Showing posts with label Buzz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buzz. Show all posts

25 Mar 2014

#Buzz: 10 Signs You’re A Content Marketer



By Bailey Koharchick at Buzzfeed: 

Community manager, social media specialist, whatever. Call it what you want, you’re marketing the $h*t out of that company content.

1. Everyone thinks they can do your job.


Seeing college resumes that say “proficient in Facebook” makes you LOL.


2. Sending out a Facebook post that’s grammatically incorrect will open the floodgates for internet trolls.


Annnnnd your life is over.


3. Your family has no idea what you do.


What you say: “I curate content and help establish brand awareness through social media and other digital channels.” 
What they hear: “Glibbity-globbity and blip-blop-bloop through blah-bleep and bleep-bloop-boop.”


4. You spend 30% of your day creating Blocks on Bloxi.


And 20% taking them. 
“Beer is the 3rd most popular drink in the world? Not in my house…”


5. You become desperate when someone else already owns the profile name you want and they won’t give it up.


Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease


6. Celeb retweets are the greatest thing to ever happen.


THIS MEANS I AM FRIENDS WITH KANYE WEST.


7. You’re always terrified you’ll post something personal from the company account


Oh God…


8. You occasionally have to fight with the developers over the importance of having a social bar on every page.


Why do we need social media? Because no one will play with your website if we don’t f**king promote it. That’s why.


9. You say things like “ping me”, “hashtag it”, and “our likes are up”…


And you don’t realize that people think you’re joking.
Because you’re not.


10. You’re never really “off work”


10pm and someone in Indonesia wants to engage on Twitter? #tweetchat





21 Mar 2014

Obama Calls Ellen’s Record Tweet a Cheap Stunt



By Josh Wolford at WebProNews: 

As you may have heard, the deadline for Obamacare enrollment is fast approaching (it’s the end of the month, fyi). In order to get more people on board, President Obama has been on a media tour of sorts. The latest stop on the Affordable Care Act promotional train was The Ellen Show.



That tweet has now garnered over 3.4 million retweets, and is comfortably the most retweeted tweet of all time. On Oscar night, during the first hour on Twitter, the tweet was retweeted over 1 million times–crushing the record set by the President back in 2012 when he tweeted this after the election:


780,000? Weak. It’s not even close, right?

Well, President Obama is calling shenanigans on the whole thing.

“I don’t know if you know this,” said Ellen, “but i was aiming to break your record of retweets and I apologize for doing it but I broke your retweet record.”

“I heard about that. I though it was a pretty cheap stunt myself–getting a bunch of celebrities in the background.”

Jokes aside, we all know that it was a pretty cheap stunt. It was all one giant advertisement for Samsung, paid for from the beginning, and we were all duped. Well, not all of us I guess. 3.4 million, to be exact.

Either way, nobody forced Twitter users to retweet the selfie. Samsung ploy or not, Ellen is the Queen of Retweets and that’s just a fact. Congrats.



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http://www.webpronews.com/obama-calls-ellens-record-tweet-a-cheap-stunt-2014-03


11 Dec 2013

Obama's Selfie at Mandela Memorial



We laugh at the kids.
They're so silly. They have no sense of decorum. Sometimes they're just plain embarrassing.
Why, just a few breaths ago, we were wondering what possessed so many young minds to post selfies from funerals.

Then the world's leaders gather for Nelson Mandela's funeral and they do just the same thing.

Here were British Prime Minister David Cameron, Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt, and President Barack Obama grinning it up, as the latter two held a smartphone steady. (It's unlikely to have been the president's, as he's often said how committed he is to his BlackBerry.)


A Getty photographer captured the moment as the POTUS leaned together with the prime ministers of Denmark and the United Kingdom, extended his arm and snapped the shot with a cellphone.



As you can see in the photos, Michelle Obama wasn't having it and it seems as if she even made her husband switch seats.



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5 Dec 2013

Egypt’s Sisi Wins Reader Poll for TIME Person of the Year



Egypt’s General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, is the winner of the TIME’s 2013 Person of the Year poll.

Sisi received 449,596 votes, or 26.2% of the total, beating out Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who received 356,771 votes or 20.8%, and American pop star Miley Cyrus, who received 279,300 votes or 16.3%.

Sisi’s numbers were driven by massive support from his native Egypt: the country accounted for the largest number of votes on the TIME.com poll. India and the United States provided the second and third highest number of responses, respectively. TIME’s Person of the Year is chosen by the magazine’s editors and will be announced on Wednesday, Dec. 11.

As part of TIME’s partnership with Twitter to host this year’s Person of the Year conversation, we opened up our reader’s choice poll to social media voting on Twitter using Poptip. Users could vote by tweeting their choice with #TIMEPOY or on Time.com, where Poptip’s technology analyzes results in real time.



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11 Oct 2013

This Is How Apple's New "Spaceship" Headquarters Look Like


Apple is in the final approval process for its new "Spaceship" campus in Cupertino, California.

The company hopes to finish construction of the Spaceship three years from now, in the middle of 2016.

But it hasn't broken ground yet.

I was in Cupertino the other day, so I checked out the site of the new campus.



Via Business Insider.

5 Oct 2013

A Few Brave Brands Goof on the Government #Shutdown


For many, the shutdown of the federal government is no laughing matter. While some federal employees are losing income, recipients of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children program are denied access to food for their children.

Nevertheless, a few brands have viewed the episode as an excuse for humor — or at least some real-time marketing that acknowledges what's going on in the real world. As the following tweets and Facebook posts show, the results are uneven. In fact, Kenneth Cole, known for his willingness to make light of any situation, no matter how dire, has emerged as the voice of reason:










Via Mashable