Archive for the ‘research’ Category
Friday, November 13th, 2009
I'm a huge believer that employee involvement in social media, within reasonable boundaries, is a good thing. But, many companies still block access to social media sites. Having social media and internet access policies are really the best route. Unfortunately, the people that think social media is a waste ...
Posted in business, freshish thinking, research | 2 Comments »
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
I listened to a webinar today on mobile presented by Omniture, eMarketer and uLocate called Don't Worry, Be Appy: Measuring Customers, Smart Phones and App Usage. It was packed with statistics and trends that's worth sharing. It's available for free online viewing or download.
Summary below:
Do you want to know ...
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
I'll be posting some details about ad:tech New York soon, but I wanted to post some statistics that were listed in the New York Times Technology section today:The number of text messages transmitted in the United States grew by more than 80% over the 12 months ended in June with ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
I'm a research nerd and big fan of the Research Brief from MediaPost.
I also believe that social networking, if you can get past all the buzz and hype, is shaking up the advertising, marketing and PR communities.
At our ad agency at least, I've seen a huge increase in client ...
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
When I first read the story called Americans Blame Ad Agencies, Media for Economic Crisis from MarketingVox, I thought it was a joke. Really? Americans blame Ad Agencies? Where is the personal responsibility?
Two-thirds of Americans (66%) believe ad agencies have at least some responsibility for the current economic ...
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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
In the tough financial times that we are in right now, too many companies drop their investments in innovation.
Via SmartBrief on Leadership, a link today to an article called Innovation isn't free.
In summary: Many companies talk about their innovation needs "..right up until they discover it might require an investment ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
I gave a presentation on Twitter today at Barkley and I had several requests to share the information so I thought the easiest way would be to post it on my blog.
As you might have noticed, my blogging has trailed off recently as I've been spending more time with Twitter ...
Posted in Barkley, advertising, freshish thinking, research, social, technology, twitter | 1 Comment »
Friday, April 18th, 2008
via Guy Kawasaki on Twitter
New research suggests that as well as possessing extraordinary musical talent, drummers may also be natural intellectuals. By asking volunteers to keep time with a drumstick prior to taking an intelligence test, scientists found those with the best rhythm scored the highest in mental assessments, as ...
Posted in life, music, research | 7 Comments »
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
I was completing some research on text messaging today when I stumbled upon a couple interesting studies.
We all know that text messaging use is highest amongst the younger demos, although adoption in other groups is growing as well.
According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 60% ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I was checking out my Technorati page and noticed they still had a thumbnail image from forever ago.
So I did a bit of searching on how to update the image, and, as it turns out, the image used to pulled from Alexa, but now is pulled from Snap.
It is pretty ...
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