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Sunset for Company Blogs? Perhaps, But Blogs Still In Demand for Content
It is difficult to believe that anything worth saying can be said in 140 characters or less.
A USA Today story observes that a number of U.S. companies, Bank of America included, are abandoning the company blog, in favor of the “nimbler tools requiring less time and resources, such as Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.â€
An interesting turn of events: As of 2008, blogging was seen as the [...]
Posted: Monday, April 23rd 2012
Top News: Twitter buys Posterous | SXSW | E-texbook revolution
Social Media:
Twitter buys Posterous (So you'd better move your content to Tumblr ASAP).
Facebook risks annoying users with push into mobile ads.
SXSW:
As SXSW [...]
Posted: Tuesday, March 13th 2012
Guest Bloggers: Another Tactic to Revive the Corporate Blog Model
Boehringer Ingelheim is another company that hasn't heard that corporate blogging is peaking.  The pharmaceutical company plans to launch a corporate blog soon, according to PMLiVE to be c [...]
Posted: Wednesday, February 1st 2012
Corporate Blogs Have Supposedly Peaked
Earlier this month JDA Software Group launched a new corporate blog called Supply Chain Nation. The software company positions it a forum for real-time conversations about industry trends, best practices and market insights around supply chain, merchandising and pricing innovation. It will feature lead expert bloggers, according to Apparel.
"We want it to [...]
Posted: Monday, January 30th 2012
Saks' Online Makeover
Saks Fifth Avenue has revamped its online presence, via collaboration with Acquity Group.
The new online offering, Saks Direct, comes with several improvements to the online retail experience, including:
The deployment of an interactive merchandising tool, a proprietary application licensed and customized for Saks Direct, which has led to a 30% reduction in product setu [...]
Posted: Wednesday, November 23rd 2011
Closing Bell: W3C privacy draft | Google Music sneak peak | Disney acquires mommy blog platform
Privacy:
W3C announces first draft of standard for online privacy.
Mobile Computing:
iOS number 1 on developer interest list while iPhone 4 best selling mobile phone in Q3 2011.
Customer Support:
[...]
Posted: Monday, November 14th 2011
Macy's Adds Blog to Online Presence
Macy's has launched a new blog, mBLOG, that will feature tips from Macy's staff as well as from experts from such sites as Fashionista.com and FoodRepublic.com.
Social Savvy
It is not surprising that Macy’s is launching the blog - the department store is a social media leader for its i [...]
Posted: Friday, October 28th 2011
Top News: Groupon discounts IPO | Federated Media and WordPress | Tablets outpace PCs?
Finance:
Groupon discounts IPO.
Coupon craze continues with CouponCabin raising $54 million.
Online Ad Industry:
Federated Media [...]
Posted: Thursday, October 20th 2011
Ragu Dads Fight Back Against Stereotype
Generally speaking women, particularly mothers, are seen as controllers of the purse strings and therefore the ideal target by marketers. Not that this is inaccurate - there are any number of studies to support this point. But marketers are making a mistake when, as they focus on women, they pander to outdated stereotypes lampooning men.
Ragu is learning this lesson right now, according to a post in Relevant [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 29th 2011
Top News: f8 | Google defends itself in Washington | Salesforce.com buys Assisstly
Social Media:
Major changes expected at Facebook's f8 conference.
Facebook employee [...]
Posted: Thursday, September 22nd 2011
The Merits and Drawbacks of Recruiting Bloggers to Your Brand
Marks & Spencer has developed a Facebook campaign with digital agency Profero with the goal of targeting fashion bloggers. The campaign asks a select group of influential bloggers to make their own Limited Collection, writes Marketing Magazine. The point is to highlight the retailer push to develop more distinctive personali [...]
Posted: Monday, September 12th 2011
The Many Variations of Bloggers' Relationships to Brands
US fashion brand Forever 21 has signed on fashion blogger Bip Ling to represent it as it prepares to open its second store in the UK - a flagship establishment on Oxford Street. There is little doubt about Ling’s relationship with Forever 21: she stars in the chain's latest ad campaign for its high summer and autumn collections. As Forever 21 senior marketing manager Linda Chiang [...]
Posted: Monday, July 11th 2011
How to: Work with a guest blogger | Ramp up newsletter content
How to Work with a Guest Blogger
Inviting someone - an expert or influencer in your space - to post a guest blog is one of several ways to bring new traffic to a fledging site, writes SocialMediaExplorer. Just make sure that you have an understanding of certain issues before the post runs, says marketing pro [...]
Posted: Friday, July 1st 2011
Top Toolkit News: Compete's pre-configured traffic insight reports | Automated feed links in WordPress 3 | Google adds performance metrics for AdWords location extensions with directions. It is charging for them too.
Compete Offers Pre-configured Traffic Insight Reports
Compete PRO Advanced has organized a number of pre-configured Traffic Insights that identify sources of traffic growth and decline by performance and domain categorization from within its Referral Analytics tool. These include, according to its blog:
1. Top Growin [...]
Posted: Tuesday, May 31st 2011
Top News: LinkedIn, Facebook IPOs | Apple near cloud music deals | Apple tells Senate it does not track locations | Kindle books outsell print versions |
Business Strategies:
What LinkedIn means for Facebook IPO.
Exclusive: Apple near cloud-music deals.
Search:
Google launches Inside Search [...]
Posted: Friday, May 20th 2011
Discovery Launches New Site for Moms; Men Still Foolishly Ignored by Advertisers
Another mom friendly-blog has recently launched, this time by Discovery Communications. The site, Parentables, is part of the company's efforts to drive revenues via online content, writes PaidContent.org.
TLC's first non-program blog project, it will include contributions from TLC stars such as Kate Gosselin and [...]
Posted: Thursday, April 28th 2011
Coupon Factory Launches Via 800 Mommy Bloggers
Digital agency Rockfish Interactive has launched a new service that allows companies to create and insert coupons for their products into social media conversation via a force of some 800 Mommy bloggers. The self-serve platform, Coupon Factory, is part coupon creation, part analytics engine and very similar to Google AdWords, chief marketing officer Dave Knox says ( [...]
Posted: Monday, April 11th 2011
Top News: Why didn't Steve Jobs unveil the Verizon iPhone? | Google Places app | Android vulnerable to malware | Yahoo TV
Mobile Computing:
Why Steve Jobs didn't unveil the Verizon iPhone.
Apple will not allow Verizon to preload software on iPhone.
Google releases new [...]
Posted: Wednesday, January 12th 2011
Don't Say Your Company is Motivated and Other Business Blog Tips
In 2010 one in three companies are estimated to have a blog for marketing, eMarketer estimated earlier this year. By 2012 that number will rise to 43%, it predicted – despite the ongoing growth in social media. "Companies are finding that blogs fill a specific niche that other forms of social media do not," said eMarketer senior analyst Paul Verna. "Marketers perceive blogs to have the highest value of any social media in drivi [...]
Posted: Wednesday, December 29th 2010
Top News: So far so good for Black Friday sales | E-commerce projections very robust | Chrome as a multi-tasker | Facebook privacy debate moves to UK
Black Friday:
Promotions, tradition lure shoppers on Black Friday.
Bargains bring out the crowds.
Holiday sales forecast:
E-Commerce growing [...]
Posted: Friday, November 26th 2010