by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 10, 2010 | education, Social Media
There was a commercial that featured the line “try it, you’ll like it”. Well, I am not big on asking you to do something, but I believe attending a Podcamp – an unconference, could be one of the best things you can do for yourself in this age...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 3, 2010 | eCommerce, Marketing
Since Facebook came on the scene in 2004, it has been evolving. More ecommerce options are among the newest wave of that evolution. From the Facebook users I have spoken with, the people who are most interested in purchasing through Facebook are students. In my...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 30, 2010 | Feature, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0
Seth Priebatsch, the CEO and Chief Ninja of the mobile geolocation game company SCVNGR, (pronounced scavenger), wants to build a game layer on top of the world. Listening to him speak at the recent TEDxBoston conference makes you realize that the game layer is...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | Content, Social Media
Content is what we string together to tell stories, share thoughts and ideas. Coming in different flavors (text, video, photo, music, spoken word, etc.), content is king, and in the digital age it’s good to be the mayor, let alone the king. Now the news: 61 percent of...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | education, Feature, Social Media
If old movies taught us anything, it is when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. What happens in today’s instant news environment when perception becomes fact? Thanks to Jeff Cutler who covered the Gulf oil spill for several weeks, I hear his story the way it...
