Last night I ventured out with the BLiNQ Media team to see The Social Network. Good movie. Not sure where I read it but one critic called it the "Wall Street" for this time. I agree. If you happen to hang out in the Internet, social media, or startup worlds you need to go see […]
Continue reading →The Lift Summit is returning to Atlanta next week with a program chock full of presentations and panels focused on using social marketing strategies to drive business results. I am really interested and eager to see the panels on social commerce and measuring ROI as well as Erik Qualman of Socialnomics who made those social […]
Continue reading →Back in April I quit Foursquare. But I have been using it again for about five weeks or so. The opening of the Tech Square Waffle House kinda got me to open the app again, and I have been on it pretty consistently since. Here's why. There is value. Somewhere along the line merchants caught on […]
Continue reading →Last night Abby and I were having a nice little stroll to dinner when the subject of Facebook came up. I mentioned to her Mark Zuckerberg's reported comments via IM about Facebook users. "They trust me. Dumb f***s." Don't know if the story is true or not. I do know that Facebook has a pretty […]
Continue reading →I day or two ago John Mayer infamously quit Twitter. Today I am doing the same thing not so infamously with Foursquare. I was one of the half dozen or so users in Atlanta and made my first check in last August. Since then I have assembled a host of badges and mayorships. But beyond […]
Continue reading →So Dave Williams of BLiNQ went out to the f8 show in San Francisco and realized that Atlanta needs a group to share best practices related to anything Facebook. So, he pinged me about ATDC sponsoring such a group and low and behold it is so. Should be a great group for developers working on […]
Continue reading →A little bit later today at ad:tech and F8 BLiNQ Media is going to announce the beta launch of BAM (BLiNQ Ad Manager) and an investment of $750,000 in the company by advisors, employees, and management. BAM is a RoR application built by the expert team of Hashrocket. It is integrated with the Facebook Ads […]
Continue reading →I have this theory. It's most likely not going to be real popular. But I have this theory. It's a theory about how social media marketing is going to evolve. The theory goes a little bit like this. Social media is small part of the interactive marketing pie. It's growing fast. But right now it […]
Continue reading →Today at the sold out SoCon10 I am giving the presentation you see below entitled “Measuring Social Media ROI: An ATDC Case Study.” The genesis of the presentation is twofold. First and foremost in the summer of 2009 there was a lot of talk about how you could not or should not measure the return […]
Continue reading →Social publishing is an interesting area of the Internet these days. By social publishing I am referring to web sites where users can post their original documents and share them with the world. These documents can then be commented on, downloaded, embedded, indexed, ranked, and shared by others. The services are typically integrated with the […]
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