When you work in a social media agency, people send you all sorts of comics and stuff. (For the record, I enjoy that, send me stuff.) This one happens to come from one of my favorite comics, Pearls Before Swine. It's consistently funny. Enjoy today's...

09 November, 2007

This morning I was doing some searching on my Feedreader when I stumbled upon a rarity – a blog created by a CEO of a medical center....

09 November, 2007

I'm speaking tonight at a panel put on by Business Wire. If you want to come, please do so, and be sure to say hello. The topic is on social media generally, but more specifically looking at using social media for enhancing your...

08 November, 2007

This morning I visited YouTube only to be overwhelmed with Oprah in the featured videos area. To be honest, I was quite surprised that my favorite marketing guru Martha Stewart hasn't attempted this, but in her defense I guess she's been busy with Marthapedia ...

07 November, 2007

For those of you in the Research Triangle area – our very own Jim Tobin is going to be a featured panelist this Thursday, November 8th at JK's Restaurant in North Hills for a networking and panel discussion on social media....

06 November, 2007

e-Marketer reported last week that "only 7.75%" of online marketing spending was dedicated to social media campaigns. They even suggest that "Web 2.0 is an also-ran in spending to online ads."...

05 November, 2007

Ok, maybe you've heard rumblings of Google's wanting to "out open" Facebook? Well, today, Google announced the release of a set of tools (APIs) that will enable developers to easily create applications (widgets) that will work on any participating network. As of this writing, the...

01 November, 2007

E-marketer is reporting today on the most popular websites in the world, ranked by page views. This is from September 2007. Half of the most popular websites are social media. The other half are search-centric (if you count MSN.com as search… Microsoft probably does. I...

31 October, 2007

There are a lot of different social media executions that we've covered here. We've shown "what not to do" so we can learn from other's social media missteps – but we've also tried to cover social media executions that are worthwhile, mainly to show that...

30 October, 2007