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Kim serves Marketing Leaders. Her analysis on social trends, challenges, and best practices helps marketers create social strategies and tactics that deliver value to their prospects and customers. Her research covers B2B and B2C marketing, with a specific emphasis on the use of social marketing platforms and online communities to shape exploration and buying behaviors.
With over 15 years of marketing experience, Kim is an award-winning social media thought leader. She held various senior management roles throughout her career, including partner marketing, developer marketing, product marketing, event marketing, and marketing communications. She was a driving force behind Sun Microsystem's use of social media and listening platforms to drive awareness and product adoption. After Sun, Kim spent a year at Oracle as a senior global campaigns manager.
Kim holds a B.A. in marketing from Rider University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.
Vision: The B2B Online Community Playbook
This report is designed to help you revisit your strategy for engaging with customers through online communities and discussion forums, and demonstrate why your success will be based on taking the...
Processes: The B2B Online Community Playbook
This report showcases the exemplary community processes into practice by Forrester's 2011 Groundswell Award winners and finalists. These community leaders did not achieve success by luck, rather they...
Landscape: The B2B Online Community Playbook
B2B marketers have the difficult task of reaching multiple individuals at different seniority levels and roles across a company in order to influence a technology purchase decision. In addition,...

Executive Overview: The B2B Online Community Playbook
This playbook provides you with a strategy framework, road map, and the tools to establish a healthy and active online B2B community that delivers value to prospects, customers, and peers at each...

Strategic Plan: The B2B Online Community Playbook
Communities fail for many reasons, but you can avoid that fate if you focus on what you can control: selecting an appropriate approach that will deliver the best business results for your customers....
Road Map: The B2B Online Community Playbook
In this report, we provide you with a comprehensive road map to guide you through each essential step to build a strategy to revive your current online community or to launch a new one. Follow this...

Benchmarks: The B2B Online Community Playbook
As a B2B social marketer in charge of either owner or sponsor strategy communities, meaning communities that you operate — and fund — on your domain, you need to be able to set...
Organization: The B2B Online Community Playbook
For B2B marketers, when it comes to planning, designing, and implementing a successful online community, the rubber meets the road at organizational effectiveness. In order to sustain a healthy...
This report is designed to give B2B marketing professionals an introduction to the online community manager role as well as an overview of the general challenges facing an individual in this...

How, Why, And When Your Buyers Tap Into Communities
Communities provide the interactions and content that buyers seek when they want to discover, explore, and engage with a brand. But business-to-business (B2B) marketers often hesitate to interact...
Tools And Technology: The B2B Online Community Playbook
Many IT managers tell us that marketers seem quick to jump to technology selection without first articulating the business reason for or the organizational impact of those choices. On the other hand,...