By Jenn Riggle
In a world where we’re constantly connected, sometimes you can get out of touch. I learned this first-hand when driving to Disney World in April.
We were stuck in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95 in North Carolina, and my 12-year-old daughter was serving as the car’s deejay, playing different songs on my iPod. On a [...]
By Jenn Riggle
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Posted in Healthcare
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Also tagged android, Droid, emergency, GPS, Mobile, safety, smartphones, terror warning, texting, tornadoes, Twitter
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January 5, 2011 – 9:37 am
THE BOOZE BIN
By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
If 2010 was the year we learned to dabble in social and mobile commerce and to work with social media, 2011 will mark the year we learn to make these mediums work for us.
While not nearly a new concept, NFC, or Near Field Communications has topped analysts’ lists [...]
By Pia Mara Finkell
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Posted in Wine, Food & Nutrition
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Also tagged Apple, fifth generation, Gene Munster, Mobile Marketing, near field communications, NFC, Piper Jaffray, QR Codes, rioja, tags, tech, technology, verizon, Wine
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December 17, 2010 – 12:19 pm
By Brona Cosgrave (@bronacos)
I read somewhere (I wish I could remember where and pull the stat) that foodies represent the second largest blogger community. This is not surprising really. The food community at large adopted social media early and enthusiastically and enjoys a vibrant presence in all online communities. Since the ’90s, cooking has become [...]
December 15, 2010 – 11:56 am
THE BOOZE BIN
By Pia Mara Finkell (@piamara)
This is my favorite time of year. Holiday parties aplenty, wassail up the wazoo, and enough popped bottles to impress even Lil Wayne. It’s also a time to reflect on lessons learned throughout the year, and forecast trends to come, so we don’t get caught with our proverbial pants [...]
By Pia Mara Finkell
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Posted in Digital Marketing, PR Industry Trends, The Booze Bin, Wine, Food & Nutrition
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Also tagged #cabernet day, beer, booze, booze bin, Deals from the Vines, Facebook, iPad, iPhone Apps, Lot18, National Restaurant Association, Snooth, social media, spirits, St. Supery, TasteLive, tweetup, Twitter, VA Wine Board, VineCrowd, Wine
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October 28, 2010 – 7:00 am
By Jenn Riggle
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Barbie dolls don’t normally scare me. But last week, I saw a commercial for the new Barbie Video GirlTM, and to be honest, it gave me the creeps.
The doll looks like a regular Barbie, but has a camera lens hidden in her necklace and a small color LCD screen with controls on [...]
By Jenn Riggle
The popularity of the iPhone and Droid phones are being driven by people’s desire for features and functionalities – and for easy-to-use mobile apps. Physicians, like everyone else, want to have information at their fingertips, which is why they’ve been so quick to adopt the iPhone (and now the iPad).
It’s clear people want [...]
By Jenn Riggle
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Posted in Digital Marketing
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Also tagged Android phone, apps, Droid phone, electronic medical records, health 2.0, hospitals, iPad, Mobile, physicians, QR Codes, smartphones
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February 22, 2010 – 6:10 am
Right now it seems every company wants to build an iPhone app. Yet given that 60,000 Android phones ship every day, one has to wonder how much longer Apple will have a lock on shiny object syndrome du jour (image by Andrew Mason).
That’s roughly 5.4 million a quarter, and the numbers continue accelerating [...]
January 25, 2010 – 2:54 am
Image by fotoboer
This morning I am speaking at the first ever Social Media Breakfast in Washington, DC. The featured topic is, “What trends or predictions do you believe will prevail? How can we be visionaries in a space as dynamic as social media?” The answer? Get mobile now.
From the incredible outpouring of donations for Haiti [...]
January 4, 2010 – 8:03 am
by Geoff Livingston
Every smart internet marketer and company wants to deploy mobile apps, starting with that hot and shiny iPhone app. Yet the cost of developing iPhone applications (as well as applications for the Blackberry and Android platforms) can be cost prohibitive. AppMakr changed the iPhone application paradigm today with the launch of its [...]
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