Digital Marketing And Social Media PR – The Future Buzz

Unless you slept through the 80′s and early 90′s you’ve heard of MacGyver – the resourceful agent for the fictional Phoenix Foundation in Los Angeles on the TV show of the same name. MacGyver was unlike secret agents in other television series and films because instead of relying on high-tech weapons and sophisticated tools, he relied on his brain and creative problem solving to outsmart enemies

I’ve previously written posts on how to find and vet digital marketing talent as well as how to choose an online marketing or PR agency. Along those lines of thinking, today I was reading through my feeds and came across a post on how to spot a great SEO. Nick shares some smart thinking here:

As of late, Reddit has been my favorite online community.  It has a similar feeling to the forums I frequented in the late 90′s and early 00′s.  Which having contributed more than 20,000 posts as both community member and  moderator of music, tech and gaming boards growing up — I have a soft spot for.

As a lover of anything involving strategy, I’m naturally a poker fan.  I previously wrote how internet marketing is like chess and today I got to thinking how it’s also like poker.

Despite the fact that we live in a text-driven web and video continues to heat up, (more than 80% of US internet audiences view online video,  and YouTube’s fact sheet states 2 billion videos are being watched per day) images remain one of the core archetypes of viral content.

Augie Ray over at Forrester Research shared a quick opinion piece this week about Facebook places devaluing likes.  Let’s go through his thoughts, as I’d like to reframe your thinking on the subject.  In essence — the two behaviors are different and I think seeing one as “devaluing” the other is the wrong viewpoint.