Dense commentary on social media, PR, marketing, advertising and branding.
I came across 2 divergent pieces of posts last week. Arun Sudhaman of The Holmes Report writes, “PR firms are finally realizing the opportunity to provide the kinds of services that, in the digital worldâ??s short history, have tended to be associated…
Stumbled upon 2 blog posts recently about LinkedIn invites – ‘(I am tired of) Generic LinkedIn Invitations‘ and ‘Best practices in writing LinkedIn invitations‘. Time and again, I see someone in my Twitter timeline complaining about how lame it is to send…
First, there was a tweet. This, @beastoftraal Just curious,did u give rights 2 2 use ur music reviews,4 their album pages such as: (Link) The tweet, by Kamal Aakarsh referred to my music reviews (from Milliblog), being used as-is, but in an…
One of the tweets I saw last evening riled me so much…enough to tweet this, I *H-A-T-E* someone using ‘dis’, for ‘this’, even when there are a LOT of characters left. Not taking names; in a charitable mood. The truth is, it…
I happened to see this bizarre TVC last night. It had a son (type of person) clinging on to his dad (type of person), wherever the dad went. Even loo. It ended with something to do with Lenovo PCs being the ones…
In a recent blog post titled, ‘The Media Still Matter‘, Tim Dyson talks about ways in which mainstream media is yet to and can evolve, to include the changes made possible by social media. I really like the 4 points he notes…
IKEA UK releases 100 house cats in its Wembley store and makes it a YouTube ‘viral’ thingy. The point, please? People ‘in the’ video seem to be having a lot of fun…it’s their cat…their video…after all. Watching it is such a mundane…