If your company is still not leveraging Social Media to communicate more effectively with your customers, you are missing out on a huge opportunity.
To help you get started, check out a great post on How to Develop a Social Media Plan for Your Business in 5 Steps.
By:
Nelly Yusupova
Posted: April 8, 2008
Topics:
Events,
Marketing,
Women in Technology,
Blogs,
Business,
Career,
Technology Tags:
brand equity,
marketing,
SEO,
social media
Last week, I had the pleasure moderating a panel/case study at the BlogHer Business ‘08 conference here in New York City, where I interviewed three prominent Microsoft bloggers. The panelists were Ani Babaian, Sara Ford and Ariel Stallings, and we discussed how their blogging helps to build a bridge between the world of corporate social media and their own personal technology passions.
I really enjoyed getting to know these three very dynamic women and learning how their efforts are helping Microsoft add a new dimension to the corporate perception.
Ani Babaian is a senior product manager with the LiveSearch team at Microsoft and she blogs on a variety of topics with a focus on SEO.
Sara Ford is a program manager for codeplex.com, Microsoft’s open source project hosting site. She is a hardcore techie and blogs about the Microsoft product that she works with, interacts with the open source community, and participates in the conversations to help users find solutions to their issues.
Ariel Stallings is a marketing manager with staffing marketing. It’s her job to convince you that working at Microsoft is cool. She profiles microsoft employees by focusing on the diversity and life style of the Microsoft employees…their fun side…their personal side.
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I am at BlogHer Business conference today and this morning we heard the results of the social media benchmark study that BlogHer conducted in conjunction with Compass Partners.
The study consisted of more than 6,000 women. 1,250 female Internet users were surveyed via a nationally representative panel, and 5,000 visitors to BlogHer’s network. The results?
* 36.2 million women actively participate in the blogsophere every week (15.1 publishing, 21.1 reading and commenting)? (Page 3 of report below)
* Women are so passionate about blogging that large percentages of women said they would give something up to keep the blogs they read and/or write:
- 55% would give up alcohol
- 50% would give up their PDAs
- 42% would give up their i-Pod
- 43% would give up reading the newspaper or magazines
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