Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book The popularity of e books is undeniable. According to the BBC, the use of e books in the UK has quadrupled in 2010. What started with Amazon’s Kindle and continued with other publisher producing their own version, like Nook from Barnes and Noble, has gotten a tremendous push with […]
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Social Media Can Change Lives, For Better or For Worse
At this point, there can truly be no doubt about the fact that social media can and does change lives. It may not always be for the good, such as in the case of more than a handful of people who claim that status post on Facebook cost them their jobs. Facebook Fail Ashley Johnson, […]
LinkedIn IPO: LinkedIn Hits the Stock Market
As I mentioned in a previous post on the social networking site LinkedIn, this business based site allows users to connect to past, present, or future business contacts in effort to exchange ideas, knowledge, or perhaps even new opportunities. It also helps users to build a working portfolio that is supported by the very companies, […]
The PR State of Facebook
In a few days in Silicon Valley there were some rather unusual ideas, stories, and news articles, pitched that insinuated that Google was invading their users’ privacy. PR agency Burson-Marsteller, even offered to assist a highly influential blogger write an Anti-Google op-ed, promising him it would be posted in places like The Huffington Post or […]
Innovative ways Professional PR People are Using Social Media
Social Media has become part of every serious advertising campaign, and most PR people have been using it on a daily basis; following and engaging in conversations on different media platforms, checking what the competition is doing and sharing news and information about their products. Besides the usual advice of how to engage your followers […]
Meetup: Social Networking On & Off the Web
Meetup is a social gathering site that helps to organize groups for local events, interest, and shared educational opportunities. Meetup’s major goal is to encourage people to understand that they can change their world, indeed our whole world, by organizing into groups that can be powerful enough to make great differences. Who Uses Meetup? Ranked […]
Online Ad Spending Expected to Increase
The online advertising industry hit a new high in 2010 with ad revenue topping the 26 billion dollar mark. After a falling in 2009, performance based-spending on forms of search advertising and digital display ads began to lead the way. The Interactive Advertising Bureau reports that online ad revenue increased by around 15% to the […]
Writing a Great Press Release
Press Releases are a crucial part of marketing, in fact they are one of the few traditional marketing tools that have flourished in the new media or Digital Brand Age. There are six major types of press releases. General News Event Launch Staff or Executive Announcement Expert Positioning Product Each of these press releases may […]
Why Every Small Business Should Go Online
Why a Small Business should go Online: Ways Your Offline Business Can Benefit from an Online Presence Although it may be hard for some of the ‘old timers’ regardless of age, to understand how much it can be of benefit, there is no doubt that it would be a very rare offline business that could […]
Sneak Peak: Digital Brand Marketing 411: Educate, Embrace, Brand
So, the internet is flooded with 101 courses, be it Social Media 101, SEO 101, Digital 101, SEM 101 and so on. The shocking part is that we are well beyond Freshman year, perhaps now it’s time for an advanced course. This is a book in progress and the purpose of this post is to […]