Unilever CMO, Keith Weed, has been crowned the world’s most influential CMO, followed by GE’s Linda Boff and Twitter’s Leslie Berland, all key figures driving transformational change within and outside their organisations.

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Ruthless prioritisation, collaboration and embedding process are top of the list for Weploy's first sales and marketing chief, who takes up the reins this month.

The CMOs and brand leaders of Australia’s largest financial services, travel and retail companies have topped a new list of LinkedIn’s most powerful marketing profiles in Australia.

Sales and marketing are supposed to work in harmony, with one supporting the other to achieve the organisation’s revenue goals. In reality, the two functions often are at war. But a new social media strategy, coupled with some good old fashioned sales experience is helping Lenovo to finally bridge the gap.

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The initial shock of Microsoft's massive $26.2 billion bet on LinkedIn has mostly worn off, but it's still unclear just what Microsoft will do with LinkedIn, how the social network's loyal users will react to related change, and how Microsoft will integrate LinkedIn data with its products.

Microsoft has made a big bet on LinkedIn, announcing Monday that it will spend nearly US$26.2 billion to purchase the enterprise-focused social networking and recruiting company.

LinkedIn has revealed its list of Australia’s top 10 most influential brands based on their content marketing efforts.

Marketers and advertisers shudder when they think about the great consumer rush to mobile. With a smartphone's tiny screen and a mobile consumer's fleeting attention span, marketers face an enormous challenge capitalizing on mobility.

Brands and executives that haven’t yet realised social media as a new way of working or seen its potential beyond customer support could be missing out on an opportunity to help their organisations grow.

Marketo’s new alliance with LinkedIn to unite marketing automation with LinkedIn’s professional user database worldwide will help bridge a gap between targeting prospects and nurturing leads, GE Capital’s head of performance marketing claims.

Facebook may be expanding from a social website where users share photos of their favorite sandwiches and pets, to a network focused on business users.

Billions of people use assorted social networking sites, but just how happy are they with the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and the rest? The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) strives to find out.

Oracle has hooked up its SRM (social relationship management) software suite to LinkedIn, a move to give marketing and customer support staffers a way to reach the business-oriented social network's 300 million users.

Twitter offers significantly more value when it comes to getting the message out about events, generates up to four times more revenue and page views than LinkedIn or Facebook, a new Australian report claims.

CPA Australia has topped a list of the 10 most influential Australian brands on LinkedIn for content marketing.

Marketers from ASX100 brands stretching from Telstra to AMP, NSW Trade and Investment and Foxtel have featured on a new list of Australia’s 10 most engaged marketers on LinkedIn.

KLM Dutch Royal Airlines is using social media to support its Meet & Seat boarding experience, which is designed to make it easy for passengers to connect with one another on flights, whether it's for business or social reasons.