Super Bowl ads are so 20th century
We are in that two-week period leading up to the Super Bowl, one of the most over hyped events in sports, and with it we are getting previews and “leaks” of Super Bowl ads, but in a time when you can...
View ArticleWhat SMBs could learn from Bruno Mars and Miley Cyrus
Last year, Miley Cyrus turned heads with a bawdy performance at the Video Music Awards. More recently, pop star Bruno Mars turned some heads of his own playing for free at the Super Bowl halftime show....
View ArticleOlympic lesson: Don’t mess up with influencers when you’re in spotlight
We find ourselves in the middle of the Olympics this week, an event that cost at least $50 billion to put on, which puts the showcase country on the world stage. When you have that kind of attention...
View ArticlePutting Watson to Delicious Use
I got to see a tasty application of Watson’s application platform at work recently at South by Southwest in Austin, Texas and the results were…well, delicious. Since IBM released Watson to much fanfare...
View ArticleOf course, you should let your customers share pictures
The other day on Twitter, I came across a story about restaurants banning photo taking. My first thought was, that this was short-sighted, especially in a business like food service where word of mouth...
View ArticleWhy you should be using Google Plus (Infographic)
Guest post by Ivan Serrano It’s three in the afternoon. You’re feeling a bit drowsy and bored, so you log on to Facebook and peer into the lives of your friends. Maybe you follow a link to Instagram...
View ArticleFacebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work
By now you’ve probably heard that Facebook released a limited version of its enterprise social product today. I talked to a bunch of people about the implications of this release and what Facebook is...
View ArticleBrian Williams And The Social Media Meat Grinder
Social media was burning up last week over the Iraq war exaggerations of NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams. Williams is being pilloried and lampooned in equal measure because he lied or...
View ArticleJive Chime Wants to Ring Slack’s Bell With New Real-Time Messaging App
Jive is an enterprise social company getting a bit long in tooth and it’s trying a new mobile strategy in the hopes of modernizing. Today it announced it was releasing Jive Chime, a real-time messaging...
View ArticleThe end of social media innocence
It was a tough year for social media, one in which its once great promise came crashing to the ground in a toxic mix of derision, rancor and division. What was once hailed as a great democratizer has...
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