Affinitive’s Social Media Playground

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 [...]

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The emergence of social media into the mainstream has undoubtedly been a boon to social media professionals.  More and more, both brick-and-mortar and online start ups have been incorporating social media tools such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, into the day-to-day management of their businesses. As a social media professional, running multiple concurrent client [...]

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To say the developers here at Affinitive (and around the world) are happy to see Microsoft’s decade old web browser finally go away is a big understatement. Over the last several years there have been many people advocating for “death to Internet Explorer 6.” But in the last couple of months, several things have come around to finally give IE6 the push out the door.

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OK Go – This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo. I don’t claim to have any of the answers to the many major issues that are currently plaguing the music industry. If I did, I wouldn’t be sitting at this desk. I’d be in world domination mode somewhere up on Broadway where Bad [...]

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This week Marketing Sherpa asks the question “How Knowledgeable are Marketers [about Social Media] who have no Social Media experience?” Quite an interesting question indeed. With Social Media being a super hyped little pair of buzz words, every agency, self-promoting fameball, or major brand who follows trendy little buzz words has jumped on the tweeting, [...]

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1/31/09: Your Weekly Address from White House on Vimeo. In thinking about ways in this new year that I could better contribute to Affinitive’s blog, I got inspired by the blog over at everyone’s favorite minimalistic housewares company, SimpleHuman. Their blog has become a must-read for me, not because they dish out the inside scoop [...]

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