Archive for the ‘social’ Category
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 »
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Has creative dried up? I don't think so, but the idea of casting a social net to bring in some new creative is a novel idea.
Will it revolutionize the agency model? I don't think it will be that dramatic, but it will have an impact, especially for organizations ...
Posted in advertising, creative, freshish thinking, social | No Comments »
Monday, December 10th, 2007
If you are reading this then you have stumbled upon the new server for shakegently.
I've been absent from posting for a week as I waited for my domain registrar transfer to complete. I was previously using the wordpress.com hosting service to host my blog (with my own domain).
I outgrew ...
Posted in life, social, technology | 1 Comment »
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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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
As a contributor to The Age of Conversation book, I met several people that are very active in marketing and blogging, including David Armano.
A good follow-up post by David today about the question he asked to his audience: Should digital agencies be blogging?
Blogging with a purpose is a key thread, ...
Posted in Barkley, advertising, social | 4 Comments »
Monday, November 12th, 2007
I like to follow trends in the UK for things such as mobile marketing, because they tend to be a few years ahead.
Today I read (via MarketingVOX) that Social Network Traffic Surpasses Web-based Email in UK.
Younger internet users — those age 18 to 34 — tend to visit social-network sites ...
Posted in social, technology | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 19th, 2007
You may have noticed a slight change in post frequency lately.
The biggest reason has been because I have been busy getting ready for the baby, which should grace us with her little presence at any moment now (October 16th was the due date).
That being said, Lora and I are launching ...
Posted in life, social | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 8th, 2007
One of the sites that I have been tracking for a while and recently added to my RSS feeds is The Consumerist.
If you are in PR and haven't heard of this site, it would be worthwhile to monitor it on behalf of your clients. There's no worse way than ...
Posted in advertising, research, retail, social, technology | 1 Comment »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
via Marketing Vox, I read today that comScore, one of the heavyweights when it comes to tracking and reporting on consumer behavior, is creating a "Conversational Media Report" that will report on blog readership and social networking site traffic.
"Forrester Research Charlene Li told eWEEK that the move indicates blogs ...
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Monday, September 10th, 2007
Its Monday morning and I'm trying to wrangle in my growing list of RSS feeds. For the most part, I've converted my newsletters to RSS subscriptions, but there are several I still subscribe to via e-mail.
How many RSS feeds do you monitor? Currently, I monitor about 125, but ...
Posted in social, technology | 5 Comments »
