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The End of Social Networking as We Know It (and I feel…)

February 19, 2009 No comments yet

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Furthering my series of posts about mobile social networks, I would like to present you with some statistics:

Users accessing Facebook on their mobile phones spent on average 24 minutes on the site compared with 27.5 minutes daily by computer users (link to story)
Mobile phone users accessed the site on average 3.3 times per [...]

Social Lead Generation Meets Cause Marketing

January 4, 2009 No comments yet

Question:
Social Outreach, Email Lead Generation and Cause Marketing?
Answer:
A new experiment by The Emerging Communications Conference.
My new friend Lee S. Dryburgh first approached me about the idea by telling me he had an idea for an experiment. His idea would help garner registration for the conference he is organizing, while at the same time do some [...]

Santa Focuses On Bran Muffins and Soy Milk

December 24, 2008 1 comment

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The digital age has been difficult for many marketers. All too often, marketers put the technological cart before the strategic horse. Facebook (and other social networks) is a breeding ground for campaigns that focus on the features of the platform, without telling a story.This is certainly not the fault of Facebook, rather it [...]

Can Facebook Lead The Social Web?

December 1, 2008 3 comments

Let’s face it, the entire web is becoming social. By the end of 2009, all sites will have some social component to them–and why not?

Where there is content, there can be conversation
When there is conversation, there is engagement

Most great live presenters ask questions of their audience. They generally don’t do so because they want to [...]

…it is how you use it!

November 21, 2008 2 comments

You need to learn how to use Twitter because all of the young people are using it, right? Um, no way!
I don’t have the usage stats (kudos to anyone who can get them for me) but I don’t know anyone under twenty who uses Twitter (and yes, I do know people under twenty). In [...]

7 Ways to Get Me to NOT Join Your Social Network

November 19, 2008 No comments yet

There are a lot of social networks out there–we all know this. As someone in the industry, I do my best to join as many social nets as possible. I even join the branded social networks, as I am working with clients on a number of initiatives and I am always looking for best pratices [...]

Starbucks is Now Following You on Twitter

November 9, 2008 1 comment

Starbucks is not new to the social media space. They have done some very interesting, yet questionably successful initiatives–mystarbucksidea.com being the most notable.
I got a message today that Starbucks was following me on Twitter. I had heard about their presence, but had not really taken a look into it. I felt that this would be [...]

Conversating With Mzinga

October 24, 2008 2 comments

Yes, I know that is not a word
A couple of weeks ago I had a conversation with Aaron Strout from Mzinga. He was recording for the Conversations With Mzinga Podcast–have a listen.

Believe It Or Not, Conversations Happen In The Real World Too!

August 18, 2008 No comments yet

I have been extremely interested in geo-spatial technologies, location aware devices and augmented reality for quite some time. Much of my interest in these topics has been purely theoretical. Everything is changing rather rapidly.
Thanks to the iPhone (and other location aware devices of course) and companies like Loopt, what is commonly known as “the conversation” [...]

Montenegro Truly Understands The Future Of Social Networking

July 28, 2008 No comments yet

The Montenegrin independence referendum was a refeĀ­rendum on the independence of the Republic of Montenegro from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro that was held on 21 May 2006.
By June 3rd of that same year Montenegro was declared an independent state. Following their declaration of independence, .me became the Internet country code top-level domain [...]