Aug 25, 2008

YouTube kidguru Social Media is the use of internet platforms and tools that enables interaction and communication between users. (Read More)

2 days ago

Google Blog Search: "social media" The 451 Team compiled the following list of the top social media strategists. We admire their work and look forward to what they’re going to come up with in 2010. This is not a comprehensive list of the great social media strategists out there, so we invite you to contribute with the names of any strategists you admire with (Read More)

4 days ago

Signal vs. Noise Signal vs. Noise reader and JobChoy founder Mark Meeus writes: I’m not sure if you know Rodrigo and Gabriela and their story, if you do you can stop reading right now ;-) I want to tell you briefly their story because it is a good example of Getting Real applied to something else than webapps. Rodrigo and Gabriela started o (Read More)

5 days ago

Advertising Age - Latest News Consumer spending may have gone cold in 2009, but that didn't stop these marketers from turning up the temperature. Here Ad Age chooses the upstarts and established brands that are setting the pace for innovation -- and getting results -- right now. . (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Advertising Age - Digital NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microbilt's "I Love Local Commercial's" campaign dropped into the viral video chart this week, led by a dramatic pitch, created by YouTuber's Rhett and Link, for an Alabama-based mobile-home business. . (Read More)

Nov 04, 2009

Submitted by Fruchter from Google Reader: Recently, say over the last years or so, planning and strategy has gained sex appeal. Lots of clients are all about “insights” these days and seem to have developed quite a hankering for that one inspirational bit of information that can transform business ideas, product ideas, marketing innovation ideas. Oh.. and, I almost (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Micro Persuasion The images above should strike fear in any one who seeks attention - be it a brand, a politician or an individual. They come from Nielsen. The first (87) is the number of domains the average American visits in a month. The second (2600) is the number of web pages the average American visits in a month. This funnel is small (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Copyblogger Do you feel like you’re fighting for every page view your blog receives? Do you wonder why you’re struggling to find readers when other bloggers seem to just hit “publish” and the world comes running? It may be tempting to throw up your hands and say, “those other guys have all the luck,” but it won’t get you anywhere. The (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Copyblogger In a recent Copyblogger post discussing how the king of content is being slowly usurped by the Crown Prince of Context, author Larry Brooks referenced the remarkable opening scene of Quentin Tarantino’s new movie Inglorious Basterds. There are few writers like Tarantino, and though his verbal carpet bombs and kinetic escala (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

MarketingCharts The so-called “Sandwich Generation” appears to be more of a situation than a quantifiable age group, according to a study by Communispace, which found that the 20 million Americans who are simultaneously caring for aging parents and children range in age from their 20s to their 60s and want realistic marketing messages tha (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Submitted by Mike Trap from Google Reader: I favorited a YouTube video: she's struggling..why not help her?. (Read More)

Oct 31, 2009

TwitLinks By B. L. Ochman Amid the endless pronouncements about social media -- often shortened to "social" these days by consultants trying to sound like they know what they are talking about -- is the reality that social media is not a solution, or a sure bet. (Read More)

Nov 02, 2009

Neatorama I favorited a YouTube video: The bloodybelly comb jellys sparkling display is from light diffracting from tiny transparent, hair-like cilia. These beat continuously as a form of propulsion. In the deep sea, the jelly is nearly invisible; animals that are red appear black and blend into the dark background. Learn more: http (Read More)

Oct 30, 2009

Submitted by Mike Trap from blog: OK. Movember has taken root in US soil. A few of us in Boston are taking on the schmos in Austin to see who can raise the most dough for Prostate Cancer research. Honorary Bostonian Jason Falls is in. So are Graham Nelson, and Mike Schneider. So… If you care about prostate cancer, kick in a few bucks. If [...]. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Mike Trap from Google Reader: Myca Health has hired Boston-based independent Holland-Mark to support the introduction of Hello Health, a Web platform designed to streamline dealings ... (Read More)

Michael Troiano

The promise of social marketing is scalable intimacy.