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Newell Rubbermaid on Content and Social Marketing

Newell Rubbermaid on Content and Social Marketing

Posted March 11th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Marketing | No Comments

Bert DuMars, VP of eBusiness and Interactive Marketing at Newell Rubbermaid, recently explained to Atlanta Content Strategy how content is critical to their social media success for Sharpie, Rubbermaid, Graco, [...]

Chronos vs Kairos: Do We Plan for the Right Concept of Time?

Chronos vs Kairos: Do We Plan for the Right Concept of Time?

Posted February 28th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Essays, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Rhetoric, Writing | 3 Comments

The ancient Greeks got some things very right. Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, reintroduced the Greek muse into our modern concept of creativity during a brilliant TED talk. [...]

THURS – Content Strategy: What’s in It for You?

THURS – Content Strategy: What’s in It for You?

Posted January 18th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Happenings, Interviews, Marketing | No Comments

Content strategy consultant Margot Bloomstein will travel from Boston to tell Atlanta Content Strategy exactly what this Thursday. I recently asked Margot about two of my favorite things: content strategy [...]

Remember References

Remember References

Posted January 14th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Examples, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Research | 5 Comments

References. They’re not just something your 5th grade teacher required in your report about snails. References show respect of other people’s intellectual property. And, in an age when anyone can [...]

TONIGHT – Book Chat with Atlanta Content Strategy

TONIGHT – Book Chat with Atlanta Content Strategy

Posted December 8th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Audit and Analysis, Content Strategy, Happenings, Marketing, Writing | No Comments

Reading Content Strategy for the Web? Itching to talk about it? Well, now you can with Atlanta Content Strategy.
Join us for the last event of 2009, where we’ll eat, drink, [...]

Time & Our Focus on Content

Time & Our Focus on Content

Posted November 2nd, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Marketing, User / Customer Experience | 7 Comments

Content is grounded in time. Therefore, I have a theory that our view of time affects our view of content. I think our view of time depends largely on our [...]

Context, Value, & the New Marketing Economy

Posted September 19th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Marketing, Persuasion and Influence | No Comments

Marketing now is about adding value to the situations customers are in at home, at work, or at play.  Often, the best way to add that value is relevant content. [...]

4 Good Customer Service Trends—And 1 Scary Myth

Posted August 11th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Marketing | 1 Comment

At Customer UNinterrupted, I caught an amazing presentation by Lynn Holmgrem, VP & General Manager of Consumer Care at Whirlpool. She told the story of turning customer care from an [...]

Let’s Make Content Shine

Posted August 4th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, User / Customer Experience, Writing | No Comments

ASIS&T released its August / September Bulletin, featuring articles inspired by presentations from IA Summit 2009. Honored to contribute The Debut of Influential Content. Here’s an excerpt:
“If we continue to [...]

Design and Content in Customer Service Excellence

Posted July 31st, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Content Strategy, Marketing, Writing | 3 Comments

Earlier this week at Customer UNinterrupted, stars in customer service from brands such as Whirlpool, T-Mobile, Zappos, CVS, and much more presented exciting successes and insightful lessons learned. Many of [...]