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Today In Twitterverse: Make It Matter Or Make It Go Away

Spike Jones at Brains on Fire has been one of my favorite bloggers for years. Today, he posted a post to beat all posts. Here's how it starts: Noise. Noise. Noise. You should be on Facebook. You should be on Twitter. Noise. Noise. Noise. Make a viral video. We should blog. Noise. Noise. Noise. Leave it to the advertisers - and those with the old ad model thinking - to take social media and push out messages. It's …

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As Mass Media Crumbles Marketers Get Personal

According to PR Week, Coca-Cola has created a new office of digital communications and social media within its public affairs and communications department. Clyde Tuggle, SVP of corporate affairs and productivity at Coke, noted "mass media is declining in importance," when introducing the new department in a memo to staff, which the beverage manufacturer shared with PRWeek. "Our future success depends on our …

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Using Millennials To Market Cars To Millennials

If you're a progressive marketer today, you don't want to create another ad campaign. Rather, you want to start a consumer movement. That's what Ford Motors is up to with Fiesta Movement, a new effort that takes online WOM to its ultimate "in service of the brand" expression. According to Automobile Magazine, 100 specially selected drivers will get their hands on a Ford Fiesta before the car launches in the U.S. …

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When Members of the Digerati Tire of All the Web 2.0 Bullshit, What’s Next?

Wieden's digital ninja, Renny Gleeson is not impressed with the shallow work being done by Axe and Skittles online. Actually, "not impressed" is much too weak a description. Let's look at the source material, shall we? So now Axe's BBH tries to go all web metafilter for their new site, following on the heels of Agency.com's blatant Modernista! rip off for Skittles. Will we get the usual round of forehead slapping …

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Social Strategies Move The Needle

Chris Brogan aims to give social media a good name by moving his clients' business agendas forward. I am captain of a very small pirate ship. We aim to work in the service of companies who can no longer wait for their fleet to hold their tea ceremonies, shine the brass, and paint the trim. 2009 is a down and dirty year for budgets, and a down and dirty year for building market value. I aim to help people …

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Know Where Your Shizzeeps Are

Twitter's great and all but the Technorati needs to feast on a new dish. You know how it is. According to AppScout, Four Square is the entree of choice at the South By Southwest/Interactive this year. This year's breakout story is sure to be a social network called foursquare, from the guys behind the now-defunct Dodgeball social-location service. Users "check in" from wherever they are on a given night, pinging …

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Win the Influencers, Win the Game

Shiv Singh of Razorfish names 10 trends in "social influence marketing," a term his agency coined to describe what old timers simply call Word of Mouth. It's just that it's digital now, so the lexicon is expanding (not always in a good way). Here's what Singh and his colleagues see unfolding: 1. Social media usage will result in more influence. 2. The focus will shift to influencers. 3. Top-down branding will …

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Twitter Power: 245 Pages About 140 Characters

I must admit, I'm not the hugest Twitter user or Twitter fan. I only follow people I'm interested in and can't handle an overload of it. But I can definitely see how people--and brands--can use Twitter to further themselves or their cause. And for the definitive look at it all, there's Joel Comm's Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time. Comm covers it all, and then some: How to get started, …

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