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“…explains what blogging is, and how businesses can profit by improving corporate communications and customer relations to generating marketing and advertising.” (VNU, 26^th May 2005)

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In this instant-communication world, buzz means business! And one of the greatest ways to get customers and potential customers buzzing about your business is with a Web log, commonly called a blog. Blogs can help you:

• Introduce the people behind your business
• Discuss relevant issues
• Provide a clearinghouse for information and expertise
• Show your business as a good corporate citizen
• Support an exchange of ideas
• Get honest feedback from your customers
• Affect public opinion

If you’re new to blogging, or if you know the mechanics of a blog but want some help refining and targeting yours, Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies will get you going right away. An expert blogger shows you the ins and outs of putting together a professional-looking blog, walks you through the jargon, helps you decide what your blog should do, and even explains various software solutions. You’ll find out how to:

• Set up and maintain a blog, write in blogging style, and observe blogging etiquette
• Define your audience and target your blog to reach them
• Involve your customers, earn their trust, educate the public, and build community
• Avoid possible legal pitfalls while keeping your blog interesting
• Encourage contributions and links to your blog
• Use images and design an eye-catching format
• Optimize your blog for top search engine ratings, track your results, and measure your success

Written by Susannah Gardner, who has taught online journalism, directed multimedia efforts, and provided custom Web solutions to clients, Buzz Marketing With Blogs For Dummies even shares tips from the experts who establish and maintain some of the top-rated business blogs. You’ll discover the secrets of success, how to spot and solve problems, what software can enhance your blogging life, and a whole lot more. It like having a staff of experts on call!

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WordPress is an open-source personal publishing platform that is easy to use, flexible, and highly customizable. Although used primarily for publishing blogs, WordPress can easily be used to create and maintain complete Web sites.

Taking the average blogger further than blogspot can, WordPress allows bloggers to create more complicated sites with their open-source technology, rather than blogger which is limited by HTML changes to their templates.

This easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide shows you how to install, use, and customize WordPress to get the most from the software. Includes tips that explain why certain techniques are better than others, how to watch for potential problems, and where readers can find more information.

About the Author
Maria Langer has written dozens of computer books, including best-selling Visual QuickStart Guides for Mac OS X, Mac OS 9, Word for Macintosh, and Excel for Macintosh. Her current bestseller is Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger: Visual QuickStart Guide. Miraz Jordan is a New Zealand-based writer and consultant who focuses on plain-language writing, for websites and print, and the design and maintenance of standards-based websites. She is one of the organizers of Webstock 2006, a conference featuring world-class speakers on best practice in Web design. Her site, MacTips.info, contains a wealth of tips, articles, reviews, and tutorials for using the Mac.

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This digital document is an article from The Sporting News, published by Thomson Gale on February 17, 2006. The length of the article is 3399 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The college: so what’s it really like to be Big Man–or Woman–on Campus? Some of our college Bloggers followed athletes from their schools for a day, You might be surprised what they found.
Publication: The Sporting News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 17, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 230 Issue: 7 Page: 28(6)

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“If you are trying to grow revenue at your company, The New Language of Marketing 2.0 will be invaluable. The book provides methods and successful practices to develop new leads as well as increase opportunities to excel with existing customers.’’

–Lauren Flaherty, CMO, Nortel

“The New Language of Marketing 2.0 has captured the essence of the next generation of marketing. The use of experience and personalization in technology to provide a competitive edge to marketing is groundbreaking. The book provides a myriad of case studies and examples to illustrate application of the best practices they advocate.”

–Irving Wladawsky-Berger, Visiting Professor, Engineering Systems Division, MIT, and Adjunct Professor, Tanaka Business School, Imperial College

“The future of marketing is The New Language of Marketing 2.0. IBM charts the course for setting the right strategies, finding the best leads, and securing business for years to come.”

–Ray Hammond, author, The World in 2030

“Once in a while a book comes along that captures the essence of what is going on now and where the market is headed. This book does exactly that for marketing, and makes the ideas ‘real’ with a great variety of case studies.”

