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Are You Catering to your Customers' Anxieties?
One of the most famous historical examples of a business leader who understood this is Elisha Graves Otis . good example of a current marketing program that directly addresses the emotional soft spot of clients is Liberty Mutual's Responsibility Project . It employs a combination of professional actors and user-generated content to create stories about individuals who act responsibly for the good of their families and communities. This post was co-authored with Anand Rao and Jamie Yoder
One of the most important things that executives forget when they craft their service
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
Is the iPhone Still More Personal than Professional?
Also on weekends, they found that iPhone users generate 7% more traffic than on weekdays. In April of last year, for example, Forrester Research presented case studies on three major corporations that had deployed thousands of devices to their customers. According to recent data analysis from mobile analytics firm Localytics , iPhone application usage peaks in the evenings and on weekends and is much lower during the hours of a typical business day. From this, the firm concludes that the iPhone is still primarily a personal gadget as opposed to one that's used for business purposes.
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
Chatroulette Being Used for Marketing? Say It Ain't So!
The latest example? The blog post then provides an example of what they mean by a "seduction attempt" by way of a screenshot of a Chatroulette chat session - and be warned, it's not what we would consider safe for work. it generates a lot of press), other marketers will likely soon follow suit.
That didn't last long. Leave it to marketers to find a way to use any innovative new web service to promote their own ends.
ReadWriteWeb
- Thursday, March 11, 2010
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The Generation M Manifesto
My generation would like to break up with you.
hate labels, but I'm going to employ a flawed, imperfect one: Generation "M."
What do the "M"s in Generation M stand for? For example, the auto industry has cut back production so far that inventories have begun to shrink — even in the face of historically weak demand for motor vehicles. Dear Old People Who Run the World ,
Everyday, I see a widening gap in how you and we understand the world — and what we want from it.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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Are You Fun to Follow on Twitter?
As an example, my daughter, in her Tweets, often succeeds in capturing her world's details in ways that I find interesting and fun.
Tags: Communication Generational issues Social medi There's an art to tweeting. And, I'm sorry to say, most people just haven't mastered it.
Twitter, for the few uninitiated out there, is a social networking site that
HarvardBusiness.org
- Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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Continuous Brand Management for Generation 10:45
What will the "10:45 generation" expect? For example, Facebook is very similar across the iPhone, the web, the BlackBerry — even the PlayStation 3 . Second, Generation 10:45 will desire transparent service. Tags: Branding Generational issues Technolog The Kaiser Foundation recently released a study documenting the astounding fact that 8-18 year olds in the United States have increased their media use from 8 hours and 33 minutes' worth of usage per day in 2004 to 10 hours and 45 minutes' worth in 2009. Regardless of whether you think this is bad news signaling
HarvardBusiness.org
- Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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Social Media Usage Policies: Less Lawyering, More Encouraging
Senior managers need to lead by example, so that employees know what effective social media use looks like.
You can find inspiration for your social media policy in this terrific example from Mashable's recent post on 3 Great Social Media Policies to steal from, in the policy highlighted in their earlier post on social media policy musts , or in the very long and organized directory from Social Media Governance.
Tags: Generational issues Human resources "Do you spend much time on Facebook?"
It was a standard question in our hiring process, but the job candidate
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 8, 2009
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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] I'm planning to build a Ruby on Rails REST API during the session based on the positive experiences we had a few weeks ago with Rails 2.0. The very latest I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
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Your Thoughts About Generation M
Yet, it seems to have resonated deeply with many of you — especially those in my generation and below. Here's an example that I like a lot, courtesy of David Eaves. As I said repeatedly in the Manifesto, M is not about age, generational warfare, or excluding anyone. For Thanks to everyone for all the comments on my Gen M Manifesto . I
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, July 13, 2009
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NSFW: After Fort Hood, another example of how ‘citizen journalists’ can’t handle the truth
Smug that after two weeks of me suggesting that social media might not be an unequivocally Good Thing in terms of privacy and human decency , the news has delivered the perfect example to support my view.
Last week I went even further with my doom-mongering, suggesting that the trend of adding people’s homes to Foursquare without permission was indicative of a generation that prioritised their own fun over the privacy of their friends.
I’d probably feel slightly smug, if I didn’t feel so sick.
Unfortunately it’s hard to feel smug – hard to
TechCrunch
- Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Going Beyond User Generated Software: Web 2.0 and the Pragmatic Semantic Web
was ostensibly prompted by something I'm seeing as well, well beyond pure play Web mashups we're beginning to witness a number of companies building end-user solutions that can automatically navigate the Internet, weave together tapestries of online information to generate new, useful results. They can even take it a step beyond: dynamically generated situational Web applications that fully interact with the Web ecosystem. I was traveling most of last week and so was unable to weigh in on the Web 3.0 mini-tempest that occurred when John Markoff published his exploratory
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Observations from a Student Leadership Summit
The members of the crucible generation, as Warren Bennis calls them , really do have a more collaborative and less competitive orientation then we ever did. The older generation has a significant contribution to make--in mentoring. Jim Collins , the dinner speaker on the final day of the summit, talked about how each of us needs a personal board of directors. That is particularly true for the crucible generation, Last week I had the opportunity to participate in the Student Leadership Summit , the inaugural event of the Frances Hesselbein Global Academy for Student Leadership and Civic Engagement , at the University of Pittsburgh.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Monday, August 17, 2009
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Tips for Building Next Generation Web 2.0 Applications
Expo next week in San Francisco on building next-generation Web 2.0 Next generation Web apps are also much more social than in the past with features such as friends lists, activity streams, and aggregation from other social sites as well as using that information to really learn about your customer like Facebook does [Paul Buchheit.] I'm planning to build a Ruby on Rails REST API during the session based on the positive experiences we had a few weeks ago with Rails 2.0. The very latest I've been spending a good amount of time the last several weeks getting ready for the workshop session I'll be giving at Web 2.0
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