Social Media

Verizon and Motorola go first

So tomorrow the new Apple  iPhone is scheduled to arrive in stores, but today was all about the Verizon/Motorola Droid X
The newest member of the Droid family looks great and is the biggest and fastest droid yet.
Here’s an take on the new Droid X from Mashables
Will being a day early help deflect the iPhone 4?  [...]

Money is going Mobile!

We all made the move from Cash to checks to credit card to debit cards and it look like we are ready to start spending our cash via a mobile devises!   no need to carry any cards, just carry your phone and you can buy anything.   Mobile purchase has been around for a long time [...]

Yelp and Restaurant Reservations?

Yelp announced it will integrate  a self-service, online restaurant reservation system called OpenTable.
While the all-in-one functionality will  reduce the number of clicks between searching and eating.    I’ve used Opentable and liked it a great deal, but I’m not a big fan of Yelp,  so I will continue to make the clicks.  Actually, I [...]

Helping Business cut throught the Social Media Clutter

Any business using social media needs to learn how to listen, first.

Pepsi Refresh Campaing launches

Pepsi has launched it’s $20 million social media campaign, in place of their Superbowl advertising.  The campaign launch yesterday, January 13, 2010.  See the corporate press release here and the link to the Pepsi Refresh Project website
Personally, I think the campaign is wonderful and will be successful.  However it is a double edge sword [...]

Superbowl or Social Media?

Pepsi has announced it will not buy advertising during the upcoming Superbowl.  Instead they are investing 20 million dollars into a social media campaign called “The Pepsi Refresh Project”.  The project is designed to give Pepsi consumers the ability to submit project ideas for way to refresh their communities.  The project ideas will be voted [...]

AT&T fights back the right way

AT&T case against Verizon “There’s a map for that” ad was rejected by a Federal Judge in Atlanta Wednesday.  AT&T claims the ad was misleading, but at this point does it matter? The damage is done.  Yes, the can fight it in court, win and maybe get a monitory judgment, but will that make  difference [...]

Building a Facebook Presence

I received an email this morning on how a nonprofit leader could increase their presents on Facebook.
Here are my thoughts on Facebook presents for NPO leader
Before you go out an start trying to increase your presence on Facebook – the first questions is, do you have the time to maintain the presents?  and I do [...]

Social Media – making lemonade out of lemons

On September 17, 2009, former Merrill Lynch & Co, CEO John Thain gave a speech to a group at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Business School.
Why the ousted leader of one of our nations great business collapse was talking to future business leaders is beyond me, but maybe he was telling them how not to [...]

Social Media and the Small Business

Every day there are millions of conversations happening on the Internet and most small business are not involved.  Can you business afford to keep whisper in this economy?
So how does a small business owner, who is focused on getting money in the door integrate social media or even get started.
The first place to start is [...]