SxSW 2012 Recap: Social Local Mobile (SoLoMo) Content, ROI, Data and More
Roald Dahl would have loved the South by Southwest conference and festival, or simply SxSW. Borrowing from poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy, Dahl wrote that "We are the music makes, and we are the dreamers of dreams". At “South-by” as the cool kids call it,...
It’s Not Easy Being Geek – Except Here And Now at SxSW
To paraphrase the very social Kermit the Frog, It's Not Easy Being Geek. That is unless you are among the 20,000 of the Geek Nation of the South by Southwest Conference (or SxSW) in Austin, Texas this week. We're not just talking about people who bask in the glow of...
Coca-Cola Pops Content Vision
I've been preaching shared and earned content for a long time, but Coca-Cola has shared it's Content 2020 strategy in a very public way: On YouTube. It's even more than that: It's how the Coca-Cola company will evolve its approach to the "creative agenda". It's their...
Post Voteum: Social Analytics, the NH Primary, Google & Facebook
So Google trends can't predict the outcome of the NH Primary with the same accuracy as it can American Idol or Dancing With The Stars, and for this I am glad. Facebook cannot predict the outcome of such a contest, and for this I am also glad. They do, however, render...
NH Primary: Can Google Predict the Results?
Update: 2043PM ET Election Night: Google Trends has updated showing Ron Paul just ahead of Romney (which means Romney should win; read the article below for the reason); Santorum and Huntsman. Time to see what really happens! Update: 1043AM ET Election Day: Google...
Gamification is Productivity, NOT (Just) Fun and Games
As mobile phones and social media make this the era of SoMoLo (Social/Mobile/Local) technology, gamification, the use of game dynamics, is quietly becoming a bigger force for many businesses. By 2015, according to Gartner, Inc., more than half of organizations that...
