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Inspiring Fans to Share – Lessons from Oreo

The marketing geniuses behind Oreo’s Facebook Page inspire hundreds of fans  – every day – to share Oreo-branded posts. Each time a fan shares a post, they spread the Oreo name among their Facebook friends. They do exactly what Oreo wants them to do – share their content – so that Oreo becomes top ‘o
Bringing the Outside In

Content Strategy: Bringing the Outside In

So, if content strategists will be required to use the search engine optimization thingumajig and the social media doohicky at the same time (as I mentioned in my previous blog post, “Social Media: A Tool in the Content Strategy Toolbox”), what does that mean to us? How will our responsibilities change? Here’s my guess… Content

Bing Social Search: “Discovering Hawaii” Promo

Bing’s “Summer of Doing” marketing campaign has kicked off, showing us how “It’s amazing what you can do when your friends are part of your search.” I’ve been playing around with Bing’s social search and although I get how it’s supposed to work, my searches and my Facebook friends’ areas of expertise don’t seem to

Readability Tips from IABC NC Triangle Writing Workshop with Ann Wylie

How “readable” is your writing? Does your audience read what you write start to finish? Or, do they start and stop? According to Ann Wylie, highly-acclaimed writing expert and owner of Wylie Communications, communicators aren’t in the business of creating content. We create attention for our messages. And that is a tough job to do

My Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Takeaways from Internet Summit 2011

Jessica Bowman, founder and CEO of SEOinhouse, jump started Internet Summit 2011 for me as the first speaker that I heard during Tuesday’s Pre-Conference Intensives. She was a great example of a speaker whose approach is “You’re here to learn, I’m here to teach, let’s get to it!” In addition to her enthusiasm (an extra