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When sent a copy of “YouthNation: Building Remarkable Brands in a Youth-Driven Culture” by Matt Britton, to review, I was half expecting just another book on marketing and branding using social media.
As it happens, the book does cover the use of social media as a key branding and marketing tool, Read More

Themes:

Internet of things.

Privacy and surveillance.

Robots.

Greg Raiz on his company's "unlimited vacation" policy. Dan Levitin on his book, The Organized Mind. Read More

The Social Hour #151:

Amber & Sarah on why Canadians are so Facebook-crazy, how social media defines beauty, detecting Twitter "lies", Venmo payments go location-based, Crowdpilot.me for conversations, & more! Read More

It’s not easy to manage your business AND market it at the same time. In many ways it’s a vicious cycle: to move your business forward you need to market it but you can’t market effectively if you’re continually struggling to find time to do the marketing because you’re too busy doing your actual j Read More

Barry Moltz's podcast. Ken Blanchard talks about his new book. Jay DesMareau who leads small business at TD Bank. Sponsored by Nextiva and Sage One. Read More

Podcasting saw a huge renaissance in 2013 as major content producers woke up to the ease or production and portability afforded the spoken word. It didn’t hurt that Apple made the podcast app a default app of the iPhone IOS either.
I’ve been podcasting since some time in 2006 and I still find it o Read More

Amber & Sarah discuss Pinterest getting into the travel game, Snapchat passes Facebook in photo snaps?, Windows phones get Instagram, Jean-Claude Van Dam impersonated, and more! Read More

From John Jantsch's podcast show:

We don’t always think of something that’s contagious as such a good thing. When it comes to marketing these days, however, it’s a very good thing. Getting something catch on or “go viral” is one of the most powerful forms of marketing.

One of the biggest goal Read More

By Miguel Leiva-Gomez:

Hashtags are all over the place. First, Twitter started implementing this, then Google+ made its own social network that uses them. Not much later, Facebook joins the whole hashtag bonanza, and now we can’t scroll down without seeing a hashtag or two every couple of pixels Read More

Ad Age's Can a Collaborative Cohort of Indie Shops Topple the Big Agency Networks covers a new ad agency called Circus Maximus.

Founded by a trio of former big ad agency executives, Circus Maximus is part of a new wave of small advertising firms that are challenging the big agencies.

What c Read More