Interview: Carol Phillips on Millennial Marketing, Changing the World and Social Media Mad Men

socialnerdia | September 18th

Carol Phillips is a Notre Dame Marketing professor, Millennial marketing expert, and Founder/President of the consulting firm Brand Amplitude. I had the opportunity to chat with her on “The Social Nerdia Show!” yesterday. You

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The Case Against the Cluetrain: Your Customers Don’t Care About Your Social Media Strategy

Chris Selland | September 18th

I had a fun (for me, at least) Twitter debate this Monday with CRM consultant Brian Vellmure. Brian made the mistake of touting one of my least-favorite books of all time - The Cluetrain Manifesto

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Is the “Assault on Journalism” Real?

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins | September 17th

Jeff Nolan posted earlier here today in brief on the need for the media to let go of traditional definitions of journalism. I’ve had conversations with those involved with media from all levels, from the

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Around the World in 22 Minutes

Jeff Nolan | September 17th

This quote from Jon Banner, executive producer of ABC Nightly News, is one of those truths that are said innocently enough without the speaker realizing how much they are saying about why the traditional news business is in

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The Five Smart Things “The Facebook” Did on it’s Road to Riches

socialnerdia | September 17th

Facebook has finally done it. The company not only reached the 300 million user mark but it also achieved its positive cash-flow milestone last quarter (ahead of schedule), according to Mark Zuckerberg’s blog posting

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On Facebook’s 300 Million and Profitability

Kristen Nicole | September 16th

So Facebook has announced that it has reached the 300 million milestone for number of active users. Whew! That's a lot of poking going on.  And as several sources have pointed out, the 300 million

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The Air Jordan Effect–It’s Not Just for Shoes Anymore

Michelle Greer | September 16th

People often focus on getting huge numbers of followers behind a product. They pour all of their efforts into getting more, often before a product is ready for release. This inevitably amounts to more confusion because...»

Get the Gist of Things Quickly

Jeff Nolan | September 16th

I’ve been participating in the private beta for Gist and have many good things to say about the product but to simply say that finally there is a product that brings your inbox together with web content...»

GNIP: “Get your APIs here…”

Robert Scoble | September 16th

GNIP is a warehouse of APIs. Now what does this have to do with business? Well, modern websites are built with APIs and your developers will need them to be easy to use, easy to

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Brian Alvey and CrowdFusion

Robert Scoble | September 15th

Brian Alvey built the content management system behind Engadget and today is announcing Crowd Fusion, which serves big publishing companies and bloggers alike with an even better system. Here he is discussing the philosophy behind the...»