I always enjoy Bob Garfield’s commentary. He’s the funniest (and smartest) observer of the ad business. He has a new feature on iMedia Connection called Bob Garfield’s Lounge. Here’s a great interview with Joseph Dumont about how Chrysler dealt with a dumb tweet by a junior employee.
Clearing up the myths of FTC social media regulations in Ad Age and NPR
October 11, 2009
(Read this, this, and this for background on the FTC social media issue.) Here’s a column I wrote in Ad Age called Why the FTC’s Social Media Guidelines Are Great News for Marketers (Dan Gillmor’s debates the other side): The FTC gave advertisers three gifts this week: Clear rules on how to work in social [...]
On The Media Interview: How to be an ethical marketer. Why it’s wrong to pay for blog coverage.
April 19, 2009
Welcome to all the new readers who heard me on On The Media this morning. I did an interview with host Bob Garfield about the most important issue in the world of blogging: ethics. Specifically, we talked about what happens when marketers pay for placement in blogs. (More here) Paying for blog coverage — what [...]
Rhett and Link Perform Live at BlogWell: The Internet Overdose Song
April 18, 2009
Rhett and Link are performing live at BlogWell: 8 Great Case Studies on Corporate Social Media. (So are Coca-Cola, Nokia, Microsoft, Johnson & Johnson, GE, Tyson, Turner Broadcasting System, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.) New York | April 29, 1-5pm | http://gaspedal.com/blogwell Watch Rhett and Link perform the Internet Overdose Song: And, just for [...]
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