
Mississippi television news anchor Toni Miles has lost her defamation case against her former station, WLOX, which she sued after the station ran an article on its website reporting Miles's arrest in connection
with a cocaine bust. At issue wasn't her arrest on drug possession charges,
Added by tom funk on September 2, 2010 at 12:30pm — 1 Comment
Once again yellow buses are skipping stops and children are wondering the halls looking for classrooms that don’t exist. It’s that magical time of year when back-to-school and slightware, poor technology implementations that damage reputations, collide. Despite the best efforts of elementary schools, high schools and colleges, students are experiencing problems with technology that are downright cruel.
“We Care!” - In
Added by Kenneth J. Weiss on September 1, 2010 at 10:27pm — 2 Comments
There’s a really good reason people love apps, and in particular applications from brands. They are often streamlined and simple versions of a company’s website or serve a specific purpose. There’s no annoying
copy in marketing speak, no flash banners slowing down the page load, no pop-ups and, often, no confusion on where to go to get what you want. Why? Because mobile or tablet/iPad apps are suppos
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Gap's 50%-discount offered on the collective-buying site Groupon last week rang up a reported $11 million in sales, says Clic… Continue
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Many organizations ask "what can we do with social technology?".… Continue
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According to a new poll, a whopping 72% of brand managers say that while Social Media offers great potential to reach existing customers and prospects, they lack tools and information to conduct a successfulSocial Media program.
The poll, conducted by Harris Interactive for the agency Buddy Media, reported tracking or measuring ROI to be the number one thorn in marketers' sides.
The survey also found surprisingly few big companies have stepped up to the plate w
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I spend a fair amount of time in the Linkedin "Answers" section, learning from fellow PR industry professionals, and also contributing expertise to the community pot, so to speak. Unlike many of the… Continue
Added by Robert A. Burns, II on August 24, 2010 at 9:17pm — 4 Comments
We've been doing a lot of Google Analytics audits, debugging and configuration. It's a crucial time for ecommerce merchants to be thinking about the state of their web analytics, and the correctness of
the data. Weak though the ecomony may be, the dog days are summer are quickly giving way to fall/holiday (or should we say "Fall-iday?").
Of course, back-to-school merchandising has been in full swing for a couple months. This weekend when I popped into the supermarket for some milk
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Social media, m-commerce, app and all new media strategies are creating a headache for the marketing, advertising and PR worlds. Change and innovation are outpacing our abilities to keep up with the times. Technologies are being built and advanced at a rate far beyond from what we can consume. Meanwhile, we’re all just trying to keep up.
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A Google search for POV reveals over twenty two million results. Here it is referred to as Point Of View, often used in filmmaking as a POV shot, or subjective camera. It is when the audience is shown what a particular character is looking at. This begs the question, what is the POV of Social Media? The answer is as varied as there are participants. Some are using Social Media as a business enabler. Some simply as a method of staying in touch with friends and family. Still others use it as pl
… ContinueAdded by Gregory Stringer on August 22, 2010 at 9:17pm — 2 Comments
Exact Target just released results of their survey of 1,500 consumers to identify the main reasons they might follow a brand or company Twitter feed -- and what other online behaviors the most active Twitterers demonstrate, including brand mentions, ratings and reviews, and word-of-mouth (or word-of-mouse) product
recommendations to friends.
Some of the findings are unremarkable. It c
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