Inspiration for Digital Marketing & Social Media
The real social in social commerce
Yesterday I came across Heidi Cohen’s thought-provoking collection of 19 social commerce definitions. While it may seem that 19 definitions is enough, I have a slightly different slant to add to the mix, along with a social commerce hierarchy. Social commerce is offline or online shopping facilitated by or otherwise involved with social media. For centuries […]
Read moreFacebook Tabs & Apps, Dead or Alive? That’s not the question. Big or small, use them wisely, relative to your goals.
Quite a flurry has ensued over the last several days about the Pagelever study on Facebook tabs being down 53% since Facebook’s launch of Timeline. Hootsuite CEO, Ryan Holmes (@invoker), eloquently argues their near demise, and Strutta CEO, Ben Pickering (@bpicks), equally well taking the position “not so fast.” This isn’t a matter of tabs and apps being good or bad, or the category large […]
Read moreHow brands can solve their Facebook XXX content problems
Bad content online is not unusual and not a show-stopper for brands. Spam, problematic content such as bad language, hate threats, and harassing behavior online are not unusual or bad things to pin on Facebook. They’re just the nature of online community, and have been since the early days in the mid-’80s through AOL and […]
Read moreWe are what we say: Why and how news outlets and politicians must manage the talk and behavior they influence
Written by Peter Friedman and Jenna Woodul In the wake of last week’s shooting in Arizona, debate rages about whether the vitriolic dialogue in politics and news is a cause of the tragedy.We don’t know a direct link exists from that discourse to this disturbed young man’s actions. But we do know that words count. […]
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