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i’m going to blog the Grammy’s using my Palm 700p. This is my fisrt post. It’s slow but it will work…very exciting stuff.

Charlottesville, VA., December 6th – BoldMouth Inc., a social marketing services agency, announced today that Scott Hildebrand has joined the agency as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a new position at the company. Hildebrand brings over twenty years of diverse marketing experience and leadership to the role.
Hildebrand most recently served as Managing Vice President of [...]

BoldMouth - Word of Mouth Marketing
(tags: boldmouth, word of mouth, viral, social networking)

eMarketer.com - Word-of-Mouth in B2B
Emarketer has referenced data from our Perceptions, Practices, and Ethics in Word of Mouth Marketing a number of times. This reference touches on our findings related to what stimulates WOM.
(tags: WOM, word of mouth, boldmouth, osterman research, marketing, b-to-b)

Viral Marketing for the Real World Harvard Business Online
Think aggregated interest marketing as a tool to fully integrate media channels.
(tags: Duncan Watts, Viral Marketing, big-seed marketing)

Google urges firms to embrace viral marketing
(tags: google, viral marketing, videos, mentos, coca cola, tv advertisers)

eMarketer.com - Social Network Marketing to Reach $2.5 Billion in 2011
Placing a value on individual workers that will support social networking initiatives within the enterprise in my opinion is likely to dwarf the forecasted spending on social networking that eMarketer [...]

Teen’s study makes iPod face the music online
(tags: word of mouth, Jim Nail, ipod, apple, research)

Beta Network - Web 2.0 Startup Beta Testing Discussion Community on Tangler
(tags: web 2.0, beta testing, online community, tangler)

Justin Kirby, who is one of the most respected voices in the word-of-mouth, viral and buzz arena, has been reaching out to organizations, academics and agencies to get feedback about predications he and Dr. Paul Marsden included at the end of Connected Marketing: The Viral, Buzz, and Word of Mouth Revolution. Here is the list [...]

In the ever growing world of “You Decide,” I am excited by Technorati’s new feature “Where’s the Fire.”  What is WTF?  Since “I get to decide” I believe it’s the leveling of the blog playing field so that everyone with valuable content and insights can be found and, heard.  The Power Law gets pushed to [...]

I’m surprised how quiet the word of mouth industry and social intelligence monitoring firms has been on the recent acquisitions of New Media Strategies (NMS) and Genex by Meredith Corporation.  I checked Technorati yesterday and didn’t find any blog posts about the January 10th acquisition announcement even though traditional press releases were sent out and [...]