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  • Sports and beauty on Facebook

    Sports rivalries get people talking. At the beginning of the World Cup, the Nike Shoes Facebook page posted a question asking users to vote on who they thought would win. To date, 2,722 users have voted—and they’re still weighing in. The Nike Basketball page got the competitive juices flowing for Lakers and Celtics fans with a question… Continue reading

  • B2B social media: Is it marketing or what?

    B2B social media seems to be on everyone’s minds these days. EMarketer.com reports that B2B marketing activity on social networks is estimated to increase 43.3 percent in 2010, while spending is estimated to increase by $54 million in 2014 (up from $11 million in 2009)[1].

    Despite these robust estimates, B2B marketers have lagged behind B2C marketers… Continue reading

  • How do corporate websites coexist with social media strategies?

    Following on from his controversial post of 2007 suggesting that corporate websites were irrelevant, social media guru Jeremiah Owyang told attendees at the recent GilbaneSF content management conference that corporate websites as we know them may not survive into the future.

    As organizations begin to seed and continue customer interactions on external social networks… Continue reading

  • Giving your customers a voice pays off

    Word of mouth has always been a powerful marketing tool. I learned this firsthand when I and my fledgling cheesecake business moved to a rural agricultural community several years ago. Customer reviews are just as important and powerful in the digital realm, as well. I can’t remember the last time I made a purchase, whether… Continue reading

  • Why you should make your website more engaging

    You’ve got your social media strategy in place and in play. You’re monitoring Twitter accounts, managing Facebook pages, and posting videos to YouTube. But who’s paying attention to your website?

    With so much attention focused on engaging customers in various social media outlets, many corporate websites have been left stagnant. You can make your… Continue reading

  • What’s the Buzz? Stop telling me what’s a-happening!

    The birth of Google Buzz into the grand cacophony of social updates that is the modern-day Web is nothing special—not unless you want it to be. And you should want it to be.  There’s a special place in Internet Hell reserved for those who connect their social networks together in one almighty amalgam of real-time updates… Continue reading

  • 9 video highlights from the O’Melveny & Myers social media panel

    Stop me if you’ve heard this: A social scientist, an engineer, a marketer, and a consultant meet at a law firm… and over a few glasses of wine, the conversation turns to social media. We present to you video snippets of the recent social media forum held at O’Melveny & Myers, featuring Tendo’s own Karla Spormann, as well as Martin Eberhard, Patrick Ewers, and Dr. Marc A. Smith. Continue reading

  • Tendo tip: Tagging walls gets you cred

    One of the questions we frequently get asked at Tendo is how to put social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter to work. By “work,” I mean build maximum buzz with minimum effort. I’ll skip all the usual (and 100% true) caveats about how it takes time, insight, a credible voice, and consistency… Continue reading

  • Sara Lee serves up fresh social media campaign

    The first order of business for any marketing communications plan is this: Know your audience. Self-evident, sure; however, not always well executed.

    Sara Lee Deli’s new campaign—Mama Sagas—is a great example of how combining the power of knowing your audience with social media (such as Facebook and Twitter and other media outlets like YouTube and… Continue reading

  • Learning from success: 4 social media triumphs

    Social media.

    I’m back again, fresh off my last listing of four big social media blunders that served as helpful examples of what not to do when enterprise meets Internet. It’s not all doom and gloom in the YouTubes, Facebooks, and Twitters of the online world. But before we get to the success stories–which should… Continue reading

  • How compelling content intersects with social media

    I read a great blog post on ProBlogger a couple weeks ago that asked, “What is compelling content to you?” and was interested to look at the comments for how readers answered the question. To spare you from scrolling through them (but I do recommend taking a look), I compiled this list of adjectives from… Continue reading

  • Learning from failure: 4 social media breakdowns

    Social media.

    The phrase should evoke some kind of nervous sweat if you’re one of the legions of marketers looking to boost your Web 2.0 savvy. That’s because there are nearly as many ways to engage an audience online as there are essays, tip lists, and best practices for doing so. Pocket that idea—you… Continue reading

  • Say hello to the new Tendo View!

    The Tendo View is now something new and different, and yet it remains the same. This issue, we introduced a new Tendo View, a magazine-style page that will host all of the content formerly found under various subheadings on our main page, including our blog, siteseeing, jargon watch, and more in a dynamic, real-time environment… Continue reading