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Twitter just redesigned how brands and customers relate. Now it’s your turn.
Twitter is in the process of rolling out yet another complete redesign, and this one is not only Twitter is rolling out a redesign that not only simplifies the user experience but also presents important new ways for brands to …
Why you need a social branding blueprint
Why cause marketing is an inside job
Despite the wonderful work and contributions made by corporate foundations through their cause marketing campaigns, there is a fundamental obstacle that cause marketers must overcome if they hope to truly have the impact our world at scale and build the bottom-lines. This …
Choose your favorite non-profit and then make its day
For-profit and non-profit partnerships are critical to the future of branding and sustainable capitalism. Yet both are facing different but complementary challenges. For-profit brands must become more purposeful if they are to be meaningful to their customers lives inspiring loyalty …
Review: Brian Solis, ‘The End of Business as Usual’
I had a chance to dive into Brian Solis’ new book, The End of Business As Usual this weekend. What Brian does so well is take the competing trends that are changing the marketplace, as well their impact on consumer sentiment and …
Authors@Google: Simon Mainwaring, We First
I finally had the chance to visit Google, a business, brand and creative powerhouse I have admired for years. I spoke there about We First as part of their authors series. Everyone was super gracious and I now understand why …
Will Facebook’s new storytelling tools write a happy ending?
For some time now I’ve been asserting that technology is teaching us to be human again. When I say this, I mean that the ability to witness and experience the lives of others anywhere around the world, often in real-time, …
Should Unthink rethink?
This week marks the launch of Unthink, a new social network that positions itself as a counterpoint to Facebook and Google+ attacking what they describe as dishonest invasions of privacy. While there’s clearly room for another social network in the …
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Simon Mainwaring is founder of We First, a social branding consulting firm that helps companies, non-profits and individuals use social media to build communities, profits and positive impact.
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