November 29, 2004
No-face Marketing Drowns Web Conferencing News Marketplace
Here is an industry, dynamic, fast growing and exciting with new tools and technologies showing up on my radar on a weekly basis now, but with no real voices, personalities and character, as the audiences they are targeting would be expecting to find.

Photo credit: Davide Guglielmo
The sacred Press Release reigns supreme as the major vehicle of informing audiences of facts and achievements no-one can trust. PR agencies are often called in to facilitate exposure and visibility while the true voices behind any one of these companies are kept silent for fear of breaking the perfect, blissful "brand".
Where are the screenshots of your tools? I ask.
Where is your free try-out area? Where is the forum to ask direct questions to your people?
Who is really sitting behind the fake press releases you keep pushing out? I can't even find the names and profiles of the people that in your company communicate with me. Who are they?
Why do they have no face, communication channel, or voice into this marketing conversation?
These are the questions to which I have received no answer yet.
Here some humble advice on how to start answering them.
Reference: Kolabora [ Read more ]
October 8, 2003
Cluetrain Advertising Paradigm Makes Blogs Ideal Marketing Venue
Cluetrain Advertising Paradigm Makes Blogs Ideal Marketing Venue For Small And Ethical Advertisers While Bringing Sustainability To Independent Opinion Makers "We are in a place in time where individuals can use channels of communication formerly only available to large corporations. It is possible for me, as... read more
October 19, 2004
Fear Of Weblogging: Executives, Your Time Is Up!
Robert Scoble, chief Microsoft blogging evangelist has really some great stuff on his blog. I must acknowledge this. His passion, open and direct reporting of the events and issues that touch him most directly, the frankness and smart questioning he uses with his interviewees, his unstoppable... read more
August 28, 2003
Blogs As Instruments For Effective PR
November 4, 2004
PR-Speak And The New Media Press: Your Lips Are Moving But I'm Not Hearing You
Yesterday I had a demo of a technology I had heard about but had never really tested. The PR agency, taking care of the company in question, had very gently setup a meeting time, and a conferencing space online (powered by Live Meeting) where this showcase... read more
August 7, 2004
Marketing Is Part Of The Conversation: The Emerging Blog Commerce Business Model
Ben Hunt pointed me to this article on Wired and asked with surprise if blog commerce is next up on the list. "Yes, Ben, not only blog commerce is coming up next, it has already been here among us for a while. " We are just not... read more
June 7, 2004
It's The Customer — not the company — Who Controls The Conversation
"...the elephant in the room: RSS. While INBOX wrestles with the intractable problems of blurred international boundaries, too-complex authentication solutions and too-expensive computational and payment schemes, more and more of us are routing around e-mail for all but the most basic services. IM for supply-chain communications,... read more


