by Beth Dunn on 21 November 2008
Tonight I came home starving. I opened all the cabinets, peered into the fridge, looked out on the porch for any forgotten, orphaned root vegetables, and eventually came up with a delicious meal that mainly involved left-over chicken tenderloins and egg noodles. Now, I used to be a professional chef. I can do the Iron [...]
by Beth Dunn on 19 November 2008
The New York Times reporting on a study just released by the MacArthur Foundation that found that internet socializing by teens is not quite as harmful or dangerous as it was previously held to be: Those concerns about predators and stranger danger have been overblown,” she [Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study] said. “There’s [...]
by Beth Dunn on 18 November 2008
(TOTH to David Brazeal.) David Meerman Scott provides some very useful advice to those of us who often find ourselves asked the Ultimate Question: What’s the ROI of social marketing? It’s worth watching. Check it out. As he points out at the beginning, there are cynical ways to answer this question, and there are less [...]
by Beth Dunn on 18 November 2008
I’m working on a project right now, compiling a case study that involves a look back at the One Laptop Per Child campaign of last holiday season, and it’s jogged my memory and made me wonder: what ever happened to all that? Just about this time last year, there was a great deal of publicity [...]
by Beth Dunn on 16 November 2008
So after not quite 24 hours of Motrin’s Twitter Moment (Hat Tip to @Pistachio), some more in-depth analysis of the offending ads and the online response is starting to roll in. Laura Fitton weighs in with a pithy summary and analysis here: Even if your brand or agency isn’t ready to engage formally and integrate [...]