Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Welcome to Social Media Playground, a place to discuss all things related to word of mouth (WOM) and social media marketing. Brought to you by Affinitive, a word of mouth and social media marketing, technology and strategic solutions firm located in New York City and San Francisco.

Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

A “Real-Time” Look at Social Web Growth

April 9th, 2010 · View Comments

I recently came across a pretty nifty widget that illustrates the exponential growth of the “social web”. Similar to the famed National Debt Clock, although the chart doesn’t pull in “real-time” data, the information it dynamically presents is based on a number of key social web data points from a number of sources, i.e.: 20 [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Industry News · Research · Social Media

Cleaning Up a Social Media “Mess”

October 17th, 2008 · View Comments

This post was inspired by some events that transpired over the past week.  In a nutshell, the teenage daughter of a well-respected and all around nice guy in the WOM industry recently went missing. When word got out, it spread like wildfire and spurred a flurry of good samaritanism among others in the industry who [...]

[Read more →]

Tags: Marketing · PR · Social Media