CHARLENE LI

Li, CharleneCorporate executives are struggling with a new trend: people using online social technologies (blogs, social networking sites, YouTube, podcasts) to discuss products and companies, write their own news, and find their own deals. This groundswell is global, it's unstoppable, it affects every industry -- and it's utterly foreign to the powerful companies running things now. When consumers you've never met are rating your company's products in public forums with which you have no experience or influence, your company is vulnerable. In Groundswell, Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff of Forrester, Inc. explain how to turn this threat into an opportunity. Using tools and data straight from Forrester, you'll learn how to: · Evaluate new social technologies as they emerge · Determine how different groups of consumers are participating in social technology arenas · Apply a four-step process for formulating your future strategy · Build social technologies into your business -- including monitoring your brand value, talking with the groundswell through marketing and PR campaigns, and energizing your best customers to recruit their peers Timely and insightful, this book is required reading for executives seeking to protect and strengthen their company's public image

Cómo aprovechar los movimientos sociales espontáneos de la red En todo momento, los consumidores, a través de infinidad de blogs, están informando, compartiendo, criticando y recomendando los productos y servicios que consumen cotidianamente y opinando acerca de cada una de las acciones que emprenden las empresas. El auge de sitios de encuentro como Facebook, MySpace y tantos otros han dado nacimiento a un nuevo fenómeno de movimientos sociales conectados y surgidos como oleadas a través de Internet. A este movimiento los autores del libro lo llaman el mundo Groundswell. A uno le puede gustar o no esta nueva tendencia social, pero lo que no puede hacer es ignorarla. Con muchos ejemplos y datos estadísticos, este libro le ayudará a entender mejor estos nuevos movimientos sociales y a saber cómo participar en ellos y aprovechar todo su potencial.