Posting a video on YouTube does not a social media president make. Effective, but he’s not going to be reading the comments. And, if he does, he will be reading them for the same reason we all do. To see how long discourse can remain civil before someone compares someone else to Hitler.
Entries Tagged as 'New comms tools'
Attention social media nerds
November 15th, 2008 · No Comments
Tags: New comms tools · Word-of-mouth
On FriendFeed
July 7th, 2008 · No Comments
I need to check the actual stats, but it doesn’t seem to be moving any needles on our traffic. I wonder if this commentary is more apt than I originally thought.
Tags: New comms tools
There’s almost a business idea in this…
June 7th, 2008 · No Comments
That I think I shouldn’t blog about it. But, there’s this lunch place near work that makes a transcendental (ethereal?) sandwich of carrots, hummus, avocado, and greens. It is awesome. But the place is always small and packed. So… they lose a lot of customers who go on to substandard meals elsewhere. But what if [...]
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The price of inaction
May 26th, 2008 · No Comments
So, I’m setting up Twitter and FriendFeed accounts for PRWeek. I have no idea how they will be deployed (and, you know, we have a fully packed Facebook group, and still not sure how to harness that). But the price of inaction is to cede the future to a competitor.
Tags: New comms tools · Web 2.0
Your gov’t listens
May 18th, 2008 · No Comments
We’re probably going to do a news analysis next week on twitter and its use (or lack of use) from organizations whose charter is to communicate during disasters. I’ve been doing some research to help my reporter out, and stumbled upon Downing Street’s Twitter feed (which only has about 2,500 followers) - compared to the [...]
Tags: Media · New comms tools · Politics
Knute! Knot! Knol!
December 15th, 2007 · No Comments
There is no consensus about mighty Google once you leave the search realm behind. Personally, I get a little excited everytime Google releases a new product. I use Google Docs on my Macbook instead of spending hundreds of dollars on Word (oh, but what will I ever do without Passport!?!?!), switched from a Yahoo!/Hotmail confluence [...]
Tags: Branding · Culture · New comms tools
I’ve lived in the belly of the Web 2.0 beast
June 23rd, 2007 · No Comments
And that home can be found here (via Valleywag)
Tags: Marketing · New comms tools
Auger
June 10th, 2007 · 1 Comment
One man’s opinion, but here it is.
I have never enjoyed MySpace. I’m on it, but the profile, I’m sure, has grown stagnant. And I completely understand the benefits of social networks. After hearing about the joys of Facebook one too many times — my breaking point occurred here — I joined up. And I’m now [...]
Tags: Marketing · Marketing tools · New comms tools
Whither niche?
June 9th, 2007 · No Comments
I know I count former Weblogs Inc. bloggers as readers, so maybe they’ll answer this privately, but what happened to all their niche blogs? Did they just slowly go to pasture (look at how many are on hiatus or retired). Or was it an abrupt end? I guess AOL just wanted the major ones. Knowing [...]
Tags: New comms tools · Weblogs
Don’t look back in consternation
January 20th, 2007 · 1 Comment
So, I wrote a column for my employer about the whole CGM/ad business coming up for the Super Bowl.
Essentially, Doritos, NFL, and Chrysler are all, in some form, asking the public to submit videos of or ideas for ads, and their work will make it into the final spot. The Doritos ads, available here, struck [...]
Tags: Marketing · New comms tools · Sports