Posts in chronological order with tag Community

Do you aspire to build a brand community or a community brand?

by Chris Grams July 13, 2010

In my day job at New Kind, I spend quite a bit of my time working on brand-related assignments, particularly for organizations interested in community-based approaches to building their brands.
When marrying the art of community building to the art of brand building, it’s hard not to talk about building “brand [...]

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Facebook breaks the brand permission rules

by Chris Grams May 13, 2010

Back in February, I wrote a post about how Google stepped beyond its brand permission limits with the launch of the Buzz platform, a classic brand mistake (read more about brand permission here or here). Over the last few months, Facebook has also moved into a dangerous brand space, and may be doing permanent damage [...]

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BusinessWeek turns an eye to open source beyond technology

by Chris Grams April 28, 2010

On opensource.com, we aspire to take principles the open source software movement has applied to building better software faster and find more uses for them in business, education, government, the law, and generally in our lives.
So a few weeks back, I was excited to see that BusinessWeek (now Bloomberg BusinessWeek) ran a special report called [...]

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