Building community sites today are part of a corporate trend that Dean Wiltse, Chairman and CEO of Vovici says is just beginning. All enterprises large and small are recognizing the need for a community site, and Vovici is a company who can help them decide what works best. Wiltse ...

Everybody’s talking about social media and now there is a club that can tell you all about what it is. Chris Heuer talks to Jennifer Jones about the club he started in Fall 2005 and its growing strong. It is all about social media and its membership ...

The deep seated need to connect is making headway in the virtual world. IMVU is proof. CEO Cary Rosenzweig talks to Jennifer Jones about how the user-driven IMVU is so successful that it is generating $1 Million a month. More than 1.7 million different items to buy ...

Not being social enough is a big problem for corporations trying to use social media. That’s what Jeremiah Owyang and his team at Forrester discovered in a new report. Forrester selected 16 firms across four industries and found only one company worthy of accolades. What makes BMW a ...

What your friends are sharing is most important to most people and it is also especially relevant for marketers. FriendFeed, a service funded by Benchmark Capital imports feeds from 41 websites, photo sites, music sites and video sites and aggregates them all in one place. It is making ...

Both Electronic Arts and Microsoft have created social media campaigns for Facebook. Kevin Barenblat, CEO and Co-Founder of Context Optional discusses the creation of these campaigns on Facebook and how companies are making more social media connections through Facebook. Barenblat explains how Microsoft ...

Who is in your social circle? What influence do they have on you and what you purchase? Shiv Singh, VP of Social Media at Avenue A Razorfish thinks your peers have enormous influence on what you do and what you buy. Talking to Jennifer Jones, Shiv delves into ...

The digital marketplace is changing the skill set of marketers. Having knowledgeable people who “get social marketing and media” is key to success. But how does a person find the right people? Marketing Voices Jennifer Jones spoke to Matt Raggio, Managing Partner at Oak Technology Partners about what ...

Given the tons of videos that are online now, how does a marketer get video distributed? Enter Tubemogul, a free service that provides some one a place to upload video and track it. Jennifer Jones spoke to Mark Rotblat, VP of Sales and Marketing for tubemogul, and learned ...

Who would ever think that a financial services company would be innovative about marketing? Paula Drum is vice president of marketing for H&R Block. In this podcast, she explains how programs using Twitter, Second Life and other onlines venues have had impressive success. As Drum tells

If you have not heard or seen blip.tv yet, go check it out. It’s a free service for creators of user-generated content and it works well. In this podcast, Jennifer Jones speaks with Dina Kaplan, co-founder of blip.tv, to learn how serialized video shows for the Web are ...

In an increasingly complex world of demographic, psychographic and ethnographic research, it’s no longer safe to assume that companies actually know their customers. Harnessing the power of persona or a representative profile, which summarizes a key demographic target is a powerful means of figuring out the customer today. Mark Kingdon, ...

Everyone has the power to participate in communication today through blogs and community groups. Many bloggers have become powerful, given the popularity of their blogs. Some have become citizen journalists - citizens who play “an active role in the process of collecting, reporting, analyzing and disseminating news.” But with ...

Brian Haven, Senior Analyst at Forrester Research talks to Marketing Voices at the Forrester Marketing Forum in Los Angeles about the latest thinking about brand engagement today. Haven tells Jennifer Jones that although social marketing is taking off and many corporations are engaging in conversations with their ...

In this podcast, John Doerr, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, and Mike Moritz, of Sequoia Capital, talk openly about themselves and their lives in venture capital. The keynote session was recorded live at the National Venture Capital Association May 2008 annual meeting. Doerr and Moritz ...

Worldwide mobile content revenues are expected to surpass $44 billion by 2011, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone that mobile entertainment and campaigns are growing annually by leaps and bounds, with marketers beginning to investigate mobile opportunities seriously. Marketing Voices spoke with the head of Phluant Mobile, David Breckling, ...

Marketers are looking for a way to make the customer’s online experience better. Kerry Bodine, principal analyst of Forrester gets just how to do that. She explores how user-centered design processes, design-centric corporate cultures, and organizational structure contribute to the creation and sustainability of superior customer experiences.

Groundswell guides companies to a winning perspective on social media and marketing. The co-authors Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff spoke with Marketing Voices about some of the companies they think are getting it right. (It’s worth hearing what they have to say about Ernst & Young, ...

Most of the time online interaction goes well for companies. Transparency is becoming more accepted and problems are rare. But what does a company or person do if they are attacked? Marketing Voices talks to Denise Shiffman, author of The Age of Engage and founder of Venture ...

Adam Metz, partner with theMIX, a firm that blends social Web strategy, business development and PR spoke to Marketing Voices when he was still with LaunchSquad. They talked about how to most effectively assess a company’s “social media position” and what tools are being used most frequently in ...

Emmanuel Brown knows how to engage his customers. As director for digital and content for Nike’s Jordan brand, he knows his customers inside-and-out and has been widely successful launching innovative, digitally-driven programs such as Jordan Breakfast Club. Talking to him at the Forrester Marketing Forum in Los Angeles, ...

There are no established practices for setting up social media within most corporations. Those are the findings of Comrade Managing Partner Thelton McMillian in an exclusive study conducted for Marketing Voices. In this podcast, McMillian speaks with Jennifer Jones about the study, which is based on conversations ...

Ugobe’s VP of Marketing Lisa Abbott tells how her company built strong communities for the unique lifelike creature called Pleo. Pleo is a baby dinosaur that has attracted the attention of thousands. Targeting both developers and consumers helped drive demand for the dinosaur.

The Democratic campaigns provide multiple opportunities for learning about social marketing. Pete Blackshaw EVP of Nielsen Online just completed an analysis of the campaigns and gives Marketing Voices his perspective on what corporate marketers need to do to make their brands better. Blackshaw also alerts Marketing Voices that ...