The ultimate guide to branding and building your business in the era of the Social Web-revised and updated with a Foreword by Ashton Kutcher Engage! thoroughly examines the social media landscape and how to effectively use social media to succeed in business-one network and one tool at a time. It leads you through the detailed and specific steps required for conceptualizing, implementing, managing, and measuring a social media program. The result...

Rethink your business model to incorporate the power of ""user"" experiences What's the Future of Business? will galvanize a new movement that aligns the tenets of user experience with the vision of innovative leadership to improve business performance, engagement, and relationships for a new generation of consumerism. It provides an overview of real-world experiences versus ""user"" experiences in relation to products, services, mobile, social media,...

This Element is an excerpt from Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR (ISBN: 9780137150694) by Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge. Available in print and digital formats. Social media releases: what they are, what they aren't, and how to make the most of them. PR's latest "new shiny object" is the social media release (SMR). Originally introduced by Todd Defren in response to Tom Foremski's...