Posted by Katherine Meyer on September 28, 2011 · 10 Comments
Share Retro photo apps are all the rage. And for good reason. Fact: People love sharing pictures online. There are over 200 million photos uploaded to Facebook per day, which means there are more than 6 billion uploads per month. Much to the chagrin of digital camera makers, smartphones are becoming more and more ubiquitous [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on September 13, 2011 · 3 Comments
Share This is a guest post by one of my favorite, and smartest of friends, and a well-known online security expert, Christopher Burgess (@burgessct) My Customer Service Nightmare at the Hands of Newport News/Spiegel There comes a time in every consumer’s lifetime when a retailer may try and take advantage of the relationship and deliver [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Ramblings, social media · Tagged with customer satisfaction, customer service, examples of poor customer service, examples of poor customer service in social media, Facebook consumer engagement, Newport News, Newport News and poor customer service, social media use by business, Spiegel, twitter
Posted by Katherine Meyer on September 11, 2011 · 17 Comments
Share Coming from a family of jokesters, it was pretty much a given that I would ultimately learn to develop a thick skin (well, frankly, I was forced to do so). It was also imperative that I learn the art of quick repartee as a form of self-preservation much like other children learn to walk. [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Pop Culture and Current Events, Ramblings · Tagged with Apple, BBH, BBH Barn, digital communication, facebook, sarcasm font, sarcasm in social media, Sartalics, social media, Social Media Marketing, Tumblr, twitter, Yahoo
ShareToday’s fun fact? We here at V3 love, adore and worship a good infographic. So when we stumbled upon “The State of the Internet” infographic, we dove right in—and we think you should, too. Created by: Online Schools For those of us who spend our days connected to the Internet, whether we’re blogging, emailing, tweeting, [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Online Marketing, Ramblings · Tagged with high-speed Internet, how many blogs on the Internet, infographics, Internet statistics, Internet usage, online resources, Online Schools, State of the Internet 2011, The State of the Internet infographic, top Google searches
Posted by Katherine Meyer on July 21, 2011 · 1 Comment
Share Instagram has been an absolute hit with mobile users. Launched in October 2010, Instagram quickly added 1 million users in a mere two months after their app launched. Now nine months into their existence, Instagram has 5 million users that have uploaded nearly 100 million photos. To put it in perspective – it took [...]
Posted by Katherine Meyer on July 13, 2011 · 4 Comments
ShareSo there are a ton of plugins out there that beef up your browser and generally make it more dynamic and useful. One cool plugin I stumbled across that does just that is Rapportive. Rapportive is a free plugin for Chrome and Safari users. Sorry IE users! A quick aside — why in the world [...]
Posted by Michelle Lamar on April 12, 2011 · 3 Comments
ShareAccording to Jonathan Tasini, The Huffington Post unfairly pocketed more than $100 million from its unpaid bloggers and he’s mad as hell. Jonathan Tasini filed a lawsuit that I think is a bogus one on behalf of all the unpaid bloggers today. Wow, thanks Jonathan! But as a fellow Huffington Post blogger, I have to [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on March 6, 2011 · 5 Comments
Share Paola Antonelli, Curator for Architecture and Design at the MoMA, did a TEDTalk in late 2007 previewing the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind,” focused on designs that impact the way we think, and this TEDTalk was published in early 2008. Antonelli’s passion for design as art is infectious and the presentation compelling. As [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Ramblings, Traditional Marketing · Tagged with collective design, consumer-generated ads, crowdsourcing, design, Design and the Elastic Mind, MoMA, Paola Antonelli, Paola Antonelli TED Talk, TED
Posted by Shelly Kramer on February 22, 2011 · 22 Comments
Share My daughter, Katherine shared this with me this morning, knowing full well it would make my day. She was right. This sage advice, from AnnaGrace’s 5 year old sister, is something I fervently believe all women would do well to strive to pass along to their female children. “I care if I do something [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on February 1, 2011 · 5 Comments
ShareThis post is not about marketing, strategy, social media or any of the other business related things that we usually write about. Instead, it’s about child safety. We think that’s important, too. This headline in today’s Chicago Business was interesting enough that I stopped what I was doing and went to read the article. Doggone [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Pop Culture and Current Events, Ramblings · Tagged with Abduction, Chicago Business, child abduction, crime, Delaware, Elizabeth Smart, girl averts kidnapping with ipod, iSafe, iSafe Bags, iSafe Bags and Backpacks, kidnapping, Kyron Horman, Natalee Holloway, personal safety, safety
Posted by Shelly Kramer on February 1, 2011 · 16 Comments
Share Sometimes someone says something so brilliant that there’s really no option but to stop what I’m doing and share. This is one of those moments. The ridiculously smart and irrepressible Doug Haslam regularly engages in interaction that makes me think, inspires and often makes me wish I lived closer to him so that we [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on January 18, 2011 · 64 Comments
Share I know what it’s like to feel nervous or reluctant to speak up about something. People might think you’re stupid. They might make fun. They might disagree. Horrors! Oh, there’s so many different excuses. But what I want to know is this: What happened to conviction? What happened to taking a stand, climbing on [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on January 4, 2011 · 3 Comments
Share This is a guest post written by Meg Fowler. She’s amazing. And shared these thoughts in a Facebook group. I liked them so much that I asked her to share them here – in a guest post. I think she’s onto something. I’ll bet you will, too. Common Sense I think my big push [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on December 19, 2010 · 14 Comments
Share This is a guest post written by my friend and frequent collaborator, Alex Greenwood. In addition to regularly helping provide smart PR strategies to the services we offer our clients (as well as his own), he makes me laugh. Just about every day. He’s also a writer. And he’s an amazing one. And, In [...]
Posted by Shelly Kramer on December 12, 2010 · 32 Comments
Share[/caption] I spent the last few days in Denver, visiting my friend Erika Napoletano and helping her celebrate her birthday. It was not at all the wild party weekend many would expect of us – in fact, we’re really two geeky girls who like to hang out and talk, read and get mani-pedis. Our girls’ [...]
Filed under Featured Articles, Ramblings · Tagged with @redheadwriting, Christopher Burgess, Erika Napoletano, Feeding America, FeedingKCKids, Harvesters, hunger in America, hungry children, hungry kids, Kansas City Star, Laura Bauer, Libby's, Virtual Foo
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