One of my lasting recollections from yesterday’s elections was how effectively the Obama campaign used its database. I never made a donation. I never attended an event. I never even talked with a chugger. All I did was forward a laugh-out-loud viral video to my wife and I was hooked. Early yesterday morning I received [...] [...]
The issue of trust seems to be everywhere today. Can we trust our politicians when they say we need a massive bank bailout? Can I trust that this charity will spend my money wisely? Can I trust this online business is not some elaborate phishing scheme to clean out my bank account? Over the years, [...] [...]
What once was a fun and hip way to promote your product or service has now become a common rationalization for the next magical project pitched by your favorite agency. Just take a minute and Google “viral marketing”. You’ll find an endless stream of creative types touting some viral video, screensaver or other form of [...] [...]
Based on the criteria from my previous post, we made the following short list of candidates: PerkettPR (referral from friend at ConstantContact) KEL and Partners (found them Googling) Topaz (Limeduck worked with them before and raved about working with @DougH) Version 2 Communications (Got recent LinkedIn connection from old colleague Rob Halpin who is working [...] [...]
It has been over two years since I last searched for a PR agency in Boston and a lot has changed since then. With all the new social media channels exploding we needed to find an organization with proven Web 2.0 chops to support Firstgiving (an online community that connects people with the causes important [...] [...]
With all the noise about the potential “deal” with Microsoft and Yahoo, it’s easy to forget that the combined company would have around 50% of the total search traffic of Google. While a Microhoo “merger” would provide wider distribution for Yahoo paid search (if you are like Mr. Tangy who is currently ignoring Microsoft’s paid [...] [...]
Sometimes the tone here at the ‘Slice can be a little down. So few businesses seem to know what they’re doing with social media marketing, so many techniques are overblown, so much to criticize. But the other day, I ran across evidence that some people are getting it, and doing something about it. After a [...] [...]
With all the current hype for blogging, sometimes the cold, hard facts get lost. According to research from Gartner Group, the number of abandoned blogs will topped 200 million in late 2006. Jokes about creating a blog to impress your Mom aside (Hi Mom:-), they are predicting that the number of blogs will peak at [...] [...]
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