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So the boardroom still isn’t sold on the importance of social media in your overall marketing strategy? Below are some eye-opening, social media stats to reinforce social media’s rising prominence as a key component of any communication or marketing campaign. Read the rest of this entry »
Twitter has announced a web redesign that will be very different from what we’ve seen before. The screen will split to have tweets on one side and media on the other. The goal is to make video, images and other visually richer media easy to work with while you are still on Twitter.com. Read the rest of this entry »
Apple launched its newest version of iTunes earlier this week. Along with some new interface graphics, the omnipotent peddler of online music has added a new attempt at a social media music community with Ping.
Not much is promised about Ping on the promo section of the iTunes store. But that’s probably not necessary. Music lovers are going to click it any way. Read the rest of this entry »
The Winter 2010 Knoxville Social Media Summit on Feb. 24 was a great event presented by the Knoxville Social Media Association and sponsored by the Knoxville News Sentinel and Metro Pulse that included a packed room at the S&W Grand, great insight from the panelists and some serious brainpower.
Three panels dealt with social media and issues in health care, journalism and business. Comments from attendees can be seen on Twitter by searching for #knoxsummit. Read the rest of this entry »
Several of us at Moxley Carmichael decided to make some predictions for 2010. These are random at best and a bit eccentric. In other words, there’s something for everyone!
Lauren Christ, Account Executive - bio
Smartphones
Smartphone popularity increases. Many professionals can’t imagine surviving without constant connection to e-mail, calendar entries and contacts, but just a mere 17 percent of Americans currently use smartphones. As data plans become more affordable, network speeds become faster and a greater variety of devices are made available, more Americans such as stay-at-home moms and college students will upgrade to smartphones. Read the rest of this entry »
Several of us at Moxley Carmichael decided to make some predictions for 2010. These are random at best and a bit eccentric. In other words, there’s something for everyone!
Ellen Robinson, Vice President – bio
My “Mad Men” predictions for Season 4:
Focus will be on building the fledgling firm – Sterling, Cooper, Draper & Pryce (SCDP).
Clothing on the female characters will become more “mod.” Think Trudy in white Courreges boots. Read the rest of this entry »
I love online videos – and there are a lot for me to love. Watching missed episodes of “The Office” on Hulu. Finding funny clips on YouTube. Getting a dose of “you’re-nowhere-near-as-smart-as-these-people” on TED. Lots to find and enjoy.
Magma makes all that video content much more manageable. Developed by Rocketboom, Magma pulls videos from all over the Web (YouTube, Hulu, etc.) and organizes them any way you want to slice it. The column-based interface is clean, and the most impressive part is the organization of all that constantly changing video content. The site also ranks the videos on a popularity scale of 1-11 so you can jump to what’s hot. Read the rest of this entry »
This is the last of five posts where we look at how print became part of human social interaction and how the social Internet is very similar.
This is the first of five posts where we look at how print became part of human social interaction and how the social Internet is following a similar path.
My dear coworker, Ellen Robinson, is crazy about AMC’s “Mad Men,” as many New Streak readers are. So she sends me this article on how AMC embraces viewers actually “being” the show’s characters online. I find this fascinating and it made me wonder…
