Marketing + Branding + Design

Create a social media dunking booth in your company

Chris Moody — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:13:22 +0000

After attending SocialFresh Tampa (#sofresh) and chatting with the Community panel Amber Naslund (@ambercadabra), DJ Waldow (@djwaldow), Rich Ullman (@richullman) and John Andrews (@katadhin) - I'm convinced that a dunking booth is the best analogy for gaining internal social media use.

Do you have questions about companies using Twitter and Facebook?

Chris Moody — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:12:08 +0000

If so, there's an app panel for that. The Real Facebook and Twitter Results Panel at SoFresh Tampa will field your questions. Do you want to know how Twitter can help you handle customer complaints? How can Twitter increase your reach? How can you add content without being spammy? How can Twitter or Facebook improve the customer experience?

Everyone Needs A Dumb Guy – please vote! Money Back Guarantee.

Chris Moody — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:10:39 +0000

I feel like I have a killer presentation for Ignite Raleigh. Too many times companies are made up of similar people with similar interests doing smart things in big conference rooms or dimly lit computer labs, but is that enough? I say no. To succeed you need a dumb guy. As this post goes active, I'll be sitting in jury duty (fun times) and I can't actively promote and engage folks to show them why this would be a great presentation. With that, I ask for a bit of your trust and votes so that I can unveil this to the world at Ignite Raleigh.

Want to improve your company, product, career or self? Be humble.

Chris Moody — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:02:23 +0000

It is extremely easy to keep pushing forward without evaluating your performance. Do you have a baseline? As companies and professionals, representing products and services, it is all to easy to find ourselves in the superiority bubble trying to inform the masses on why our widget is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Which coincidentally, the inventor of the bread slicer never made a huge impact...he sold the slicer and not the sliced bread.

Are You Really Listening to Your Community?

Chris Moody — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:55:13 +0000

The folks at SocialMediaB2B.com had a great post on listening to your community. I was fortunate enough to be involved with the situation as the team at Bandwidth worked to provide a couple customers with great service.

15 Social Media Professionals to Watch in the Triangle

Chris Moody — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:47:35 +0000

Wayne Sutton posted a great blog post on 14 People to Watch in the Triangle and I was added as number 15 (No I didn't beg or pay off Wayne to be included). :)

Why Vintage Advertising will always have my heart

Chris Moody — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 22:13:59 +0000

There are times I think I should have been born 50 years ago... Despite my love for technology, my dorkiness with gadgets, my borderline obsession with social media, I've always loved vintage advertisements.

Avatar, Trust, Community, and Social Media

Chris Moody — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:30:08 +0000

James Cameron's masterpiece, Avatar, has been garnering rave reviews and I recently had a chance to watch the movie with @waynesutton and @misskatiemo. I'm not writing a movie review, but I think Avatar is definitely worth watching and there are several themes that led me to this blog post (much to Wayne's initial laughter). Trust and community are two common themes and buzz words in social media and there are tons of knowledgeable folks in each area (e.g. @chrisbrogan and @waynesutton). Avatar's story is guided by these two concepts. Possible spoilers below, I recommend you watch the movie before reading this post.

Interacting with Social Media Rock Stars like @chrisbrogan from @bmcd67

Chris Moody — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:11:30 +0000

Brian McDonald (@bmcd67) has a great take on engaging and interacting with influencers in the communities you're involved in. As he mentions in his article, we met in 2006 and probably have a better relationship now than when we worked closely together. We've maintained communication, bounced great ideas or problems off of each other, and tried to maintain a good source of feedback in our networks. Continue.

Twitter for Product Management

Chris Moody — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:05:12 +0000

A few months ago, I was fortunate enough to connect with Steve Johnson (@sjohnson717) at a Pragmatic Marketing training and we chatted about the need for a guide to Twitter for product managers. There had been an introductory article, but they needed some examples.