Wednesday, November 19, 2008

Web 2.0 Marketing 101

Earlier this month I gave a webinar on the fundamentals of online, social, and Web 2.0 marketing to a group in Texas. The client wanted the basics for an audience who was hearing the buzz about the potential of Web 2.0 but had operated primarily in the offline sphere until now. They wanted pointers on how to get started and where to focus initial efforts.

Increasingly, I'm running into organizations in this situation, as the Web 2.0 mentality trickles into the mainstream. It's exciting to see so much interest in these strategies and tactics. The Obama campaign's high-profile use of social marketing to organize and raise money attracted lots of attention.

Ultimately Web 2.0 will drive profound structural changes in the media, advertising, marketing, and PR industries. Old barriers and hierarchies will fall and new opportunities will emerge. It will take awhile to overcome the inertia of the status quo, but every company that adopts a Web 2.0 approach moves all of us a step closer to the new order.

Meanwhile, a lot of businesses are looking for help taking those first steps. My presentation was very basic, but not everyone lives and breathes Web 2.0 the way we do in Silicon Valley. If you want to review fundamentals or know someone who does, here are the slides:


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View SlideShare presentation. (tags: social marketing)

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