It’s hard to make the IT industry’s only intelligent enforcement engine better known as BIGFIX interesting and viral. But that is exactly what BIGFIX‘s Vice President of Marketing, David Appelbaum, and his marketing firm Rassak Experience did. Creating a presidential [See the full post…]

Blogs and discussion boards are being used the most by corporate marketers. So says a new study directed by Prospero Technologies founder, Rusty Williams. Talking to Marketing Voices’ host Jennifer Jones, 31% of corporate marketers plan to spend more on [See the full post…]

Back to MarketingVoices by popular demand, venture capitalist Sharon Wienbar of Scale Venture Partners, tells Jennifer Jones what is hot and not hot in venture investing for social media today. She also tells why Facebook is gaining incredible momentum and [See the full post…]

Tracking discussions in the blogosphere is tough enough, but they also need to be measured. Katie Delahaye Paine tells MarketingVoices what success criteria is for social media measurement and how organizations need to set their objectives in order to properly [See the full post…]

Twenty-five million visitors a month for Facebook applications! ROCKYOU is like a clothing accessory store for the Web, and people are going nuts for it. It is having enormous success with advertisers. Roy Choy, VP Of Business Development for ROCKYOU, [See the full post…]

Nancy Bhagat is the vice president for the sales and marketing group and director of integrated marketing at Intel. She joined MarketingVoices’ Jennifer Jones a little background on the Upload Lounge that Intel provided for the first time this past [See the full post…]

Facebook is the future. This is according to many analysts and Web experts. Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst with Forrester Research, believes in the power of Facebook. Jeremiah tells Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones how the site works, and how communities are [See the full post…]

The mobile phone is the link in the movement from a networked society to a more connected one. What does this mean for mobile marketers? Jennifer Jones spoke with Chad Stoller, executive director of Organic, a digital marketing agency, to [See the full post…]

Rex Briggs, CEO and founder of Marketing Evolution, tells Jennifer Jones zhow marketers can find the true fans of their brand, which is what hypertargeting is all about. Briggs tells Marketing Voices how to use natural language and technology to [See the full post…]

Ben McConnell, co-author of the book Citizen Marketers: When People Are The Message, speaks with Jennifer Jones the “opinion leaders” in today’s social media revolution. McConnell has broken down citizen marketers into four main groups: Filters, Fanatics, Faciliators, and Firecrackers. [See the full post…]

Bob Duffy, Intel’s Online Community Strategist reveals the ins and outs of launching Intel’s community site for the IT audience. He talks to Jennifer Jones and tells her how he worked the idea throughout the organization, sharing strategies he used [See the full post…]

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is today’s simplest marketing and publishing tool allowing content to get distributed fast and efficiently. Robyn Tippins, Yahoo’s community manager for MyBlogLog tells Jennifer Jones just how to make RSS work best. Putting it on the [See the full post…]

Convergence 2.0, The Deal’s September 17, 2007 conference being held in New York City is looking like a sell-out event. Richard Morgan, Assistant Managing Editor of The Deal, talks with PodTech’s Jennifer Jones about the gathering of private equity, venture [See the full post…]

Event Marketing is a powerful way to build a global brand. But how is social media impacting the use of events? Vicki Lynn, President of Satellite Event Enterprises, a global multi-media production company tells Marketing Voices that marketers have to [See the full post…]

Given the recent Democratic debate and John Edwards’s decision to use USTREAM to talk to his supporters, marketers should be paying more attention to how politicians are adopting social media, creating new avenues for conversation. Michael Cornfield, adjunct professor of [See the full post…]

Research analyst Adam Wright says a new study by Paris-based Ipsos Insight Research shows that social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, Mixi and Cyworld have emerged as major factors in the culture of communication for adults around the world. Even [See the full post…]

David Meerman Scott is a newly-minted author whose book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR, is tops on Amazon business books. Scott stresses that content is king when it comes to making a blog or podcast successful today. Scott [See the full post…]

What do Guy Kawasaki, Jason Calcanis and TechCrunch all have in common? Neil Patel, co-founder of ACS Consulting, who is the search engine wizard behind these blogs’ success. Content is king in the Top 100 blogging world and all of [See the full post…]

No doubt about it. Marketing and PR are changing given the impact of social media on the profession and the implications are enormous. Brian Solis, co-founder of Social Media Club and well known PR blogger, gives tips for marketers about [See the full post…]

Ebay, Intuit, Campbell Soup and Mini Cooper all are using social media to help drive their marketing. Peter Friedman, CEO of LIVEWORLD tells Marketing Voices how mapping communities to brands and moderating the conversations these brands are having are driving [See the full post…]

Chris Yeh, CEO of USTREAM, tells Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones how marketers can reach new audiences with live video. Deeper branding occurs with the ability to interact with live TV for a greater level of engagement. Here, Yeh exclusively announces [See the full post…]

Politics will lead the way in new marketing techniques, according to Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute. Leyden, who used to be the editor for WIRED Magazine, is now with a think tank for politics funded by prominent [See the full post…]

Criticisms are being made by bloggers on Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture, Truemors. Kawasaki candidly addresses these challenges in this latest post on Marketing Voices. Kawasaki launched Truemors on approximately a $12,000 budget. Jones also prods Kawasaki to talk about how [See the full post…]

Keith McAllister, former executive vice president of CNN, discusses how the news media is being impacted by the blogging community. His thoughtful perspective offers suggestions for how his company MOCHILA, a professional media marketplace for feature content can help old [See the full post…]

Darren Aftahi, vice president of Equity Research at ThinkEquity Partners, believes video’s use today is just in its infancy, and that the impact for marketers is unlimited. He says the Internet will become the broadcast market of choice, and text [See the full post…]