Socialmediaworx

As companies learn how to find their voice and participate with their customers in conversations, some Fortune 500s are beginning to make organizational changes and allow social media evangelists take the helm in playing an ever larger role in positioning the company. AdWeek has a great piece about Ford's recent hiring of Scott Monty to head up their social media initiatives. In addition to recognizing the critical need to ...

The State Theater hosted yesterday's first ever BlogPotomac, and judging by the feedback from the sold-out crowd, it will be the first of many of more to come. Sponsored by Livingston Communications, Viget Labs, and WordBiz.com, Inc., BlogPotomac brought together a great lineup of speakers to talk about some of the latest trends in social media marketing. But without question, Frank Gruber's simple but entertaining lunchtime chat about social ...

Not able to attend BlogPotomac? Not to worry - we've got all the live video goodness of the event you can handle. Sponsored by Livingston Communications, Viget Labs, and WordBiz.com, Inc., BlogPotomac is this year's premiere social media marketing event for the greater Washington DC area. There are some great speakers lined up for today, including Frank Gruber, Maggie Fox and KD Paine. The video feed is being ...

Great event last night at Busboys & Poets with Personality Not Included author Rohit Bhargava doing a live show with the one and only Jonny Goldstein of jonnyspartay.com. If you haven't read the book yet, I highly recommend checking it out. I posted an interview with Rohit a few weeks ago during the book launch. He focuses on why companies can no longer exist as the faceless, soul-less ...

I posted this last night on the Viget Engage blog: It’s easy to spot the advertising and marketing today done by companies who simply don’t care about delivering valuable marketing to their customers – companies too content with interrupting them with annoying, trivial messaging. Some, however, are beginning to see the light. There may be several names for it, but no matter what you call it, there is no doub that ...

Joshua Porter breaks down social design into three eras, and suggests a fourth stage - where we find ourselves today: Additionally, much of the current evolution of social software is in improving the communication between people who provide a service and people who use a service. This is what I think is meant by “social media marketing”. This is somewhat of the fourth wave…when social applications not only improve ...

Common Craft has put together yet another dead-simple video - this time creating an elegantly simple explanation of social media. "This video focuses on basics of social media: new technology that makes everyone a producer and tools that give everyone a chance to have a say." As we've come to expect, their visual storytelling with simple paper cut-outs and crystal-clear writing takes complex and ambiguous concepts and makes ...

DC's own Jim Long was featured in a conversation with Shel Israel on GNTV: "A 15-year veteran NBC cameraman, Jim follows the US President wherever he goes. In recent years that has included all continents except South America and perhaps Antarctica. He's passionate and proud of his old media work, but he understands and accepts the world is changing. "I am quickly becoming a dinosaur," he reflects in our ...

As if by divine circumstance after Steph's post about her experience window shopping on the Mini web site,  a recent article highlighted Mini's work to measure the connection between online buzz and actual sales of the diminutive but spunky car. The marketing team worked with MotiveQuest to research and measure what people were saying online about the car and Mini brand, and through their analysis, created the the Online ...

Further thoughts on designing micro interactions: Building a brand in our intertwined world can be a difficult feat. However, just throwing some social interactions on your web site is not enough. You have to think about how the interactions will resonate within your company. More than ever, companies need evangelists. These people are the ones that give your brand that sparkling personality. The face and personality of the brand ...