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At the risk of alienating those drinking or selling the UC Kool-Aid, here's a rose-colored glasses-off summary of what I think, have heard and have read about Unified Communications: you can't define it; it's not new (hard to define in the early 90s too); the vendor landscape is confusing; it's hard to prove ROI and customers are not sure abou  More...
Those of us who are dorkily passionate about the power of community jump up and down all the time about the importance of connecting with customers because it builds your business. This is true enough. But today, I’d like to pause for a few moments of professional gratitude. It’s a rather thankless world right now and it seems that blessings are f  More...
While technology can eliminate many inefficiencies and time-wasters from sales and marketing organizations, some problem areas tend to be outside the reach of technological solutions. More time is wasted as a result of poor strategy, bad hiring, unqualified leadership, and a lack of performance management than from flawed sales tactics. Companies  More...
An experienced California litigator shares the secrets of how she gets the other side's witnesses to open up during depositions--and how you can apply this powerful communication technique in all of your personal and professional relationships.  More...
Lots of organizations go through this analysis. How do you leverage your brand or your customer base to get to the next level, to enter new markets or new technologies--and do it while running your old business. And almost without exception, organizations are run by people who want to protect the old business, not develop the new one.  More...
The corner office isn’t on board yet. If you’ve read Burston-Marsteller’s latest findings from surveying 200 CEOs about social media, you’ll realize that we still have a lot of questions to answer. And whether you’re an internal advocate working hard to build a case for social media, or a professional seeking to advise companies on how to use soci  More...
Usability (as well as accessibility) is a too broad topic to be discussed in one post of course. Besides, I am no professional web designer or usability professional to offer any expert advice on that. Still I’ve come across a couple of fun and useful tools that should be shared at SEJ:  More...
Here are a few of the creative solutions that we all came together and discussed as a group about how social media and interactive marketing techniques might help arts based organizations to better promote themselves:  More...
Here are the five solid, complete, and intuitive main ideas Kram and Higgins put forward and suggestions after each for building your own Personal Developmental Network.  More...
Businesses, individuals, and organizations will, from time to time, make honest mistakes or in some unfortunate cases, intentionally support unethical decisions to dissuade or conceal something significant from its public. Crisis communications is a branch of PR that is designed to protect and defend an individual, company, or organization, usu  More...
So what is 2009 going to bring? With a new administration on the way in Washington, a lot of people are wondering. And, specifically, around here we’ve been pondering what this could mean for wage and hour / time and attendance issues.  More...
This strategy --- of empathizing with the role of another professional, however lower down in the hierarchy --- costs very little but gets you rich returns.  More...
Many organizations invest in analytics, but only see marginal results. Some companies have pulled back from using analytics for more than basic metrics because it can be costly to pursue, while others have embraced analytics and are thriving. This is one of the key points made in Thomas Davenport's paper "Competing on Analytics" (note: Harvard  More...
I’m running the New Marketing Summit for the second day today, and I’m surrounded by a very intelligent group of professional marketers who have come to discern how these newer tools will drive more business for them. When I listen to the more skeptical and cynical in the crowd, I realize that we (and by we, I mean the new media, the bloggers and  More...
The SEO Video Expert company, a division of Mission Prosperity LLC, is pleased to announce the release of it's New Advanced Web SEO Video Expert Ranking Service.  More...