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Kill the Click: Digital is All About the Clock
IT’S TIME TO KILL the click. This isn’t something the traditional digital advertising industry wants to hear (and yes, there is such a thing as “traditional” digital advertising.) Clicks equal cash goes the maxim, though those selling clicks are the … Continue reading
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Journalists to Brands: Don’t Give Us “Content,” Tell Us Stories
ALTHOUGH I CAN’T TRACE THE ORIGIN with any certainty, I’m nevertheless pretty sure that the word “content” was first used by a marketer, not a by a journalist. Journalists are in the business of stories. Always have been – and … Continue reading
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Communities of Intent: The New Bing Tries to Resuscitate the Web
THE WEB IS BACK. Or at least Bing, with its new social-focused interface, is trying to make the Web relevant again – while making Google less relevant in the process. Over the coming weeks, Bing users will not only get … Continue reading
Posted in PR & Marketing, social media
Tagged Bing, Google, search, search engine, SEO
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Why Most Brands Will Suck at Storytelling
“STORY” IS THE NEW “CONTENT.” As buzzwords go, story isn’t entirely bad — for years I’ve pushed clients to be storytellers. I’ve berated the descent of story into a furtive sea of “content,” stripping all emotion from human pursuits. So … Continue reading
Posted in News Media, PR & Marketing, social media
Tagged marketing, media, PR, social media, story, storytelling
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Why the New Facebook Matters for Marketers – and Why it Shouldn’t
(The following post originally appeared on the Velocidi.com blog.) Remember the days when Facebook would launch new features and then announce them? What a difference an impending IPO makes. Now Facebook not only tells us what’s going happen, it has … Continue reading
Social Media Won’t Kill Listening, But It’s Getting Harder to Hear
Not all that long ago – albeit longer than we may care to admit – families gathered around large living room radios and listened to news, dramas, comedies and live music. People read newspapers and heard the words spring to … Continue reading
From Search Engine to Super App: Getting Stuck in Google’s Web
Google’s mission is simple, bold, and in the annals of silicon culture, tantamount to sacred gospel: “Organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Today, however, there is a New Testament being written: “Organize Google’s information about … Continue reading
Posted in PR & Marketing, social media, Technology
Tagged app, Google Plus, Google Plus Your World, search, social media
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Social Media, Super Bowl Edition: Be a Community Quarterback
Now is the time of year when thoughts turn to matters of the heart – and no, I’m not talking about Valentine’s Day. I’m talking about the Super Bowl, where we see the heart of a champion. And Super Bowl … Continue reading
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Tagged community manager, marketing, PR, social media, Super Bowl
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2012 Prediction: Paper Will Be the Next Disruptive Technology
There’s a little-known scene in the movie “Star Trek: First Contact,” where Lt. Commander Data, an android, observes Captain Jean-Luc Picard touching the hull of an historic spacecraft. The captain smiles and taps the ship with his bare fingers, to … Continue reading
Posted in Innovation, PR & Marketing, Technology
Tagged 2012, communications, digital, marketing, paper, technology, trends
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2012 Prediction: Stop the Bullshit and Do Marketing That Matters
It’s just about time for all of the 2012 marketing and social media trend predictions, that annual rite of passage for seasoned and budding gurus, ninjas or whatever the hell the latest term is for people who tend to say … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, marketing, Mayan Calendar, Mayans, social media
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