“When marketers see social media as yet another channel to drive a message down, they’re missing the boat. Worse, they’re making themselves look insensitive, unpleasant, and not worth the community’s time. It’s a lose-lose. Take the time to understand the digital natives, and your results will be MUCH better.”

Chris Brogan
Vice President, Strategy and Technology
CrossTech Media

“The web is facing it’s own global warming crisis as marketers continue to pollute it. Consumers are voting with their clicks and eyeballs by engaging with authentic content that adds value, while ignoring the rest.”

Steve Rubel
MicroPersuasion

“10 years from now: I am pessimistic about the long-term prospects for SEO jobs, because the basics of search engine optimization are fairly simple and ought to be to part of the core competency of anybody who makes a living in Web design, Internet marketing, or writing for the Web.

You shouldn’t need a special consultant to make a website that follows simple guidelines.”

Jakob Nielsen

“To succeed, we need to stop standing between them (consumers) and their content and actually be the content they want to see.

When it comes to video, advertisers and agencies need to focus their energies on producing content that has sufficient appeal to attract, engage, and retain the consumers with whom they hope to build lasting relationships.”

Greg Verdino
Crayon

“This downturn will be a perfect storm for the agencies. Many are not properly geared up to deal with the digital age especially the very big names. Ogilvy’s announced to cut 75 jobs from its NY headquarters (around 4% of total workforce). Most of cut comes from Ogilvy One which is the DM and interactive arm.”

Idris Mootee
Business & Innovation Strategist

“The Web has been tragically misunderstood when people labeled it a publishing medium. It is a performance medium: publishing mediums are static, and do not change over time; performances are dynamic and collaborative and iterative.

Because there was this intrinsic misperception of the role of people and time in what the Internets are, we keep discovering things that we think are just so unique about the medium.

It is like declaring that your dog is a cat, but not just that ... the first ever cat that barks, howls, wags its tail and fetches!”