Here I Am! (Facebook Places)
I’ve been a Foursquare user for a while. I’ll admit at first I didn’t get it and it seemed a little creepy to be broadcasting to the world exactly where I was. Soon enough, the hesitation faded and...
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New Orleans came together this past weekend to celebrate the city’s resurgence since the devastation of hurricane Katrina five years ago. It is truly uplifting to see the region making such great...
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As everyone anxiously anticipates Taylor Swift and Kayne West’s reunion at the MTV Music Awards next Sunday, Apple introduced its social network: Ping, a new online site for music fans where users can...
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Fashionistas rejoice! Designers are showcasing their new collections as part of Mercedes Benz Fashion Week, and also embracing digital. The industry, which has begun to communicate with the everyday...
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First, a salute to some heroes. Did you see the video of the emergency landing of Delta flight 4951 on Saturday night? Due to the skill of the pilot, there were no injuries and a narrowly avoided...
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Is email dead? Well, not really but new data suggests that people communicate via social networking sites much more than via e-mail. The report also found that social networking sites are visited once...
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You have an opportunity to nominate Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate in the 4th Annual Mashable Awards recognizing outstanding achievement in the digital and social media landscape! After looking...
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How many “friends” do you have on Facebook? If you are connected with people who are not true acquaintances, Jimmy Kimmel is calling on you to partake in “National UnFriend Day.” Geeksugar lays out...
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Call it Newton’s law of social media: The equal and opposite reaction to large networks of friends is Personal Networking. From one of the founders of Facebook, whose stats page says the average user...
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The Year of Living Dangerously
It’s the time of year when people reflect back on the last 12 months and look forward to the New Year, and so it felt fitting to share about the adventure on which I embarked at the start of 2010. In...
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The snow blanketing the northeast truly made a remarkable winter wonderland (well… for those not stuck in airports). To keep warm, it seems, many people are going shopping, online that is. Although...
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Hollywood award season officially kicked off with the Golden Globes on Sunday night. Not surprisingly, one of the biggest winners of the night was The Social Network, taking home the awards for Best...
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In a great example of building customer engagement, Pizza Hut has partnered with iN Demand to create “Entertainment Hut,” which houses movie trailers, video clips and trivia. Online customers will see...
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After all of the pre-game buzz, did you think the advertisements during the Super Bowl lived up to the hype? Some were controversial (Groupon’s play on the political oppression of the Tibetan people),...
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Social media – as an investment – received a big boost this week when JPMorgan Chase announced that it is starting a new fund for investors to back privately held technology companies like Twitter and...
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It is a Facebook face-off of sorts, as Google Social Search gets more social. Keyword searches will note your friends’ activity related to that search term from popular sites Flickr, Quora, Twitter...
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In times of crisis, the power of social media becomes ever more apparent. After the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Japan, residents flocked online for information and to search for...
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Happy Birthday, Twitter! The social networking site is celebrating its fifth anniversary. It’s hard to look back in a pre-microblogging world, especially when you take into account the impact it has...
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The REport: Facebook Engagement Leaders, Mobile Phone Privacy & More
Automobile companies have always seemed to engage well with consumers. Through innovative commercials, webisodes and other initiatives, their marketing departments have successfully communicated and...
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The influence and prevalence of social networking site Twitter was made abundantly clear when news on the death of Osama Bin Laden broke Sunday evening. Being touted as a “watershed moment” for the...
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