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Digital Storytelling

I was reading an interesting article today about digital advertising. Essentially, the article supposes that the reason that TV and radio still get larger budgets than digital is the ability to tell a story.

Telling a story is the most important aspect of branding. Give people something to relate to. Its true, you can’t tell a [...]

Its all about the content

More and more people are jumping into social media. As a practitioner and social media advocate, I think its great. The more people in social media,the better it becomes. Sort of. I mean, we’re now to the point where social media users are being inundated by the mundane.

The challenge for most businesses though is what [...]

Whose job is it to protect our Facebook privacy?

Now that Facebook CEO has recapitulated his “Transparency is the default” stance on the world’s largest social media site (with more members than there are US residents), will the discussion about privacy die down?

Gowalla vs Foursquare who will win the hearts of marketers, techies and users?

Geolocation is the “site” of a big “turf” war forcing marketers and techies and users to take sides.
The two apex companies in this segment right now: Gowalla and Foursquare are taking shots and keeping their developers up all night. Both of these games have users embracing games/applications with increasing enthusiasm. Meanwhile techies and marketers are [...]