Posts Tagged ‘Social Media’

Connected Health is that always dynamic space where we connect patients, providers, insurers, and the health community at large in an effort to deliver quality care that is not confined to the mere 1% of time patients spend in the clinic care setting. It’s healthcare that braves the whirlwind of daily life with the goal […]

Brendon Jones, Senior Solutions Architect at Perficient, recently wrote a blog post detailing the role of social business patterns in helping enterprises engage stakeholders. Companies at the forefront of social communication are doing more than developing a presence on major platforms. They are taking their external social tools and technologies and embedding them into core […]

We’ve been reading and commenting about CMOs and CIOs lately (for example, see Is There a Blurring Line Between CIO and CMO?).  With the maturing of Customer Experience Platforms (CXP or CXM) and Marketing Automation, the interplay between marketing and technology is rapidly growing. Virginia Backaitis published today at CMSWire an article titled Hey CMO! Hey […]

James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester, discusses the concept of Digital Disruption, and has a book out by the same name. It’s also available in the Kindle Lending Library. I’ve not read it yet, but will post a review in the next few weeks. However the gist of the concept is that the traditional corporate […]

Google’s Wildfire commissioned a study on the How Brands Staff and Budget With Social.  It’s far too long for me to replicate but here’s a couple nuggets:                                 There’s a lesson here and it’s that social media has become a […]

A Perficient colleague in our Portals and Social practice, Brendon Jones, posted a blog yesterday, “Re-energizing the retail banking experience” which talked about the shift in retail banking towards the use of social technologies to deliver value in mobile services for money management. As the McKinsey Quarterly source he mentioned referenced, social networks have become mainstream with […]

Written by Brad Martell FULL DISCLOSURE Ok, first off full disclosure I’m a 46 year-old white male and I’m acknowledging that this particular piece of demography may have contributed to my tone on this blog.  Recently I found myself in what I consider to be heaven on earth, or at least one of my personal all-time […]

Patrick Stokes, VP for Product Management at Salesforce provided highlights of the social roadmap for their Marketing Cloud.  The following are the four areas that are the focus of the roadmap: Publsih Engage Listen Advertise The social tools in the Marketing Cloud include Radian 6, Buddy Media and Social.com.  These tools are integrated with ExactTarget […]

Brian Andersen (LUMA Partners) and Robin Bordoli (Marketo) gave a great presentation on the Marketing Technology Landscape.  This area is to broad to get into details in one hour, so they presented an overview of the market and then suggested the following three tactics to cope with the vast amount of change going on: Accept […]

Barbara Meskin from Jim Beam presented how that brand learned how to engage customers through social media on a global scale.  The journey that she decribed included the following steps over two years, although these things were not done linearly all the time: Social Audit – here they had to figure out what they had […]

I attended a panel discussion on the power of content in your marketing efforts.  The panelist agreed that content is really important, but it is becoming clear that lots of content is more important than spectacular content.  Content like white papers or blog posts take a lot of time to put together, so you may […]

We had a panel discussion today on the use of Social Media in Regulated Industries.  We focused on Healthcare and Life Sciences, but the same info applies across the industry landscape.  In regulated industries, social media is especially scary because conversations can be negative, can involve complex subjects and can involve regulatory compliance issues.  For […]