Category Archives: Internet Marketing/SEM

Motrin — An Avoidable Social Media Disaster

No Social Media Mon­i­tor­ing Strat­egy Helped Kill Motrin Moms Ad
Think about that for a minute. A tar­geted adver­tise­ment by one of the most respected phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal com­pa­nies in the world was brought down in less than 48 hours by a rel­a­tively small num­ber of social net­work users. What’s more, these social net­work users were on Twit­ter — one of the

Family Social Media Network Sites Love Baby Boomers

From the last seven years of polling, we’ve found that what older peo­ple like best about the Inter­net is being able to con­nect to fam­ily and friends,” — Susan­nah Fox — Pew Inter­net & Amer­i­can Life Project and the Kaiser Fam­ily Foundation

New fam­ily social net­works are pop­ping up almost every day. The real draw

The Case For Social Media Professionals

A recently spon­sored nation­wide online dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing and inter­ac­tive adver­tis­ing sur­vey by Sapi­ent revealed some insight­ful results from its respon­dents. This was no mere web poll, the par­tic­i­pants were “more than 200 chief mar­ket­ing offi­cers (CMOs) and senior mar­ket­ing pro­fes­sion­als, all of whom are either directly or indi­rectly respon­si­ble for man­ag­ing dig­i­tal mar­ket­ing bud­get allo­ca­tion

Twitter Goes Social at Beijeng Olympics

Its amaz­ing to me to see the real life impli­ca­tions of online social media. Take the Bei­jeng Olympics, for exam­ple. There are groups of Twit­ter users meet­ing together online to dis­patch Tweets about what they see offline at the games. These Twit­ter users will likely meet offline for a meal or drinks, as do many other

Can Social Media Play Nice? A Social Media Love Manifesto

Can social media net­work users bring “nice” back to social media?