Email is the one must have tool every online fundraiser needs. But most brands are afraid to use because they only now how to spam people.
An algorithm sourcing your Twitter stream wouldn’t kill the social network. It would just put an end to the ridiculous amount of spammy, bad tweets created by marketers.
Twitter has a problem: A lack of conversation.
After reading the Age of Context (read my review here), I could not help but think about how this era is removing most concepts of privacy. In turn, it is causing an incredible amount of intrusive spam. A tension builds between brands who market to the niche, and consumers who unwittingly gave them permission to do so. The Age of […]
What Teens Think Will Happen to Email (Source: Social Mouths) French company Atos became the latest tech player to declare the end of email, calling it pollution and banning it from its corporate walls. Tech bloggers bagged the move, but in reality, it’s an increasingly familiar proclamation. Basically, the tech industry wants to replace email with the next generation of […]
Image by diaper A recent Digital Life survey in Great Britain revealed that corporate social media is generally a failure, with organizations “generating mountains of digital waste, from friendless Facebook accounts to blogs no one reads.” And so in a long history of media, yet another medium has been turned into a source of noise pollution by direct marketers. First […]
In life on Twitter, it’s virtually impossible to move far into one’s career without being asked to retweet (RT) something. Almost every single one of us have asked for and have been asked to RT for a fellow marketer, friend, or simply a follower. But as time passes, more and more influence formulas are tied to RTs as a metric. […]
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