Direct Marketing Observations

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Our Shifting Notion of Search, Social and Mobile.

Direct Marketing Observations

10 years ago seems so 10 years ago in the world of search, social and mobile. In 2000 Google was a 2 year old start-up still trying to create an identity and compete with Yahoo and MSN. Social continues to evolve into something devoid of privacy and chock full of transparency with authenticity caught somewhere in the middle.

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Social Media: What’s Right, What’s Wrong, and What’s Next?

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What’s right in social media? As much as some people are apt to point out the #FAILS in social media, this was the big win of 2010. What’s wrong with social media? The semantics of social media education. The barriers in social media are not so high that it is an exclusive club.