Archive for the ‘General’ Category

KLM: Eefke Den Dekker? Don’t Let Me Scare You…

Last year KLM Airlines conducted a social media experiment in Schiphol airport. They put together a team of 6 people to “surprise” passengers. Passengers who checked in to their KLM flight through Foursquare or tweeted about their KLM travel plans and flight itineraries were researched. The KLM social swat team searched the passengers social media profiles [...]

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We’re definitely at a moment of transition. Where an old media system is dying and a new media system is being born.

This year, The Banff World Television festival and nextMedia Banff 2010 was a combined event. Digital media, new media and TV sessions and parties filled 3 world wind days! Luckily I still had time to squeeze in a visit to the Banff Hot Springs (so nice). Now that I’m back from Banff, I can reflect [...]

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Is Social Media A Fad? The Social Media Revolution (Refresh)

Welcome to the revolution.

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A paradigm shift in brand marketing: Dear marketer, the customer owns your brand

Logorama won the 2010 Oscar for best animated short film. The French conceived and produced film is a 16 minute animated short entirely populated by trademarks as both characters and props. The film was directed by the collective H5, comprised of Francois Alaux, Herve de Crecy and Ludovic Houplain. It depicts events in a branded [...]

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What Does Social Media Mean To Your Business?

Radian6 CEO Marcel Lebrun talks about the social medium. Highlights include: You can’t control Social Media, but you can have access to your customers directly in a real time conversation. The days of marketers pushing out their message is over. Now your brand is the sum of conversations about it. As a brand you can [...]

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Globalive to launch WIND Mobile phone service in Canada

The Canadian government said today, Friday December 11, 2009 that it has approved a request from Egyptian-backed telecom Globalive Wireless Management Corp. to launch its WIND Mobile phone service in Canada. This past summer I was contracted to work with the Trapeze team in the strategy and implementation of the WIND Mobile website. After many [...]

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Google still way ahead, but Bing is gaining momentum

As of August 2009, Google was still handling 64% of all searches originating in the US. Microsoft grown drastically in its share of the U.S. search market, rising 16.2 percent since the Bing launch. According to comScore figures. Here’s a quick outline of the story from Practical eCommerce

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MobileMonday’s Best Mobile Campaign Awards – Tuesday September 8 @ 6pm

On Tuesday September 8th, 2009 I’ll be MC’ing the MobileMonday Toronto Mobile Awards at MaRS- the first time event will showcase some great mobile applications in a “Dragon’s Den” format. It should be fun. REGISTRATION IS FREE http://is.gd/2Mq6u Finalists have been chosen to demo their mobile technologies, marketing concepts, discuss their key audience engagement measures [...]

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