From the monthly archives:

November 2008

stone soup

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 [...]

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this just in: internet not evil

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 [...]

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the continuing saga of the ROI of social media

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 [...]

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One Laptop, One Year Later

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 [...]

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In Short: Listen.

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 [...]

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