Archive for the ‘social media’ category

Once Upon A Timeline

December 27th, 2011

What to do about the Facebook Timeline
The Facebook Timeline is coming and there is not too much you can do about it. I don’t mean coming in the sense that it will soon be released (it already is), I mean it is coming in the sense that you are soon going to have one – [...]

Ugly shirts = pretty money? This holiday season we are hosting the first annual  “Ugly Christmas Sweater” Contest and we want everyone to enter. We all know you have that one sweater in the back of your closet that just hurts to look at, it only gets worn once a year [...]

Social Media is a big part of our lives now. We post pictures, share stories, communicate with friends but would you want your future employer to see everything you share on Facebook and Twitter? Its obvious we keep LinkedIn clean, but employers are doing more than checking out your LinkedIn Profile. Reppler researched 300 individuals [...]

Facebook of the Future

September 30th, 2011

If you haven’t already heard or seen about the Facebook changes, then really what are you doing with your life? Actually living one? Not cool. Facebook is rapidly changing their look offering more features, and removing old ones. With these changes come complaints, confusion, and curiosity as to how these features work and how much [...]

The NFL is a large organization with hundreds of players and hundreds of people working behind the scenes to make it work, but along with them you have to include the millions of fans. Each team has millions of fans, and even some players have millions of fans of their own. So how do they [...]

Everyone is using social media to get their message across; people use it, businesses use it, celebrities use it, and now even universities are using it. The use of social media by higher education institutions is an obvious choice – the main users of social media are young adults, specifically college aged students. These institutions [...]

3 craziest QR campaigns ever!

August 19th, 2011

I noticed a link in one of my Facebook friend’s status updates called “Museum of Me” and found my curiosity clicking through. After I clicked through and gave this Facebook app from Intel the ability to access everything about me on Facebook, I was pleasantly surprised.When you think about how much time you’ve put into [...]

Wow the last hour has been a whirlwind of blog posts, articles, tweets, links and comments covering this whole market of “social media influence.” Based on who you are that could mean different things. If you’re a marketer, you’re thinking “sure that’s important to the work I do.” If you’re a blogger, you’re thinking “that’s [...]

what a great time of year

October 2nd, 2010

October has got to be one of my favorite times of the year. There’s always interesting weather, and its the beginning of seemingly endless festivities until January 1st. This past week San Diego got hit with a pretty good heat wave, showers and thunderstorms, allowing for some really beautiful skies. This week Old Town has [...]