The mobile app, Angry Birds, is an occasional pastime of mine. There’s something indescribably satisfying about slinging kamikaze, frowning feather-balls at rickety structures on the other side of the screen. I love watching everything fall down. Why is this so much fun?! What can I say? Angry Birds is one of the most popular mobile games ever created, so I’m …
Video: THE Content Marketing Trend of 2014
“If one wants to reach younger people at an earlier age to shape their minds in a critical way, you really need to know how ideas and emotions are expressed visually.” ~ Martin Scorsese Do you have one of those “little, black dresses?” For a professional woman in any metropolitan area, that is an absolute must-have wardrobe basic. It’s …
Three Pak: Most Common Marketing Video Types
“A minute of video is worth 1.8 million words.” ~ Forrester Did you grow up in a family that shot home videos? Are you an avid fan of America’s Funniest Videos? Do you like to watch the added features available for movies now—the bloopers and outtakes? Or maybe you break up the tedium of your day with a quick …
Pinterest: “The Future of Marketing Is Visual!”
Who would have guessed that this would be our 100th blog post? When I saw the numbers in the 90’s a few months ago, I could hardly believe it. We decided to use this post to highlight the newest of our social networks—The unveiling of our Pinterest account! Why Pinterest? One of my own arguments AGAINST Pinterest initially was that …
Marketing: A Gardener’s Almanac
Do you spend much time in the garden? Is it a chore or therapy? I am an avid gardener. Sometimes I have trouble falling asleep at night, planning my gardening activities for the weekend. Or, I wake up EARLY Saturday morning and am unable to fall back asleep, anticipating the day ahead. This past weekend, I got to play in the …
Psychographics: 4 Pointers for Content Marketing
If you plan on expanding your business through your marketing, and I know you do, then you need to know about psychographics. At first blush, the word itself sounds like something a serial killer might develop in a darkroom, but it is nothing so ominous as that. In marketing terms, psychographics are a collection of data regarding the behavior of …
Members: Josh Holloway & Intelligence Teach Us About Choices
We have a core group of about 8 TV series that we follow regularly. Three of those shows, Person of Interest , Almost Human and Intelligence , each raise some very challenging moral questions focused around technology and it’s double-edged role as a both good and evil. The newspaper is full of stories that present moral dilemmas—the NSA and the constitutionality of …
Flat Design: Millennials and Technology Impacting Web Design
© Thinkstock You have got to see this! I am going to ask you to do something that breaks all the rules of good blog writing. I’m going to suggest you whip out your cell phones and take “scroll” through this site because this IS the future…Just make sure you come back and finish reading 😉 What Millennials Want Millennials …
Tech 13 and Social Organizations: Day 2
A few years ago, when I was just beginning to dip my toes into the social media space, Chris Brogan made a statement about loving the serendipity of social media. I remember thinking, ‘What was a strange choice of words to use to talk about social networking.’ Now that I’ve been engaged in Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook for the last 3 years, …
Tech13 via Twitterverse: Day 1
I was really bummed that I couldn’t attend the ASAE Tech13 conference last week. However, if my engagement on Twitter has done nothing else, it has taught me the power of the hashtag(#Tech13). I chose 7 colleagues that I knew would be tweeting pretty regularly, and followed their feeds closely last Wednesday and Thursday. What follows is a curation of …