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The Difficulty in Being Interesting

Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 31, 2017

Murray plays Phil Connors, an arrogant Pittsburgh TV weatherman who, during an assignment covering the annual Groundhog Day event in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, finds himself caught in a time loop, repeating the same day again and again. Back in 1993, there was a movie starring Bill Murray called GroundHog Day.

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How to Navigate Social Media in an Era of Misinformation and Disinformation

Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Stay Informed: Stay up to date with current events and developments to have a better context for evaluating information. . • Use Critical Thinking: Apply critical thinking skills to assess the logic, evidence, and credibility of claims and arguments. Great idea but that’s no fun.

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Why Entertainment and Social Media are Perfect for Each Other

Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 21, 2016

This is where live events, concerts and festivals come in to play. Tell me word of mouth is not big for an event like the Jazz Fest and I’ll see you some fertile Louisiana swamp land. :). Last time I checked musicians are musicians and NOT marketers and certainly not social media marketers. This is where the fans come in to play.

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Will Color be the NBT in social? Or will it fade?

Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 28, 2011

So if it’s mobile social photo sharing, then, for instance we could pull the photos of specific events all into one bucket w/o a lot of the fat right? We can see what everyone is seeing from that event, from different perspectives and vantage points right? But let’s dig. That’s kind of cool.

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Why Social Media Will Challenge Marketers in 2019

Direct Marketing Observations

JANUARY 17, 2019

Picture social networks as the events at a track meet. To thrive in 2019 in social media, marketers have to possess equal amount of understanding networks, people, data, empathy, systems and what the end game is or should be. In closing, I’ll use this last analogy. A sprinter cannot run the distance races.

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My Proust Questionnaire

Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 18, 2016

I always liked the dopamine that would kick in from participating in an athletic event. Here is the basic Proust Questionnaire with my answers. What is your idea of perfect happiness? That feeling of accomplishment and being totally spent.

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Travel Eventful Questions How To

This weeks #Social Media Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 3, 2010

This discussion will follow our weekly Tuesday event schedule taking place 5/4 at noon Eastern. The topic and questions will be: Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media. The event will begin with Q1 at noon eastern followed every 20 minutes with the next questions. Q2) What’s the value of storytelling vs. messaging?

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Lurker Social Media Hashtag Curation

Monitor your social space with 7 tools and 16 minutes of setup.

Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 19, 2010

getting the latest on an event. Time to set up: 5 minutes. Some handy uses of Google Alerts include: monitoring a developing news story. keeping current on a competitor or industry. keeping tabs on your local news or teams.

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Does Engagement Equal Action? Should it?

Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

If someone clicks on a tweeted link and reads a blog post that prompts them to buy, but they don’t buy right away-Was it an actionable event? In social media, Engagement should be better defined with some type of actionable, measureable outcome.

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The Biggest Challenge in Becoming a Social Business

Direct Marketing Observations

OCTOBER 25, 2011

’s struggle because the advocates of social find that swimming with the current is much easier than trying to get internal buy-in, getting someone to change course, change direction, and think differently and do it differently just based on a notion or based on the mere fact that everyone may be doing it.

Travel

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Social Media’s effect on the UK riots should surprise no one.

Direct Marketing Observations

AUGUST 10, 2011

We create the content, we share the content and we consume the content-CONSTANTLY.

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Seriously, What’s “A Like” Worth on Facebook?

Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Lots of marketers have tried to peg the value of a Facebook fan/like in fact I recently read that when a Ticketmaster user posts a specific event they are attending, or may want to attend, to Facebook, it generates $5.30 of direct ticket sales. in increased sales from the engagement that Facebook encourages.

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Content Fatigue and Whatever Happened to the Snake Oil folks in Social Media?

Direct Marketing Observations

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Snake oil dude aside, I do love how everyday brings the promise of events that will prompt us to read, write, react and share don’t you? Maybe a better questions is whatever happened to the social media snake oil folks? But those types of posts were easy to write and easy to read. Home runs and link bait.

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Social Media Content Banking Blogger

Why Twitter Still Matters

Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 23, 2010

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society provides information about blood cancer, research and events that readers can get involved in. The American Cancer Society tweets about cancer research, specific types of cancer news, and information. Without Twitter, these causes continue to struggle for visibility.

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On Trust and Children in Social Networks

Direct Marketing Observations

MAY 10, 2010

4) My daughter saw the event on television. They’re too young. 2) I had explained to those that attended, how important it was to monitor your childrens online activities. 3) I had outlined how important it was, to explain the implications of privacy and what can happen when you are “out&# there to your children.

