@tom_peters & @RobertHThompson "What Does 'Social' Mean to You?" #SocBiz #SocialMeans #SocialEmployee
What does the word “social” mean to you? When asked a question like this, many of us might roll our eyes at how obvious the answer seems. Nevertheless, I found myself chewing on this idea lately after a tweet I received from Tom Peters (@tom_peters) a little over a...
@BlueFocus to Discuss @SocialEmployee on “Thought Grenades” Podcast w/ @RobertHThompson on May 12
Click here - Podcast LIVE Monday, May 12 at 10 PST We are excited to announce that we will be taking part in an upcoming podcast with Robert Thompson (@RobertHThompson) for his Thought Grenades blog. The podcast, set to broadcast on...
ANNOUNCEMENT: @CKBurgess and @MNBurgess to Present on #SocBiz at @SocialBizForum #SBF14
Blue Focus Marketing® (@BlueFocus) is excited to announce that founders Cheryl Burgess (@CKBurgess) and Mark Burgess (@MNBurgess) will be speaking at the 7th Annual Social Business Forum, set to take place at the Marriott Hotel in Milan on July 1 & 2. The event,...
Nominate a #SocBiz Leader You Admire. @TheEIU Wants to Hear From You ~ @TheEconomist
NOMINATIONS ENDED 5 pm EST Monday, April 28, 2014 ANNOUNCEMENT OF TOP 25 Social Business Leaders will be Tuesday, August 5, 2014 Do you know a Social Business Leader? I am pleased to announce that I have been selected to participate on a...
[VIDEO] Watch @CKBurgess and @MNBurgess Champion #SocBiz Strategy with @IBMSocialBiz
In yet another team-up with the fine folks at IBM (@IBMSocialBiz), Blue Focus Marketing (@BlueFocus) was asked to share our thoughts on the value of social business, how it affects social employee culture (@SocialEmployee), why 2014 is going to be the year of the...
Register Today for @mnburgess Online #SocialMedia Strategy Course from University of California Irvine Extension @UCIExtension #SM #SMM
One of the great benefits of technology in the 21st century is the rise of quality distance learning programs in leading universities. While satellite and certificate programs have been around for decades, social media revolutionized the concept with the rise...
Join the @SocialEmployee Revolution Webinar by @SocialChorus #SocialChorusU #socbiz
Join The Social Employee Revolution [Upcoming Webinar] By Amy Hall on March 21, 2014 - SocialChorus The path to social business starts with your company’s employees, by empowering employees to become brand advocates on social networks. Employee advocates help...
Book Review: The Social Employee (@SocialEmployee) by @TomPick #socbiz #IBM #Cisco #Dell
One of the most powerful impacts of social media is the way it has democratized brands. No longer is the brand, or corporate image, tightly controlled by a few senior executives,...
What is Personal Branding? @MNBurgess Shares His Thoughts w/ @PeterCardon for @HuffingtonPost [w/ VIDEO] #SocBiz
Lately at Blue Focus Marketing (@BlueFocus), we’ve been putting a lot of emphasis on the concept of employee branding and why it is an essential aspect of worker culture in the age of social business. In fact, in the coming weeks, we intend to continue to focus...
[VIDEO] An “Unedited” Are You a Social Executive Chat With @MarkFidelman #IBMConnect #SocBiz #IBM
Toward the end of a previous post detailing one of our many experiences at the 2014 IBM Connect Conference, I linked to this video, which contains a brief excerpt from a chat we had with Socialized! author Mark Fidelman (@MarkFidelman) about the role of the...
[WEBINAR] Why #B2B Marketers Should Leverage Employee Use of Twitter w/ @michaelido @PeopleLinx
[WEBINAR] Why B2B Marketers Should Leverage Employee Use of Twitter Wednesday, March 19th, 2014 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. EST As the marketplace and workplace fuse together through social technologies, Twitter continues to gain momentum. In order to transform a business into a...
Big Announcement! @BlueFocus @MNBurgess to Deliver #TEDx #TEDTalks @TEDTalks #socbiz
I am very pleased and humbled to announce that I have been invited to deliver a talk at the upcoming TEDx Navesink event on Sat., May 10, at the Two River Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. All talks that night will focus in some way on the event’s announced theme of...
[VIDEO] Fun at #IBMConnect w/ @Sandy_Carter (Shout-Out to @Tom_Peters) #IBM #SocBiz
A good way to measure the success of an event is how much you end up posting about it after it’s all over. Here we are, a month after the 2014 IBM Connect Conference, and I still have more exciting content to share with you. In this video, I had a chance to speak with...
5 Emerging Business Social Media Marketing Trends for 2014 #ANABrand #SMW14 #SMWNYC
With 2013 now quickly receding, it’s time to push full steam ahead into 2014. So before we steel ourselves to ring in the New Year, let’s take stock of some of the social media marketing trends that dominated 2013 and consider what they might mean for the year to...
[VIDEO] IBMer @AndrewGrill talks @SocialEmployee w/ @CKBurgess #SocBiz #IBMConnect #IBM
In an earlier post, I shared my thoughts on what a wonderful experience it was to be a part of the 2014 IBM Connect Conference in January. As I explained then, there is always electricity in the air whenever I’m in a room full of IBMers. Through everything they do,...