The Minnesota Bloggers Network
August 28, 2008 · Categories: Blog Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Local Internet Marketing, Minnesota, Social Networking, Weblogs · View Comments
I’ve been thinking about this and wanting to do this for quite some time and now it’s time to launch the Minnesota Bloggers Network.
I’ve been blogging since 2004 and watching the Minnesota blogosphere for much longer and I love what I see. I wish someone would do a study to confirm what I suspect: [...]
links for 2008-08-27
Getting Shoppers From Search to Store – Advertising Age – Digital JupiterResearch and Forrester (now one company) predict that the internet will affect roughly $1 trillion dollars in offline consumer spending in the next five years. Forget about whether it’s a trillion or $800 billion; the prediction is directionally accurate in terms of consumer behavior. This [...]Breaking The Habit: The Danger Of Changing Channels
August 25, 2008 · Categories: Blog Marketing, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Social Networking · View Comments
Last month, Rick Mahn wrote a great post about the shift of online conversations from blogs to social media.
There is definitely a shift occurring but I wouldn’t go so far as to say that blogging is dead, as some are claiming. I think conversations are dispersing to the most appropriate venues and audiences.
Before [...]
links for 2008-08-23
August 23, 2008 · Categories: Uncategorized · View Comments
Fair Use: Let’s Go Crazy – Internet Marketing Blog
But what, exactly, is Universal Music accomplishing by hassling a Pennsylvania mother over the use of a few seconds of ambient, garbled music to which they hold a copyright?
(tags: article musicmarketing technology law fairuse legal minnesota video)
Intel cuts electric cords with wireless power system – Yahoo! News
Intel [...]
Fair Use: Let’s Go Crazy
August 22, 2008 · Categories: Consumer Generated Media, Internet Marketing News, Minnesota, Music, Music Marketing, Video · View Comments
A California judge has ruled that copyright owners must consider whether their content has been used within the parameters of fair use before issuing a take down notice.
The ruling is pursuant to a lawsuit filed by a Pennsylvania woman in response to Universal Music’s request to take down the following video of her child [...]
links for 2008-08-21
Most Healthcare Facilities Visitors Recall Digital TV and Poster Ads Nearly 9 in 10 people exposed to advertising in healthcare facilities could recall at least one advertisement that they had seen during their visit or shift, according to a recent Health Media Network study conducted by Arbitron Inc. (tags: article Statistics healthcare onlinebehavior internetadvertising) FCC Starts Marketing Digital-Analog [...]Texting The VP: Barack Obama’s Mobile Marketing Effort
August 21, 2008 · Categories: Demographics, Local Internet Marketing, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Mobile Marketing, Online PR, Political Marketing, Technology, Text Messaging · View Comments
So we’re all awaiting, perhaps any minute now, the text message telling us who Barack Obama has picked as a running mate. My guess is we will hear it today so the news cycle starts with today’s evening news and dominates that weekend talking heads TV shows.
The mobile strategy is brilliant on many levels.
Future Tense [...]




