We’re gearing up for our next BlogWell: How Big Businesses Use Social Media event on April 29 in New York — and in doing so, we’re sharing a bunch of presentations from our last BlogWell. I’m always amazed at the ideas and stories that are shared by some of the biggest companies in the world [...]
Bob Pearson from Dell is the new head of the Blog Council
April 7, 2009
Exciting news from all of us at GasPedal and the Blog Council: Bob Pearson, Dell's former VP of Communities and Conversations, will become the President of the Blog Council and Senior Vice President of Communities at GasPedal. I've always admired Bob for his work as one of the pioneers in corporate social media, so it's [...]
Blog Council launches its newsletter: Big Business Blogging
March 10, 2009
As many of you know, my company runs the Blog Council, a community for corporate social media executives at the largest companies in the world. We’re excited to let you all know that we’ve just launched the Blog Council’s newsletter, Big Business Blogging: Corporate social media success stories. Each week, we’ll share a few examples [...]
Upcoming free calls: Corporate social media case studies from Molson, US Coast Guard, and Allstate
February 13, 2009
Get a recap of presentations from BlogWell Chicago: How Big Companies Use Social Media, in a "Best of BlogWell" series of conference calls: U.S. Coast Guard — Feb 17, 2 PM (EST): "Always Ready… and Online: How the U.S. Coast Guard Puts Social Media to Work." We'll discuss how the Coast Guard: Improves public safety [...]
You will always get caught
February 10, 2009
Belkin is the latest example of a company caught in an unethical word of mouth campaign. They had an employee paying for fake positive reviews, and trying to hide bad reviews. That’s unethical, sleazy, and they got caught. Read about it here: 1 2 3 and all over the web. This story wiped out any [...]
Last Chance: BlogWell is Tuesday!
October 25, 2008
If you’re in the San Francisco area, come see the best corporate bloggers share what they do: Walmart The Home Depot Cisco Intel Wells Fargo UPS Kaiser Permanente Graco Other bloggers in the room will include representatives of Alcatel-Lucent, BART, Charles Schwab, FedEx, Google, HP, Humana, IBM, Intel, Intuit, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Mayo Clinic, [...]
Word of mouth doesn’t have to be about your product
October 23, 2008
This is a blog post about Chrome, Google’s new browser. The fact that I’m writing it is interesting, because I don’t cover tech or write about software. So why did I chose to talk about it? Because I read this cool comic book that they produced that explains why their browser is different. Word of [...]
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