Back in March at SxSW Interactive, Jeff Pulver suggested I reach out to a local Nashville guy, Andy Dixon. Jeff went on to tell me a brief summary of Andy’s background and that he had spoken at Jeff’s #140 Conf in NYC. I contacted Andy when I returned to Nashville and asked him to meet [...]
If you haven’t been following me recently, I’ve started blogging for Social Fresh, here’s a piece of the newest blog I wrote about how cities, like Boston & Chicago, are engaging citizens & tourists through social media. To see the entire blog post and leave comments, check out Social Fresh. CHICAGO New York is famous [...]
Southern Fried Design-a-thon On July 24th beginning at 11am, some of Nashville’s most creative minds will be gathering with the purpose giving back to our community. More than 30 of Nashville’s web developers, marketers, designers and copywriters are foregoing sleep to create a brand new logo, website, marketing collateral and more for a 25 [...]
Content consumption is quickly shifting away from the desktop and more to mobile devices and with the iPhone mobile app market alone pulling in more than $200 million dollars a month in sales, it is no wonder that every company wants to increase their brand exposure. In a recent report by Kony Solutions, 69% of Fortune [...]
Boyfriends and bachelors beware: Tiffany & Co.’s iPhone app [iTunes link] for engagement rings arrived in the App Store today, and it’s been carefully engineered for getting clueless and/or commitment-phobic grooms onto the engagement ring floors of Tiffany stores. For those looking to buy or receive a Tiffany’s engagement ring, the app brings the smooth, [...]
Social Media Releases Chemical Feel Goods Sometimes referred to as the “cuddle” chemical, oxytocin — a hormone produced in the brain — stimulates feelings of trust and security, reduces anxiety levels and may even produce positive sexual side effects. It sounds like a miracle drug, so how does one get their hands on it? Perhaps, [...]
Social Networking Syncs with Customer Purchases Blippy enables opted in users to share their online and offline purchases with followers by syncing their e-commerce accounts like iTunes, Netflix, Zappos, as well as, with your debit and credit card accounts. Mashable reported last month that Blippy’s user base has grown and “…users are sending data on [...]
There’s a small feature on the way that’s about to make another big change to the way people use Facebook: the ability to “Like” comments. Much like you can currently “Like” status updates, wall posts and other items in the News Feed, Facebook has started rolling out a “Like” button for comments. The feature is [...]
Facebook “Like” Increases Referral Traffic to Blogs by 50% [REPORT] TypePad users who installed the Facebook “Like” widgets on their blog sidebars have experienced a 50% increase in referral traffic from Facebook collectively, TypePad revealed in a blog post. Facebook unveiled the “Like” feature at its F8 Developer Conference in late April. Readers can click [...]
