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Specialists in marketing through ideas, information, and insight, Temin and Company turns clients’ intellectual capital into true thought leadership.
We also seek to practice what we preach.
Temin and Company’s own thought leadership includes white papers, yearly client letters and podcasts, published articles, a Forbes.com column – Reputation Matters, Huffington Post and American Banker articles, and appearances in other news articles and broadcasts.
Further, Davia Temin is a frequent public speaker and moderator – for clients, their own client events, and their “high potential” training programs. She also presents regularly at CEO conferences, and has developed a range of “Crisis Game” role play simulations to prepare CEOs, Boards, and client companies for real-life crisis situations.
Girl Scouts of the USA turns 100: the original women’s leadership pipeline
Davia Temin, Directors & Boards, December 22, 2011
Today, Girl Scouts of the United States of America opens its 100th anniversary convention in Houston. 15,000 girls, adult volunteers, celebrity guests, and friends are all converging on Texas to move girls and women’s leadership into its next century.
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$1 Billion Dollars for Girls
Reputation Matters, Forbes, November 15, 2011
How much is a girl worth? Soon we will be able to say, ‘it starts at a billion dollars, and goes up from there.’ Girls Scouts of the USA launched our $1 billion 100th anniversary campaign for girls, designed to help every girl in America who wants to be a Girl Scout afford to do so. […read more]
Girl Scouts Turns 100: The Ultimate Women’s Leadership Pipeline
Reputation Matters, Forbes, November 10, 2011
Today, Girl Scouts of the United States of America opens its 100th anniversary convention in Houston. 15,000 girls, adult volunteers, celebrity guests, and friends are all converging on Texas to move girls and women’s leadership into its next century. […read more]
How to Handle a Diversity Crisis
Davia Temin, Diversity Executive, November 8, 2011
Allegations involving diversity failings can not only cost a company millions of dollars but also cause a serious reputational black eye. Here are six ‘best practices’ to help deal with a diversity crisis… […read more]
Force of Nature Leadership: Steve Jobs and the “X Factor”
Reputation Matters, Forbes, October 6, 2011
Steve Jobs has so profoundly affected both our day-to-day lives and the trajectory of our technological progress that he can be categorized as a ‘force of nature’ leader: an unstoppable, indefatigable, and transcendent leader who inspires generations by catalyzing new ideas or bringing older ones to life in revolutionary ways. […read more]
Compassion and Resilience for a Troubled World: 9-11-11 A Personal Story
Reputation Matters, Forbes, September 11, 2011
Davia speaks about 9-11, cruelty, the path to happiness, regaining compassion, and resilience in the face of great tragedy. […read more]
Steve Jobs’ Ultimate Lesson for Entrepreneurs
Reputation Matters, Forbes, September 1, 2011
Steve Jobs, the genius full of contradictions: artist and engineer; Buddhist and hard-nosed businessman; visionary entrepreneur who has built large and resilient companies; optimist and pessimist; the ultimate opaque manager who has guarded his privacy and secrecy, even while providing the world with the tools of transparency. Steve Jobs had the remarkable ability to hold completely disparate ideas and values in his mind at the same time, synthesize and then act upon them. […read more]
Strategy, The One “Do” Amidst the Don’ts — Wrapping Up “The 10 Don’ts of Corporate Social Media” Series
Reputation Matters, Forbes, August 17, 2011
#11: “Strategy, The One ‘Do’ Amidst the Don’ts — Wrapping Up ‘The 10 Don’ts of Corporate Social Media’ Series”
Strategy, Strategy, Strategy – that is our prescription for corporations looking to enter or exist in the world of social media.
It is so very easy to enmesh your brand in the frantic social media activity of the moment; and it is so very easy to get off track, off-message, and, well, just plain off.
Whereas Boards, CEOs, CMOs and corporate marketers are fairly adept at judging and managing the value, efficacy and quality of conventional marketing and media strategies, because they are essentially uncertain about what is going on in social media they can be easily led astray. When you don’t know where you need to go, all roads will take you there.
When all bets are off, you do not know where to lay your money down.
And this is where strategy must come into play. […read more]
Don’t Forget to Leverage Your Community #10 out of “The 10 Don’ts of Corporate Social Media”
Reputation Matters, Forbes, August 15, 2011
In every community, there are some members who are more powerful than others. Trend-setters, opinion leaders and “tipping point people” all wield disproportionate influence within their communities…and it is no different in the social media space.
All those who want to raise their profiles and prominence in social media need to do is leverage their supporters in a way to gain exponentially more supporters. Once you get on the radar screen of a few real gurus, it is amazing how quickly your numbers and influence can mount.
Therefore, for our final “don’t” of this series, The 10 “Dont’s” of Corporate Social Media we would like to concentrate on the perils of forgetting to leverage your community. […read more]
Don’t Forget to Use Your Brand’s Network to Create Love from “Like” #9 of The 10 “Don’ts” of Corporate Social Media
Reputation Matters, Forbes, August 12, 2011
“Return on investment” is the mantra of those businesses and organizations that are making it in this topsy turvy world in which we find ourselves.
As the stock market gyrates, the US is downgraded, and we do not know whether we are in a double-dip recession, or somewhere along a road to recovery, cash flow management and lowering expenses are key. So, every organization must be asking itself what is the payback on each expenditure. Is it worth it, or can I put off the expense?
This is especially true for social media investments. We are still not completely sure what the payoff will be, across a wide variety of organizations. So, in this, our 9th article in our series, The 10 “Don’ts” of Corporate Social Media, Ian and I are turning to how to Use Your Brand’s Network to Create Love from ‘Like,’ and how to increase your ROI in the process. […read more]
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