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A couple fun and digestible bits of digital content were shared with me today. Infographics and well edited videos seem to be used increasingly as a great form of self promotion but at the end of a day I’m a sucker for well presented stats and...Thank God For The Recession: 5 Trends That Will Reshape Marketing
I'm sure I'm not the first one to tell you: We're in a recession.The doom has advertisers hanging signs along the lines of “Will Work For Food” on their agency walls, and marketers continue to face facts and figures like these, from...Why the Cannes Lions Are Important
Bob Garfield wrote a passionate article today about why he thinks Cannes is dead. Although I agree with Bob that many of the ads that have been celebrated at Cannes don't represent the future of advertising, I don't believe for one second that...Twitter: The Next Piece in Google's Semantic Web Puzzled
SMT Edit:Â Original by Rob Gonda hereThe seemingly endless media and industry fawning over Twitter has lead to the widespread debate over the merits of real-time search and the future of the search industry. Yes, Twitter is an amazing service that...Facebook copies Twitter again, Facebook is doing everything wrong
Last month, Jason Calacanis wrote he'd pay $250,000 to be listed as a Twitter “Suggested Follow” for two years. Getting on Twitter's “suggested” list can drive hundred of thousands of people to follow a Twitter feed....The New World of Social Network Marketing
There's been a common misconception for quite sometime that social networks were only filled with teens and young adults, and although this still applies for some very youth focused networks like Habbo, the reality is social network use is now...Twitter Seeks Profit and Confirms Paid Pro Accounts On The Way
As Twitter's growth explodes, speculation has intensified about whether the service can be profitable. Twitter's online traffic, excluding cellphones, surged to nearly 9.8 million unique visitors in February from 6.1 million in January, according...Social Networks - Biggest Isn't Always The Best
We live in a marketing world fascinated with talk of Facebook, YouTube, and MySpace. They're the first thing that jump to mind when you discuss social media or social networks with perhaps a distant 4th being the omni-present “blogosphere...Confirmed: Adobe Flash for the iPhone for 2009
Adobe demoed Flash 10 runtime for mobile back at Adobe Max 2008 on the Android platform, the Windows mobile and the Symbian platform. During the keynote, I remember that Kevin Lynch mentioned that Adobe has been working on Flash for the iPhone...Pitching Sir Freddie Laker for The US Business
Around this time of year I tend to get pretty sentimental. The holidays, my birthday, and then in early February the anniversary of my father's death all make me crave some positive memories to keep him fresh in my mind. For those of you who don't...The A380 - In-Flight Technology Obsession?
When I came back from Singapore I had the pleasure of finally flying an Airbus A380 - the largest commercial airliner in the world. I was deeply impressed with the aircraft. It flew gracefully. It was incredibly quiet. The cabin was amazing and...Why Social Media Analysis Tools Are Important
A different kind of digital ecosystem.... Even though in most regions of the world, half of the top 20 websites are social media sites, companies rely primarily on web statistics and click-through rates on media campaigns to judge the health of...YouTube as a discussion destination
Guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has sued Coldplay for copyright infringement over claims that their hit single, Viva La Vida, used “substantial original portions” of his song If I Could Fly from 2004, seeking damages for “any and all...Google Android / gPhone vs. iPhone
The main difference between the gPhone and the iPhone is that with Android, apps won’t be subjected to this (click to zoom in). “Take Me To Your Leader” focuses on trend watching in consumer behaviors, marketing, technology, and...LinkedIn To Launch Their Own Ad Network
While most social networks struggle to sell advertising due to lack of proper segmentation and totally irrelevant content for advertisers, LinkedIn has so much demand that they decided to launch their own ad network. LinkedIn claims 27 million...HBO's True Blood “Viral” / ARG Campaign
HBO's new show True Blood premiered last night. It's based on Charlain Harris' South Vampire Mysteries series. The Japanese have developed synthetic blood called TruBlood and this development has allowed vampires who have been effectively hiding to...Microsoft explains why the ad is so lame
“This first set of ads features Bill Gates and comedian Jerry Seinfeld. Think of these ads as an icebreaker to reintroduce Microsoft to viewers in a consumer context. Later this month, as the campaign moves into its next phase, we'll go much...Microsoft, Seinfeld, Gates; Apple beware!
Microsoft is launching a $300 million ad campaign starting September 4th, says the WSJ. The ad campaign will star comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates, and it was developed to combat the negative image that many consumers have about Windows Vista...
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“I would compare Facebook Like-Gates to capturing email and other contact information by offering ebooks and whitepapers. Without these, you'd be providing great content but that doesn't mean that everybody would go out of their way to dish out their contact details. It's a way to incentivize content providers to continue to generate great articles, inforgraphics and videos. And unliking a page is ...”
“Nonverbal communication is as important as our verbal or written messages. And how we appear in photographs on the web-- and specifically on Linkedin--can be critically important to our personal brands and our messages. The research you cite about warm and cold impressions is critical to how we are perceived. Thanks for the insightful post, Victoria, and I'm looking forward to the future posts. ...”