Posts Tagged ‘smartbrief’
A SmartBrief gift to get you in the holiday spirit: Win a $50 gift card
Want a chance to win $50 and make your holiday season a little bit richer? Read on for details. In November, SmartBrief produced an inaugural series of gift guides that compiled more than 100 gift ideas for industry professionals. Did you miss it? See the links below to see some of our favorite gifts from [...]
What SmartBrief learned while redeveloping its iPhone app
Brian Williammee, SmartBrief’s lead mobile software developer, also contributed to this blog post. Download the SmartBrief Apple iPhone application. In late April, SmartBrief launched our first mobile application for Google Android phones. Longtime SmartBrief readers might have also remembered a period of time in 2009 when we boasted an iPhone app. Where is that app [...]
The social-media market research you need
Today’s guest post is from Alexandra Carroll, director of Summus Limited, the market research firm with whom SmartBrief has partnered to undertake a definitive State of Social Media for Business report. A free topline summary of the report is now available. We were not surprised to read the results of a recent SmartBrief on Social [...]
Hiring a social-media practitioner: What do you look for?
When I started at SmartBrief, my orientation included a reminder from human resources that when at meetings, conferences or any corporate event, we are representatives of the company and should act accordingly. Professionalism is paramount in business — this lesson is not new. What has changed, however, are the places where this lesson applies. As [...]
Wool.labs event aims to push chatter toward change
Wool.labs is all about reading the tea leaves, so to speak. By taking what is said in online blogs and social-media sites about a specific topic and compiling the data into a single report, the company gives hard facts to what is being said about a product and where it may be headed in public [...]
John Walcott on the future of news: “Less is more, if it’s better”
SmartBrief is proud to announce that John Walcott will join the company as chief content officer and editor in chief. Walcott, the Washington bureau chief of The McClatchy Co., is an award-winning editor and journalist. As Ken Duberstein, former chief of staff for President Ronald Reagan, put it: “John Walcott has long been one of the [...]
Team SmartBrief wants you
SmartBrief has grown a lot during the past year. We’ve covered conferences, launched briefs, held seminars and attracted hundreds of thousands of new readers. But something is missing. And we think it might be you. For the first time ever, SmartBrief is scouring our readers to find the next leading voice in social media to [...]
Social-media experts’ No. 1 tips
At last year’s Buzz2009 Social Media for Association Leaders, we asked our panel of social-media experts for the No. 1, most powerful tip they would give about social media and developing a social strategy. Despite the many different approaches to social media, the experts came to one conclusion: Keep it simple. Here’s a quick roundup [...]
