Social Networks and Media
Forrester’s Interactive Marketing Maturity Research
Forrester is conducting some market research (go figure) and is giving survey respondents a free copy of the report:
I’m launching a quant study to fuel two pieces of research: 1) The first is focused on identifying the levels of maturity among interactive marketers across industries. When finished this report will define the different interactive [...]
Scrabblegate- Hasbro’s Missed Facebook Opportunty
Brothers Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla are Scrabble fanatics. After the site on which they were playing a Scrabble knock off, Quadplex started charging users to play, they decided to create their own version. In June 2007 they took their online version to Facebook and since then, more than 2.3 million users have [...]
Managing 5,000 Facebook Friends
“How do I manage my 5,000 Facebook friends?” is a question Mark Cuban had to face recently.
Facebook went from being a way to broadcast information to 5k people, probably 4k of which I didn’t know or even have a business link to, to a platform I either had to take seriously or walk away from.
Mark [...]
Can Brands Be Social? Shel Israel says “No.”
Wiley author Shel Israel has started an interesting conversation with Jeremiah Owyang about wither or not “brands” can be social. Jeremiah asked if brands should build their own networks, or use existing social nets. Shel says brands can not be social, only people can. I’m not so sure I completely agree - yet.
As I have [...]
Twitter is a Conversation Ecosystem
Readers of this blog know that I am part of a small group who are trying to push the edges of our company and are working on some social application experiments. Twitter is one of those experiments, and I keep a personal stream as well as one for our Wrox imprint.
An early adopter of [...]
