Chevron.com Website Gets "Exemplary" Rating by Bowen Craggs

Bowen Craggs & Co., the group that produces the FT Index of corporate website effectiveness, just published an article on how Chevron.com effectively manages corporate reputation and communicates the company’s position related to its Ecuador lawsuit.

It’s nice when your work gets noticed.  Thanks to a great team that helped make it happen.

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I Love This Stuff! @Chevron Geomap Uses Google Analytics and Visualization APIs to Show Worldwide Agreements

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We just launched an interactive geomap that shows where in the world people have found common ground with Chevron’s new We Agree campaign.  Since October, 2010, more than 70,000 agreements worldwide have been registered at http://www.chevron.com/weagree. The agreements are captured using Google Analytics (GA) and then fed back to the map using both the GA API and the Google Visualization API.  The result is a Flash-based map that users can roll over to see the number of agreements by city throughout the world.

This project shows the power of Google’s simple, clear and FREE APIs.  It also shows a great collaboration between marketing and technology to make it happen.  It was a fun project to work on, and it looks really cool.  If you like it, share it with your friends, click the LIKE button, smile.

Photos from BlogWell Chicago

Just got back from Chicago, where I spoke on behalf of Chevron at BlogWell: How Big Brands Use Social Media.  The meeting was out in Oak Brook, in the Western suburbs, at McDonald's Hamburger University.  It was my first time visiting HU, and it was not disappointing.  The McDonald's campus is beautiful, nicer than Chevron's San Ramon spread, and included some great historical memorabilia as well as some interesting architecture.  I liked West McNugget Row as an address inside one of the buildings as well as the Ray Kroc Office Exhibit.