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How to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change

Leading Blog

Social Media. The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, is a playbook on how to use social media to achieve a single, focused, concrete goal. Cut through the noise of social media with something personal, unexpected, visceral, and visual. Nobody really understands it, but we know it’s important.

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The Dragonfly Effect: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Dragonfly Effect: Quick, Effective, and Powerful Ways to Use Social Media to Drive Social Change Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith with Carlye Adler Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint (2010) In this book written with Carlye Adler, Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith explain how to “leverage the power of the new social media to do something that [.].

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Twitter Weekly Highlights for 2011-03-18

Tanveer Naseer

Here’s a compliation of some of the articles/tweets I shared on Twitter this week: Leaders, Are You Developing Your Employee’s Super Powers? Brand # marketing in social media – Coffee House # Book Review: “Wikibrands&# [link] #. link] # leadership #. RT @ mikehenrysr : Consider yourself a “Thought Leader&# ?

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Personal Needs vs. Customer Relationships

Strategy Driven

The Powerful Role of Trust. Marketing scholars Jennifer Aaker and Susan Fournier reveal how closely business relationships and interpersonal relationships mirrored each other in an Internet-based psychology test. Customer relationships, like interpersonal relationships, are built on trust. The Sincere Company.

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Why Do We Get So Emotional About Brands?

Harvard Business Review

Even though gender is increasingly understood to be fluid and multidimensional, brands continue to draw power from gender stereotypes. Some of the pioneering work on applying this idea to brands and actually measuring their personalities was done in the 1990s by Jennifer Aaker, then at UCLA and now at Stanford.

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The McKinsey Quarterly: Most popular articles (First Quarter, 2011)

First Friday Book Synopsis

In case you missed them, these articles have been most popular with the McKinsey Quarterly‘s readers in the first quarter of this year. STRATEGY Have you tested your strategy lately? Ten timeless tests can help you kick the tires on your strategy, and kick up the level of strategic dialogue throughout your company. Click [.].