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Flash Mobs of the Pandemic

Ari Herzog

Related Stories Thinking of Re-Entering a Store The 4 Social Networks I Use Most Thoughts and Hands. Neighbors in Canada. Neighbors in Florida. Neighbors in Utah. Musicians in Hungary. Dancers in London. Riverdance Dancers.

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Agency Flash Mobs vs Social Flash Mobs

Laurel Papworth

While traditional media spends most of their time dissing social media (it is a competitor after all), traditional agencies find social media a rich source for client campaigns. This is an agency created (won ad of the year) flash mob for T Mobile – Saatchi and Saatchi. This is not how flash mobs started out.

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What drives participation in a social network?

Direct Marketing Observations

With that being said, once people are “there&# , and they “get it&# , they can see pretty quickly what the trans-formative nature and power of social media is like, and what it can do. As well, by simply creating and putting it “out there&# validates our existence in these social networks.

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Yelp is Broken and Social Flashmobs Apparently Rule

Direct Marketing Observations

This doesn’t absolve the restaurant owners but it does highlight the typical flash mob actions that occur on social networks. How many of those 1131 reviewers actually ate at the restaurant and how many just piled on for some good old flash mob social media bashing? What can Yelp do about that?

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Version 2 of Viral Success

Mindjumpers

Radiotjänst really put a focus on thanking their customers and is doing so with quite extreme actions; they also did Sweden´s greatest flash mob as part of the campaign. This second version of The Hero isn´t expected to reach goals as high as the first one, but it’s a cool follow-up on the campaign and their concept.

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Election 2010: GetUp Tony Abbott Mashup

Laurel Papworth

In 2007 I blogged on Kevin07 portal: We will see more of ‘static portal hybrid hosted social networks’ for a while – companies and government distancing themselves from the challenges of social networks by outsourcing to social network platforms. Please spell out I.R.O.N.Y Facebook talks like a pirate.

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We live in strange times…

The Way of the Web

I’ve seen the media mis-label social networks and flash mobs, and at the same time as they look at communication tools as a cause, they’re using them to share their own content from reporters on the ground and news teams back at the studio.