Former WPP, Accenture Executive To Lead Global Digital Media Practice
Austin, Texas – April 8, 2010 – Paul Walker, widely recognized as one of the leading global digital media experts, is joining PulsePoint Group, a communications management consulting firm, as a third partner to lead the firm’s digital media practice.
Walker, a social media advisor to leading global brands like Dell, Johnson & Johnson, Nike, ExxonMobil, Novartis and MasterCard, will team up with Bob Feldman and Jeff Hunt. PulsePoint was founded just one year ago and has quickly become a trusted, strategic advisor to such companies as Dell, Chevron, Amgen, CA, USAA, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Delta Airlines among others. The firm specializes in digital and social media, issues and crisis management and organizational design and change.
Walker will support PulsePoint’s primary mission of working with major brands to develop strategies and innovative solutions that engage prospects, customers and employees in more relevant and effective ways. This includes digital, social and mobile media – blended with more traditional CRM, marketing and communications — to build brands, develop markets and sell more products and services.
Accenture Experience Key to PulsePoint Mission
“We are thrilled to welcome Paul as a partner in the firm,” said Jeff Hunt. “Paul, Bob and I have known each other for more than 25 years and our professional respect and mutual admiration has deepened through every chapter in our careers. Paul is without a doubt one of the most enlightened and strategic practitioners in digital and social media. He has pioneered some of the most impactful applications of social media for clients like Dell and more recently The University of Texas,” Hunt said. (more…)
Engagement Has Become the Business World’s New Currency
Bob Feldman
February 12th, 2010
Originally Published PR Week, February 12, 2010
The impact of social media on how business is run is just starting to mainstream in corporate America. I’m not talking about online promotional campaigns; I’m taking about the very heart of how business is conducted.
The consequence is a redefinition and reframing of how a company and its various stakeholders relate to one another and the impact each has on one another.
Call it “The Engaged Enterprise.” Engagement is the new currency. It suggests an authentic, dynamic, deeper relationship in which conversation and business ideas are shared up, down, and sideways.
In the Engaged Enterprise, stakeholders have deeper relationships with the company. Stakeholders actually talk to one another. Their voices are heard, respected, even acted upon in exchange for their loyalty. The result: The enterprise is smarter and more engaged with their constituents leading to better decisions and deeper, longer-lasting relationships.
Some examples? Consider these three: (more…)
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