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How to Rise Above the Crowd with Content Marketing

By marketing stream, mesh13

Highlighting a mesh13 marketing stream workshop

According to the Content Marketing Institute’s Joe Pulizzi, “Content Marketing is owning, as opposed to renting media. It’s a marketing process to attract and retain customers by consistently creating and curating content in order to change or enhance a consumer behavior.”

Rather than pushing products or services, you are delivering information and insights that are beyond the product offering. The belief is that if this information is useful and valuable, the client or consumer will ultimately reward their business with product purchases and on-going customer loyalty. But how do you not only do it, but you perfect it so you raise the bar to stand head and shoulders above the crowd.

In an interactive, hands-on workshop, Joe Pulizzi delivers valuable insight on how brands can take advantage of content marketing to drive relationships with potential and existing customers.  Joe writes one of most popular content marketing blogs, is co-author of “Get Content Get Customers“,  called “the Handbook for Content Marketing”, and “Managing Content Marketing”  with Robert Rose. One of the world’s top content marketing gurus, Joe also founded Chief Content Officer magazine, the leading magazine for content marketers. We were thrilled when Joe, who has spoken around the world at about content marketing, wanted to mesh.

During his session, Joe explores how brands should approach content marketing, as well as the best practices to make their efforts successful.

Click here to learn more about Joe.

Rethinking the Value of Online Readership

By media stream, mesh13

The Future of Journalism
A keynote conversation with
Josh Benton of Nieman Journalism Lab

The web has been a double-edged sword for journalism and the media — on the one hand, it has made it easier than it has ever been to create and distribute content of all kinds. As Clay Shirky has said: “Publishing used to be an industry — now it’s a button.” Social tools like blogs and Twitter and Facebook and the rise of smartphones have led to an explosion of content, including some powerful journalism from places like Egypt during the Arab Spring — much of it generated by non-journalists.

At the same time, however, the web has also broken the traditional business model that journalism used to rely on, both by increasing the amount of content available and by destabilizing the advertising industry — which traditional media outlets have always relied on to support their content. Now, media companies are trying to fill that gap by putting up paywalls or relying on subscription models, as well as experimenting with controversial new forms of advertising such as sponsored content and “brand journalism.”

Josh Benton, the director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, is one of the most astute observers of these and other changes that are taking place in the world of media, and the Nieman Lab blog has become the go-to source for anyone who wants to find out what is going on in journalism online. In this keynote conversation we’ll be talking with Josh about what he sees when he looks into the future of digital media.

Learn more about our Media keynote, Josh Benton (Nieman Journalism Lab).

Click here for the full mesh13 schedule.

The Rise of Brand Journalism

By marketing stream, mesh13

A keynote conversation with Kyle Monson of Knock Twice

Brand journalism or brand content. You’ve likely heard, read or even followed the buzz. You may have even dabbled in it yourself.

Brand journalism involves honest brand storytelling that invites audiences to participate. It’s about producing solid stories that can help advance a company’s branding but does not push its marketing efforts. The goal is to lead a conversation not be the central star of the plot. The fundamentals of journalism carry into this approach to storytelling, which involves creating content that informs while it compelling readers to share, comment and republish this content. In many ways, brand journalism reflects how the evolution of marketing and PR. Business that can do this properly can unlock a huge competitive advantage.

Learn more about our Marketing keynote, Kyle Monson (Knock Twice).

Click here for the full mesh13 schedule.