–Dan Baum, CEO, DBC PR+New Media

“Innovation and technology drive today’s competitive advantage. Using both in marketing techniques can help you turn your marketing from a whisper to a scream. Using the case study method, Sandy’s book shows you how!”

–Lynda M. Applegate, Henry R. Byers Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

“Many books tell marketers what to do, but this one shows them. With the changes now sweeping marketing, global marketers should not ignore the real-life examples and rich case studies in this resource.”

–Mike Moran, coauthor, Search Engine Marketing, Inc., and author, Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules

“B2B marketers learning from B2C marketers and vice versa is a critical best practice. With more than 50 case studies, this book embodies the mandate to explore, learn, and grow from best practices around the world. This is a must read for marketers and business owners alike.”

–Karen Vogel, Founder and President, The Women’s Congress

“To succeed in this rapidly changing environment, businesses must adapt their marketing strategies accordingly. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 provides practical, proven, and prescient tools to do exactly that.”

–Dr. Steve Moxey, Research Fellow, High-Tech Marketing, Manchester Business School

“I loved the customer examples. They gave me a number of ideas of how a company might expand its marketing portfolio by better leveraging the new social media world.”

–Ron Williams, Professor, Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“This is a great collection of cutting edge marketing and insightful case studies. It offers the latest thinking in the field of marketing, showing you how to take advantage of the new world of Web 2.0 thinking.”

–Nigel Dessau, Chief Marketing Officer, AMD

“If you are trying to shift the focus of your business to better serve and retain your customers, part of that must be the new Web 2.0 marketing strategies and learn how to be part of the conversation. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 will help you find a way to combine your vision for the future with creative approaches.”

–Mike Lackey, President, AIT Global and Special Advisor to the Executive Director for the United Nations Global Alliance for ICT and Development

 “The New Language of Marketing 2.0 makes sense of new media vessels such as virtual worlds, blogging, wikis, social networking communities, and gaming and clearly describes how these new vessels can work for us.”

–Jennifer McClure, Executive Director, Society for New Communications Research

“The goalposts may not have moved–business goals remain fairly constant–but the field of play is completely different. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 is your playbook to outmaneuver, outscore, and consistently beat your competition.”

–Betty Spence, Ph.D., President, NAFE

“IBM’s marketing of SOA is a best practice. IBM’s ability to focus on how customers can get started and providing education and guidance is tremendous. There is a lot to learn from the IBM team in B2B marketing.”

–Judith Hurwitz, President and CEO, Hurwitz and Associates, and coauthor, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies

“The landscape has changed, and new techniques leveraging Web 2.0 have changed the dialogue in the marketplace. Those who learn these global and dynamic dialogues fastest will drive growth. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 teaches you how with more than 25 case studies.’’

–Don Tapscott, coauthor, Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything

“Today’s business environment is completely different: interaction, communication, and information exchange have expanded to include virtual worlds, wikis, blogging, gaming, and online communities. The New Language of Marketing 2.0 will provide insight into how to adapt your marketing strategies to engage your customers where they really are, and where they are going to be tomorrow.”

–Carolyn Leighton, Founder/Chairwoman, WITI (Women in Technology International)

“This book doesn’t just ‘tell’ how to achieve success in the new Marketing 2.0 world: it shows how. Sandy has done breakthrough work with her team, and is sharing best practices. Not only does this book guide the reader to the next level of business development, it provides case studies that begin to bring the future of marketing into focus.”

–Rod Baptie, Managing Director, Baptie and Co., Ltd.

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“Marketing has entered a new era of rapid advance. Those unwilling to experiment with new combinations of traditional and internet marketing will be left behind.”
—Chris Trimble, Adjunct Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and Coauthor, Ten Rules for Strategic Innovators: From Idea to Execution

“It’s no secret that business has been changing dramatically over the last decade. To succeed in this rapidly changing environment, businesses must adapt their marketing strategies accordingly—The New Language of Marketing 2.0 provides practical, proven, and prescient tools to do exactly that.”
—Dr. Steve Moxey, Research Fellow, High-Tech Marketing, Manchester Business School

