If I asked you to borrow money, you would likely be uncomfortable on some level – even if you fall within my closest social circles. But if I asked you to send me some stats that you shared on your blog last week, you might feel less uncomfortable. Why?
Clay Shirky’s SXSW session (Monkeys with Internet [...]
At SXSWi, I saw endless QR codes. While I’m interested in principle and consider myself a technologist of sorts, I scanned a total of zero (yep, zero) QR codes.
Every SXSW badge was equipped with a QR code and at the SXSW Foursquare party the other night, Toby Daniels (founder of Social Media Week) was walking [...]
My favorite quote from the SXSW panel “Reaching Tastemaker Moms”:
“No one that I didn’t give birth to can call me Mommy, so don’t call me a ‘Mommy Blogger’.”
Point taken. Brands and marketers are desperately trying to woo so-called Mommy Bloggers, but many in the industry just aren’t picking up on the things that women in [...]