• 2012 Social Media Guide from CMO.com Very useful chart for guiding social media marketing.
• 2012 Social Media Predictions
• Accelerate Your Social Maturity Forrester Report
• Accenture Report on A New Era of Marketing: Create Your Upturn
• Administration on Aging: A Profile of Older Americans 2011 Statistics on the Aging Population
• Aetna’s Transformation – Must Read Strategic moves they are making to become a next generation health insurer. Reminiscent of “big blue”, IBM.
• American Journalism – Pew Research Report More than four in ten American adults now own a smartphone. One in five owns a tablet. New cars are manufactured with internet built in. With more mobility comes deeper immersion into social networking.
• Appy Award Winners 2012 (Best Mobile Apps) See Slideshark, AAA, DocuSign, iMap and others.
• Article on AIG and Risk Management
• Bain & Company – The Great 8 Trillion Dollar Macro Trends Very comprehensive report on trends to 2020 that are trillion US dollar trends to watch.
• Bain – Global Private Equity Report Latest 2012 report, Bain &Company’s update on issues facing PE in 2012 and beyond, explai
• Bain Brief – A Fresh Look at Procurement
• Boomerang Generation Report – 2012 Pew Research Report
• Boomerangs – Pew Research Report on Adults 18 to 34 24% – Economic Conditions Lead Young Adults Back to the Nest
• Business Intelligence: Future of Mobile
• CMO.com – Digital Insights for Marketers
• Deloitte Report: Serving the Aging Citizen (2007)
• Dwolla’s Mobile Payment System
• FTC Privacy Report 2012Do Not Track recommendations
• Google Social ROI
• Health Systems Ignore Patients at their Peril
• How to Defeat the Social Media Skeptics in Your Company For those trying to get a social media campaign going in their company, they’ll often have to deal with naysayers that question the value. Former Kodak CMO Jeff Hayzlett says dealing with the non-believer is all part of “running the gauntlet.” He b
• Insurance UntetheredArticle by Bill Kenealy, Insurance Networking News on Mobile Insurance Applications
• Keeping the Wealthy Health – Bain Article
• Met Life Association Study 2012 A Study of Association and Affinity Marketplace
• Met Life Benefit Study 2012A study on Employee Benefits and the Voluntary Worksite Industry
• NEJM Article: Major Trends in The US Health Economy
• RSS: The War on RSS – the omission of RSS from Apple’s new OS Mountain Lion is a sign that RSS might be doomed?
• Risk Management Monitor – Great articles on risk management, including the top 7 risks for 2012
• Russell Investments – State of the Economy – Leading economic indicators
• Sears’ PHD Of Social Media Article In Forbes– Sears’ PHD Of Social Media Explains How Brands Can Create Orbits To Pull In Customers Brandon Gutman, Contributor
• Social Media ROI Pyramid
• The Great Eight: Trillion-Dollar Growth Trends to 2020 The Great Eight: Trillion-Dollar Growth Trends to 2020 September 9, 2011 Bain Brief By Karen Harris, Austin Kim and Andrew Schwedel
• The Rise of Microinsurance Schemes Globally – According to the Microinsurance Innovation Facility of the International Labor Organization and the Munich Re Foundation, “the number of microinsurance schemes worldwide has increased substantially over the past five years and now reaches an estimated 5
• The Wages of Eco-Angst – Perception Risk
• We Are All Marketers Now – McKinsey Quarterly Article July 2011 Great summary about customer engagement and moving from a monoloque to a dialogue with customers.
• This is a photo of one of my favorite places to vacation: Convict Lake, near Mammoth Lakes, CA. Pretty sweet trout fishing if I may say so myself!

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