Author: Bob Garlick

Amazing List of 50 Influencers

Amazing List of 50 Influencers

Here is an amazing list of writers who are highly influential in Social Media. This is a good group to follow on twitter because you will suddenly have a large library of relavent content for your Social Media presentations. Thanks to Forbes magazine’s Haydn Shaughnessy, Contributor for the great info. Please go here for the original article with more info.   Here are fifty social media writers who have very…

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Seth Godin and the Future of Work

Seth Godin and the Future of Work

An interesting and also disturbing interview with Seth Godin. Why does he think we are in an unending recession. What is the rase tot he bottom and are you in that race. Time to listen take action and start racing to the top. Why should I be listening to what Seth Godin says?  Seth Godin…

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Is Social the New Landscape for Generating Amazing Ideas?

Is Social the New Landscape for Generating Amazing Ideas?

What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen?   If you are interested in these questions take a couple of minutes to check out this innovative animation that helps clarify these questions so that you the observer can build your own answer. As with most everything on the internet these days it’s…

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BBC Report on Social Media Sales

BBC Report on Social Media Sales

Are businesses using social media to their advantage? First it was “E-commerce,” which meant selling things online. In 2011 the buzzword was “F-commerce” – the idea of companies selling things on social media sites like Facebook. But are businesses really learning to use social media to their advantage? Two recent surveys suggest that companies in the…

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Your Website has 5 Seconds to Succeed

Your Website has 5 Seconds to Succeed

This post was originally published on Engage the Blog. The fate of your website will be decided in less time than it takes you to finish reading this sentence. The same people who a decade ago would wait patiently through the screeching greeting of a dial-up modem are now frustrated when the homepage of CNN…

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Impact of Branded Apps on Consumers

Impact of Branded Apps on Consumers

The study confirms that using branded mobile phone apps increases a consumer’s general interest in product categories and improves the attitude they may have toward the sponsoring brand. The researchers also found that mobile apps which are informational in nature or utilitarian were more likely to engage users than those where the app focused on…

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Is Public Relation Social Marketing?

Is Public Relation Social Marketing?

Here is a great post from a PR specialist who now does social PR/marketing. Some very poignant and candid comments makes this post a  great read and an eye opener for anyone in on the long hard road to Social Content and/or Community Building. Here is a link to the original post if you would like to read more about Anita and…

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How to be a CEO in the New World

How to be a CEO in the New World

We at Social Content Group think Bing Gordon has an important message for any CEO out there. In the video below, Bing Gordon discusses his thoughts on how to be a CEO in the era of the “consumer internet”, which is a completely different era than the first big Dot Com boom. Everything is social these…

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