Social platforms thrive on businesses. They may tout the amount of users they have, but for most networks, user counts are the bait to help catch the big fish. On the flip side, many platforms have put up barriers and rules that have made it difficult for marketers to justify having a strong presence on [...]

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This week, the Pew Research Center released a report of great interest to all digital marketers – The Demographics of Social Media Users – 2012. While calling it “cannon” may be a bit of a stretch, these are some of the most influential data points that will show up on social media strategy plans for [...]

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Facebook’s new “Graph Search” feature, currently in closed beta testing, is creating quite a bit of buzz, as you may expect. (Most assuredly, the MySpace folks didn’t expect–nor likely appreciate–the Graph Search announcement to come the day of their relaunch, so there’s one exception.) Graph Search allows users (or will, when it goes fully-live) to [...]

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Good morning! It’s Monday, November 5, 2012  – Welcome to #TheFeed!  Read of the Day #1: Apple’s Tablet Market Share Drops to 50.4% [via Mashable] Apparently, the Tablet Wars have just begun. While Apple is still the clear leader in the market, competitors are releasing product more and more tablets. The strange this is that Apple shipped [...]

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It’s Monday, October 22, 2012 – Welcome to #TheFeed Video of the Day: Iron Man 3 Trailer Trailer No typo there. Marvel is releasing the first trailer for Iron Man 3 this week. So…they released a trailer to the trailer Sunday. Makes sense…I guess. Read of the Day #1: The Secret Behind Pinterest’s Growth Was Marketing, [...]

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My wife and I, on most days, carpool to her office, where I hop out of the car and cross the street to the subway station that takes me to work. It’s a crowded, busy four-way intersection, with a dozen lanes of traffic converging and thousands of pedestrians looking to cross every which way. But [...]

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