(Editor’s note: This was originally posted on Jason Falls’ “Falls Off the Rocker” website. It is reposted here with the permission of the author.) A carefully worded email is always bad news. I got one today, as did all the other Maker’s Mark Ambassadors, from Rob and Bill Samuels Jr. The email informed Ambassadors that [...]
(Editor’s note: This was first posted on Jason Fall’s personal blog, Falls, Off the Rocker. It’s reposted here with the permission of the author. Falls is also founder of Social Media Explorer.) Dear President Obama … If the media projections hold, Mr. Obama, you have been re-elected our President. I am proud to say I’ve [...]
(Editor’s note: This week, Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy told the Baptist Press the Atlanta-based fast-food chain’s is “guilty as charged” in its corporate stance against gay marriage.) It’s pretty clear the leadership at Chick-fil-A is homophobic, and the company is anti-gay and, if you aren’t, you’re probably swearing them off as hate-mongers and narrow-minded twits. Don’t get me wrong, [...]
(Editor’s note: This piece was originally posted December 26 on Social Media Explorer. It is reposted here with the permission of the author.) My friend Jeremy Dearringer asked me what I thought of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) this morning on Twitter. I haven’t given it a lot of thought, but have mulled it [...]
As you know from last week’s announcement, I’m one of eight competitors in the Ford F-150 EcoBoost Challenge. I’m in competition starting today and running through Friday with seven other online influencers in seven other cities to see who can: A) Average the best miles per gallon each day in our super-cool Ford F-150 EcoBoost [...]
More specifically, as of end-of-day Saturday, there have been 942,021 unique visitors to SME according to Google Analytics. Of those, 35.6 percent are from organic search results. Think about that! Over one-third of my visits have been from people searching for something and finding a potential answer on SME.
Todd Earwood is definitive when describing Groupon, LivingSocial and his own TryItLocal.com, all considered by most to be coupon sites. Passionately definitive. “Make no mistake about it, we are not in the couponing business!” Earwood told me. “We are selling advertising. To the consumer, it looks like they’re buying a coupon. But to businesses, the [...]
Sites such as eBay and Craig’s List democratized e-commerce and made the newspaper classifieds all but irrelevant. Thanks to them, anyone can go online and, in a few minutes, sell stuff. And since they’re online and have share buttons, those anyones can promote said stuff through their networks. But what the major players in the [...]
Jason Falls: Anarchic coverage of Boston bombing suspects could change social media
(Editor’s note: This was originally posted on the Social Media Explorer website. It’s reposted here with the permission of the author.) In the wake of tragedy, the Internet and social media sites can be the most precious resources people can have. But they can also be the most dangerous. There’s not a trained journalist in [...]