Via Why Your Company Needs to Structure Properly for Social Media… Right Now | Edelman Digital: (emphasis mine)
Richard Edelman unveiled the 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer. It’s the twelfth year that we’ve conducted the study, which tries to answer the seemingly simple question: “Who do you trust?” One thing is clear from this year’s research: It isn’t your CEO.
Interesting post. I had not seen this kind research before. It’s a great question to ask.
I totally just repinned this to my Pinterest board: Wow. / Pepperoni Pizza Sweater — and then I tumblr’d it, which automatically posts to Twitter. Sorry, Facebook. I’ll have to recreate this organically later.
Perfect. Awesome violinist responds to concert interrupted by cell phone ring by improvising on the Nokia ringtone. [via]
7 Creative Ways Your Brand Can Use Pinterest - Search Engine Watch (#SEW)
Good post. So, I’m researching Pinterest for clients. Anyone have any boards I should follow? Find me: I’ve started pinteresting here.
MEGA PARTY (by knopik96)
I’m gonna use this in a presentation someday soon.
It is Tuesday and it is cold We need a little of this.
This “Change A Tire Party” is awesome.
While [Summify] is being closed down, it seems fairly obvious that Twitter bought the company to try to incorporate that kind of semantic filtering into its offerings — likely by beefing up its new “Discover” tab, which uses trending topics and other features to try and suggest interesting content to users. As it exists now, the Discover option isn’t very comprehensive or well-organized, and it makes sense for Twitter to try to do that better. One of the service’s challenges has always been to figure out how to keep new users engaged, since it isn’t clear to many what exactly Twitter is for.
Twitter acquisition confirms that curation is the future — Tech News and Analysis
This is good news — probably. I never use the new “Discover” tab on Twitter. And I’ve never used Summify, but was *just* checking it out last week because it was recommended by a Twitter service called formulists.com (which is shutting down, unfortunately). Their take on Summify was: “Summify creates a beautiful daily summary of the most relevant news from your social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile” Hmmm…
This JAMBOX thing looks kinda nice.
Mugshot Monday - “*NEW* Peace Coffee Wonderland Park” coffee mug with a Dirty Chai by Peace Coffee Shop
Peace Coffee has a new coffee mug and it is awesome. Artwork by Haley Johnson printed on a solid coffee mug made right here in the USA. The coffee mugs are selling for $12 at the Peace Coffee Shop or buy online here.
Disclaimer: I occasionally do some consulting for Peace Coffee and they feed me coffee. Also, I’m getting the better end of the deal.
- See the entire Mugshot Monday Facebook gallery at www.MugshotMonday.com, or read more posts like it on this blog
Had a strong desire to shave my head over the weekend. So that’s done.
My 6YO digs the skiing, I think.
Glennon Melton: Don't Carpe Diem
Good post. Read it, if you are a parent.
“Turtle Neck” t-shirt is awesome.
Life is about avoiding jerks.
Nicely done:
NEVER EVER RAISE TAXES (*unless they are payroll taxes)
MARRIAGE IS SACRED (*unless Newt needs another divorce)
BIG GOVT IS BAD (*except the military part)
GET GOV’T OFF OUR BACKS (*and into our uteruses)
DEFEND THE FAMILY (*unless they’re illegal immigrants)
BE CIVIL (*unless you’re Rush or Ann Coulter)
Is New Google like the New Coke?
Good post by Helen Brown about how “New Google” search integrates Google+ content in results. Oh, and that’s an awesome illustration, too. An excerpt:
In 1985, in a moment no consumer could figure out (and no major company should ignore), Coca-Cola decided they would ditch their cash cow and make an entirely different product. The venerable “Old Coke” was gone overnight and “New Coke” was the Coke to beat Pepsi. There was just one problem. Nobody liked it. There were practically riots in the streets. People started hoarding “old” Coke when they could find it.
If you weren’t around then (and I suspect most of the Google decision-makers weren’t) I know it’s hard to believe that consumers actually rose up and made such a stink that a mega company completely reversed course about something, but they did.
You should read the whole post. There are some nice utility nuggets in the section labeled “FIXING WHAT’S NOW BROKEN”. And then, there is this nice quote about comparing Google to Bing: “There’s no Coke vs. Pepsi thing going on here. It’s Coke vs. Shasta.”
