Archive for the ‘Social Media’ Category

Another Blog on the Value of Twitter in PR

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

By: Matt Clark I know, I know.  After reading Jennifer Leggio’s post on PR 2.0 I feel stupid writing another Twitter article.  Feel free to throw rotten food at me.  (Waiting) Okay, back to business. So when will Twitter really matter?  It doesn’t. - Lets get that straight.  Twitter is nothing but a ...

Yoono: An Easy Way To Manage Social Networking Overkill

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

By: Matt Clark One of the biggest problems with social media is the management of a consistent message across multiple platforms. I am constantly switching between Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, ect… it really is a pain in the butt. Now there is a desktop application that will let you manage your client’s ...

Best Social Media Video Ever

Monday, August 17th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I have to give a big shout out to Erik Qualman from Socialnomics.net.  Socialnomics.net is what I wanted DigitalBlab to be: a blog designed to cover the latest trends in social media.  Qualman just put out a video full of great stats (with a fun soundtrack) to prove ...

Tweet a Journalist (…is that wrong?)

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I remember Peter Shankman talking about MSNing, IMing, Facebooking and Tweeting journalists.  This was right around the pitch-via-Facebook debate and I didn't want to push the envelope with journalists.  But now I understand the value of using social media to instantly reach journalists.  My co-worker Jess talks to ...

Best MySpace Design Team… Ever

Friday, May 15th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I need to give a quick shout out to Daddy Design.  These guys make the best MySpaces pages out there. If you looking to run a MySpace campaign, but don’t want to spend the $250-500k it would cost to get a custom page through MySpace, use these guys.  They ...

10 Things I Think, I Think About Social Media

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

By: Matt Clark I had to work on NFL Draft Saturday.  I was in the office during my favorite time of the year.  It was horrible.  My boss was nice enough to buy me a pizza, but that didn’t help take away the pain of not celebrating the Jets draft of ...

How A Crush on Pete Cashmore Changed My Life

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

by Mallory Dash OK, maybe "changed my life" is too strong. But read on... The year was 2007, and I had just begun my young career in tech PR, with nary an interest in Teh Webs, and I didn't even know what a Twhirl or an Om or a Soshal ...

The Value of Twitter to Journalists

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

By Matt Clark I just had an interesting conversation with Dr. Pauly from Tao of Poker.  We were all hanging out in the Caesars sports book after the AMAZING VILLANOVA WIN (I think I chain smoked 10 cigs in the last 5 minutes).  Pauly was twittering during the entire Dream Team ...

Live from Your Computer… It’s Saturday Night! (Or, How Facebook Can’t Sit Still)

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

by Mallory Dash So I was sitting in a little pizza shop on Broadway yesterday before a meeting. Whilst chomping away on my veggie/olive slice, I was scanning my Twitterberry feed, and saw tweet after tweet on OMGNEWFACEBOOKLIVEFEEDNEWPAGESOMGWTF. Intrigued... I read this post on Mashable on my Blackberry's tiny screen, trackballing ...

Billiard Balls vs. Cobwebs: The Politics of Web 2.0

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Mallory Dash My deepest apologies to our reader(s)... I have been M.I.A for way, way, way too long. But please rest assured I am alive, healthy, and just as okay-awesome as ever. As you might know, I was a Polisci major at McGill University way up there in the Great White North. ...