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Creating a marketing campaign takes a lot of time. After all, there are strategies to bake, concepts to vet, plans to approve, ROI to calculate, spots to produce, legal to satisfy, and ads to traffic. And, if you work at a large company, there is a gauntlet of managers, directors, VPs, and C-level execs to [...]
All over the country, including in my own kitchen last week, citizens had the opportunity to discuss the merits of Steven Slater, the flight attendant who decided that shouting expletives and releasing an emergency ramp was a good way to handle on the job frustration. Far be it from me to judge, but the consensus [...]
I’m all for following the zeitgeist. In a previous posting, I talked about the power of observing in real-time, or relatively real-time, the topics of interest that products like Twitter can expose. I also warned of the dangers we can run into when we over-focus on this data.
Recently, Yahoo disclosed that it is teaming [...]
We know all about you, social media. You’re the new cool kid on the block. Everyone wants to hang out with you. Everyone wants to be your friend. You’re mysterious and intriguing. Not like plain old email over there.
Poor email. He used to be the cool kid at one time. People used to tie up [...]
I have long held a belief about Facebook and Twitter that I think is potentially bearing some fruit. Most of this comes from observations about how everyday people use the two services, and the nature of the services themselves. And, a recent article I came across on ClickZ seems to be pointing toward some validity [...]
For all of the things that Twitter is or is not, one thing that it does better than almost any other (current) service is tap into the Zeitgeist.
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Regular users of Twitter are well aware of this. Whether it’s the zeitgeist of the people you follow or of the nation, the attractiveness and addictiveness [...]
A good article from some of my colleagues at Razorfish on the Twitter Quitter phenomenon.
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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. [...]
Issues of Interest
Have Students Graduated from E-Mail?
Report: Over-the-top driving viewership
Study: Mothers Know Best for Online Shopping
All I Want for Tweetmas
Digital Marketing News
eMarketer’s Predictions for 2009
Online-Video Ads Show Slower Growth .Article
Online Marketers Wooing Minorities More
Comparison Site Visits Down 15 Percent From Last Season
Burger King’s Whopper of a Virginal Search Slip-up
Digital Commerce News
ComScore Sees No Overall [...]
SocialOverinfluence/OnlineBargains/GoogleTV/18-24YearOlds
Trying something new this week - putting articles together in themes and offering my thoughts on the implications.
How do we listen to customers via social without being overly influenced by the voice of the few?
People freaking out about Motrin advertising and the brand’s response begs the question - does listening to chatter give too much [...]
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