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 [...]

“Give and Take” talk by Adam Grant

With Adam Grant at Cal Tech

Glad I made it to Cal Tech where the Skeptics Society led by Michael Shermer hosted Adam Grant for a talk on his book “Give and Take.” In his presentation, Adam offered persuasive examples of how people who are indiscriminately helpful to basically anyone who asks can get ahead by accumulating a wider network over [...]

“Det Goda Tramset” or “The Good Chatter” upcoming book

Gomorron Sverige - Good Morning Sweden, March 6, 2013

“Det Goda Tramset” is a soon to be released book in Swedish by Åsa Stenström and myself. For more info in Swedish, please check out this interview featured on Swedish national television in “Gomorron Sverige” on March 6, 2013. Om någon söker mig så nås jag bäst via mail till contact@niklasmyhr.com eller via min och [...]

Staple Yourself to the Customer Experience

stapler

Today’s wakeup call was provided by Brian Solis with his new blog post “The 5 Pillars of New Media Strategy.” Brian argues convincingly that we all should stop looking for a magic formula or success recipe to guide us in our social media travails by simply arguing that it all depends on who we are [...]

Stick Shift Social Media

It is increasingly rare these days to encounter a car with a manual transmission and many young drivers barely know what it is, let alone are able to drive them. Some of the advantages of driving with a stick shift, such as the increased attentiveness and the sense of being one with the car, and [...]

Trust is Queen

Queen Elizabeth

“Content is King” is an oft-uttered “secret” to success in social media and while I don’t think content will become unimportant any time soon, it is also becoming increasingly clear that just offering content, even good quality content, will not be enough any longer if it ever was. “Context is King” is an alternative statement [...]

Your Personal Branding Objectives

Niklas Myhr Stanford University

  When setting out to build or refine your own personal reputation and personal brand, your online presence can simply no longer be ignored. “Nobody is going to look or find that information on me online.” No? Are you kidding me? If you today would be about to hire somebody yourself, wouldn’t you Google that [...]

Content on Demand

Tonight, we discussed the Harvard case study on Demand Media (of eHow.com fame) in my Social Media Marketing MBA class. It is a fascinating story about how content can be systematically produced on a vast scale and result in almost guaranteed demand from viewers and consequently also in profits for the advertisers. The controversy regarding [...]

How Oreo Cookie ate from the Super Bowl

Oreo

If any business still wonders whether they should be on Twitter, they should take note of the likely future Harvard Business School case study “How Oreo Cookie ate from the Super Bowl.” The key learning points: Pay for the Ticket of Admission You have to pay to play goes the saying and in this case, [...]

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 [...]