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How Transparent is Too Transparent?

Socialized

Domino’s Pizza’s new Pizza Turnaround campaign set off a wave of discussions in the social media world. Some of the quotes in the video include “Domino’s pizza crust is to me like cardboard,&# a sentiment expressed in a focus group but echoed by Domino’s executives.

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When is Brand Evangelism a Crime? Exploring the Royal Caribbean.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Exploring the Royal Caribbean Promotional Marketing Strategy by Tamar Weinberg on March 12, 2009 Share My husband Brian , who knows firsthand how much I eat, drink, and sleep social media, pointed me to an interesting critique by ExpertCruiser on a 2007 social media marketing campaign by Royal Caribbean. It’s a brave (???)

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Crowdsourced Funding: How to ask for $75K but get $1.5million

Laurel Papworth

Public relations people create a social media campaign and then rush to the Press with it. Which will backfire because usually it’s then greeted with a deafening silence in the blogosphere, if not mild disdain. Instead of paying for a focus group, I’d get money from them. Media counted for nothing.

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Seth Godin on Steroids: Here’s My Evernote Password

Viper Chill

In terms of donations from emails with that subject line, he was able to raise millions of dollars over the course of his campaign. It all spread from a single campaign that contained a basic message: order the product and pay nothing. It’s a dipshit move — and sadly, a tech blogosphere staple. Source: Massive Greatness.

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