Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this week’s edition of Five for Friday! We read through loads of great stories this week – followed are just a few we found “Five”-worthy: In a move designed to make online shopping a more personalized experience, Facebook has announced a partnership with eBay that will result in the [...]

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Some people refer to the 50’s as the last Age of Innocence.  Families ate together, kids were polite, family tradition reigned.  I’ve been thinking a lot about tradition lately, prompted by the recent Women at NBCUniversal study, “Doing the Family Shuffle,” as well as seemingly not–so-popular adaptations and re-issues of two very traditional books from [...]

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Photo courtesy of Resource Interactive/iCitizen I just returned from three invigorating days at the iCitizen symposium in Columbus, OH presented by Resource Interactive.  The topic for the session was: ”Everywhere Commerce: From Shareable to Shoppable Moments” and it couldn’t be timelier.  The way people are buying is changing dramatically every minute.  There really is no [...]

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Image courtesy of CareNetworks.com  Yesterday, I attended a conference from PR News titled “Digital PR Next Practices Summit” that featured panelists discussing what every PR person loves to hear: how to leverage social media to produce results, build relationships with your brand’s influencers, and gain alignment with your organization’s most senior executives. The case studies were [...]

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Steve Jobs tribute logo created by Jonathan Mak On Wednesday, October 5th, the world lost a true visionary: Steve Jobs. In honor of the impact he had on the technologies that have come to shape our lives, we thought we’d dedicate this week’s Five for Friday to his memory by looking at five of his [...]

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Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to this week’s edition of Five for Friday! After some fantastic guest posts, I’m happy to be back with some of the headlines that caught my eye this week – please read on and remember to share your thoughts by adding a comment! In addition to unveiling a controversial set [...]

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Image courtesy of Facebook In this week’s edition of Five for Friday, we’re switching things up and focusing on the biggest news of the week – the changes to Facebook’s platform known as f8.  What follows is MMC’s five key takeaways for marketers on how these changes will affect social media marketing strategy for our [...]

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