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FDA Mandates Bloggers Disclose Side Effects

Friday Funnies: The recent FDA ruling has many bloggers concerned that their readership will all be scared off.  The FDA has mandated that bloggers must disclose all potential side effects from reading or prolonged exposure to their blogs.  As the video below shows, our ConstructingSocial lab is hard at work to determine the correct protective [...]

Poll: What is the FTC impact on blogs?

I am curious on what you think the impact will be on blogs? Are sponsorships a thing of the past or will bloggers fight back? Please enter your vote and add a comment as you see fit!
Thanks,
/Colin

FTC Blogger Regulations: 3 Smart Opinions

At the Inbound Marketing Summit, I was able to get some time from Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer, Aaron Strout of Powered, Inc, and Michael Schneider of Allen & Gerritsen. Some very good and interesting opinions in the video below:

For your information I am providing a few resources below.  First, here is [...]

Radian6 and SocialCRM

At last weeks Inbound Marketing Summit, I had a chance to talk to Lauren Vargas of Radian6. Below is our short overview where she talks of Radian6’s focus on SocialCRM and its Salesforce.com integration.

Links to the resources mentioned by Lauren:

Radian6
Radian6 SocialCRM & Presentation on SocialCRM
Paul Greenberg
Lauren Vargas on Twitter

Finally, in the interest of full disclosure, [...]

Tweeting a Balanced Diet

I thought I would return to some of the fundementals of how I help clients to engage every day on Twitter. Part of how I engage and build Twitter audiences focuses on a balanced approach to messaging (certainly another aspect is a targeting which is a topic for another day).

First, there are four basic ways to ‘tweet’ or send messages on Twitter…

Permission TV Relaunches as Visible Gains

A short video interview with Matthew Mamet speaking of the re-launch of PermissionTV as Visible Gains and their focus on Sales 2.0! Their leadership in buyer-led  video technology is VERY compelling and I can’t wait to see more and follow their success!

/colin

Friday Funnies: Has Brogan Jumped the Shark?

Aaron Strout, C.C. Chapman, Jeff Cutler, Jason Falls, Mike Langford and even Chris Brogan share their thoughts on whether Chris Brogan has jumped the shark at the recent Inbound Marketing Summit.
Happy Friday to all – and most of all to Chris, my favorite shark jumper!
/colin

Friday Funnies: Separated At Birth 2.0

The Constructing Social Genealogical Research division has uncovered the following amazing similarities between social media and mass media mega stars – pure coincidence? We think not!

Happy Friday to all!
/colin

Interview with Mr. Sales 2.0

I was honored to have a chance to talk with Nigel Edelshain, of Sales 2.0 – the individual who 3 years ago coined the term Sales 2.0. It was great fun talking to him about Sales 2.0 and how social technologies can help sales people today.  I strongly recommend a visit to his site to [...]

Sales 2.0 on Permission TV

Last week I had the honor of sitting in on PTV Live with Matthew Mamet of Permission TV.  It was great fun and I especially loved the conversations that they shared with me on their product vision.  Stay tuned for some very exciting things coming from Permission TV this fall!
Here is the video from Matthew [...]