Facebook in the U.K.

In case you missed it. Yesterday the Prime Minister’s office posted a video of a conversation between Mark Zuckerberg and the David Cameron, the new U.K. prime minister, discussing a new initiative to engage citizens for ideas on reducing the country’s deficit. While it’s interesting to see the country engage its citizens I can only…

Political Campaigns and Social Media

Political Campaigns and Social Media

Everybody is using Social Media nowadays. You, me, our grandparents, the dog down the street, lab-rats, the works! Now even politicians are starting to use it! Here are a couple of reasons why Politicians have opened up their minds to Social Media outlets: Provides transparency and credibility Highly targeted and inexpensive ads Politicians can let the people…

Death of the Newspaper

Death of a Newspaperman

News media — including newspapers, news weeklies and TV news programs — was struggling long before the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession. In 2009 alone more than 100 newspapers shut down across the United States. With 24-hour TV and web news cycles, physical newspaper distribution has become somewhat of an inconvenience. That combined with the…

Facebook Gifts!

A very easy way of showing that you care about your customers is giving them a nice gift that they can actually enjoy. Of course sending them a virtual rose is sweet, or giving them some rare sword on a Facebook game is nice, but when it comes down to it, giving them something actually useful…

Guide to Facebook Ads

Marketing on Facebook has become one of the most powerful small business tools that have ever existed in the history of ever. And we’re totally not prone to exaggeration. Seriously, though, Facebook ads are everything a DIY marketer could possibly want: User-friendly Inexpensive Effective Lucrative Like every other type of marketing in existence, to get the…

The Social Media Gold Standard – Value

Social media marketing strategy involves more than Tweeting a link and raking in the money, as more businesses discover every day. DIY marketing is cost effective, but there’s a major learning curve. It turns out that social media strategy actually requires some, well, strategizing. Just like every other kind of marketing ever, the world of social…

Creating and Consuming Media – Where’s the Balance?

An integral part of creating great media is consuming great media. However: There has to be a balance. Spend too much time looking at other people’s work, and you’ll end up neglecting your own work, and possibly even suppressing your own creativity. Then again, if you work in a bubble without seeing what else is…