Archived entries for Social Media

Dating Brian

Meet Brian. He’s from Wisconsin, has almost no experience dating and just moved to New York City. With more than half of New Yorkers single, the dating scene is just ridiculous.

Kinda wicked, an new online dating metaphor, maybe i could do with one as well.

Old spice gets personal

After the ever entertaining old spice commercials, they are back and posted another 25 video’s (and counting) in which the Old Spice guy personally thanks online influentials like Ellen DegeneresPerez Hilton and Tim Nudd and random strangers for their link love and comments. And not only by name, but in a real ‘I now who you are, and what you are up to’ kinda way. This single tweet by Kevin Rose, with over a million Twitter followers, shows that this next level social media campaigning works like crazy.

Brands and social media

Recently the meetings i have been, revolves around the issue of social media. Everyone seems to talk about putting a social media element to their websites. But wait, hold on, do you really know what you are actually getting into?

Everyone right now is trying to hop into this big social media ball game, but if i may, make a bold statement, social media is just a big bubble, It is getting huge and as all things, it is going to burst somehow. Why? It’s because the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, what I call thin relationships. Continue reading…

Cadbury round YouTube player

To promote its roll pack, Cadbury is using the YouTube video player its own crazy way.

A kinda of out of the box thinking by using technical optical illusion. Too bad it feels kinda of gimmicky somehow no doubt it still brings a sense fun a craziness from the brand.

Like Button

Like Button is a collection of links shared by your Facebook friends from most popular sites. For you privacy concerned people: don’t worry, like button has no access to your personal information. Think of each box as a very specific miniature Facebook page inside of this site. Got it?

Orange rockcorps

Done by Fallon for Orange (first in the UK, then in France), called Orange Rockcorps, based on young people exchanging hours of volunteering for tickets to some really cool gigs.

Online fortune teller

One of the oldest trade know to civilization has took the step online. Madame Tre Sesti has taken her trade online and gives you a true social reading. Making use of facebook, twitter, linkedin to provide some interesting outcome. Created by dutch agency Achtung! and a definitely an interesting campaign for  Vodafone’s 360 service.

Internet vices

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Everyone has an addiction, and even using social media is an addiction. Patrick Moberg has done it again with the new internet vices. I have multiple vices, what about you? Or maybe you can kick this addiction from his previous social media workout plan?

The conversation prism

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Many of us will come across times where we try to find the best medium to use to exploit our ideas online. Brian Solis came up with a chart that has quite and in-depth breakdown on social media conversations. However it would be more ideal if this was demographic specific.



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