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March 1, 2010

Is your brand a one night stand or keeper?

March 1, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Social media has opened the door to far more effective dialogue between brands and consumers. Like any relationship, though, if both parties aren’t equally invested it’s unlikely to last. At first, many brands just rushed to have any sort of social media presence. In my experience it went something like this. Twitter account. Check. Facebook […]

Social media has opened the door to far more effective dialogue between brands and consumers. Like any relationship, though, if both parties aren’t equally invested it’s unlikely to last. At first, many brands just rushed to have any sort of social media presence. In my experience it went something like this. Twitter account. Check. Facebook …

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Filed Under: Brands Tagged With: Brands, Marketing, Social media

 
February 25, 2010

Customer curation: What brands and ad agencies do about it

February 25, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

“Radio equals listening to the playlists of unknown radio people. Newspapers equal reading the playlists of unknown newspaper people. I want to read and hear lists curated by people I know.” I read these words a couple of weeks ago. They touched on an important trend that will change the advertising industry. Traditional silos (television, …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Brands, Consumers Tagged With: Advertising, Brands, Consumers

 
February 22, 2010

Go Glocal: How to build communities most effectively

February 22, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Last week the Brookings Institute kindly included me in the U.S./Islamic World Forum in Qatar. It was a fantastic collaborative and learning experience. The theme for our working group was ‘New Media in the Age of Globalization”. Our group was comprised of State Dept. officials, religious leaders, private sector business leaders, Middle Eastern philanthropists and …

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Filed Under: Community, Globalization Tagged With: Brands, Brookings, Community, U.S. Islamic World Forum

 
February 19, 2010

GUEST SPEAKER: CAMERON SINCLAIR, ARCH. FOR HUMANITY, TED PRIZE WINNER

February 19, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

Cameron Sinclair founded the wonderful organization Architecture for Humanity that does so much meaningful work in distressed areas like Burma, New Orleans and now Haiti. What’s so exciting about their work is their commitment to emergency and long-term relief, their insistence and transparency and the insights Cameron provides as to how NGO’s and relief organizations …

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Filed Under: Non-profits, Philanthropy, Videos Tagged With: Architecture for Humanity, Cameron Sinclair, Haiti

 
February 17, 2010

Brian Solis, ‘Putting the Public Back in Public Relations’: Review and Giveaway

February 17, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

As anyone who follows my tweets will tell you, I’m a big fan of Brian’s thinking and really enjoyed this week’s book that he wrote with industry leader, Deirdre Breakenridge, called Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. Brian and Deirdre deep dive into the future of PR techniques in the social media and web …

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Filed Under: Social Tagged With: Brian Solis, Deirdre Breakenridge, PR, Social media

 
February 14, 2010

Consumers are the new ad agency

February 14, 2010 by Simon Mainwaring

These are fighting words, especially from an ad guy such as myself, but I see several reasons to argue the case. 1. CONSUMER GENERATED CONTENT HAS EARNED RESPECT: Last week the New York Times contained a provocative piece noting that the most popular Super Bowl ad was created by consumers (Doritos). This is just one, …

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Filed Under: Advertising, Consumers Tagged With: Advertising, Brands, Consumers

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