By By Nick Cangemi, February 2, 2012
With the Florida primary still on everyone’s minds and the GOP race in full-swing, it is interesting to step back from all the mudslinging and nastiness and take a look at the science of an election. As the US population continues to grow (recently eclipsing the 300M mark!), candidates are forced to find innovative methods [...]
By By Elena Perel, November 15, 2011
If you’ve missed the “most recent” feature on Facebook then we’ve got some great news for you…it’s back! We’re thinking, who is Facebook to tell us which stories we find most important and which ones we won’t care about? Many users like to scroll through all updates and decide on their own which ones they [...]
By By Elena Perel, September 21, 2011
I consider myself lucky. After college, I have never had to work in an environment that blocks social networking sites. Ask some of my friends who work for big corporations or mid-sized firms and they are not as fortunate. According to SocialTimes, “only 48.3 percent of companies allow all employees access to social networking sites [...]
By By admin, August 10, 2011
Social Media at its core is all about giving to, learning from, and sharing with one another. So this story starts just that way, with Steph Benedict telling me about this CBS.com show Around the World For Free. It had a large social media component so she thought I would like it. Parvati Shallow (a [...]
By By Elena Perel, April 18, 2011
If you haven’t bought a Groupon yet, you’ve probably at least heard of it by now; and if you haven’t heard of LivingSocial yet, you will. And if Yelp isn’t doing deals in your town yet…it will be. At this point, you might ask yourself what companies aren’t jumping on the group buying bandwagon? With [...]
By By admin, April 5, 2011
It seems like each year it gets harder to not only come up with a good April Fools’ joke, but to also execute it without suspicion. As soon as you wake up on April 1st, you are bombarded with messages reminding you to be on high alert, which inevitably makes you and everyone else less [...]
By By admin, March 29, 2011
SXSW is a haven for free food, drink, and promotional items. While some are a lot cooler than others…to me, if it’s free, I’m reading/wearing/taking it. Even though they attempted to Go Green this year with SXSwag, which I thought failed to deliver, considering it was a hotly debated topic, there was a ton of [...]
By By Elena Perel, March 13, 2011
Hello, Austin!
Yesterday was the first day of SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive) and so far it’s been everything we expected it to be and more.
We arrived at the hotel around 11am and embarked on a journey to downtown Austin to get our conference badges. As a first time SXSW attendee the size and amount of [...]
By By Elena Perel, March 9, 2011
I know what you’re thinking – Social Media Strategists get to do the coolest things; they must get the most interesting e-mails. Well, the most exciting e-mail I’ve ever received contained nothing but a link:
Sender: Michael Benedict
Headline: Should we go to this?
Message: http://sxsw.com/interactive
How could any tech-obsessed compulsive Twitter/Facebook/Mashable-checking Social Media Strategist say “no” to going [...]
By By admin, August 23, 2010
If you keep up with tech news you’ve probably heard that Places has launched – a geolocation feature on smartphones that lets you check-in and share where you are and what you’re doing there on Facebook. Many analysts are now wondering if small geolocation companies like Foursquare, which has about 30 employees, can even coexist [...]