Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies

Li, Charlene; Bernoff, Josh

ISBN 10: 1596592125 ISBN 13: 9781596592124

Publisher: Your Coach In A Box, 2008

Synopsis

Corporate executives struggle to harness the power of social technologies. Twitter, Facebook, blogs, YouTube are where customers discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals but how do you integrate these activities into your broader marketing efforts? It's an unstoppable groundswell that affects every industry -- yet it's still utterly foreign to most companies running things now.

When consumers you've never met are rating your company's products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity.

In this updated and expanded edition of Groundswell, featuring an all new introduction and chapters on Twitter and social media integration, you'll learn to:

Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge

Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas

Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy

Build social technologies into your business

Groundswell is required listening for executives seeking to protect and strengthen their company's public image.

About this title

About the Author

Charlene Li is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester. She is the driving force behind Forrester's Social Computing and Web 2.0 research.
Josh Bernoff, is a vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research, and one of America's most frequently quoted research analysts.

Review

...for Groundswell's intended audience - managers struggling to answer questions such as "should my soap company have a presence on Facebook?" or "why isn't anyone reading our company blog?" - the emphasis on data and analytics is not a bug - it's a feature --The Financial Times, May 21, 2008

The Forrester analysts have prepared one of the most comprehensive and useful primers on the sudden surge in social media. --Advertising Age, July 3, 2008

Their response, an introduction to the current state of online social networking and what to do about it, is entertaining, well- written and mercifully free from techy details. --The Financial Times, June 4, 2008

About this edition

• Publisher: Your Coach In A Box
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1596592125
• ISBN 13: 9781596592124
• Binding: Audio CD