Chapman Students Boost Swedish Startup’s Social Media

Gina Jue on Skype with Oricane COO Josefine Åhl

At the beginning of the Spring Semester, I published a blog post Chapman Social Media Aid asking companies if they wanted student teams helping them with their social media efforts. A company heeding the call was Swedish startup Oricane, a green technology company offering energy efficient software and big data solutions often reducing cost by 98% and [...]

Internet Marketing In Real Life

Niklas Myhr Melanie Duncan Devin Duncan

I very much enjoy having my former students visit my classes and today was definitely no exception as my Internet/Social Media Marketing class was visited by Melanie and Devin Duncan. Melanie Duncan graduated in 2008 and met her future husband Devin Duncan while he was also studying at Chapman University. As true serial entrepreneurs, they have [...]

The Power of Information

William "Bill" Thompson & Niklas Myhr

Had a very pleasant evening at the inauguration of the impressive Janes Financial Center at the Argyros School of Business and Economics. The Center is equipped with twelve Bloomberg terminals providing state-of-the-art, real-time, financial data and business research information to students. So now the score is that Chapman University has twelve Bloomberg terminals while USC [...]

Chapman Social Media Aid

Next week, students in my social media marketing classes will pick companies and organizations to work with in their semester-long team projects. Some of them already have ideas of who they would like to help but most teams still need to find access to a company or an organization. I am receiving many emails from [...]

Good Domain Parenting

www.ZacharyCampbell.com

When speaking about social media, I often draw laughter when I say that I find it incredible that there are still parents out there who name their babies without first checking if the matching domain name is available. What they don’t know is that I am only half-joking when I make that statement. Perhaps “incredible” [...]

What Social Media Can Do

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In my first social media marketing classes today, students were asked to identify various uses of social media, preferably with a business use case in mind. If you cannot read my handwriting… here comes some of the prominent uses of social media: Communication/Conversations Connection/Network Humanization/Personalization Marketing Research/Opportunity Identification Brand presence/Awareness creation Reminders about ones existence Employee [...]

New job: Director Executive Education

Excited to be appointed Director Executive Education at the Argyros School of Business and Economics, Chapman University. This will be in addition to my regular job as a Marketing Professor as we begin exploring the market in Orange County and beyond.

Neal Schaffer Unplugged on Social Media in B2B

Niklas Myhr and Neal Schaffer

Monday night in my Social Media Marketing MBA class at Chapman University, we were joined by Neal Schaffer, a Forbes Top 30 Social Media Influencer and Award-winning author for his books on using LinkedIn in a B2B (Business-to-Business) context for sales and social media marketing. Neal generously shared his views extemporaneously in a rapid fire fashion [...]

The Man who brought Facebook to “The Node Pole”

Had a very pleasant lunch meeting today in the city of Luleå in the province of Norrbotten in northern Sweden with Matz Engman, CEO of Luleå Business Agency (Luleå Näringsliv) currently busy marketing The Node Pole. Matz has had a multifaceted and intriguing career both as an executive in bigger corporations, as an entrepreneur, and [...]

Mari Smith and The New Relationship Marketing

After Wednesday’s Back-to-School Night at our kids’ Elementary school, I made it slightly late to a very educational and entertaining Linked Orange County event with Social media superstar Mari Smith at the Hilton Hotel in Costa Mesa. In what should have been a stop on a book tour (new release date October 25), Mari eloquently [...]