Under the headline “Public Voice Adds Edge to Debate,” the July 24th Washington Post front page article also had a tagline, ”Democrats Face Questions from Internet Users in Unorthodox Format.” While it’s too early to say whether YouTube and Web 2.0 are a “flash in the pan” (I don’t think they are) , it struck me funny that it was considered “unorthodox.” True, Webster’s defines the word […]
The Online Marketing Summit has been making its nationwide tour and so far the verdict has been: Excellent. I had the privilege of sitting on one of the panels and addressing the audience of 120+ professionals eager to know about trends and challenges in the new Web 2.0 world. There’s a lot on social networking, search engine marketing, user generated content, virtual worlds, and web analytics from […]
There once was a company with a proud brand. They talked about how to strengthen the brand, how to promote the brand, and how to leverage the brand. When I asked how they measured the efficacy of his “branding,” they had no answer. They ran no focus groups regularly. They polled no customers. They held no internal meetings to develop a measurement methodology. They could […]