Archive for the ‘Rants!’ category
October 17, 2011
Usually I like October. I enjoy cramming my ham hocks back into jeans. I enjoy the plethora of boot styles to gawk at behind storefronts. And I love Hallowe’en and great costumes and candy and Dachshunds dressed up like hot dogs. This year, I’m in a bit of a funk. Not a funky, James Brown [...]
Categories: 2011, Rants!, social media, unmarketing
Tags: Annelise Larsen, creative strategy, James Brown, Jelly Helms, Khayyam Wakil, MC Hammer, Mosoconf, motivation, Robot Stories, Saul Colt
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February 3, 2011
Like many concerned and outraged Canadians, I’ve been watching the Usage-Based Billing (UBB) development with great interest. I signed the OpenMedia.ca petition. I shared stories with our uninformed friends and colleagues. I felt embarrassed, and yes, furious, that the CRTC would move in such an incredibly backward direction with regard to online access. Today I [...]
Categories: 2011, Interviews, Rants!
Tags: Alistair Fairweather, CRTC, internet usage cap, National Post, South Africa, UBB, Usage Based Billing
Comments: 3 Comments
January 7, 2011
Influence is the conversation of the day, my friends: who’s got it, who needs it, and what numbers such as a Klout score actually mean. We can’t resist knowing how we rate. Technology gives us access to many more friends of friends of friends, but I’m not convinced that these linkages provide the strong and [...]
Categories: 2011, Rants!, social media
Tags: Christakis & Fowler, collaboration, Connected, Influence, influence marketing, Klout, Mashable, Pied Piper, SpaceRace, technology
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December 18, 2010
We can turn you off. we can hide you. Look at the fate of many of your Facebook Farmville friends, Spammy McSpammerston. And cross-posters. I connected with you on Facebook because we have that personal thing. Maybe we made out a few times. Maybe we co-lamented under the migraine inducing fluorescent lighting of that office. [...]
Categories: 2010, Facebook, Rants!
Tags: Facebook, Facebook Pages, marketing, oversharing, social graph, Twitter, web design
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October 23, 2010
I was shown a potential affiliate site for an advertising campaign. They claim that a huge number of our “target” market visits their site every month. *cough* I took a wander through the “community”. All of the video content came from one advertiser. There might have been 6 videos, all introducing the staff of the [...]
Categories: 2010, Community Management, Rants!, social media, unmarketing
Tags: email marketing, Hubspot, Lifehacker, sponsored content, Tippex, website content
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