I got a chance to spend quite a bit of time using Verizon's Droid Turbo 2 phone by Motorola. My primary consideration for any smart phone will be its capability as a content creation device. I don't make nearly as many phone calls as I did a decade ago, and the basic communication features of smart phones--calls, email, text--are virtually the same on any device. Mobile apps … [Read more...]
Stock Photography Of Vince Vaughn & Unfinished Business Stars
Alfred Maskeroni's AdWeek article, Vince Vaughn and Co-Stars Post for Idiotic Stock Photos You Can Have for Free, provided an irresistible talking point for Episode 86 of the Beyond Social Media Show. The stock photography in question was part of a marketing effort for the Vaughn movie Unfinished Business. In order to fully appreciate the cleverness of this campaign, you'll … [Read more...]
Comcast Customer Service Call From Hell & Kindle Unlimited [VIDEO]
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Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 56 Worst Digital Cases Comcast Apologizes For Customer Service Call From Hell How Amazon’s New E-book Subscription Service Stacks Up Kindle Unlimited Computer Generated News Stories Greenpeace Brandjacks LEGOs Worst Cases Multimedia Comcast Customer Service Call [AUDIO] Kindle Unlimited Promotional … [Read more...]
Visual Communications Trend: Instagram Overtakes Twitter
Instagram Eclipses Twitter In Daily Mobile Traffic Instagram’s average daily mobile visitors jumped from 886,000 to 7.3 million from March to August, 2012 That’s a 724% gain Twitter went from 5.5 million average daily mobile visitors to about 6.9 million That's a 24% increase Twitter’s overall mobile audience in August was about 29 million … [Read more...]
Flickr’s New Photo Page Layout
A screencast that demonstrates Flickr's new photo page layout. … [Read more...]
Camera & Photography Marketing Through Social Networking – Interview Notes
I answered the following query from a reporter in November of last year: "I am seeking an expert on how businesses (mostly retail) can market to consumers through social networking sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and others. I am most interested in interviewing someone who can speak about how retail camera shops, retail photo labs, photo studios, and school or sports … [Read more...]
Barry Bonds & The Flickr Effect – The End Of Iconography
As I was reading the coverage of Barry Bonds surpassing Hank Aaron as Major League Baseball's Home Run King, it became to me that there was not one single defining photograph of him that captured his historic achievement. From our two local papers here in the Twin Cities, the Star Tribune and the Pioneer Press, to Major League Baseball, ESPN, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated, and … [Read more...]