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Federal Personas: Beyond the C-Level Suite
Thursday, May 21st, 2020The Importance of Influencer Personas for the Win How many times have you sat around a table, planning your next campaign and someone says, “We should just target CTOs, CISOs or CIOs – they make the final decision…”? We’re often faced with the same statement by public sector marketers who are looking to find out…
Federal IT Contractors: Your Help Made Federal Telework Possible
Thursday, May 14th, 2020But There Is Still Work to Be Done Over the past 5+ years, Market Connections has surveyed and interviewed thousands of federal employees about agency challenges and needs that could be addressed through IT modernization. It is heartening to see that all the technology and work performed by federal IT contractors over the past half-decade…
In Times of Need: How the Tech Industry Can Reach Educational Markets to Support
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020Distance learning involves so much more than making sure your child submits their homework on time. The role of technology in education has accelerated to a level many weren’t expecting for another 3-5 years, leaving some behind. Millions of students are without sufficient access to the online tools they need (Read this article from edscoop)…
Take Advantage of Increased Public Sector Social Media Usage
Thursday, April 16th, 2020Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve shared how to take advantage of increased screen time among government audiences, as well as, how to effectively pivot your in-person meetings to virtual ones. Now we take a look at the pervasive online vehicle that only continues to grow in influence: social media. In addition to your…
Reaching Your Government Customer: Where to Place Content for Maximum Visibility
Thursday, April 9th, 2020Our last blog post “Increased Screen Time Equals More Time with Public Sector Decision-Makers” focused on taking advantage of increased screen time by providing your government customer with content that educates and informs. The next step is to place your content where your customer is already going. Before placing content on other media channels, take…
Increased Screen Time Equals More Time with Public Sector Decision-Makers
Thursday, April 2nd, 2020Now Is the Time to Educate Your Government Customer In our last blog post, Webinars in Place of In-Person Events – A New Normal?, we shared insights about public sector webinar preferences to help marketers refocus their marketing dollars from live events and conferences to virtual events. However, webinars may only be the tip of…
Webinars in Place of In-Person Events – A New Normal?
Tuesday, March 24th, 2020Understand Public Sector Preferences & Consumption Like many of you, recent events have caused us to cancel or postpone our in-person meetings, events and conferences based on government guidelines to create some social distance to protect ourselves and our community. Many of these events and meetings were crucial to our business from both an educational…
WiTConnect Event Focuses on the State of Technology in Healthcare
Thursday, March 19th, 2020Women in Technology recently hosted their quarterly WiTConnect event focused on the state of technology in healthcare. This event focused on the top challenges faced in the Healthcare IT industry by bringing a panel of industry experts to share their experiences. Predominantly focused on the public sector, the following panelists shared the priorities, challenges and…
What’s More Dangerous Than a Dissatisfied Customer? A Silent One
Thursday, February 20th, 2020By Laurie Morrow, Vice President, Research Strategy Have you ever been so pleased with an experience in a store, restaurant or other establishment you do business with, that you went out of your way to tell the management how delighted you were with the experience? No. Neither have I. Most of the time, I’m just…
Artificial Intelligence & Intelligent Automation: Top Takeaways from the ACT-IAC Forum
Thursday, February 13th, 2020Artificial Intelligence (AI), Intelligent Automation (IA) and Robotics Process Automation (RPA) – should we be worried about machines taking over the world? Could Skynet or VIKI really happen in our not-so-distant future? Are we headed towards a Matrix society, or more realistically, should we be worried about our own jobs? While Hollywood may have captured…