Tag Archives: Social Media

When Social media becomes mental media

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This video opens a doorway to how our world is being shaped by social media and the possible disastrous consequences of this dramatic shift in the way we can live our lives.

American Mom Media

American Mom’s have taken up the social media mantle and are using it to track their children when at college or university to ensure that they make every effort to succeed and stay away from potential problems.  Some American Media Mom’s have even went further and integrated themselves into their children’s lives with alter egos to ensure they have a more direct influence on their development when out of physical reach.

Watch this concerning development and the story behind it right here:


Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

Now seriously… I hope your laughing.  I sure as hell am.

My Social Media Marketing Blank

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Less is more, they always say and I think this video below goes to prove that case in point.  Working on the concept of allowing us to fill in the blanks it serves to illustrate in a nice and succinct manner what most of us would love to see our business or our clients business achieve in any given campaign.

I love the way it shows the movement of the “blank” message across different mediums, from phone calls and word of mouth to blog reviews and opinion based comments to car stickers and mico blogging formats and helps us get a grasp of the Big Picture that effective marketing has become. Hat tip to the guys at 22squared.com for such a good job.

Enjoy and as always, comments are always welcome.

The Independent Newspaper infringe copyright on flickr

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An interesting event came ot my attention this morning via @suw on twitter when she ReTweeted a link to a page on flickr thats currently got a very interesting post by the user PeterZab.

The Independent Newspaper infringe copyright on flickr

Peter has explained in his post and in the comments that he has been in communication with the Independent.co.uk newspaper over a matter of copyright infringement when they used a photo that he had taken , and applied “All Rights Reserved” terms to and which they decided to ignore.

As far as I can see this has occurred, and I am basing this on the information on Peters Flickr page, which I have no problem doing because he has quite comprehensively included the email thread and correspondence between himself and the contact at the Independent newspaper and he has approached the whole situation correctly and properly in my opinion.

The newspaper however, have not. I would suggest that you have a look at the thread and comments in their entirety as it makes for very interesting reading, for me, mostly because it shows how there is a serious lack of understanding about the nature of the Flickr site and its Terms of Service, or in other words, they thought, “Lets have that, its on the internet so it must be free, oh what’s that All Rights Reserved thing, ignore it no one will notice and sod the Terms and Conditions everything on Flickr is free”.

Horrible and inexcusable conduct from a national newspaper who should know better.