by Jennifer Voisard | Apr 3, 2012 | Community, Content, Thought Leadership
Cheers to spring. It means gardening, baseball, sunshine, barbeques and the promise of summer. It also means that ComBlu is busy gearing up for the 2012 State of Online Branded Communities Study. It is hard to believe that we have been on this journey for four...
by Steve Hershberger | Mar 27, 2012 | Content
Why don’t fad diets work? Experts say that when dieting, people become fixated on what they eat, how often and the corresponding loss of weight. Once that weight goal has been achieved and the pants fit again, time to celebrate. No more hard-boiled eggs and plain...
by Peter Duckler | Jan 17, 2012 | Community
I’m one of those people who needs to have the latest and greatest right away. So, when Facebook introduced Timeline, its much-anticipated massive overhaul to user profiles (think curated digital scrapbook), I upgraded immediately. I didn’t bother reading what it was...
by Jennifer Voisard | Oct 7, 2011 | Community
A simplified approach to segmentation. Our industry applies many labels to people based on known usage and behavioral patterns with social media. There are great thought leaders and researchers in this space comparing historical data to emerging trends. However, we...
by Cheryl Treleaven | Aug 17, 2011 | Community, Content, Thought Leadership
It’s Year 3 of our annual research on the State of Online Branded Communities – and we’re in the home stretch. So I thought this would be a good time to press pause and see where we are so far. A little background first. What distinguishes our study is its focus on...
