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The social media purists will tell you that a corporate blog serves as a community hub for your brand. They say it gives your customers a connection point to your company and engenders a sense of community. In some cases that’s true, but you’re going to see me exploring corporate blogging a lot more this year to follow up on a theory that your “community” or “audience” for your blog isn’t what you think it is. That, and the ultimate judge of a corporate blogging effort must be more closely tied to success metrics than making everyone feel good.

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How To Increase Your Business By Relinquishing Control

December 14, 2009

If you’ve been studying social media, or even half paying attention to it, for the last few years, you’ve heard some truisms proffered that are scary to most business people. One of the most recited is that in order to be successful in social media you must face the fact you no longer have control. [...]

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Social Media Case Study: Humana’s Freewheelin

January 12, 2009

Most of you know I like to brag on Louisville and Kentucky. Humana, one of the country’s largest and most successful healthcare companies is headquartered here. Humana also has a division dedicated to consumer innovation, which has been doing some interesting things with social media lately under Greg Matthew’s guidance. Today’s post is a case [...]

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Case Study: How To Blatantly Advertise Through Social Media … And Get Away With It

March 21, 2008

H&R Block started following me on Twitter. I didn’t think much of it. I’ve been followed by Spiderman before. (I assume the movie, though they never reached out to me.)
A couple days later, I got an email from a person named Michelle asking me if taxes and social media mix. Here we go again. But [...]

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