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The Cluetrain Comes to Higher Ed:will anyone take delivery? mark a greenfield
History Lesson • First Things Last • The Industrial Interruption • Networked Markets
History Lesson • First Things Last
Thesis #26 Companies need to come down from their Ivory Towers and talk to the people with whom they hope to create relationships
History Lesson • First Things Last • The Industrial Interruption
Mass Marketing
Corporate speech became mass produced messages • jammed into a one-way spam cannon p 234
Messages are worse than noise. • It's an interruption. • It's the Anti-Conversation. p 151
Thesis #28 Most marketing programs are based on the fear that the market might see what’s really going on inside the company
History Lesson • First Things Last • The Industrial Interruption • Networked Markets
the long silence • the industrial interruption of the human conversation • is coming to an end p 154
engagement in the open, free-wheeling marketplace isn’t optional. it’s a prerequisite. to having a future. silence is fatal. p 160
Public Relations has a huge PR problem: people use it as a synonym for BS p 160
Company strategies that try to control the stream of information now make the company look like a scaredy-cat. p 6
All Web pages must be formally approved by the Department of Business Prevention p 91
The reality is that when malicious propaganda happens ( and it will happen) the truth will out p 153
In the age of the web where hype blows up in your face and spin gets taken as an insult, the real work of PR is more important than ever p 162
Thesis #15 The current homogenized “voice” of business the sound of mission statements and brochures will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th-century French court
Techno-Latin A vocabulary of vague but precise-sounding words that work like blank tiles in Scrabble: you can use them anywhere, but they have no value p 176
Web Services Mission Statement • Understand the Business • Understand the User • Understand the Medium
Thesis #7 Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy
The Internet has made your entry level employee as powerful as your senior vice president of marketing p xi
that Mary is the Under VP of Expected Deflations for the Western semi-region tells you nothing that Mary is wicked smart, totally frank, and a trip to work with tells you everything p xi
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