Our take on what’s happening in the world of social media and word of mouth marketing: the good, the bad, and the buzz-worthy!
My favorite quote from Margaret Mead reads, “never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
Never has this statement been truer than with the spread of social media. Just a couple of years ago, a political or social activist group required [...]
Ever since we received our own facebook.com/theKbuzz vanity URL, we’ve head from hundreds of webinar participants and clients curious about procuring their own easily sharable Facebook URL. Up until now, we’ve had very little to report except that Facebook only offers them to a limited number of businesses and clients. According to Justin [...]
Facebook tonight added the ability for fans of public profiles to opt-in to receive updates via text message to their mobile phones. Facebook Public Profiles, formerly known as Fan Pages, are designed to be the official Facebook presence for companies, brands, politicians, celebrities, and organizations, and now, for the first time, fans will be able [...]
We just discovered an incredible new option (presumably in beta) for select administrators and promoters of Facebook Public Profiles – you can text to become a fan of select businesses, organizations, politicians, or official entities on Facebook! Go ahead, try this out by fanning our firm – Text fan theKbuzz to FBOOK (32665) to become [...]
The GSMA Mobile World Conference was last week in Barcelona, and it would seem that this year’s hot topic was not necessarily who had the hottest new model or accessory, but rather how mobile brands can continue to benefit from the increasing numbers of mobile users on social networking sites. Myspace alone reported a quadrupling [...]
So last night I rushed home excitedly after remembering that one of the only TV shows I make time to watch – Heroes! – is back on as of last week. I was a little worried at first that President Obama’s press conference would push the airtime back a lot, but by about 9:05 [...]
I don’t know about you, but I see that “Call me Claüs” ad on my right sidebar every day I log into my Facebook homepage. I, personally, hated it at first glance – as if the holiday wasn’t cheapened enough by commercials and fake trees, AT&T had to remake Santa into their hip, new [...]
We know many companies may be doing some of these things, and a few may even be doing all of these things. But we’re constantly surprised at how many companies and organizations are still doing few to none of these things. In a struggling economy, you want to be able to grow your company or [...]
