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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 ...

Loic Le Meur has a great interview posted with the head of Nike+, Michael Tchao. Nike continues to set the bar with their use of branded utilities and social media to support their customers. And with their latest launch of Nike Soccer, which focuses on delivering a 'bootcamp' training program for soccer players, they are providing another strong tool for facilitating community around the brand. I'll write more ...

David Armano has yet another presentation that is worth sharing here. The slideshow is built on his earlier statement that: “We live in a world where the little things really do matter. Each encounter no matter how brief is a micro interaction which makes a deposit or withdrawal from our rational and emotional subconscious. The sum of these interactions and encounters adds up to how we feel ...

Corporate brands are increasingly being shaped by their employees' presence on social networks. Ever Tweet, blog post and photo shared with the world shape more and more of their employer's image and reputation. And as Ed Cotton writes, this is a good thing: If you trust your employees you can let them out of their cages and cubicles and empower them to represent your brand in the real world. They ...

Brand managers rejoice - you now have a tool to track trends in Twitter. Similar to Facebook Lexicon or even Google Trends, Twist is a dead-simple tool for tracking the frequency of keywords in Twitter. Developed by the good people at Flaptor, Twist allows users to see the trend of searched terms over time. Ideally, as conversations continue to leave the blogosphere for other digital outlets, hopefully more services ...

Podtech has a great interview with Emmanuel Brown. As director for digital and content for Nike’s Jordan brand, he knows his customers inside-and-out and has been widely successful launching innovative, digitally-driven programs such as Jordan Breakfast Club. Talking to him at the Forrester Marketing Forum in Los Angeles, Jennifer Jones hears how he implemented these programs. Brown also hints at Nike's future plans for focusing on delivering the ...

No, this is not yet another "social media will save the world or at least my company brand type of post," but Eric Reynolds, CEO and founder of Nau clothing, affirmed an idea that that is beginning to take hold in exciting new ways: the brand loyalty of tomorrow will be shaped by corporations who exhibit radical transparency in values that align with their customers' own shared beliefs ...

The last two weeks have brought launches of two important social products. Last week's was Loladex, the Facebook app that let's you create recommendations for your favorite restaurants, bars and local business services - something of a Yelp for the Facebook crowd. And this week's launch of Socialight at CTIA brings an equally impressive service to letting users make these same recommendations on the go with their mobile phone ...