“Most U.S. marketers mistakenly think ‘going global’ is just a matter of translating your promotional materials into different languages and widening your media buys. Packed with real-life examples, this new book amply demonstrates that successful global marketing is actually all about local marketing. Learn how to give a local spin within each regional marketplace for global success.”
—Anne Holland, Founder, MarketingSherpa Inc

Use ANGELS and Web 2.0 Marketing to Drive Powerful, Quantifiable Results
For every marketer, strategist, executive, and entrepreneur

Today, marketers have an array of radically new Web 2.0-based techniques at their disposal: viral marketing, social networking, virtual worlds, widgets, Web communities, blogs, podcasts, and next-generation search, to name just a few. Now, leading IBM marketing innovator Sandy Carter introduces ANGELS, a start-to-finish framework for choosing the right Web 2.0 marketing tools—and using them to maximize revenue and profitability.

Carter demonstrates winning Web 2.0 marketing at work through 54 brand-new case studies: organizations ranging from Staples to Harley Davidson, Coca-Cola to Mentos, Nortel to IBM itself. You’ll discover powerful new ways to market brands and products in both B2B and B2C markets…integrate Web 2.0, experiential, and conventional marketing…maximize synergies between global and local marketing…gain more value from influencers, and more.

Includes information, case studies, and working examples for next generation marketing strategies such as:

•  Social networks with virtual environments, including Second Life
•  Online communities including Facebook
•  Viral Marketing and eNurturing
•  Serious Gaming
•  Widgets
•  Wikis
•  Blogging, including Twitter
•  RSS
•  Podcasting
•  Videocasting

Whether you’re a marketing professional, Web specialist, strategist, executive, or entrepreneur, this book will help you drive immense, quantifiable value from Web 2.0 technologies—now, and for years to come.

Sandy Carter’s breakthrough ANGELS approach, a step-by-step framework for success:

   Analyze and ensure strong market understanding
   Nail the relevant strategy and story
   Go to Market Plan
   Energize the channel and community
   Leads and revenue
   Scream!!! Don’t forget the Technology!

BONUS Content Available Online:
Additional chapters, case studies, examples, and resources are available on the book companion site, ibmpressbooks.com/angels.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

A: Analyze Here, There, and Everywhere

Chapter 1: Listening and Analyzing in the Global World
Chapter 2: Segmentation in Action: The Nortel Case
Chapter 3: Globalization: Lenovo, Google, Unilever, and IBM

N: Nail the Strategy

Chapter 4: Fish Where the Fish Are and Use the Right Bait
Chapter 5: Relevance and Roles: Forrester Research
Chapter 6: Lightly Branded: EepyBird, The Coca-Cola Company, and Mentos
Chapter 7: Corporate Social Responsibility: IBM’s Project Green and Marks & Spencer

G: Go-to-Market

Chapter 8: Break Through the Noise
Chapter 9: Influencer Value: The IBM Case Study

E: Energize the Ecosystem and Market

Chapter 10: The New Vessels
Chapter 11: Energize the Channel with Communities: OMG, Adobe and Rubicon Consulting, and Harley-Davidson
Chapter 12: Virtual Environments: The Coca-Cola Company and IBM
Chapter 13: Widgets: The Use of Widgets at IBM
Chapter 14: Blogs: Midwest Airlines and IBM
Chapter 15: Serious Gaming: IBM’s Innov8

L: Leads and Revenue

Chapter 16: Show Me the Money: A Discussion with Google, the Marketing Leadership Council, and MarketingNPV
Chapter 17: Innovation, Engagement, and Business Results: adidas Group, ConAgra Foods, and Tellabs
Chapter 18: Marketing Dashboards: IBM Cognos

S: Scream Through Technology

Chapter 19: Screaming World Changes
Chapter 20: Technology Matters: IBM, Staples, Dell, and MyVirtualModel

Putting It All Together

Chapter 21: End-to-End Example: IBM WebSphere and the SOA Agenda, Prolifics, and Ascendant Technology
Chapter 22: The Top 10 Don’ts and the Marketing Organization of the Future

The following materials can be found on the companion Web site at ibmpressbooks com/angels:

Online 1: Relationship and Word of Mouth: Rackspace
Online 2: Personal Branding
Online 3: National Environmental Policy Act

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