Brand Management

How to improve customer service through collaboration Part 1: Tools of the trade

adaptive, (May 22, 2013)

It’s noisy out here! How can customer service teams cut through the clatter so they can hear the right conversations to do their jobs?

In-depth with Lenovo's VP of Comms Pt.I: Internal convergence and 'glocal' communications

nickjohnson, (May 20, 2013)

Jeff Shafer is responsible for global communications at Lenovo, the US$30 billion personal technology company and the world’s second-largest PC...

Q&A with Ginna Sauerwein, Managing Director for FedEx TechConnect

adaptive, (May 14, 2013)

As Managing Director of FedEx TechConnect for the Western Region, Sauerwein oversees eight customer contact centers including reps working remotely from home and over 1,300 employees.

Unmetric Guest Blog: How Dove Achieved 2,000% Subscriber Growth on YouTube In 15 Days

Anonymous, (May 10, 2013)

‘Love thyself, for thou art beautiful’ – seems to be Dove’s new commandment of self-esteem and beauty.

Wells Fargo on big data, customer-centricity and multi-channel communications

nickjohnson, (May 5, 2013)

In the run-up to the Incite: Summit East, we took some time to discuss the big issues for Corporation Communications executives in 2013 with Alan...

Wednesday Update including: why Pinterest is beating Facebook, how obsessed UK consumers are with social media and how to build a social media command centre.

Nick Johnson, (Apr 24, 2013)

In this week's review of the week's big corporate social media stories, we look at commanding your social media, Pinterest and much more!

Exclusive Q&A with Scott Gulbransen at H&R Block on embedding social, corporate structure and ROI

adaptive, (Apr 23, 2013)

In this practitioner interview, we talk with H&R Blocks Director of Social Business Strategy, Scott Gulbransen.

Big data, small impact: Refuting the assertion that big data is the Next Big Thing

nickjohnson, (Apr 18, 2013)

As part of the run up to the 2013 Incite Summit, we asked 300+ marketing and communications executives about the key issues they see impacting on...

New internal models for Marketing and Communications: Customer-centricity, internal and external convergence

nickjohnson, (Apr 14, 2013)

As part of the run up to the 2013 Incite Summit, we asked 300+ marketing and communications executives about the key issues they see impacting on...

Should Marketing and Communications merge?

nickjohnson, (Apr 12, 2013)

As part of the run up to the 2013 Incite Summit, we asked 300+ marketing and communications executives about the key issues they see impacting on...

Wednesday Update: The right platform for your content; How social is changing your organisation and NPR on a digital future

Nick Johnson, (Apr 3, 2013)

In this week's review of the week's big corporate social media stories, we look at picking the right platforms for your content, organisational changes wrought by social media's rise, and a lot more!

Ford's Scott Monty on how the car company leverages - and embeds - social media

adaptive, (Apr 3, 2013)

In this practitioner interview, we talk with Ford's "Global Digital and Multimedia Communications Manager", Scott Monty. We cover education, embedding, tools, management and more.

About 50% of what you know about customers is wrong

nickjohnson, (Apr 2, 2013)

Dispiriting news this week, according to a new survey from Enliken. Quick word of warning - only 116 people were actually surveyed, but the...

British Gas and using social for corporate communications

adaptive, (Mar 20, 2013)

With a new impetus to leverage its social media presence, British Gas is showing other corporations how social networks are a vital component of its communications network

USM Q&A: Dell's Social Media Director on how they train and co-ordinate for cross-departmental social media

adaptive, (Mar 13, 2013)

An interview with Liz Brown Bullock, Director of Social Media at Dell. We discuss how the company train other teams on social media best practice, how social is embedded at their company - and more.

New Social Business Structures

adaptive, (Mar 12, 2013)

As social media continues to sweep across every department with a corporation’s structure, what will businesses look like in the future, as they transform themselves into social corporations?

Executive Insight: IBM's Chief Technology Officer on organisational models of social media within large businesses

adaptive, (Feb 27, 2013)

For many organisations how they place the management of social media within their business’ hierarchy to gain the most benefit is a critical decision to get right.

Brand Advocates: Part 2: What is a brand advocate worth?

adaptive, (Feb 20, 2013)

In the second in our series of articles on brand advocacy, we look at defining and tracking the worth of an influencer - and working out how much to invest in them.

Data Rich, Insight Poor Part 2: Metrics and Measurement

adaptive, (Feb 13, 2013)

In the second part of this assessment of how social media can be measured we ask why your brand should be using more in-depth qualitative metrics and why the theory of fan numbers is old news.

Executive Insight: Ancestry.com

adaptive, (Jan 23, 2013)

The latest in our series of interviews with leading corporate social media practitioners brings us to Nick Cifuentes, Director of Global Social Media at Ancestry.com.

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