Does Your Social Media Portfolio Include a 401k?

Recently I’ve been thinking more about (and working on) how Powered, as a social marketing provider that focuses on building online communities for brands, can expand our partnerships with those brands’ marketing agencies. In an earlier post, I broke down the question of whether or not agencies can evolve into social. In that post I [...]

Upcoming Webcast: Pitfalls and Best Practices for Online Community Building (6/24)

Yes, this is going to be a good one. Don’t miss the opportunity to join Forrester Principal Analyst, Lisa Bradner, Communispace CMO, Debi Kleiman and Aaron Strout, CMO, Powered (yup, that’s me) this Wednesday, June 24 at 2 PM CT as we talk about the good, bad and the ugly of community building. Our presentation [...]

Double Shot of Weekly Social Marketing Links: June 10, 2009

Alright, I’ve been a little lax in my blogging responsibilities. You REALLY know that this is the case when I can’t even make the time to post a digest of the links that the product/marketing/business development teams at Powered pull together on a weekly basis. In fairness to me, I’ve been in the process of [...]

Back to School Podcast: The Real Scoop on Facebook Connect

With Powered’s recent release of Facebook Connect, you won’t be surprised to hear me say that I think this is the future of social marketing. To help share in this excitement, our PR firm, SHIFT Communications, amassed three big brains (all three of which are friends) in Jennifer Leggio, social media blogger at ZDNet, Marshall [...]