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Building Customer Communities Is the Key to Creating Value

Harvard Business Review

As I described in my last post , your prospective customers and buyers increasingly learn about you from their peers — including your current customers — while tending more and more to ignore traditional sales and marketing communications from corporate. This is an area of tremendous creativity.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social"

Harvard Business Review

Social Media, Social Business, Social Innovation, Social Era — are they all the same, or are they quite different? The term "social media" was popularized by Chris Shipley in 2004 , as she described the impact of influencers and bloggers in shaping product adoption, more so than traditional media outlets.

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

Harvard Business Review

Markets change. Technology changes. It turns out there are lots of people who don''t get the new technology and now social life is a little like a competition to show that we''re not "falling for it." At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the tech than that we do.

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The Big Goal Behind All that Customer Data

Harvard Business Review

And in today's increasingly networked, social-media-infused reality, that's missing a whole lot of customers who can generate value far beyond anything they buy. But Catie blogs regularly and participates in a variety of social media and professional networks — networks that have plenty of potential buyers.

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Should You Talk About Politics at Work?

Harvard Business Review

“The central challenge of creating social capital in the workplace is learning how to transcend our judgments of other people,” says Grenny. Joseph Sherman, a marketing specialist at Vimtag Technology, lives in Israel but works in New York. Demonstrating respect “is about subtlety,” he says.