Today at Cupertino, Apple had it’s first post-Jobs era product launch. Apple announced 2 things really. The iPhone 4S and the Siri, Assistant Search. This is a much better phone than the Samsung Charge that I have, but it’s not the “iPhone 5″ that was buzzing around the interwebs. Siri Search, makes use of Yelp’s [...]
It’s an age old discussion. Does SEO go under the Marketing umbrella? Or does it fit under the Information Technology umbrella? Quite simply, it fits under both. It’s the bridge over troubled waters. It’s the mojo that gets your website workin’. But where does SEO fit in your organization optimally? First of all, what is [...]
If you want to win, you must have the attitude that your product kicks ass. Does your idea kick ass? Does it makes people bow down to the badassness that you are creating? Does it excite you? Can it excite other people? Does it excite your team to work overtime and stay late… and desire [...]
As social media evolves, it appears that tribes are being created online. Small groups of influential people are congregating in various social media sites and helping each other create more influence. This appears to be a relatively new phenomenon. There are several sites out there that gauge our social influence. They take our actions on [...]
There is a science to creating the perfect landing page the generates lots of conversions. Look at this infographic to give you some valuable insights on how to increase your conversions. Via FormStack
Just hanging out on Twitter today when I saw this tweet from @adamostrow, Editor-in-Chief at Mashable, about the negative comments on facebook about their Justin Bieber contest. . . yep. You read right. Mashable is hosting a Justin Bieber contest on it’s Facebook Page, and from the comments – Mashable loyalists are none to pleased. [...]
Haven’t you heard? There is a recession going on!! Nobody is spending any money on marketing! Everyone is broke! Well, this just isnt the case. According to Marketing Sherpa’s Social Media Marketing Benchmark Survey, almost every niche surveyed is increasing budgets. I know a lot of small business people. That’s why I blog about their [...]
There has been a lot of talk and maybe a little drama surrounding the Fast Company Influence Project and I wanted to write a little something about why I wanted to be a part of the project and why I continue to ask for the support of my friends and colleagues by the way of [...]
Lately my company has been asked to write a lot of proposals for social media management. I’m not talking about doing some occasional tweeting for people. I’m talking about setting them up from ground zero. I am also talking Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and sometimes setting up blogs. After everything is setup we start the management [...]
This is spectacular. Viacom, you guys are a$$holes. And you owe Jonathan Coulton $13, 823 by your own estimates. As seen at Gizmodo.
AT&T, in a move that people could see a mile away, is going to upgrade away the Unlimited Data plans through upgrade pricing for the iPhone 4G.
Social networking sites and the media have found synthesis these past few months, as movies and their twitter and Facebook fan pages have been areas where fans can get sneak previews of scenes, exclusive interviews and interact with their favorite actors. Now, the upcoming motion picture “Scott Pilgrim VS The World” has a cool offer [...]
When my business partner Jeanette and I were asked to attend a Harley Davidson luncheon to kick off the Women Riders weekend we said yes faster than you can say Women Riders! Having never been on a Harley, I was more the excited to go check it all out and learn about the culture. Harley [...]
This is one of the most beautiful and creative advertisements I have ever seen. ENVISION : Step into the sensory box from SUPERBIEN on Vimeo. Via Gizmodo
April 7th 2009 was the date that my company hosted our first TweetUp. It ended up being well attended and well received. We had news coverage from multiple local stations as well as local papers. It was that night that prompted the birth of the TweetUp Girls concept. Flash forward a year to April 22, [...]
If true, does Apple even need to make computers anymore?
Lawrence, Kansas is very dear to me. See, I grew up in Missouri surrounded by obnoxious Missouri Tigers fans… being an antagonist and also an observer of great history and talent, I decided to become a Jayhawk. So, after a brief stint in the Army at the Defense Language Institute in both the Arabic and [...]
Microsoft has just pulled a “controversial” ad for the new Kin phones, citing complaints that the ad encouraged sexting. There were also furries in it so that could also be the reason.
Twitter’s dynamic new ad service is … the same as pretty much every search engine’s. And then it might work a bit like Digg’s? This is all very boring. Here are five better ideas. SaleWhale Every time Twitter goes down, the whale goes up. Why not sell the whale as ad space for limited-time online [...]
Twitter start having ads called “Promoted Tweets”
I am the Lorax and I speak for the trees. AT&T earthy-crunchiness doesn’t justify fees.
The Pink Phone is now the Kin. Let the name hate begin.
Big news! iPhone OS4 is going to offer a slew or new and revolutionary features never seen on a smartphone. Plus, it will have better ads. Also, Steve Jobs didn’t want half of a cheese sandwich.
Mobile Local Social is proud to announce the creation of the Mobile Media Club. Mobile Media Club is a community of mobile enthusiasts, designers, developers, user experience professionals, marketers and business people cooperating, educating and learning through virtual and live networking events to share knowledge about the global marketplace. We are starting our first local Mobile Media Club in Kansas City, and mobile enthusiasts from all over the world are encouraged to join.
In the perfect world, a client needs someone who knows the Social Media scene & not only gets it but can set the tone for a brand. Oh yeah, and someone who knows that control is futile.
Mind-melding in action by…gah! Marketers!
It seems to me that the iPad amounts to spending $500+ for the privilege of having a single device that can do a bunch of things okay – things that are already being done very well by other devices that I own.
Yesterday, I decided to get busy with my Linkedin Google presentation app. Why not make a visual resume. So I did. Here’s the structure of my visual resume:
There has been a lot of buzz around social media monitoring in the last year or so. If you don’t know, social media monitoring is technology (software) that tracks “conversations” in the social media channel and formats the data, in dashboard form, similar to Google Analytics. The software “listens” to most public posts on blogs, [...]
Picture yourself walking through Manhattan when your phone beeps at you, you have just received a text message from one of your favorite stores alerting you that not only are they having a sale but you are within a couple of blocks of one of their locations. Cool? I think so. More and more retailers [...]
Social media vernacular is amazing in its reach, and often hilarious in its final accepted form. Crowd sourcing is certainly interesting, and when you apply it to linguistics you never know what you may get. There is usually a semi-logical genesis for the terms we use. For example, in the world of online gaming the [...]
Take your lingo and shove it.
Here me out. I believe that education and how we learn as a society has reached an awesomely creative apex due to the use and implementation of social media in course and curriculum design as well as in just overall communication between individuals. People who never had access to learning before, now have an abundance [...]
Let’s face it, if email was a movie character, it would look like the zombies in Night of the Living Dead. Just like the spammers who messed it up for the rest of us. Fortunately for many of us, we are smarter. We figured out social media. We know Facebook, and Twitter, and RSS. We don’t need your stinkin’ email.
