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Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

Dear KFC: Never Underestimate the Power of Free + Word of Mouth

May 11th, 2009 · Comments

Dear KFC Team,
Last week you learned a valuable lesson (no, not that Oprah is queen - we already knew that). You learned, hopefully, not to underestimate the power of Word of Mouth.
To recap, for those who haven’t been stampeded in one of your locations within the past week…
You as a brand, interested in dipping [...]

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Tags: Industry News · Marketing · PR · Self-Promotion · Social Media

The Videophone Trap (or… History Often Repeats with New Technology)

July 16th, 2008 · Comments

I recently attended a conference on location based services and although this is an area of amazing potential, I was reminded how easy it is with new technologies to get caught in what I’ll call “The Videophone Trap”. In this, people within an industry become obsessed with, and base entire business models on, demonstrating certain [...]

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Tags: Technology

Unofficial Brand Applications on Facebook

March 17th, 2008 · Comments

An interesting new phenomenon is emerging in social media: the unofficial brand app. In this age of file sharing and remixing, it’s not uncommon for people to appropriate content for personal expression or consumption. But these are quite different than fan pages or shared MP3s. These are deliberate business ventures and they raise interesting issues [...]

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Tags: Social Media