Facebook And/Or LinkedIn For B2B Marketing?
October 29, 2009 · Categories: Conference/Event, Expert Positioning, Minnesota, Online Communication, Online PR, Political Marketing, Social Networking, Video · View Comments
This is a clip from a Minnesota PRSA core training event we hosted a while ago at Tunheim Partners about social media for B2B marketing. Mark Palony (who blogs at Wondering Out Loud) and I were the speakers; this particular clip, courtesy of Kasey Skala, features our reaction to a question about whether to use [...]
Innovative Video Game Marketing For Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed
October 27, 2009 · Categories: Internet Marketing News, Marketing Trends, Online Advertising, Product Placement, Trends, Video, Video Games, Video Marketing, Viral Marketing · View Comments
This is brilliant.
Video game publisher Ubisoft (one of my favorite publishers, by the way) has commissioned one of the company’s divisions, Hybride, to produce a series of short films set in the Assassin’s Creed video game universe.
Hybride is a special effects outfit whose work includes the movie Sin City. Assassin’s Creed is one of Ubisoft’s [...]
On Your Mark, Get Set, We’re Riding The Internet!
An amusing educational video about this amazing new thing called the Internet. Found at YouTube from everythingsucks420.Minnesota Monday – Communications Bloggers Posts From Last Week
Interesting posts from Minnesota commmunications bloggers for the week ending 10/24/09. Culled from the Minnesota Social Media Bloggers FriendFeed room. Kasey Skala talks about his initial Google Wave experience Andy Santamaria posts an interview with Kristina Halvorson Phil Wilson asks When is YouTube not enough? Jennifer Kane offers some parting thoughts from the MIMA summit Lee Odden defends the SEO [...]The One Big Thing: Real-Time Conversational Context In Search – The Twitter Search Deals
October 23, 2009 · Categories: Buzz Marketing, Consumer Generated Media, Conversational Marketing, Internet Branding, Internet Marketing News, Lifestreaming, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Online PR, Reputation Management, Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking, Technology, Trends, Viral Marketing · View Comments
The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is that Google and Bing have cut deals for access to real-time conversation data from Twitter (in the case of Google) and both Twitter and Facebook (in the case of Bing).
Bing already has a beta implementation of Twitter search up and running at bing.com/twitter.
While [...]
LinkedIn: Who’s Viewed My Profile
October 23, 2009 · Categories: Analytics, Online Behavior, Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking, Technology, Video · View Comments
One of my favorite LinkedIn features, and no doubt one of the most popular among users, is the Who Viewed My Profile function that tells you who has visited your LinkedIn profile. LinkedIn really needs to add how people found my LinkedIn profile, though, including what links referred them to it and what search terms they [...]
Microsoft Releases Windows 7
October 22, 2009 · Categories: Internet Marketing News, Marketing Trends, Online Behavior, Technology, Trends, Usability, Video · View Comments
Microsoft’s Windows Vista is out of beta! After the troublesome release of Windows Vista, Microsoft is taking a chance on the newest form of its operating system, Windows 7. “Up to the Minute” Computer Consultant John Quain weighs in. Found at YouTube from CBSNewsOnline.
The Wire – WCCO TV’s Innovative Collaborative Journalism Project
October 22, 2009 · Categories: Advertising, Blog Marketing, Citizen Journalism, Citizen Marketing/Branding, Consumer Generated Media, Conversational Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Local Internet Marketing, Marketing Trends, Minnesota, Online Advertising, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Online Journalism, Technology, Trends, Web Design/Development, Widget Marketing · View Comments
I haven’t been shy about my admiration for the work that John Daenzer, WCCO TV’s Director of New Media, is doing over at the station. He is, I think, one of the unsung stars in Minnesota’s digital universe. (I should note here that my company, Tunheim Partners, has done work for WCCO TV in the [...]
Social Networking Phenomenon
October 21, 2009 · Categories: Citizen Journalism, Consumer Generated Media, Interviews, Lifestreaming, Minnesota, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Social Networking, Video · View Comments
I mentioned at the end of September that I would be participating in a town hall forum on social media for KMSQ TV, the PBS affiliate in Austin, Minnesota. I promised I’d post video of the forum discussion when it became available. It’s become available.
I had a great time and was fortunate to participate with [...]




