Best Buy may have fallen on hard times but a decade ago the big box retailer was one of the first “bricks and clicks” to embrace the use of personas in all aspects of marketing and e-commerce. Best Buy was renowned for its four personas–Buzz, Jill, Barry and Ray. Buzz was the single, male nerd [...]
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Popularity Is Not A Proxy For Influence (See: Martha Stewart)
Michael Wu holds the exalted title of Principal Scientist of Analytics at Lithium, the SaaS provider of Social CRM services. Last week he wrote a thoughtful piece about social influence that made the point that social influence scores are inherently false measures because they can be gamed—much more so than search engine results, for example. There is a [...]
Black Wednesday Boycott Turns Back SOPA Support
Yesterday was yet another milestone in the development of social networks as a political force. After an enormous online backlash against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) elected officials in Washington DC scrambled to abandon their support for SOPA, which had been heavily supported by the entertainment industry and old media companies like News Corp. [...]
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I'm Rohn Jay Miller, a strategic consultant and designer who works with clients to engage their customers on the Social Internet.
For the past twenty years I’ve built digital products, services and content for marketing, e-commerce, and social media. I write and speak on management, digital strategy, online influence, design thinking and social networks. And I blog for Social Media Today. I can be reached at rohnjay@rohnjaymiller.com.
AMA & Aquent Webinar: The Fabulous Collision of Search and Social
Social networks and search engines are the two primary ways we seek and browse online for information and personal connections. Google and other search engines have seen huge amounts of traffic growing from social networks and are working frantically to take advantage of this transformation.
These two massive worlds of social networks and search are colliding, and this will change the Internet forever. Click here to watch this Webinar sponsored by the American Marketing Association and Aquent.
