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10 Jul
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10 Jul
SoMo? Social Mobile Media
The concept is quite simple. Why tell your friends what you are doing when you can directly show them what you are up to and where you are doing it. This is location based using the GPS in your phone that will identify where you are at and you can then mark that physical location […] -
09 Jul
NFL Says “No” to Players Tweeting During Games
If you were hoping for Chad Ochocinco to pull out his cell phone and tweet after scoring a touchdown this season, prepare to be disappointed. According to NBC Sports, the NFL will not allow in-game tweeting, per the league’s current policy of prohibiting players or other team personnel from using their cell phones during competition. […] -
08 Jul
IE is to Windows as Google Crome is to Google OS.
Thats right. Google has officially announced that it has plans to jump on the operating system band wagon that Microsoft had been able to ride and steer since the commodification of the PC it self. The software, which will be called Google Chrome Operating System, will likely be pre-released later this year and as a […] -
07 Jul
A shout out to the Grammies and Grampies on FB
I talk to business owners and CEOs every day about social networking and when it comes to Facebook, I usually hear things like – ‘Facebook is too young for our business,’ or my new favorite (from a meeting this past Thursday) ‘People of my generation don’t know what Facebook is.’ Then I go through my […] -
07 Jul
The Bay State Banner Suspends Publication
As economic times become increasingly adverse to the success of American businesses, more and more are feeling the burden of having to many bills, and not enough income to continue operations. The Bay State banner, a local paper serving Bostons African American community has officially announced that the Banner will immediately suspend all operations including […] -
07 Jul
Part-Two of Twitter Faux Pas:Scoops Top 5 local companies with Questionable Twitters
Scoops Here. To supplement the Twitter Faux Pas I mentioned yesterday. I thought I would give some of my examples of local companies in New England with some questionable Twitters themselves. 1. http://twitter.com/TJXCo – with only 37 followers there is not much to see here. Although Twitter is a great tool for recruitment such as […] -
06 Jul
Twitter Faux Pas–Business Style!
Scoops Here. So your company is ready to get on Twitter…FANTASTIC! Now of course you want to do it right, so you go on looking at another company’s page for best practices. That is all well and good…unless you start to mimic what I will term–Twitter offenders! I stumbled upon a great blog post discussing […] -
02 Jul
Diminishing the Myths
For companies, resistance to social media is futile. Millions of people are creating content for the social Web. Your competitors are already there. Your customers have been there for a long time. If your business isn’t putting itself out there, it ought to be. Perceptions and misconceptions of social media and social media marketing are […] -
01 Jul
Is it time for a ‘Chief Social Media Officer’?
A Chief Social Media Officer or CSMO role might appear to some as being superfluous to an organization. Do you really need social media reporting directly into the CEO? Perhaps not. Is this just a way for those snake oil social media people to make themselves feel more important? I don’t think so. Yet and […]