Media Bullseye
With all of the exciting things being released from Google recently, including the convoluted, yet promising Google Wave, the experimental organized search-relevancy tool that is Google Squared, and the promise of Chrome on Mac and Linux, Google is certainly making strides to bury the release of Microsoft’s search engine Bing continue to be the a [...]
Filed under: Digital Communications, Digital Tools, Frivolity, technology | Tagged: Bing, Chrome, google squared, google wave, Roommates, the big honkin | Leave a Comment »
I tweet. You tweet. Who doesn’t tweet? Well, a lot of people, that’s who. While cool tools like Twitter are great instruments (hat tip, Shannon Paul) with a lot of fantastic uses, it’s good to remember that, despite the fact that your Tweetdeck is giving you a constant window into the Twitterverse – and all [...]
Filed under: Communication 101, Customer Service, Digital Communications, Frivolity, Marketing, Online PR, technology, Twitter | 2 Comments »
Since there have been blogs, there have been people who steal your content. I’m not taking about borrowing your thoughts or words under a Creative Commons license, I’m talking about directly stealing your content to house on blogs loaded with Google Adwords or other advertising. Actually, for some of these blogs I’m not even sure [...]
Filed under: blogging, Blogosphere, Digital Communications, Digital Tools, RSS, technology | 3 Comments »
I’ve been a huge fan of RSS for many, many years. I love it. I think the technology behind it has done more to revolutionize the web than most applications or file formats. For communicator, it has done wonders to allow us to monitor conversations. For people who know how to use it, it has [...]
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I recently took a vacation in western Michigan in what should have been a seven-hour drive away from my house. I made this trip with my family, which included a then 15-month old, so the trip seemed more like a 12-month trek across the arctic. Since my colleague (and boss), Techno//Marketer Matt Dickman, recently posted [...]
Filed under: Customer Service, Marketing, Mobile Marketing, Online Engagement, technology | Tagged: Marketing, McDonalds, PlayPlace, Vacation | Leave a Comment »
This post originally appeared on the Forward blog Newspapers. We’ve been hearing about their demise for years now. But, seriously, is that ever going to happen? Let’s see, the only medium I can think of that really went offline was the telegraph. And that was a rare case. As Shel Holtz is fond of saying: [...]
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Yes, the elusive and sometimes controversial topic of digital divide. It’s a hot issue especially, since Web 2.0 is bursting-at-its seams. Yvonne DiVita’s interview with AT&T’s Spokesperson Claudia Jones over at the Lip-stiking blog strikes a match to the conversation. They discuss AT&T’s Project Lightspeed, which connects rural communities to the Internet at a faster [...]
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