Thanksgiving is almost upon us, which, for many, means a day to give thanks, eat, watch football, and finalize Black Friday shopping strategies.
Online buzz about Black Friday has been in full force, as you can see from this real time twitter search and the abundance of ad aggregators online. Many retailers, at least the smart [...]
Archive | November, 2008
MGH WOM HELPS YOU SPEND THE MONEY YOU DON’T HAVE
EMPLOYEES AS WOM AMBASSADORS
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Southwest Airlines founder, Herbert D. Kelleher was spot on, when he said “you have to treat your employees like customers.”
We often talk about the importance of creating a positive corporate culture so your employees will go forth and prosper. And by “go forth and prosper” I mean “provide excellent service that will [...]
MGH WOM WINS!
Throughout the course of history, there have been several moments that have helped to shape the face of American sports as we know them today: USA vs. the Soviet Union in ‘80, Lou Gehrig’s farewell speech, Foreman defeating Frazier.
Impressive in their own right, yet these athletic feats could not begin to compare with the major [...]
KINGS OF PONG
I believe if you look up “fierce competitors” in the dictionary you will see a picture of the MGH WOM team. That love of competition has brought us to our first ever ping pong challenge against a local design shop called Orange Element.
Using our connections on Twitter, we reached out to them with our initial [...]
GIRL IN YOUR SHIRT
Who doesn’t want free SWAG? Why not charge people to send it to you? Earlier this week, the web saw the launch of GirlinYourShirt.com. The premise behind the site is quite simple. You send in your company’s shirts and information and the girl will expose your brand to her social networks all day.
What seems like [...]
GMAIL VIDEO CHAT – ONE STEP CLOSER TO CONTROLLING THE INTERNET
Google is rolling out its version of video chat via its Gmail chat server today. The service allows g-chat users to connect with other who have installed the free plugin. Gmail video chat works very similar to iChat, with a small camera icon situation next to user-names of those with web-cam enabled computers. Currently, Google [...]
THE AWWW FACTOR: UNVEILING THE PUPPY-CAM
Every once in a while something comes along on the internet that draws massive attention, something that everyone is talking about. Usually it is something that someone creates with the intention to get as many viewers as possible, much like Fred Figglehorn. This time around though, a viral sensation has taken over the World Wide [...]
FEAR AND WOM’ING IN LAS VEGAS
Tomorrow afternoon, I’ll be heading out to fabulous Las Vegas for the annual Word of Mouth Marketing Summit.
I’ll be blogging, Twittering, YouTube’ing, etc. throughout the week. You can keep up with all of my updates here and here.
See you in Vegas!
- Ryan G.
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BALTIMORE GETS STREET VIEW
Google Street View has finally come to Baltimore!
For all you out-of-towners, feel free to check out some of our favorite neighborhoods around the Greatest City in America:
Hampden
Fells Point
Federal Hill
Inner Harbor
Mt. Vernon
MOM AND SOCIAL NETWORKING
Are you friends with your mom or dad on Facebook? Chances are if you aren’t already you will be soon! The face of social network users is changing and it includes a few more wrinkles.One particular group of adults tapping into Facebook, and other social media tools, are moms. A study done by MarketingVox, illustrates [...]
ELECTION 2.0
Here we are, less than a day away from the opening of the polls. I am sure everyone is excited to cast their votes, but even more excited to see the end of the incessant smear campaigns coming from all over. I am sure most of you have received more than one e-mail declaring that [...]