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Social Networking Privacy Activities Mobile

The Social Media Self Assessment Checklist-22 questions

Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 29, 2010

Could you be a credible spokesperson of social media at industry events? Can you act or be the central resource for information related to social media? Would you want to be? Could you increase and raise the awareness of your organization’s credentials on social media both internally and externally?

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Questions Social Media RFP Collaboration

14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

5) Teach your execs and colleagues how to follow conferences and events and comment via hashtags. By providing weekly Twitter tips via email you can share best use, reports, case studies, trends, etc to show that it’s not intimidating. 4) Show corporate management stats on issues where competitors used social media & they did not.

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Social Media Case Study Hashtag Crowdsourcing

Using Twitter to grow your business-Webinar

Direct Marketing Observations

JUNE 21, 2010

Steve King , moderating for this event, is a partner at Emergent Research and a Senior Fellow at the Society for New Communications Research.

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Twitter Web 2.0 Small Business Startup

When employees don’t care about customer service…

Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 16, 2010

So I had a nearly catastrophic event happen today. If it were not for me trusting my gut it would have ended badly. Let me tell the story. I had to meet a client at a local restaurant in Naples, Florida. I had a lot of things with me that I had to hand off to them and thus was a tad bit harried.

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This Weeks #Social Media Topic: Managing the Marketing Mix: Which Channel is More Effective?

Direct Marketing Observations

APRIL 26, 2010

Be sure to join us Tuesday April 27 at noon Eastern and participate by following #sm57 from any Twitter client or simply goto our LIVE page during the event. Q3 : What is the right budgeting mix between traditional & digital? via hashtagsocialmedia.com.

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8 mistakes you can avoid making in social media

Direct Marketing Observations

MARCH 26, 2010

They had tweeted me an invite to an event titled, “Mistakes and Lessons Learned in Social Media. I must admit that I was inspired to write this post based on the Social Media club of Orlando. It’s a great topic and thus I was inspired.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

———————. Laying out the fundamental issues and challenges in a post has become an integral part of the success of our weekly events. Usually I produce the post and the moderator comes on Tuesdays and facilitates the discussion. This week is an exception.

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Industry Aggregator Crowdsourcing Wikipedia

A Look Back: What to Look for in Your Next Social Media Director Hire

Direct Marketing Observations

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Could you be a credible spokesperson of social media at industry events? I mean it is your profession and you are applying for the director position…Should I even ask if you can? Never mind. Shame on me for hiring you if you can’t. This isn’t a deal killer. If you could that would be awesome, but if not, no worries.

Social Media

Social Media Collaboration Team Resources

30 Social Media Sites, Tools, Posts and Articles that I Bookmarked from 2010

Direct Marketing Observations

DECEMBER 3, 2010

So it starts with this resource: 100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events. Let’s get to it. 1) It’s all about networking and sharing isn’t it? But it’s also about learning and growing too. 2) Turn what people post in social media into compelling stories with Storify.

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Social Media Informer

Direct Marketing Observations

The Difficulty in Being Interesting

How to Navigate Social Media in an Era of Misinformation and Disinformation

Trending Sources

Why Entertainment and Social Media are Perfect for Each Other

Will Color be the NBT in social? Or will it fade?

Why Social Media Will Challenge Marketers in 2019

My Proust Questionnaire

This weeks #Social Media Topic: Connecting With Consumers Through Social Media

Monitor your social space with 7 tools and 16 minutes of setup.

Does Engagement Equal Action? Should it?

The Biggest Challenge in Becoming a Social Business

Social Media’s effect on the UK riots should surprise no one.

Seriously, What’s “A Like” Worth on Facebook?

Content Fatigue and Whatever Happened to the Snake Oil folks in Social Media?

Why Twitter Still Matters

On Trust and Children in Social Networks

The Social Media Self Assessment Checklist-22 questions

14 Quick Tactics to Encourage Corporate Social Media Adoption

Using Twitter to grow your business-Webinar

When employees don’t care about customer service…

This Weeks #Social Media Topic: Managing the Marketing Mix: Which Channel is More Effective?

8 mistakes you can avoid making in social media

This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

A Look Back: What to Look for in Your Next Social Media Director Hire

30 Social Media Sites, Tools, Posts and Articles that I Bookmarked from 2010

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