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 [...]
NHL Gets Online Video Marketing
October 18, 2009 · Categories: Buzz Marketing, Citizen Marketing/Branding, Consumer Generated Media, Conversational Marketing, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Minnesota, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Social Networking, Sports Marketing, Trends, Video, Video Marketing, Widget Marketing · View Comments
The innovations in online politics typically come from the underdogs, those who have a lot to gain and little to lose from experimenting and taking risks. It would appear that the same principle holds true in sports marketing.
The NFL and Major League Baseball practice content lockdown by tightly controlling their video content online and [...]
MinnPost Continues To Experiment With Online Advertising Formats
June 28, 2009 · Categories: Advertising, Internet Marketing News, Interviews, Local Internet Marketing, Marketing Trends, Minnesota, Online Advertising, Online Journalism, Polls/Surveys, RSS/XML, Technology, Trends, Video, Widget Marketing · View Comments
First there was the microsponsorship of David Brauer’s blog at MinnPost, Braublog. Now MinnPost is experimenting with “Real Time Ads,” essentially creating ad inventory for advertisers’ RSS feeds.
The concept is not new but MinnPost’s experiment will give us a local example that will fun to watch.
Publisher Joel Kramer discusses the experiment:
The Real-Time Web Inches Closer To Reality: Facebook’s Live Stream Box
June 25, 2009 · Categories: Citizen Journalism, Consumer Generated Media, Conversational Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Lifestreaming, Marketing Trends, Social Networking, Trends, Video Marketing, Videocasting, Widget Marketing · View Comments
Anyone who has observed online behavior with the advent of microblogging will have noticed that people will often converse online during live events such as football games or political speeches or television talent shows.
I have long contended that the last bastion of appointment television is the live event or breaking news. Facebook appears to be [...]
The One Big Thing: Google Wave
May 29, 2009 · Categories: Conference/Event, Consumer Generated Media, Conversational Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Online Behavior, Online Communication, Organizational Dynamics, Productivity, RSS/XML, Robotics, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, Technology, Trends, Video, Web 2.0, Web Design/Development, Widget Marketing, Wiki · View Comments
Just when it looked like the big news for the week was going to be Microsoft’s announcement of their latest attempt to grab search market share with Bing, Google comes in and rains all over their parade.
So, then, The One Big Thing you need to know about this week is Google Wave.
Earlier this [...]
The One Big Thing: Facebook’s Stream API
May 1, 2009 · Categories: Conversational Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Lifestreaming, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Mobile Marketing, Social Networking, Technology, Trends, Web 2.0, Web Design/Development, Widget Marketing · View Comments
The One Big Thing you need to know this week is that Facebook has opened up the activity stream to developers.
In the blog post about the Open Stream API, Facebook tells developers:
“…you can access the stream on behalf of a user and then filter, remix, and display the stream back to that user however you [...]
Obama’s Multichannel Marketing
November 24, 2008 · Categories: Advertising, Blog Marketing, Demographics, Email Marketing, Internet Marketing News, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Mobile Marketing, Online Advertising, Online Communication, Online PR, Online Strategy, Photo Sharing, Political Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Social Networking, Text Messaging, Video Games, Video Marketing, Widget Marketing · View Comments
I am a big advocate of multichannel marketing. I don’t think you can force people to use the tools you want them to use to consumer your message, you need to talk to them with the tools they like or they just wont notice you.
The Obama campaign was impossible to ignore; it was simply everywhere. [...]
Millennials & Micropayments Presentation
October 3, 2008 · Categories: Conference/Event, Demographics, Ecommerce, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Minnesota, Mobile Marketing, Online Behavior, Political Marketing, Social Networking, Technology, Teen Marketing, Text Messaging, Trends, Usability, Web Design/Development, Widget Marketing · View Comments
Eliza Appert, my colleague from Tunheim Partners, and I will be presenting today at the Minnesota Council on Nonprofits conference, Nonprofits & Government: Partnerships & Policies in a Time of Retrenchment.
Our presentation, called Millennials & Micropayments: Social Giving & ePhilanthropy, addresses the unique character of the Millennial generation, their online behavior, and how nonprofits can [...]
Mobile Commerce – iPhone Or T-Mobile G1?
September 26, 2008 · Categories: Ecommerce, Marketing Trends, Micromarketing, Mobile Marketing, Technology, Trends, Video, Widget Marketing · View Comments
Google Android Phone G1Originally uploaded by JoeyPeter
As you probably know, gentle reader, I have been agonizing over whether to get the iPhone to replace my current HTC Wizard Windows Mobile phone or wait for the Google Android phone. The deal-killer for the iPhone thus far has been its lack of copy and paste functionality.
Well, [...]




