September, 2008 Archive

“Clickthrough is the worst metric ever,” and other online musings

This past week MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation Technology Exchange, held one of its well-attended and well-executed breakfast seminars (note to event planner: two black plastic catering trays of carb-bomb ‘pastries’ does not constitute breakfast: in many lands, people are known to eat fresh fruit). Panelists included the full range of online stakeholders: a media planner, [...]

The white paper is dead. Long live the white paper!

All snarking aside, white papers have for years acted as the coin of the realm in BtoB. They’re informative, they’re current, and best of all, they’re content. But are they dullsville in 2008? Have they outlived their usefulness? And with all the vlogs and marketing games and widgets flying out of our screens at us [...]