Podcast: Driving Awareness & Engagement with Social

One of the things I love about my job is that I get a chance to meet and interview tons of interesting people. Some are execs at big companies? Others are authors of thought provoking books. And some are just plain smart individuals who are teaching companies how to embrace the power of social networking [...]

Weekly Social Marketing Links: August 11, 2009

Each week, the members of Powered’s marketing, business development and product teams pick a news article, blog post or research report that “speaks” to them. With that article, they need to come to our weekly staff meeting prepared to give a 120 second update on what the article was about and why they found it [...]

Audio from 1st Social Marketing Help Desk Webinar

A few weeks ago, we launched a new flavor of webinars called the Social Marketing Help Desk. You can read more of the details here in colleague, Doug Wick’s excellent post. The goal is to focus more on the questions vs. the content since we always get way more questions than we can answer during [...]

Weekly Social Marketing Links: July 7, 2009

Each week, the members of Powered’s marketing, business development and product teams pick a news article, blog post or research report that “speaks” to them. With that article, they need to come to our weekly staff meeting prepared to give a 120 second update on what the article was about and why they found it [...]

Monsanto: Turning Heads with Social Media

Chances are, you’ve heard of the agri-business giant, Monsanto. If you haven’t, you’ve probably read about some of the controversy surrounding their business. After all, they’ve been identified by the EPA as being a “‘potentially responsible party’ for 56 contaminated sites (Superfund sites) in the US1“. Their genetically engineered seeds haven’t exactly endeared themselves to [...]

April 29: Weekly Content/Social Marketing Links

As I mentioned in our first Weekly Content/Social Marketing Links post, I’ve asked the Powered marketing, business development and product teams to pick one news article, blog post or research report a week that “speaks” to them. With that article, they need to come to our weekly staff meeting prepared to give a 120 second [...]

Community Powered, Live from SXSW: Aaron Strout

 
Next up in the #CommunityPowered podcast series featuring Susan Bratton of DishyMix, is little old me. That’s right, yours truly. Aaron Strout. Susan thought it was only fair that after working with her to arrange 13 other podcasts, helping her set up shop and then posting all other 13 that I should get a little [...]

Community Powered, Live from SXSW: Chris Brogan

 
CommunityPowered podcast series featuring Susan Bratton of DishyMix, is Chris Brogan who is not only a good friend but number two on AdAge’s list of top 50 Marketing bloggers (watch out Seth Godin). In his spare time, Chris is the President of New Marketing Labs, co-founder of Podcamp and spiritual lead of the Inbound Marketing [...]

It Takes a (Twitter) Village

Yesterday when I picked my daughter up from school – she’s in fourth grade – she almost sheepishly showed me a necklace I knew I’d never seen before. When I asked where she got it she said “It was on my desk”, but I knew that wasn’t the whole story. After a little carefully poking [...]