On Sunday, teams of big-league social media strategists and techies will gather for what is being hailed as the Super Bowl of social media showdowns. The event? Well, the Super Bowl, of course. With 150,000 people converging on downtown Indianapolis, Ind. for the game, the NFL saw the need for the first ever Super Bowl [...]
Here on the CurrentMarketing blog, we are always talking about new, cool stuff that we are really excited about. But sadly, great ideas don’t always stay great for long. Here is a list of some neat stuff that didn’t turn out as I’d hoped. Color – When I first heard of this app, I thought [...]
Before I was a part of CurrentMarketing’s social media team, I was a photojournalist. As a photographer you think of photojournalism as changing the world one well composed frame at a time. I’ve been a part of some great storytelling, but as a freelancer it seemed more often than not I was standing at a [...]
Are you sick and tired of playing victim to Facebook’s nefarious, ever-changing privacy practices? Are you exhausted from all of those hours spent trying to get reoiriented with Facebook’s interface after another zany redesign? Have you had it with those tiny ads on each side of your screen, ruining the serenity of your social networking [...]
This week at our monthly Spotlight™ meeting, our Guru of all things Account Services, Nick Ising, turned us on to something that I didn’t know was missing from my social media existence… a service like Pinterest, but for men. For those who don’t know, Pinterest is “a vision board-styled social photo sharing website and app where users can create and manage [...]
It’s hard to believe that a whole year has passed since I unveiled my first-annual list of YouTube Faves. Even more astounding is the fact that in 2011, YouTube users sent more than 25 million hours of coning, kitten and crotch-trauma footage out to pasture on the YouTube server farm, nearly doubling the total for [...]
Just before Christmas, a surveillance camera video of a FedEx employee throwing a computer monitor over a residential gate went viral. VERY viral. As of December 22, the 21-second YouTube video posted on Dec. 19 had 4,612,33 views and thousands of mentions across Facebook and Twitter. Rightly so. Here’s how the customer described it, “Here [...]
2012 finally arrived and we’re approaching Facebook’s eight year anniversary and Twitter’s sixth. We’re always watching for what will be next and which startup may potentially take down one of the Goliaths. Since there are already too many people writing about what will be the latest and greatest in social media for this year I’m [...]
For many people, ‘tis the season to be merry and bright. For many ad agencies, ‘tis the season to pool all of your resources and make outlandish holiday creative that’ll make your competitors jealous and client’s proud/confused. With that being said, I now present to you some of the wackiest, coolest and downright weirdest holiday [...]
Thanks to the digital world in which we live, I can grub down some yummy food and help famine relief with an easy click. The Good Belly Project has partnered with restaurants around Boston. If you eat at a participating restaurant, take a picture of your food with Instagram, tag the photo with #goodbellyproject and [...]
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