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Strategy

Post image for Facebook’s Next Steps: Facebook’s Roadmap for 2009

Today Facebook presented a 6-month developer roadmap. Finally – it’s been frustrating as hell writing a book about Facebook and not knowing what was coming from them and when, not to mention staying abreast of all the changes for our clients. In their presentation Facebook said that there were not many or big changes being [...]

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Twitter is very popular now – getting mentions on daytime talk shows,  spurring celebrity competitions, and even receiving governmental uptime requests. People and companies are jumping on to the service because everyone else is. But should they be?
The answer for most companies is probably no.
Using social media isn’t about checking a box or matching [...]

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The Other Side Group recently wrote a blog post about Keeping Social Media Social. She said that people can get to a state with social media where they subscribe to a large number of people, but filter out everyone but a select few to compensate for the information overload. Participation with the masses goes down, [...]

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Post image for Panel Recap: LinkedIn – How to Increase Sales

Yesterday, Cappy Popp spoke on a panel hosted by the panel hosted by the MetroWest Chamber of Commerce on “LinkedIn – How to Increase Sales.” The panel also included: Mike Langford, Jeff Cutler and Eric Guerin.
The audience was already reasonably informed and engaged in some type of social media, having the most familiarity with Facebook [...]

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Cappy Popp will be speaking at a MITX event Wednesday, June 24, 2009 on a panel titled,  ’Web Marketing on a Shoestring – Being Scrappy in a Down Economy‘.
The second installment of the MITX Marketing Technology Series, an educational series designed to explore the platforms, systems and infrastructures that allow marketers to execute efficiently, will be held [...]

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Post image for Video: Cappy Popp on Using Social Media in your Organization

Mike Langford, fellow panelist and CEO of Tweetworks, has posted video of the panel discussion from the Girls in Tech Boston event held on May 6th, 2009 at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Center.
You can view the video here.
Along with Mike, Cappy was joined by the following panelists:

Rachel Happe, Co-Founder, Community Roundtable
Karen Rubin, Product Owner, HubSpot and [...]

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Post image for Cappy Popp Speaks on LinkedIn: How to Increase Sales

Thought Labs’s Cappy Popp will be speaking on a panel titled, “Linked in – How to Increase Sales“ on Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 11:45A – 1:30P at the Clark University Graduate Management Center in Framingham, MA. This should be an interesting event; it will undoubtedly be covering a much broader range of topics related to [...]

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Selling to CIOs is a complex and daunting task. Make sure you do your homework and know what they are looking for. Know their industry, pain points, and competitors. Prepare and be ready for pointed questions about ROI of your solution.

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Dealing with negative comments on Twitter or your blog is an effective skill that can help turn detractors into advocates.

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Jerimiah Owyang posted a new article on Personal Brands. In it, he talks about how some companies fear personal brands because the people might get recruited once they develop themselves. Jeremiah details how companies respond to this risk – by either rejecting it outright or by embracing it. My guess is that the companies that [...]

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