Matt Goddard

Jeremiah Owyang, of the popular Web Strategy by Jeremiah blog (and now an analyst at Forrester), wrote a post several months ago entitled The Irrelevant Corporate Website. And in typical Owyang style, it is thought-provoking and has been translated into several languages, including Greek, Swedish, and German. As one of the owners of a digital marketing and communications company, I'd like to extend Owyang’s argument that the corporate Website is irrelevant, and present a framework that just might make it more relevant than ever. Let's consider the pages of a traditional corporate Website. They include an “about me” page, a contact page, a careers section, and probably a page with news and press releases. The words look good on paper, and, more than ... (more)

The Do's and Don'ts of Web 2.0 Marketing

Marketing online isn’t as easy as it used to be. Back in the day, all we had to do was write some slick ad copy and hand it over to the Webmaster to be published online. If these pages somehow made their way onto one of the various search engines, it was a pleasant bonus. Today, copy is called content, Webmasters are called engineers, and the goal is making the first page of Google... (more)

Is Your E-Mail System Broken?

“The e-mail system is in a complete heap.” Those are the words of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created a little something called the World Wide Web, in reference to e-mail’s shortcomings as a communications tool. His message is that although e-mail is effective for one-on-one dialogue, it has flaws that impede the kind of knowledge gained from true team collaboratio... (more)