I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.
The conference as we used to know it was very stiff, structured and didactic.
When President Obama chose to replace General Stanley A. McChrystal following the fallout from the general's controversial comments in a recent Rolling Stone article, the media was in a frenzy. Because McChrystal was the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, over 13,000 mainstr...
Can't decide what to get Dad for Fathers' Day?
Last year, I wrote about Ryan Gielen, a NYC-based Indie film director and producer. What interested me was how Ryan made much the soundtrack of his film The Graduates available for free download.
UPDATE May 5, 2010 -- Less than two hours after I published this blog post, Boston Globe Reporter Don Aucoin found it and contacted me for comment on a story he was in the process of researching and writing about the communications aspect of this emergency. That article Long...
Last week I delivered a keynote at the National Agri-Marketing Association annual conference. NAMA is the United States' largest association for professionals in marketing and agribusiness.
In September I presented a Social Media Masterclass in Melbourne Australia held in a terrific meeting space at Federation Square.
When important news affecting your organization breaks fast, sometimes the best way to connect with customers and the media is to quickly build a new Web site.