Posts by Michael Bourne
Forget New Hampshire…Who will win at CES?
With the Iowa caucus behind them, the Republican candidates are vying for a win in New Hampshire. CNN will once again have John King and the wonderfully bearded Wolf Blitzer analyze Twitter chatter to understand how the public feels about the candidates, using tweets from the masses as a crystal ball to predict the outcome. [...]
// read moreFree food with an accent
Are you hungry? Do you like free food? Do you speak even a tiny bit of Spanish, French, Italian or German? Are you in NYC today or tomorrow? If you answered yes to all, then head to Union Square today and Midtown Manhattan tomorrow and look for the Living Language Food Trucks. All you have [...]
// read moreSXSWi: Let’s get engaged!
This year’s South by Southwest Interactive Festival started off tragically with the news of the Japan disaster casting a shadow over the otherwise jubilant festivities. But by the time SXSWi was over, the crowd-funding was in full swing, and all of the ubiquitous “dudes with beards and glasses” were heading to the airport to be [...]
// read moreDriving is believing: launching the Chevrolet Volt
While sitting in a rear passenger seat of the new Chevy Volt, as the car careened through the streets and avenues of New York at top speeds on Marathon Sunday, I could tell from the whites of my knuckles that the Volt is an amazing piece of machinery, and that this was like no other [...]
// read moreAugment your reality – a new way to demo a digital camera
Olympus is demonstrating that seeing is believing in a new integrated multimedia campaign developed with Mullen to promote the PEN E-PL1 camera. The camera, a hybrid of digital SLR image quality, High-Definition video, and point-and-shoot simplicity, both shoots and stars in television, print and online advertising, social media, and can be demoed via an augmented reality 3D experience launched today.
// read moreConvergence isn’t coming…it’s here
One API to rule them all. Consumers, especially PC–bred Gen Y-ers and younger, no longer draw a distinction between the real and virtual. The world is one big data stream and you are only as cool, as powerful, as smart as the gadgets you have that allow you to capture and use that data. The [...]
// read moreMirror marketing
Shakespeare wrote that the purpose of art is to “hold the mirror up to nature.” In the Bard’s plays we see on stage a reflection of ourselves, and that’s how he created timeless art. I’ve been struggling to find the right metaphor to explain the art of social media marketing to clients, colleagues, even my [...]
// read moreSwimming with Twitter Sharks
As I wrote before on my blog, I was very saddened by the news that tr.im, my favorite URL shortener for Twitter, was cut down in its prime. Based on the company’s blog post, the blame (although they are loath to call it blame), was laid on Twitter’s decision to use bit.ly as its primary [...]
// read moreSaving Face in Facebook
Facebook has an identity crisis on its hands. When the company opened up fan pages so you could have a customized name (facebook.com/YOURNAMEHERE) a torrent of URL name grabbing took place on a scale not unlike greedy Gold Rush prospectors grabbing land out West in 1849. Now fans could also make their page look even [...]
// read moreAll social media gurus are liars
I’ve been re-reading the Seth Godin classic “All Marketers Are Liars” and, while it was written before social media gained such prominence, I’ve found it no less compelling today because of the valuable lessons he imparts. Godin’s point wasn’t that marketers are really liars, but that consumers choose to believe the stories that marketers are [...]
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