Tag Archives: Facebook

Doctors on Facebook: Hide or Seek?

As the medical profession begins to dip its toe into social media, professional associations are starting to issue recommendations, particularly regarding Facebook.

Word Play Politicizes Energy

by Mike Mulvihill
An excellent blog post Sunday by Kate Galbraith in the New York Times (Word Choice Matters for Energy Policy) points out the depth of our nation’s political obfuscation on energy policy.
Ms. Galbraith points out that when President Barack Obama speaks about the fuels of the future; his term of choice is usually “clean [...]

Social Media Juggernaut Rolls On

by Mike Mulvihill
Some days, the marketplace just spews out interesting mile markers about social media and the steroid-infused future of social media (i.e., mobile social media). Here are a few or the more strategically significant tidbits from the past several days:
· Nearly half (43 percent) of all businesses have used social media networks to acquire [...]

Building Brands Online: Going Digital for Millennials

THE BOOZE BIN
By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
From fashion to packaged foods to technology, big business has long analyzed consumer tendencies as a basis for sophisticated brand building, according to specific demographic categories, including age and generational ranges. For some reason, however, this seems a little foreign to the wine industry, which has tended to [...]

Social Media: A Holy Trinity for Food Retailers

by Brona Cosgrave @bronacos

Let’s get real for a minute; social media is no longer “new” though I suspect it will carry that moniker for some time to come as many businesses have shrugged it off as the stuff of teenagers and have been slow to embrace it. A survey from the Wall Street Journal shows [...]

Three Steps to Innovative Social Media: Step 1, Get Unstuck

By April Sciacchitano (@aprilcs)
The day-to-day of maintaining a social media account can take its toll on the manager - connecting with a fan isn’t as fun as it used to be, the idea of using Facebook in your free time no longer appeals, and tweet after tweet after tweet only add to your social media malaise. If [...]

Hello, Playstation, Hello?

By Mike Mulvihill

My 15-year-old son is fairly immune to most of the crisis communication situations we see in PR. But Playstation Network being down for five days and counting?  Well, now that’s a different story.
Why is this a big deal? Well, it isn’t unless you’re a gamer. They are livid. What was originally stated as [...]

A Hat Tip to the Social Media Purists

By Mike Nelson (@Michael_Nelson)
The internet is where we communicate, conduct business, socialize and consume news – in many ways it’s become our second world. Everyone who has designed a webpage, developed an app or Internet meme or created a social platform has helped shape the infrastructure of this new world, and, to our good fortune, [...]

Facebook Plays an Important Role for Grieving Families

By Debbie Myers (@debamyers)

I admit it. I’m a big fan of Facebook. I love the connectivity it gives me to family and friends. I obnoxiously chronicle vacations and events with pictures and anecdotes. It’s even become a breaking news source – sometimes beating out my CNN news alerts I receive through my email. In fact, [...]

Three New Facebook Developments to Keep in Mind

By Priya Ramesh (@newpr)
Three New Facebook Developments to Keep in Mind
I will emphasize for the 100th time again that 2011 is the year when Facebook starts exploding further as the #1 social network with an increasing number of brands trying to sell off of Facebook. Visualize a sales cycle where you log-in to Facebook, post [...]