Critical Questions For Believers In Advertising Engagement

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Critical Questions For Engagement Believers

Here are my immediate thoughts on the ARF/AAAA’s Consumer Engagement conference, as we near its end. First, the conference was awesome and included much thoughtful discussion!Read the rest

Video: Dr. Joe Plummer On Consumer Engagement

Regurgitating my video work over at Engagement By Engagement, my MediaPost Spin column this week is actually a video interview! I think this is a first for MediaPost. Most important, my interviewee, Joe Plummer, Chief Research Officer of the Advertising Research Foundation, offered some great insights.… Read the rest

Gerald Zaltman on Engagement and Co-Creation

Over at the Engagement By Engagement video blog, I scored a nice interview with Gerald Zaltman of Harvard Business School. And I bring it to you here with this cross-post:

Gerald Zaltman, according to Joe Plummer, is the spiritual leader of the Engagement movement.

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Mainstream Media Quoting Comments In The Blogosphere

Here’s a first for me: a mainstream news organization citing a comment I made in someone else’s blog. Mark Glaser, from PBS’ Mediashift, has a series on Citizen Journalism. He quotes me:

Max Kalehoff, an executive at Nielsen BuzzMetrics, wrote this comment on Jeff Jarvis’ BuzzMachine blog on a post about changing the term citizen journalism to networked journalism:

"Why not just call journalism “journalism” — a word the citizens, amateurs, networks, distributors and professionals can understand?

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Video: Stephen Starr of Revver, Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Eepybird.com

Cross-post with Engagement By Engagement blog….

Today I moderated a standing-room-only panel at the OMMA conference on social video, and I was joined by a few pioneers from the space: First, I had Fritz Grobe and Stephen Voltz of Eeepybird.com, famous for the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment (seen over six million times as of today!).… Read the rest