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Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Entries from August 2009

The Social Marketing “Land Grab”

August 11th, 2009 · Comments

“Social Media” are the two hottest buzz words on the block in the big, wide world of marketing.  Diving into the various social marketing platforms – such as Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr (or another blogging platform although I have all my pesos on Tumblr reigning supreme), and the hottest little platform on the list, Twitter, is [...]

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Tags: Marketing · Research · Self-Promotion · Social Media

Young Folks Don’t Care About Twitter… Maybe

August 5th, 2009 · Comments

There’s a lot of buzz over the “Teens Don’t Tweet” report published by the Nielsen Company today, including articles from Mashable and Business Insider.
While I have no evidence to argue against this other than the myriad personal anecdotes from teens in the comments of the media coverage (I tweet therefore we tweet!) and the [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Research · Social Media · Technology