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David Meerman Scott

I write about strategies to turn fans into customers and customers into fans. I also share ways to use real-time strategies to spread ideas, influence minds, and build business.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average was originally formulated in 1896. For more than a century, "the Dow" has helped to brand Dow Jones (publisher of The Wall Street Journal) as a player in the financial markets.

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Yesterday I enjoyed speaking with Amanda Palmer, lead singer of The Dresden Dolls and punk cabaret force of nature about connecting with fans both online and off.

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I'm working on a project with my publishers John Wiley & Sons, Inc. that will be released sometime in 2010. No, I am not writing a new book, but it is too early to talk about what I'm cooking up just yet. When we're ready to announce, this blog will be the first place th...

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Many people ask me of the new rules of marketing apply worldwide. Rather than do the easy thing and answer the question with a big fat “YES!” I thought I’d show you. In the past six months I’ve delivered presentations in eight countries: Croatia, the Dominican Republic, Esto...

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Web Ink Now is the personal blog of David Meerman Scott, a marketing strategist and the author of the BusinessWeek bestselling book The New Rules of Marketing & PR. The contents reflect my personal opinions. Use

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Web Ink Now is written by David Meerman Scott, author of BusinessWeek bestseller "The New Rules of Marketing and PR" which is published in 24 languages.

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A fascinating social media-driven corporate communications brouhaha involving Amazon Kindle and George Orwell has unfolded over the past week. I wanted to share it here and get your reaction to how it was handled. Specifically, I think Amazon waited far to long to apologize....

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This is my 500th blog post.

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There are tons of Twitter applications available from third party developers. Because Twitter exposes its data via an Application Programming Interface (API), anybody can create an application to enhance some aspect of Twitter.

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Today is the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the first manned space mission to land on the moon. A few days after launch, as Michael Collins orbited the moon in the command module, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to explore another pla...

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Over the past year, I've had hundreds of opportunities to speak with people who work in the marketing and PR departments of large organizations about their online marketing and social media initiatives.

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Today, the "New GM" emerged from bankruptcy. The re: invention process has been swift.

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It's fascinating how a customer service mishap can turn into a world wide rave, particularly when smart people are determined to let the world know about their situation in a clever way. Companies are on notice!

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When an explosion at the Imperial Sugar Company (ISC) sugar refinery at Port Wentworth, near Savannah, GA, occurred in February 2008, fires burned for nearly two weeks.

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Times change. Markets change. Technologies change. Fundamentals of B2B marketing don't.

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