The MGH Modern Marketing Blog

The MGH WOM team is happy to support the viral campaign, Blog Action Day, that empowers literally thousands of bloggers all over the world to step up and talk about global issues. Last year it was the environment, today it is poverty.
Obviously, working in a word of mouth department, we understand the power of people [...]

I understand that most networks now have arenas on their own websites where users can go and stream programming, in some cases entire episodes the day after they are on TV.
But, I think it is about time that they stop worrying so much about their content being streamed through other popular websites such as YouTube. [...]

In the summer of 2008, it will be said that the web went through a strange, yet exciting transitional period.
If you’re feeling left behind, here’s a little something we found to help you catch up:  The State of the Web – Summer 2008.

With today’s official announcement that the Microsoft/Yahoo! talks are off, speculation of a possible search partnership between Google and Yahoo! has gained some traction.
So, we here at MGH WOM decided to do a little speculating of our own.
Here’s our Top 10 list of things that could come out of a Yahoogle! partnership:
10. John McCain will [...]

Question: What happens when the nation’s top online retail site goes down for a couple of hours?
Answer: The world ends.
At least that’s what one could have assumed by the panic that flooded the web after 1:30PM today.
It was around that time that Amazon.com’s homepage began displaying a message that read “HTTP/1.1 Service [...]

Each week, you probably get about 5 emails asking you to join LinkedIn or accept someone’s connection invitation. Annoying, we know.
But if you’re deleting these emails and ignoring the invitations, you’re missing out on a huge opportunity for both yourself and your business.
This entry isn’t about the top ten ways LinkedIn can help [...]

Just stumbled across this video about the past, present, and future of the web. Some of it’s a little complex, but it does give a well-rounded explanation of how forward-thinking has changed the way we interact online.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE[/youtube]

On Wednesday, Time released an article, entitled Suffering from Facebook Fatigue?, which delivered a harsh criticism of the social network’s application platform. Specifically, the piece took aim at the means in which these applications are shared, and the countless number of daily download requests that members receive from their network of friends.
The Time [...]

Social network fatigue. If you’re reading this, you might already have it.
Ask yourself, “How many social networks do I belong to?” Do you have a Facebook account? Digg? Twitter? Last.fm? Flickr? Are you tired of having to log in, create your profiles and rebuild your friends list on [...]

So I’m here! Blogging live from the Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami.
First things first – the weather is amazing. I had a taxi driver complain about how cold it was last night; it was 65 degrees. I wish I had brought my bermuda shorts.
The conference started around 9AM this [...]

I’ve licked all of the buffalo wing sauce off of my fingers, so I can finally type this without worrying about screwing up my keyboard: this year’s Super Bowl commercials were more disappointing than blowing your team’s perfect season in the last 2 minutes of the game.
Yeah sure, there were a couple of funny ones, [...]

Mashable is running a Favorite Web Apps contest, and my entry (Pownce) is one of the top 10!
If I win, I’ll receive one of four tickets to the Future of Web Apps Conference in Miami, where I’ll be rubbing elbows with the tech elite, including Kevin Rose (Digg), Leah Culver (Pownce), Carl Henderson (Flickr), [...]