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A good article from some of my colleagues at Razorfish on the Twitter Quitter phenomenon.
Copied from here.
Find the article here.
The story will be an interesting one to follow over the next 12 months. The once mighty MySpace is on its knees, and how many of us have already forgotten Friendster (or never even heard of them?).
Will [...]
First, I apologize for not updating the blog more often. I am in the process of starting a new blog and will link the two together when it is up.
Now, to the business at hand . . . Among the many, many articles coming out on Twitter, I found a few that were particularly intriguing. [...]
A few very newsworthy items out of RF. First is the publication of our 5th annual Digital Outlook Report. It’s a great publication, and has tons of valuable information. You can get a copy here.
Some of the chapters titles, just to get your interest piqued:
Trends in Social Influence Marketing
Top 10 mobile applications to watch
The [...]
Skittles is getting a lot of chatter regarding its decision to make its web site simply a portal to social media. It’s bold, but is it smart?
Excerpt: Many marketers are applauding Skittles’s groundbreaking decision to turn its site into little more than a channel to point visitors to buzz and information about the brand on consumer-generated [...]
Some of the comments in the article are really “no -duhs,” but this is a good primer for just thinking through some of the key issues that come up when someone says “we need to do social.”
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An Excerpt: For companies, resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social [...]
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Generational differences in digital: Millenials, GenX, and Boomers
How and what they access is different, but all generations use digital to gather shopping information.
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Do marketers have the wrong Cyber Monday? (And Black Friday is hot online, too, by the way)
Cyber Monday is a created phenomenon. But maybe it’s catching on?
Atlas
Mobile Shopping - changing the [...]
Leading marketers believe in the power of social. The question is WHAT to do with it.
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Article links:
Learning to Work with Social Networks
Social Networkers Aren’t There for Ads
Musing:
The audience and the interest is there. Over 50% of those online use social networks, and they spend a lot of time there.
There is huge and lively [...]
People freaking out about Motrin advertising and the brand’s response begs the question - does listening to chatter give too much credence to the few who do blog, tweet, etc?
bloggers blog
Article links:
Moms and Motrin
Motrin campaign shows need for informed targeting
Crashing Motrin-Gate: A Social-Media Case Study
Musing: It’s amazing. In the course of only 5 [...]
More and more retailers are taking advantage of the power of social not just to listen to what customers are saying, but to provide improved customer service, communicate with them on a different level, and understand better how they buy.
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Article links:
Can Social Networks Predict What You’ll Buy?
GOT 2 HAVE IT
How to [...]
Ok, we know they are online a lot, but so what? How do we use that information to reach out to young people and do it more effectively?
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Article links:
Kids and Teens Are Always On
College Student and Teen Web Tastes
Are Young Adults Really Brand-Resistant?
Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Emerging Media Increasingly Inform Shoppers’ [...]
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