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The Corporate Battle of the Facebook Likes

One of the best things about my job is that I get to meet executives from many different companies, both big and small. I was having a discussion the other day with […]

Are there any ethical bloggers left out there?

With your kind support, {grow} has become a fairly popular blog. With this distinction, I’m deluged with requests to do sponsored posts (companies offering to pay for their promotional content to show up as […]

7 Ideas for Advanced Social Media Education

For the past three years I have been teaching college or graduate level classes in social media marketing. Executives are clamoring for the next level of education in this area […]

Now connecting with the sexiest bloggers is easy

Klout just got sexy. And I called this one … Unfortunately. A year ago in the first article I wrote about Klout (Get Ready. Social Scoring Will Change Your Life), I […]

Introducing Speakerr. A {growtoon}.

Join the growtoonists each Friday for a humorous take on marketing, social media, and current business events. Kacy Maxwell is a guy who loves his work, family and a good challenge. […]

An insider view of social media research

How is the Internet and social media affecting our lives, our families, our careers? Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project is leading the charge to […]

Is it time for an anonymity movement to challenge Facebook?

I‘m delighted to feature today a guest post from Gregory Pouy, one of France’s top marketing bloggers. This is his first post on an English-speaking blog and I’m pleased to bring […]

5 case studies — Social technology impacting management

We’ve tossed around a lot of ideas on {grow} about how technology is impacting our lives, but I’m also really interested in how it is impacting the culture of our […]

Please. Stop making your company blog suck.

Mark Schaefer on Blogging Let’s face it. Company blogs suck. They just do, at least most of the time. But they don’t have to and I’m on a mission to […]

The business case for Facebook, in one sentence

What is the most-debated question in social media today? One candidate is, “Should my company have a Facebook page?” The tension comes from several angles. It could be due to: The company is not […]

When social media destroys a career — The business case for being a fake

A guest post by {grow} community member Leslie Lewis Leslie Lewis is not my real name. You don’t need to know my real name, and you may never know it. Here’s why. […]

Should we have multiple company bloggers?

It takes a lot of work to have a company blog and your approach is not a decision to be taken lightly. Your blogging strategy will have a powerful impact on the direction of your […]

Oops! I made this Social Media mistake. How about you?

By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columnist Many passionate and hardworking social business operatives are making a business-killing mistake. Proud of their impressive Twitter followings, Facebook crowds and Klout scores they […]

Can you make money managing social media?

In a blog post almost two years ago about the best business idea for social media marketing, I made a prediction that I think stands up. I said that there would […]

Three reasons marketing favors social media and small businesses

I’ve spent some time this week attending a few online webinars and catching up on my blog reader and I noticed an interesting trend. The conversations, research, presentations, and case […]