by Jennifer Voisard | Nov 6, 2012 | Community, Thought Leadership
It is Tuesday, November 6, 2012 and I know the burning question on everyone’s minds today: How did the top US brands stack up in Year 4 of ComBlu’s State of Online Branded Communities study? Yes, folks, it is that time of year again when we uncover the top performing...
by Steve Hershberger | Jul 24, 2012 | Community, Content, Thought Leadership
By now, everyone has seen this Infographic. Yes, it is complex and confusing and it should give you a headache. The tools to manage and measure activity on a socially enabled web today are growing at substantial rate. Today, you can track and measure virtually any...
by Steve Hershberger | May 22, 2012 | Content, Thought Leadership
Recently Gartner predicted that by 2017, marketing’s technology spend will exceed that of IT’s within the business enterprise. According to Gartner, 2011 B2B and B2C marketing budgets as a percentage of revenue were almost three times as high (10 percent) as IT...
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 Cheryl Treleaven | Mar 6, 2012 | Content, Thought Leadership
I’ve seen the above headline a few places now and at first I sort of scoffed; after all, content marketing has been an accepted marketing practice for decades. In fact, some believe it’s been around since the cave dwellers.“Modern day” content marketing began in 1895...
