Tag Archives: Facebook

Don’t start your social media effort with a Facebook page

When ini­tially dis­cussing social media with clients, often the first thing brought up is using Twit­ter or Face­book as an out­go­ing tool to push their adver­tis­ing mes­sages. If you’re think­ing about social media from a tra­di­tional mar­ket­ing per­spec­tive, there’s noth­ing wrong with this con­cept. It’s obvi­ously a cheap media buy, and we all know that

Jimmy’s Week on the InterWebs 8–28-09

Posted late because, hey, I’m busy. I think this is the story of the week just because it’s such a good exam­ple of both what is wrong and why there is hope for the social web. A PR firm, Reverb Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, was busted for gam­ing the iPhone app store. They seem pretty unapolo­getic about their behav­ior

Is Social Media Advertising?

Image by Straws pulled at ran­dom via Flickr Not so long ago adver­tis­ing was TV, news­pa­pers, mag­a­zine, out­door and news­pa­per ads. Even with the Web in the mix, most “dig­i­tal stuff” was left to dig­i­tal spe­cial­ist. As the dig­i­tal space has become more impor­tant to con­sumers and clients and more money is invested, it’s become