January 24, 2011
Social Media Widely Accepted in the Military
The US Army officially announced its launch of its 2011 Social Media Handbook. This handbook is a follow up to the 2010 Handbook which according to Army Life, the official US Army blog, “only scratched the surface of Army social media use.” This document discusses the guidelines for social media usage for soldiers, families and employees. Some of the security tips include not revealing schedule information and event locations, making sure family members understand what type of information can and…
January 20, 2011
Meet "The SEO Rapper"
Have you met The SEO Rapper? Well he’s dropped his latest video “Social Media Marketing” and it’s brilliant. According to The SEO Rapper’s website, he’s worked for some internet marketing companies, which is pretty apparent since his lyrics indicate he obviously has knowledge of the industry (assuming he writes his own lyrics, but I’d expect nothing less from The SEO rapper). One of the reasons I like his song so much is that it isn’t a simple parody, but a…
January 17, 2011
“The Social Network” is Golden!
Last night at the Golden Globes, Movies and TV shows were nominated to win some prestigious awards. Among the contenders was “The Social Network”. This movie, based on Facebook, and its creator, Mark Zuckerberg, took away four major awards. This movie won Best Score, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and Best Picture, Drama. The winners were chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press. Many people seem to be happy with their choice of winners, but others believe some movies were cheated out…
January 14, 2011
13 Signs?…The Zodiac Shift
What happened? For thousands of years, there have been 12 astrological signs for the 12 periods of the year. However, astrologists have been noting a change. They have been monitoring the Earth’s relation to the sun which seems to have been shifting. This, therefore, has led to a bump in the Zodiac. There has been a new sign added…Ophiuchus. This change has definitely been the buzz around social media. People are posting, tweeting, and blogging rapidly about this occurrence. Some…
January 12, 2011
Kids Trying to Figure Out "Old" Technology
Amazing how some technology not even that old can seem ancient to a younger generation. First seen on URLesque
January 3, 2011
When Predictions Go Bad
With the New Year here, you’re sure to see a lot of predictions for the marketing world in 2011. Predictions make you look great if they come to fruition and you can take the safe route and “predict” some obvious things that you can say you were right about. But what about when predictions are wrong? There are probably a great amount of predictions about Twitter’s demise pre-2010 as well as predictions about how FourSquare wouldn’t be around long. Now,…
