Sophisticated mobile apps are now giving smart phone users a whole host of tools to help them find out where to shop, dine, and find entertainment wherever they are, right at their fingertips. Add to that the ability to instantly share their location and leave behind tips and reviews and you have a powerful combination…
Originally published at West Fair Online Tagging the brand by: Ryan Doran A new feature of Facebook that allows users to tag pages in pictures has opened the world’s largest social media site to a retroactive form of product placement. The feature allows for posted photos on Facebook to be tagged with or by pages for…
Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! Hope you don’t forget to show a bit of love to your web presence in the next coming weeks. We’ve had many changes in Social Media and it’s time to tweak and reconnect to take advantage of all the bells and whistles. Twitter There are great ways to auto tweet your…
We are excited about our new partnership with New Canaan’s Iblast Card (I Buy Local and Shop in Town). Last year, we were a sponsor and greatly benefited from all the promotion Iblast Card did for us. As the year progressed and we got to know the owners, Carolyn Williams and Barbara Davis, we knew we wanted to…
Let’s all face it. We all went to school with the ‘popular’ group. They were always being mentioned, talking it up in the halls and everyone knew what they were doing. It was definitely their campaign to make sure everyone knew them! They were outgoing and ‘engaging.’ Well, that is one of our KEYWORDS when…
Info is the new oil and Zuckerberg is the next Rockefeller. Last week we talked about Facebook’s successful commandeering of the geo-location space by integrating all major players with its API. Why did Facebook make this move? The answer is that mobile apps will define the future of commerce. Understanding this fact is key to…
In my last post I talked about Facebook’s integration of “Places” and how it changed (or doesn’t) the social media landscape. The tale of Facebook’s late, well-planned, and well-executed entrance to the geo-location space followed by Foursquare’s and Gowalla’s single-file submission to Facebook’s geo-location system reveals what Facebook has become. It is no longer the social…
The first in a multi-part series. Facebook Places, unlike Foursquare and Gowalla, is a feature not an app. Since the public unveiling of Facebook “Places”, the proverbial ”jump-to-conclusions mat” has been unfurled gratuitously by social media types across America. The implications of “Places” is not quite as revolutionary as many, including myself, had previously anticipated. While many seem…
The holiday season is in full force and we are ready for a bit of a break to recharge, take in a bit of skiing, paint, relax and rejuvenate. We will be on an “email/phone only” schedule for the next two weeks. Feel free to contact us with questions that arise. We’ll keep all of…
Over the weekend, I was prepping for my presentation tomorrow on Social Media and I took a break to attend a dinner. I was seated next to a wonderful person from England who requested to sit next to me. Her first question was “So, what’s this social media thing?” I paused for a minute and…