Learn From the Best: How Google Manages Its Corporate Blogs and Social Media with Karen Wickre

How should companies be communicating their news today? The press release is to be an endangered species; news organizations are shrinking; and there’s a general skepticism about corporate information. But we live in a 24×7 world where new information is paramount, and the need has never been greater for businesses to present their stories, explain their positions, and showcase their products. What are the best routes to take? How do social media fit in to the marketing and PR mix?

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Force.com VAR Program Launches

Program for Force.com Resellers Announced

Salesforce.com has recently launched a new VAR program for Force.com.  Read the full press release here.  Lexnet signed on as a charter partner along with a dozen other VARs.

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Lessons of China and Marketing Cleantech with Weber Shandwick’s Willie Brent

Host Sean Daily talks with Weber Shandwick Senior Vice President William Brent about his experiences while living for over a decade in China, and using social media to market Cleantech in an era where tradeshows and traditional media are in significant decline.

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Gartner Magic Quadrant for SFA – 2009

It seems that for 2009, the Gartner Magic Quadrant has been culled down to what we in the SFA/CRM trenches dub “the usual suspects”.  In previous years, as employees of a CRM VAR that get exposed to a lot of different SFA applications, we have collectively scratched our heads while looking at some of the names in the Niche Players quadrant. Read more

Marketing Opportunities on Facebook with Paul Dunay

The success story of the social networking site Facebook is the stuff of legend in the world of marketing. With its meteoric rise to the #1 spot for worldwide social networking sites, Facebook currently boasts over 250 Million active users, with nearly half of those users logging onto the site at least once per day, and the average US Facebook user spending nearly 4.5 hours per month on the site. Read more