Posts by derickson
The One Big Thing: Google Adopts Microformats
The One Big Thing you need to know this week is that Google is now supporting microformats for what they are calling “rich snippets.”
Read MoreLocation Specific Advertising – Interview Notes
What are the chances for location based mobile advertising to succeed or fail? The promise has existed for years, but has yet to take off. In what form can it exist without driving consumers up a wall?
Read MoreWalker Art Center: Designing Obama Panel
The Walker Art Center’s May 12, 2009, panel “Designing Obama” — featured designers Sol Sender and Scott Thomas and was moderated Paul Schmelzer.
Read MoreA Fair(y) Use Tale
Watch a humorous, informative review of copyright principles delivered through the words of Disney characters in response to a Disney fair use challenge.
Read MoreJournalism Brand Fans
Through social media, journalists are creating their own personal channels to their audiences; audiences they can take with them from job to job.
Read MoreMind Reading & Neuromarketing
Neuroscience has learned much about the brain’s activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person’s mind and this technology is fueling a new communications profession called neuromarketing.
Read MoreManga Career Guide For Millennials
The Adventures of Johnny Bunko is a fantastic example of marketing to Millennials: A career guide done as a Manga comic book.
Read MoreThere's An App For That: iPhone Parody Ad
Apple’s iPhone ads tell you that whatever you want to do, “there’s an app for that.” But what if you’re trying to solve problems with the iPhone itself? Slate V imagines an ad for those apps.
Read MoreLinkedIn Best Practices For Business
David Erickson’s list of best practices for using LinkedIn as a business development tool.
Read MoreFlutter – The New Twitter Is Nanoblogging
As Twitter-mania reaches new levels, Slate V presents a mockumentary about a company that wants to take microblogging to the next level.
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