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archive for July, 2009

Rules of the Inside Voice: Ignore at your own peril

While social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter make it easy to share whatever is on our mind, we might do well to think about The Rules of Inside Voice.

Mitch Joel to Marketers: Burn the Ships!!

Digital marketing visionary Mitch Joel exhorts marketers to “Burn the Ships” — he’s right.

Game Playing and the Economy

Two weeks ago, I posed the question whether there was a linkage between the economy and social media.  Ron Coyle at Concepts Marketing did a nice analysis correlating unemployment to site traffic to Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn.
Yesterday, Nielsen released a report that the economy seems to also be impacting purchase as well as time spent on video games.  You can check out the full story at Nielsen Wire as well as download the full report for free but here are the highlights.

On average, individuals are playing video games an hour a week more than last … Read more