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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Are Personas Useful in Social Media Strategy Anymore?
Delete Your Klout Profile Now!
Delete your Klout profile now! The entire concept of turning “social influence” into a metric and then into a commodity to be sold is false and ultimately evil. What’s going to happen when you can’t get a marketing job because your Klout score is only in the 30s? Why should Joe Fernandez make billions on an IPO while handing out candy bars and coupons to the people who comprise the entire value proposition of Klout?
How to Keep Up In Social Media In Two Moves That Matter
As fast as the social media world changes does it seem impossible to keep up with everything new? There’s more than books and conferences to rely on. As they say about “how do you get to Carnagie Hall?” Practice, practice, practice.
Social Graphs: What They Are And Why You Should Care
The “Social Graph”—broadly defined– is a network of personal connections. And your online social graph is becoming the focus of social network strategy—by networks themselves, and by marketers trying to reach you and your friends. Why does the Social Graph matter? It’s the basic structure of personal connections you use every day in each social network you belong to. It’s why you join and invite others to connect on a social network. And therefore, exploiting social graphs for marketing and advertising is the fundamental business model challenge that Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn face.
Welcome
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.
Video Worth Watching
Tim Malbon, founding partner at Made by Many in the UK, spoke at an IPA event about Agile and the philosophy of Made by Many. Video courtesy the IPA, originally uploaded by them on Vimeo.
Hans Rosling illuminates the challenges of world poverty with startling infographics:
Douglas Rushkoff of NYU explains why the Internet will destroy our economy--and why that's a good thing:
Nancy Duarte explains how great presentations are built, from Steve jobs introducing the iPhone to Martin Luter King's "I Have A Dream" speech. Brilliant analysis
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