Category Archives: interactive

Personal time. Sometimes you have to take some from social media too.

Share It’s been a few weeks since I posted here and for good rea­son. But this really isn’t the time or place to talk about it. (If you’re my Face­book friend and you know me per­son­ally, you already know why I haven’t posted.) I’ve writ­ten here before about the need to post fre­quently and main­tain

Are “digital” creatives the future for traditional shops?

Share There’s been a lot of dis­cus­sion lately about what the future’s cre­ative depart­ment should look like and who it should be headed by. Do tra­di­tional shops need to get rid of their old guard and make way for lead­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers steeped in the tra­di­tions of the dig­i­tal shops? Surely they need to get rid

Lost. Is everyone feeling as let down as me? Let’s find out.

Share What I found to be a rather dis­ap­point­ing finale to ABC’s Lost is per­fect time for a lit­tle sen­ti­ment analy­sis fun using the social media mon­i­tor­ing tool Social Radar. What do I expect to see after the end a show that was much loved show? I’m expect­ing to see a real dive in some pretty

Browser based Twitter apps. A down-and-dirty review.

Share Image via Wikipedia Note: A few weeks ago a pub­lished a review of desk­top Twit­ter apps. Desk­top Twit­ter apps are great but browser based clients are pretty darn robust these days too and cer­tainly wor­thy of your con­sid­er­a­tion. A col­league of mine was recently hav­ing prob­lems with her AIR app func­tion­ing prop­erly and switched to

The Internet is “just like”..er nothing. So stop saying it is.

Share Image via Wikipedia Ed note: For the pur­pose of this post, when I say the Inter­net I’m includ­ing all Inter­net mar­ket­ing, includ­ing social media mar­ket­ing. Just about every meet­ing on social media or inter­ac­tive mar­ket­ing there is some­one who says it’s just like ___. You can put what ever you want in that blank

Look Pa, the Internets all grown up. Or if you’re an traditional ad agency, you just might be f’d.

Share Image via Wikipedia 70% of your tar­get audi­ence uses the mobile web %50 is on FB %60 reads blogs %50 watch online video reg­u­larly 30% is on Twit­ter Only 12% watch Amer­i­can Idol Ed. Note: This is not a far fetched Are you really going to run another tele­vi­sion cam­paign just like last years? Are you going

Time and space shifing — or it’s not about the iPad

Share Image by Getty Images via Daylife When it comes to media con­sump­tion, my kids don’t under­stand time and space the way I do.  For them, a pro­gram is on when they turn it on. The idea of being in a cer­tain place at a cer­tain time to watch their favorite pro­grams seems a lit­tle

Top 10 signs you’re a douchey agency type?

Share Image by Tacit Requiem via Flickr Now more than ever, we agency pro­fes­sion­als can­not afford to have cliche’ agency jerks among our ranks. There’s enough ten­sion with clients and providers thanks to the eco­nomic hard­ships. So please, if you rec­og­nize any of these behav­iors as some­thing you or your col­leagues do, please do your

Give yourself a holiday bonus

Share It’s been a dif­fi­cult year in adver­tis­ing and mar­ket­ing to say the least. The worst in my mem­ory. And the mem­ory of every­one I’ve talked to — even the old timers. Signs point to a recov­ery in the spring for most busi­nesses but the agency busi­ness is always quicker to suf­fer in down­turns and

White elephants, advertising, and interactive and social media marketing

Share Today we’re doing our annual white ele­phant gift exchange. It can be a blast if you end up with a nice bot­tle of wine or an iTunes gift card. How­ever, the unlucky end up with gar­den gnomes and REO Speed­wagon LP’s. You never know what you’ll end up with in the end which makes