by Catharine P. Taylor on Jul 27, 2:47 PM
With due apologies to the guy -- @jeffjarvis -- who had the good sense (but the bad timing) to start up the #fuckyouwashington hashtag last Saturday night, I'm disappointed in social media right now. As this column is the best platform I have on which to rant, here I go.
by David Berkowitz on Jul 26, 4:15 PM
Some moments can last forever. As a marketer, you have the power to create such moments yourself. Are you ready for your moment of truth?
by Catharine P. Taylor on Jul 20, 3:15 PM
The alleged insight I'm about to impart here started, nefariously enough, when I heard polite, British cries of, "Oh!" and "Outrageous!" emanating from my MacBook yesterday. At the time, I'd been sending out emails to do with the upcoming Social Media Insider Summit (plug!), with The New York Times video stream of the Parliament hearings with the Family Murdoch playing in the background. By the time I clicked over to nytimes.com to see what had caused the commotion, the stream had been temporarily shut down. I immediately went on the hunt for what had happened.
by David Berkowitz on Jul 19, 3:45 PM
In 2011, do marketers and their trusty agencies really need a reminder to tie social marketing programs back to their overall marketing strategy and objectives? Yes. For Exhibit A, I present Google+.
by Catharine P. Taylor on Jul 14, 4:15 PM
I know you're probably expecting me to write about Google+ again this week. Sorry to disappoint, but today I'm going Big Picture, to make sure anyone who reads this gets a much-needed feel for what some people think social media people do all day. The answer? Nothing. Nothing of value, anyway.
by David Berkowitz on Jul 12, 1:15 PM
Google+ is the future of social media! It's better than Facebook and Twitter and CatPaint combined! Or maybe not.
by Catharine P. Taylor on Jul 8, 3:30 PM
In case you're keeping score -- and I kind of hope you aren't -- this is the fourth Social Media Insider column in a row about Google+. My partner-in-crime, David Berkowitz, has written two so far, which you can read here and here. And this, dear oversaturated reader, is my second. So why aren't we done? Frankly, it's because in the three or so years I've been writing this column, I haven't seen this level of excitement in the marketplace about a new social network
by David Berkowitz on Jul 7, 3:31 PM
I'm done writing about Google+, at least for today. Fortunately, I have enough material for a column thanks to the powers of crowdsourcing -- the act of tapping the community to achieve a common objective. In this case, I posted a message on Google+, publicly asking, "Why does Google+ matter?"
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