Category Archives: social media

Facebook a CNN competitor?

Tweet I decided to do this video after reading this Mashable article where CNN dubbed Facebook as a major competitor. Instead of worrying about beating Facebook, CNN should look to partner with the social giant to crush their traditional competitors.  What do you think?

Fun with hoodies

Tweet Anyone that knows me, knows that I have an infatuation with hooded sweatshirts and own a lot of them.  So when I saw this video earlier today on other uses for them, I found it interesting. Hey you can keep warm and carry your computer if you get to hot – or are too…

Chicken + Peanuts = Conversation Starter

Tweet While the recipe mentioned in the title might imply that I am looking to cook up a mean batch of Thai chicken, it’s actually two companies adding value to their coupons in the circular from my Sunday Globe. So how does that start a conversation? Last week, I blogged on how offline advertisements were…

Five for Friday 3.5

Tweet I’m going to start this week’s Five for Friday re-hashing a hoax that I got caught up in on Monday evening: HOAX: Amber Alert License Plate ’98B351′ – Now this article is not, new and is actually pretty old. And I am not ashamed to hear that I got caught up in a hoax…

In response to Gary Vaynerchuck

Tweet Last night I was watching this video from Vayner Media front man Gary Vaynerchuck and it really hit home with me and seemed like a no brainer for brands to be looking to expand their reach. The thought of adding a call to action after a commercial – to a micro-site, Facebook page, Twitter…

The state of the Internet

Tweet Interesting numbers in this video: 81% of emails sent in 2009 were SPAM 84% of social networking sites have more women than men using them Facebook has 37.4 Trillion page views per year Facebook has 30,000 servers and still growing 1 billion videos are viewed on YouTube each day JESS3 / The State of…

Five for Friday 2.26

Tweet This has been one of those long weeks. Started off promising but really dragged on, maybe it was the rain, maybe it was the boring events on the Olympics, who knows. It just dragged. The end of the week was kind of busy with a Tweet chat set for Vistaprint and the #Soxup for…