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How Eloqua Gets Content Marketing Right? Q&A with Joe Chernov, Chief Content Officer, Eloqua

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
CRT/tanaka hosted its very first Northern Virginia B2B tweet-up on Tue, Nov 8th with Shawn Cook, Director of Sales, Eloqua kicking off a discussion around marketing strategies that have had a huge impact on Eloqua’s sales cycle. Throughout Shawn’s presentation, it was very clear that Eloqua as a company takes it “content [...]

Best Practices in Enterprise-wide Social Media Policy: Four Big Brands to Learn From

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
The recent Nielsen report was a little bit of a shocker for me when I saw the following stats. I mean, how in the world do we have so much free time on hand? BUT these are key indicators to understand how your consumers (and more importantly your employees!) might be spending their time [...]

Hazy World Energy Future

by Mike Mulvihill
In a report released yesterday, the U.S. Energy Information Administration forecast that China and India will drive up worldwide energy consumption by as much as 53 percent by 2035 with a corresponding increase in carbon dioxide emissions of 43 percent.
The EIA 2011 International Energy Outlook predicts energy from renewable and alternative sources will [...]

Americans Prefer Texting to Calling: Add Mobile Calls-to-Action to Your Holiday Campaigns

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
Let me start by making it clear that I am NOT a fan of texting while driving but YES I do believe texting is a lot easier than asking your audience to visit a website, participate in a photo contest or even a video contest. Campaigns that ask your audience to do [...]

Stop Begging for “Likes” and Start Delivering Content that Makes Me Want to “Like” You

By Priya Ramesh (newpr)
How to Stop Asking and Start Giving to Build Your Social Footprint?
I swear the next time, I see another brand asking me to “Like” or “Follow” them without giving me a reason to engage with them, I am going to actually take the time to email their social media contact and [...]

Three Cents on Google+ for PR Agencies/ Corporate Communicators who don’t have time to toy around

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
So are you feeling pressured to start toying with Google+ and join the 10M users that are “circling,” “hanging-out” and “sparking” on Google+. My verdict is: definitely play around and identify engagement techniques for your brand but there is no need to shift from Facebook and Twitter just yet. As a social [...]

Word Play Politicizes Energy

by Mike Mulvihill
An excellent blog post Sunday by Kate Galbraith in the New York Times (Word Choice Matters for Energy Policy) points out the depth of our nation’s political obfuscation on energy policy.
Ms. Galbraith points out that when President Barack Obama speaks about the fuels of the future; his term of choice is usually “clean [...]

Social Media Juggernaut Rolls On

by Mike Mulvihill
Some days, the marketplace just spews out interesting mile markers about social media and the steroid-infused future of social media (i.e., mobile social media). Here are a few or the more strategically significant tidbits from the past several days:
· Nearly half (43 percent) of all businesses have used social media networks to acquire [...]

Nurses and Their Role in Value-Based Purchasing

by Lisa Kersey
In today’s health care world, there’s no more room for a caregivers who are “good clinically, but….” This applies to nurses, doctors, technicians and others who come into contact with the patient. Whether you’re the one writing the orders, giving the meds, delivering the meals or cleaning the patient room, health care transparency [...]

Small Business Marketing = A Lot of Smart Thinking. Mobile Can Help!

Celebrate National Small Business Week by Getting Your Mobile Game On!
By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)

Next week (May 16th-20th) is National Small Business Week. It is a time to celebrate and thank the enormous contributions that small businesses make to keep America running. I started my career in corporate communications and PR with a small technology startup that [...]