He is the founder of MomentFeed , a location-based marketing, strategy, and technology firm. Since becoming widely adopted just a couple years ago, social media has supercharged social action, cause marketing, and social entrepreneurship. It gives you info on in-season foods, those coming in-season, farmer’s markets, and links to recipes. In time, location-aware apps will guide us not only to the grocery store or farmer’s market but through them. This post was written by Rob Reed. Social media has changed the world. We’re doing the same for energy. MORE >>

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Marketing , Personal > Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco Zicam and the Reputation Management Fiasco by Tamar Weinberg on February 6, 2008 Share Awhile ago, I used Twitter to talk about one of my favorite cold remedy vitamins, Airborne. In fact, it seems that the company does not want to acknowledge that its chemical compound may actually really have a negative impact on a small fraction of individuals. Maybe it actually is a chemical issue with the medication after all. MORE >>

The most widely used are blogs, wikis, podcasts, information tagging, prediction markets, and social networks (Exhibit 2). In earlier IT campaigns, identifying and prioritizing the applications that would generate the greatest business value was relatively easy. Rather than dictating the use, management broadened participation by supporting an awareness campaign to seed further experimentation. When Best Buy experimented with internal information markets, the goal was to ensure that participation helped to create value. First time here? Read our Quarterly Basics. MORE >>

Note: This post, a joint effort between Cheryl Burgess and me, originally appeared on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog last month. Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 ) present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list. This should be a wake-up call for companies’ content on pursuing outbound marketing initiatives. Blogger for Huffington Post and @op_editorial , Marketer, Do-Gooder, Master Surfer! MORE >>

Today, Tom Pick ( @TomPick ), Online Marketing Executive at KC Associates , who blogs at his award winning B2B Webbiquity , and I ( @ckburgess – Blue Focus Marketing @BlueFocus360 )  present 50 remarkable men on our 2011 #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men list.  Penenberg’s ( @Penenberg ) Fast Company article: “Social Networking Affects Brains Like Falling in Love” examines research by neuroeconomist Paul Zak that suggests social networking triggers the release of the generosity-trust chemical in our brains: Oxytocin (known as the cuddle chemical).  You expand it.” MORE >>