reminded me of a [...]







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