February 2012
3 posts
“While businesses, organizations, and public figures should be excited about...”
– Pretty much sums it up.
“But sometimes what people stuff into the categories is a chance for us to see...”
– Pinterest as Free Market Research - Grant McCracken - Harvard Business Review
January 2012
10 posts
Happiness Takes (A Little) Magic | The Wirecutter →
I posted this to Twitter yesterday but it’s been on my mind a fair bit over the past 24 hours so I wanted to post it again here. The post talks about the firehose of information that many of us are tapped into and consume on a daily basis and how much of it is actually valuable. Or perhaps more importantly, how much of it actually makes us more enlightened, even happier. Take a look back at...
“A click means nothing. A click earns no revenue and creates no brand equity....”
– John Lowell
SVP Director, Research & Analytics
Starcom
“We definitely see social as just one part of what people do on Twitter,” Dorsey...”
– Interesting to see Dorsey positioning Twitter as an information network more so than a social network. I’d have to agree, I use it much more as a tool to share and discover information than I do to connect with people.
“Right now what I’m thinking is that if there is a credible threat that...”
– Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales speaking on his decision to protest the Stop Online Piracy Act (which would allow the government to restrict what content can appear online) by shutting down Wikipedia for a day. Wales is urging Twitter and Facebook to do the same. Occupy the Internet.
“Google is using Search to propel their social network. They might say it’s “not...”
– http://parislemon.com/post/15627530949/antitrust
Twitter has already responded to the announcement stating their discomfort in having their data excluded from Google search, no word yet from Facebook. Not sure how confortable I feel having Google curate the internet for me based on their business...
US music sales increase for the first time since... →
Over the past few years I’ve struggled with the paradox that on one hand music is incredibly valuable to me, yet on the other hand I can obtain it easily for free. I would try to justify not paying for albums by supporting my favorite bands by going to see them in concert when they came to town but the truth is, my hard core concert going days have come and gone. Then a couple months ago I...
December 2011
5 posts
Top 10 Albums of 2011
In no particular order, here are the 10 new albums I enjoyed most over the past year. Each entry is clickable to one of my favorite tracks off the album. If you want to debate any of the entries feel free to hit me up on Twitter…
Wild Beasts Smother
A$AP Rocky LIVELOVEA$AP
araabMUZIK Electronic Dream
Rural Alberta Advantage Departing
TV on the Radio Nine Types of Light
Black Keys El...
November 2011
6 posts
“We rarely think of “traditional media” as a channel except in comparison to new...”
– The Case for Dropping ‘Social’
Why 'Pages' on Google Isn't Just Another Facebook... →
I don’t disagree that there are some compelling features that differentiate Google+ Pages from Facebook Pages but, for the most part, they don’t bring anything new or exciting to the table for the user. Integrating into Google’s ever growing ecosystem makes great business sense for a brand to create a G+ Page but it does nothing to make me as a user want to follow that Page. If G+ wants to survive...
October 2011
1 post
September 2011
5 posts
Engaging in the social space on behalf of a brand is a lot like an actor improvising. Only when an actor fully understands and inhabits his character is he free to improvise. He is free to improvise because he knows his character so well that he can go off script and be confident that what he’s doing will be in character. The same goes for community managers - the more defined the brand and...
“Going back in time and seeing the past several years of my life displayed in...”
– Techcrunch re: the new Faceook Profiles. I just got the new profile myself and it really is a revelation. It’s taken an aspect of Facebook that I’d totally stopped paying attention to and made it something very personal and emotive. Well done, Facebook.
“On Thursday, developers will be elated, users will be shellshocked and the...”
– Either Facebook is about to drop some crazy s#it or they’ve been handing out some game-changing Kool-aid and Mashable is drunk with hyperbole.
Prepare Yourselves: Facebook To Be Profoundly Changed
“I’ll always remember this as the night that Michael Jordan and I combined for 70...”
– Daring Fireball
August 2011
4 posts
2 tags
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever...”
– STEVE JOBS, in a commencement address at Stanford, 2005.
(via the Wall Street Journal)
HOW THE WEST WAS WON
There seems to be a persistent (and disheartening) belief amongst marketers, both client side and agency, that social media is akin to the wild west - a place bereft of rules or reason where outlaws shoot first and ask questions later. I’m frequently amazed by how often I come across brands whose social media efforts not only feel totally arbitrary but are also totally off-brand. A lot of...
July 2011
4 posts
“While the press and pundits focus on Google’s effort to compete with...”
– Three Key Things Google Is Doing While We Focus on Google | Digital - Advertising Age
“The role of a creative leader is not to have all the ideas; it’s to create...”
– Ken Robinson On The Principles Of Creative Leadership | Fast Company
June 2011
3 posts
“If the Internet doesn’t seem new and fresh to you, you’re doing something wrong,...”
– Gapingvoid | “Hugh MacLeod” Cartoons drawn on the back of business cards - Part 2
“Overall, Brown said many of entrant agencies mistook technology for great ideas....”
– -Cannes judge on this years entrants in Promo and Activation category
Leo Burnett and Proximity win Promo Lions | Marketing Magazine
May 2011
2 posts
“What makes Nick Brien so interesting is his vision about the business. At last...”
– The Most Interesting Man In Advertising - Avi Dan - The Insider - Forbes
April 2011
5 posts
“Our hypothesis has been and continues to be that those organizations that can be...”
– Infographic Of The Day: 3-D Model Unlocks Secrets of Twitterverse [Video] | Co.Design
Future of social networks: Will Facebook remain... →
“The big question for the future of social networking isn’t whether Facebook will be the largest and most influential site five years from now. It’s whether it will be the only one. Will Facebook be the exclusive catalog of our interests and relationships, or will it coexist with several others?”
I’m not sure it’s quite time for all the other platforms to throw...
March 2011
7 posts
6 Benefits of Adding Facebook Connect to Your...
1. Easy Login: Without having to go through any lengthy login process, users can login instantly to your brand’s website using their Facebook account.
2. Share content without leaving your site: Unlike in the past when users actually had to go to Facebook to share content with their friends, with Facebook Connect, users can now share pictures, links, videos, articles without leaving your...