Posts Tagged ‘engagement’

Community Management Should Include In-House Culture

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
Image Credit: Thanachart R.

Image Credit: Thanachart R.

When we talk about the practice of community management, we often speak only of the external relationship between an organization and its customers. I contend that organizations must weave together the practice of active online customer engagement with the management of in-house culture.

Culture Meets Customers

Considering that 60% of employees are considering jumping ship for new opportunities as soon as the recession ends, I’d say we have some work to do in company culture development.

What’s scary is that your company’s culture is important not just internally, but externally as well. As Bradford Shimp remarks:

An extension of social media? The word on Ads

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Photo Credit: Stephen Gibson

Photo Credit: Stephen Gibson

Depending on who you talk to, it was either Lord Leverhulme (founder of Unilever) or John Wanamaker who first muttered the well worn phrase, “Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don’t know which half.” Either way, this quote is one of the most worthless pieces of word vomit spewed from the mouths of marketers today.

Are we really wasting parts of our budgets?

I have nothing against Tevor Young (@trevoryoung), but he like so many before him assumes an automatic and upfront wastage in the practice of advertising in his post (which was also featured on MarCom Pro).

All or Nothing: Lessons from Leaving Social Media for a Month

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

I’m often asked how much engagement is necessary in order to see measurable results from social media marketing. Although I’ve always had an answer, after a month unplugged I have renewed passion for the subject.

At the end of July I went through a move (from NY to STL), job change, hours of new employee orientation, and the task of writing a business plan for 2010. Since my last post, I’ve checked my Twitter account about once a day (if that), and read only a handful of blog articles.