By Amanda DiSilvestro Social media marketing is known as the “fun” marketing, but that doesn’t mean the law doesn’t apply. Oftentimes legal issues with online marketing go unnoticed because it is such a booming industry. People are writing about how to decipher Google analytics and creating a website for the Google algorithm, and there simply [...]
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BREAKING: This Might Be False
By Barry Hott “BREAKING: Confirmed flooding on NYSE. The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water” is the tweet that fooled many, including The Weather Channel and CNN into thinking the stock market floor was flooded. It was not. There are plenty of articles about how someone caused panic by posting fake [...]
Entenmann’s Social Agency Likeable Says Sorry
By Dave Kerpen Earlier today, a representative from my team tweeted “Who’s #notguilty about eating all the tasty treats they want?!” from the @Entenmanns account, one of Likeable’s clients. The Entenmann’s brand relies on us for our expertise in social media and unfortunately we let them down. We apologized on behalf of the Entenmann’s brand [...]
Can Social Media Save the Children?
By: Mallorie Rosenbluth Last week, we blogged about Keep A Child Alive’s World AIDS Day campaign in which celebrities performed a digital life sacrifice to raise money for children and families affected with HIV/ AIDS in Africa and India. To date, the campaign has only managed to raise less than $300,000 even with powerhouses like [...]
Social Media Takes On Election Day!
This week’s blog comes from Guest Blogger, Dionne Gordon. Dionne tells us about how Social Media is participating in this year’s midterm elections. If you’re into social media, then you know that Election Day 2010 is here! It is imperative to go out and take part in the polling. This year social media networks are [...]
