Recent Posts Tagged With 'information overload'

• The Real Twitpocalypse Is Here: I’m Now Addicted To Twitter

  Posted on Monday June 15th, 2009 at 20:02 in internet, communication, social media, twitter, information overload, tweetdeck

  I have failed you, master. And by master I mean Gayle, the Queen of Social media here at TMG. Last April she talked about this newfangled thing called Twitter and how she was going to shy away from it. At the time I too was going to resist Twitter, b...

• WolframAlpha, The Unsearch Engine

  Posted on Wednesday June 10th, 2009 at 16:29 in search, internet, google, social media, wikipedia, information overload, wolfram alpha

  There’s Google, there’s Wikipedia, there’s Bing… and now there’s WolframAlpha. WolframAlpha isn’t your ordinary search engine - it’s a self-titled “computational knowledge” engine.  This internet newborn doesn’t retur...

• The New “Facebook” Of Lobbying

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 16:12 in communication, charity, congress, facebook, target, information overload, capitol hill, lobbying, saturation, roll call, changing expectations

  When I worked on Capitol Hill many years ago, if you wanted to share your opinion with your member of Congress you needed to sit down and write them an old-fashioned letter or look up their office number in the phone book and call them.   Times ha...

• Twitter Mistrials On The Rise?

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 15:16 in internet, communication, trends, law, social media, legal system, juries, information overload, blackberries, courtroom, changing expectations, twitter mistrials

  Since the days of Matlock and Perry Mason, the trial system in our country has remained largely unchanged. Today, we still have courtrooms with judges, lawyers, and a jury of our peers. However the legal institution is now facing new threats, with te...

• Major Media Is Keeping An Eye On Twitter

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 17:40 in internet, technology, communication, cnn, pop culture, social media, twitter, information overload, don lemon, daily show, saturation, rick sanchez

  Everyone is joining Twitter these days. I’m not just talking about all the famous people that have joined. I’m talking about how major media, politicians, TV personalities and corporations have embraced it and are using it as a direct ...

• I’m As Smart As My Smartphone

  Posted on Wednesday March 4th, 2009 at 16:10 in google, technology, gmail, knowledge, smartphone, google earth, customers, crowdsourcing, information overload, changing expectations

  If knowledge is power, then Google and my smartphone make me the most powerful person in the world – that is, along with everyone else using Google and a smartphone. This New York Times article - “Geniuses At Play, On the Job” - outlines diff...

• Following The Herd

  Posted on Tuesday February 3rd, 2009 at 16:26 in communication, Marketing, word of mouth, consumers, customers, information overload, groupthink, peers, zappos, robert cialdini, deep listening

  I have written previously that when I am saturated with information and can’t decide what to do,  I turn to others for input.  In fact, I have recently discovered that this is typical psychological behavior.  A recent book titled Yes! 50...

• My Facebook Unfriends Feed Me

  Posted on Wednesday January 21st, 2009 at 16:34 in internet, Marketing, Advertising, social media, facebook, burger king, information overload, saturation, whopper sacrifice

  While scanning one of my favorite marketing blogs, YPulse, I came across a marketing campaign from Burger King and Facebook called the Whopper Sacrifice.  Have you heard of this one yet?  It’s a Facebook application that challenges users to ...

• The Curious Case Of FiOS TV

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 16:42 in cnn, television, msnbc, mtv, ESPN, HBO, fios, qvc, information overload, nfl network, saturation, chiller

  Do you know what’s going to be the demise of my New Year’s resolutions? It’s not Madden 09, YouTube, or Facebook . The answer is FiOS TV. This past Sunday I had great ambitions of catching up on some blogging, paying some bills, and maybe e...

• Why I Like Facebook

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 15:22 in communication, social media, twitter, information overload, inbox zero

  I was a Facebook holdout. Oh, I knew it was out there - after all, I work in social media. For the first few years, I wrote it off as a tool for students, another item I could add to the list of things that weren’t around when I was in college ...

• Opposed To Exercise

  Posted on Wednesday November 19th, 2008 at 16:36 in health, risk, exercise, obesity, information overload, saturation

  I was reading an publication from EPM Communications on consumer behavior and attitudes when I saw a statistic that made me unsure as to whether I should laugh out loud or cry. Here it is: A third of Americans (34%) exercise 100 or more days a year;...

• Online Research - Friend or Foe?

  Posted on Friday October 24th, 2008 at 09:47 in internet, google, technology, Privacy, word of mouth, research, customers, information overload, yelp, rotten neighbors, rate my cop, rate my professor

  I am not a particularly nosy person. I like to think of myself as well-informed and proactive. Okay… who am I kidding? It’s so easy to be nosy nowadays! (And as David referenced in his post a few months ago, I’m not the only one.) G...

• A Daily Cheat Sheet

  Posted on Tuesday October 7th, 2008 at 15:55 in information overload, saturation, tina brown, news feeds, huffington post, aggregating news, the daily beast

  Recently, Tina Brown embarked on a new online project: The Daily Beast. This site mirrors The Huffington Post in its method of aggregating current news stories, but also stands out because it’s simpler and more concise. Every day, the editors p...

• Tired Of Technology… And Craving Dentyne

  Posted on Monday October 6th, 2008 at 17:17 in Marketing, Advertising, trends, social media, simplicity, information overload, face time, dentyne

  Technology is awesome – and at the same time, technology wears on me. Most days I am grateful for all the ways I’m connected — however, there increasingly more moments lately when, like Gayle with her email, I’m ready for a break. Tools m...

• I Surrender. Email, You Win.

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 14:01 in communication, email, gmail, social media, information overload, inbox, unclutter, saturation, overflowing inbox

  I recently identified the single biggest source of stress in my life. No, it’s not the work/family balance. It’s not the status of my retirement savings, either (though that may be because I haven’t looked at my account balances sin...

• The Dawn Of The E-Newspaper

  Posted on Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 13:11 in newspapers, personalization, information overload, online news, kindle, plastic logic, electronic newspaper reader

  The battle of electrons vs. dead trees continues to wage on. First, there was the e-book reader, of which perhaps the Amazon Kindle is the most famous variety.  While some reports indicate that the Kindle is doing quite well, I have to say that in t...

• No Escaping The TV

  Posted on Friday August 22nd, 2008 at 16:30 in Advertising, television, information overload, saturation

  I recently went out to dinner at a relatively upscale restaurant in the area.  My husband and I were leisurely enjoying our dinner when I looked up and noticed that there was a TV directly in my line of vision, broadcasting a baseball game.  While ...

• Word-of-Mouth Marketing… It Works!

  Posted on Tuesday August 5th, 2008 at 08:24 in communication, Online, word of mouth, Online Advertising, trust, consumers, customers, offline, information overload, face-to-face, research alert

  In the latest edition of an EPM Communications Research Alert newsletter that I follow as part of the New Persuasion team here at TMG Strategies, I saw a startling piece about world-of-mouth marketing.  According to the article, ”WOM marketi...