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Soren Gordhamer is the organizer of the Wisdom 2.0 Conference , which brings together staff from Google, Facebook, Twitter and Zynga with others to explore living with awareness and wisdom in our modern age, at the end of February in Silicon Valley. He is SorenG on Twitter. The age of social media is not just changing our personal lives, but is increasingly affecting how business is conducted. No longer satisfied with strictly top-down models that view employees as cogs in a system, businesses are quickly adapting to a new paradigm that emphasizes connection, collaboration and innovation. When people in companies and teams feel engaged, the benefits are significant. Towers Watson (formerly Towers Perrin), the global professional services firm, interviewed 90,000 employees in 18 countries, and found “companies with high employee engagement had a 19% increase in operating income and almost a 28% growth in earnings per share. Conversely, companies with low levels of engagement sa...

Posted by John Jantsch http://www.marketingnewz.com/2011/05/17/what-is-a-marketing-strategy-and-how-can-i-get-one/ Ask a new business owner what his marketing strategy is, and he will most likely say “sell as many products as possible to as many people as possible.” While optimism is a good quality in an entrepreneur, this definition is a recipe for disaster. When you are unclear whom you are trying to reach, you will stumble from one marketing tactic to another, diving into Facebook with zeal one week, Tweeting like a fool the next, and, in a final act of desperation, pitch your friends and neighbors as if you were a teenager begging for a last-minute date to the prom. An effective marketing strategy defines: • the detailed profile of the ideal person you are trying to reach (age, profession, gender, race, income level, hobbies, political views, attitude) • their hopes, fears, needs, desires, challenges and problems • the particular places where they hang out in person or online • the...