Shared Media

Outsourcing Social Media to a Digital Marketing Agency without Selling Your Soul

By Eric Schwartzman | March 15, 2011
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I was the voice of dissent on a panel yesterday at SXSW titled Outsourcing Social Media without Outsourcing Your Soul with Nicole Simon, Kate Buck, and Elizabeth Bellanti.  In a room packed with digital marketing agency people, my opinion on outsourcing social media marketing was more than just a little controversial. We stirred up a…

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Secrets of Successful Marketing on Facebook Company Pages

By Eric Schwartzman | December 17, 2010

Millions of people connect to Facebook Company Pages daily, and if you’re a digital marketing agency, your goal is to ensure your client has one of those pages. La Coste markets through a Facebook Page, a Facebook Application, and Facebook advertising.  Before their entrée on the social network, about 600,000 Facebook users said they liked…

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Digital Marketing Fundamentals: Pros and Cons of Branded vs. Individual Account Profiles

By Eric Schwartzman | February 3, 2010

A frequently asked question I’m often asked is whether or not organizations should tweet from a branded Twitter account with their logo as the profile picture, or just have employees use their own, individual accounts. In this blog post, I’ll suggest how to decide which approach makes the most sense for you. It’s easy to…

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Jeff Jarvis Delivers Open Source Keynote at Syndicate Conference

By Eric Schwartzman | May 16, 2006

Jeff Jarvis is giving the opening keynote at Syndicate NY. He’s the speaker I’m most excited about hearing from at the conference. He started with a list of topics: Then he took a vote, looking for guidance on what to talk about. It reminds me of the studios’ early experiments to produce interactive movies, where…

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Social Media Aggravates Credibility at New York Times

By Eric Schwartzman | May 9, 2005

Shared media has made it exceedingly difficult to ignore online conversations. But still, why is it we so often need a crisis to get acknowledge what’s being said in social networks? Why wait until things get so bad you have to call in a crisis communications team, when a little empathy would have sufficed? As…

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