Tag Archives: Social Networks

MySpace Rolls Out MyAds Self Serve Platform

MySpace Rolls Out MyAds Self Serve Platform

Of course the power behind social media is not the advertising options, but rather the ability to monitor, learn from and connect with consumers. However, there are plenty of advertising opportunities as well, and each focuses on tapping into the … Continue reading

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Square Marketing Pegs and Round Social Media Holes

Square Marketing Pegs and Round Social Media Holes

“We want to do something in MySpace”, “What about Facebook?”, “We need to do a viral campaign”, “What the hell is Twitter anyway?”. These questions are asked by marketers, and answers pondered by agencies industry wide daily. Thankfully “Our CEO … Continue reading

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The Best Social Media Video Ever

I’m back – and figured I’d kick off the blog again with something really funny. This is actually amazingly funny, maybe because it is such an accurate depiction of the brand personas of the different social media brands. Some of the … Continue reading

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2008 The Tipping Year For Social Media - Redux

2008 The Tipping Year For Social Media – Redux

 First off – apologies to my loyal readers who would have noticed that I haven’t posted for a few weeks while on the road. Those who know me personally know that one of my more interesting projects has nothing to … Continue reading

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Beacons and Fans and Facebook, Oh My!

Beacons and Fans and Facebook, Oh My!

With a current valuation hovering north of $15 billion, Facebook’s positioning to back into that valuation will be an interesting unfolding of events, beginning with this week’s big announcement to agencies in New York. Facebook kicked off the beginning of … Continue reading

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Google Announces OpenSocial: Pulls "a Facebook" on Facebook

Google Announces OpenSocial: Pulls "a Facebook" on Facebook

In a move that “Facebook’s” Facebook, and in the true spirit of an open source world, Google announced a collaboration with many of the leading social networks including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo,Ning, and their own Okurt, to adopt the [Google driven] OpenSocial … Continue reading

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Social Media Tipping Point?

Social Media Tipping Point?

Facebook announced plans this week to utilize the vast wealth of psychographic data within consumer profiles as ad targeting criteria. This announcement comes roughly a month after a similar announcement by MySpace to leverage their vaults of data as well. This … Continue reading

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