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The Success of Failure

When and How to Fail in 4 Easy Steps   Some people seem to do almost nothing wrong. These are the fair-haired children whose mistakes are seen as great learning experiences and blunders are written off as humorous folly.  Bill Gates was infamous for the “little green

Your Greatest Foe on Social Media – How to Fight Back

Who's your biggest foe on social media?  Does company A have a bigger social footprint? Is competitor B getting more engagement and sharing? Actually, if you are in B2B tech marketing, your biggest competitor is not any single company.  To truly understand who's beating you out,

My Take on the Fake News Debate

I attended the Daily News Innovation Lab's session: Proposition: We can Solve the Fake News Problem. It featured an Oxford-style debate on whether there's a solution to the fake news problem. Some very smart people from the worlds of media, business, and technology made great arguments

Latest PR Tactic: Publishing on Platforms

Cross-posted on Hack the Feed Back in the day ("the day" being about 10 years ago), we had a simple message for PR clients who wanted to get in on the social media and blogging action. It was: "Go forth and blog too. Master the channels that

9to5 Blogging Impresario Seth Weintraub Chimes in

I had the pleasure of meeting blogging entrepreneur Seth Weintraub over coffee last week. My friend Adam Rothberg arranged an intro after informing me that the head of the "9to5" empire (including 9to5Mac, Google and Toys) lives in our town, Croton-on-Hudson, NY. I was very excited

Lessons in Tech Branding from Rock Icons

Inspiration can come from funny places - if you are in tech marketing, perhaps you'll like the following story about branding, which offers lessons from the world of rock music. The Music and Branding Connection I am a big fan of podcasts, and like listening to them

Huffington Goes Viral with Data Science – You can Too

Cross posted on Hack the Feed My recent posts have explored how publishers are working with social platforms to expand audience and adapt story telling formats (see Publishers & Platforms In a Relationship, and Platforms as Publishers: 6 Key Takeaways for Brands). They reported the experiences

Your Digital Footprint

By: Christina Ho, Intern Instagram is used by five times as many people that did in 2013. However, people are posting fewer photos on Instagram according to The Information. Nevertheless, this worrisome trend doesn’t mean that Instagram’s overall popularity is slowing down. Instagram has grown from