If you’ve been paying attention these past few years, you know by now that the world is most definitely your oyster. Thanks to the game changing power of the Internet, you can disrupt markets, wear a sarong to work and never answer to a clueless boss again. Sure, it may sound too good to be true. But trust me when I say that doubt will get you nowhere. On the other hand, the more you believe in yourself, the more …
Add Social Gaming To The Growth List
I'll admit, I'm not much of a social gamer, but I certainly know plenty of people who are. Reuters takes a closer look at the growth and popularity of advertising on social games: Social game ads are in their infancy and there is no industry standard for which to measure their reach. Conversion rates, or the rate at which people buy products they have seen advertised, are also low, according to eMarketer …
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Sponsors Of The Olympics Go For Social Media Gold
It's an Olympics year, and with social media bigger than ever, Fox Business takes a look at how Olympic sponsors plan to get social: Take Samsung Electronics, which recently launched its U.S. Olympic Genome Project. It uses a game called "How Olympic Are You?" to establish people's connections to the Olympics, such as finding athletes from their hometowns, or athletes who like the same music or movies they …
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Email Isn’t Shiny and New, But It Works
There are so many ways to reach prospects and customers today. But which path is best for business? Facebook, as you may have heard, is busy reinventing advertising. Is that the path brands want/need to travel? Signs point to no. According to Jay Baer of Convince and Convert, the more companies use social media channels to sell, the less they sell. Baer points to new research from ExactTarget. In …
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Major League Baseball Is All About The Share
According to Mashable, Major League Baseball has gone social in a big way. With Thursday’s official Opening Day, the league introduced designated social media-savvy “real-time correspondents” for all 30 of its ballparks to provide on-the-ground updates and content. And it’s launched Tumblr and Pinterest accounts for every club. “Baseball is really a social conversation for us,” MLB.com‘s director of new …
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So Shall It Be
"Nobody wants another social network right now," said Brian Solis, an analyst at social-media advisory firm Altimeter Group. The numbers back up Solis' claim. According to a recent comScore report, visitors using personal computers spent an average of about three minutes a month on Google+ between September and January, versus six to seven hours on Facebook each month over the same period. Stating the …
I’m An Only Child, But I Learned To Share
Yahoo! sold its social bookmarking site Delicious.com last April to a company called AVOS, which was started by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. I hadn't bookmarked a page on Delicious in 14 months until today, when I started playing around with the new design, which is visually interesting and oriented, much like Pinterest, Scoop.it and Storify. Last December on the Delicious blog, the team …
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To Be Held, Or Not To Be?
Certainly, big holding companies like Omnicom or WPP would love to have a piece of David Droga's action, but Droga values his independence, and it appears that he has other means. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Droga is injecting $6 to $7 million into his five year-old agency Droga5, care of angel investments from financier Henry Silverman and media executive Bob Pittman. Ad Age too weighed in …