Archive for November, 2008

Tracking reality TV in social media

November 26th, 2008 — Leon

On E-consultancy.com I examined the potential for TV programme makers to use social media as an tool to monitor viewer opinion.
See the article here.
By Leon Bailey-Green.

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Motrin disses baby slings in viral ad, sparks outrage

November 21st, 2008 — Simon

Motrin is a US pain killer. They have posted a video ad on YouTube from the perspective of a Mom who resents having to carry a heavy infant and is looking for pain medication to cure her back problem. (Why doesn’t she just stop carrying the baby, you may ask.) This is [...]

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Martha Lane Fox advises online to survive “global crisis”

November 20th, 2008 — Leon

Unable to get away from headlines of an economic crisis, who better to make sense of how to manage fiscal change than the woman at the helm of a company who survived the stock market crash of 2001?
Promoting entrepreneurialism for Enterprise Week Lastminute.com’s Martha Lane Fox told the BBC that online is key to the [...]

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Social media in US Financial services

November 6th, 2008 — Mark

Bob’s Guide points at a new report from Corporate Insight looking at how the Financial Services sector is adopting social media.
Here is a précis of Bob’s summary:
The brokers: OptionsXpress, Scottrade, Vanguard, Wells Fargo and Zecco have YouTube commercials based on their web offer, E*Trade reruns their TV commercials. TradeKing (10,700+ participants) and Zecco’s (38,000+ [...]

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Obama’s strategy: use the Internet to tap the grass roots

November 5th, 2008 — Mark

Hearty congratulations to Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States. The big difference between Obama and first Senator Clinton his Democratic rival and then Senator McCain his Republican rival lay in his power to motivate grass roots support and then harness it using the internet. Whilst his competitors relied on paid workers [...]

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