Does Your Agency Understand Social Media?

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What Do Experts Know?

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Added by Jay Deragon on November 17, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Is It How You Say It Not What You Say?

I thought I was wrong once then I was…

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Added by Jay Deragon on November 2, 2008 at 6:30am — No Comments

How Do You Use Social Media?

Many people ask how us…

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Added by Jay Deragon on October 17, 2008 at 3:49pm — No Comments

Business Week Creates Business Exchange

In Kevin Kelly’s book“The New Rules for the New Economy” he states “The big will become small and the small will become big” The shift in power to individuals is the tipping point of enablement for the creation of new market dynamics fueled by “social media”. The big media has added “social elemen… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on August 18, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

Are Good Old Boys Loosing?

The recent disclosure of John Edwards affair has dominated the news lately. Originally disclosed by The National Enquirer the story is now being covered by every major news outlet on the planet. The New York Times reported : “It was the encounter that would unceremoniously hoist former Senator John Edwards’s extramarital affair into full public view: a visit last month with the woman and her baby in a hotel room in Beverl… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on August 11, 2008 at 9:34am — No Comments

SocialMedian Public Launch Today

How does socialmedian work? 1. Join or create News Networks on your favorite topics. socialmedian is made up of many News Networks, each based around a topic (like “android”), set of related topics (like “wireless software and devices”), or a particular grouping of people (like “marketing directors in wireless companies”). Join the networks that reflect your interests to discover and share news and information with other people like you. socialmedian’s members can create and join News Network… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 31, 2008 at 10:09am — No Comments

Warning: Did You Read the Label?

With every passing week we’re seeing more and more conversational threads centric to all this social stuff and business implications. McKinsey just released a study titled “… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 31, 2008 at 7:32am — No Comments

What is the Standard?

A standard is an established norm or requirement. A de facto standard is a standard (formal or informal) that has achieved a dominant and accepted position. It is usually a product, process, system, or technical standard that has achieved status informally by public acceptance (consensus of… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 29, 2008 at 9:00am — No Comments

Are Answers in The Questions?

Business leaders are faced with daily decisions whose outcomes impact both short and long term results. Constantly trying to balance both results a business leaders has to justify which result, short or long term, becomes the most important factor in their decisions. It becomes difficult to foc… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 28, 2008 at 10:15am — No Comments

If You Don't Will You Survive?

If you think the wave of social technology adoption has been high just wait a little longer. Business leaders, academia and old Media are now coming around to the recognition that all this “social stuff” is becoming a requirement for business leaders or they may not survive. Major media p… Continue

Added by Jay Deragon on July 21, 2008 at 5:42am — No Comments

Agency BootCamp : Social Media Special Forces

I am please to announce a new event based on some of the feedback we had from Chicago. We have gathered together some great minds in social media marketing for a one day intensive workshop in New York this fall. This is an exclusive paid event, but the learnings will be well worth the price of admission. Check it out here. Continue

Added by Ted Murphy on May 27, 2008 at 6:45pm — No Comments

Chicago Event Wrap Up

I would like to thank everyone who attended the Chicago event, I believe it was a huge success. Special thanks to the sponsors Bebo, Cafemom, Facebook, MySpace.com and IZEA. We will be planning more Agency Bootcamps in other cities in the near future. Stay tuned for event information. Continue

Added by Ted Murphy on May 21, 2008 at 8:00pm — 1 Comment

All Speakers Confirmed

I am pleased to announce that we have confirmed all of our speakers, and it is one heck of a lineup. The Chicago event will include Tom Arrix from Facebook, Bryce Emo from MySpace.com, Kent Austermann from Bebo, Andrew Shue from Cafemom and myself (Ted Murphy from IZEA). I am looking forward to the conversation, I am sure I will be enlightened. Continue

Added by Ted Murphy on April 10, 2008 at 5:47pm — No Comments

Michael Brito to moderate the Chicago event!

I am very pleased to announce that Michael Brito, Social Media Manager at Intel, will be the moderator for this event. Michael has an extensive background in online marketing having held positions at Yahoo! and HP prior to his current role. This is going to be a great event! Continue

Added by Ted Murphy on March 31, 2008 at 6:21pm — No Comments