Kindle v iPadKindle sticks it to Apple’s iPad with its new TV spot. I wonder how Amazon will deal with the product enhancements Apple released today – multi-tasking, printability…?I Want My New Twitter!The big news this week from the social spheres entails Twitter’s simple redesign and enhanced functionality. Not only is the company creating cache…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
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Friday’s Video Views
From Wall Street to Silicon AlleyHow Two Wall Street Kids Created A FAST Growing Tech Startup. (via @theBusinessInsiderTorch-erousBetween Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone, the folks at RIM, home to the beleagured Blackberry, certainly have their work cut out for them to hang on to their dwindling share of the smart phone market. Here’s the company’s…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Friday’s Video Views
Apple on the SkewerAs if Taiwanese video re-enactment of Al Gore’s alleged trysted massage wasn’t enough, we now have an animated take on six months’ worth of foibles by everyone’s favorite Cupertino-based company (h/t The Next Web): Flipped OutWhile we’re talking Apple, the launch of this week’s latest and greatest tech product generated so much…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
LinkedIn’s Coming of Age
Five or six years ago, I remember inviting my former boss to connect with me on LinkedIn. The invitation was ignored. Thinking back, I reckon he hadn’t heard of LinkedIn or simply didn’t want to be bothered by such (an unproven) distraction.I didn’t take his rebuff personally. In fact, if I took to heart all…… Continue reading LinkedIn’s Coming of Age
Twitter’s PR Poseurs
In 2008, when Twitter began its true ascent toward mass market penetration, I repped a very large financial services company that was under extreme media duress. This client had zero social media engagement (nor did its business model seem to require it).Sure, this company had the obligatory early morning internal email feed, comprised exclusively of…… Continue reading Twitter’s PR Poseurs
Business as (Un)usual for Boeing
In what may be a case study on the perils companies face in an age of media-empowered consumers, today we learn how business-as usual for Boeing led to a most combustible consumer-created crisis.Small in comparison to what BP faces, the impact on the company’s reputation still stings. It could have been much worse had Boeing…… Continue reading Business as (Un)usual for Boeing
Friday’s Video Views
This week’s edition of Video Views features Nike’s CEO on Tiger Woods, social media in publishing, The Facebook Effect, Twitter Chirp, Edelman SM training, and Katie Couric on anonymity in the blogosphere.”Polarizing but authentic” is how Nike president and CEO Mark Parker describes the much-analyzed Tiger Woods TV spot that aired during this year’s Masters…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Friday’s Video Views
This week’s edition of Video Views looks at the iPad, a very cool Photoshop editing app, one agency’s take on the 25 defining moments in PR, a chat with LinkedIn’s social media manager, Google Maps for cyclists, and Facebook as a bank(?).Forget Mossberg and Pogue. New York Times intrepid media reporters (bloggers, columnists and Twitterers)…… Continue reading Friday’s Video Views
Is Social Media Marketing Just Hype?
“Hype right now exceeds the reality” is the sub-head of a piece in today’s Wall Street Journal whose headline “Entrepreneurs Question Value of Social Media” says it all.But don’t be fooled. Several of the entrepreneurs featured in the story actually gushed over how they converted leads to sales through active listening and consumer engagement via…… Continue reading Is Social Media Marketing Just Hype?
Drudge-Driven News
During a recent Publicity Club of New York media panel, I brought up the downside of real-time news, citing Silicon Valley Insider’s Henry Blodgett’s now-famous faux pas in which he broke the “story” of a supposed Steve Jobs heart attack. The report was wrong…as further evidenced by Mr. Jobs’ star turn in a tux at…… Continue reading Drudge-Driven News