Content is like an onion…and onions stink.

The words came across the telephone to me in a one-two punch.  The punches weren’t aimed at me.  Rather, I was getting to review the bout on tape delay.  It was being shared with me by a colleague who’d been in the boxing match and gotten a bit bloodied in the...

Social Road Mapping

Making decisions in isolation is rarely a good idea especially decisions that impact other people. Let’s review a few possible scenarios, both big and small and see the cause and effect of isolated decision making. Isolated Decision 1:  You stop at the fireworks store...

Does content value drive brand value?

For many of us, the line between online and off has disappeared.  Bandwidth is relatively cheap, public hotspots are almost ubiquitous and mobile technology and infrastructure is rapidly catching up to the hype. I can’t think of a time in the last two years when I...

Measuring Social Media is Dangerous

This is a late but timely second installment of Measuring Social Media is Dangerous. The other day I logged onto Venture Beat.  Low and behold the number of funded companies engaged in or developing social analytics tools has exploded.  There is a company to measure,...