Almost a year and a half ago The Marketing Consigliere blogged the praises of Google Earth and how businesses were using it in innovative ways. This week, when many of us were being thankful and looking forward to a better future, reality blasted back in. The tragedy in Mumbai has not fallen just on India, but on the international community. It is with a heavy heart that The Marketing […]
The Marketing Consigliere has been trying to build up his Twitter list of followers and followees, and had a friend that was following both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. So he checked out their Twitter profiles and noticed something odd… Senator Clinton stopped tweeting on October 30th and (now) President Elect Obama stopped tweeting on November 5th, the day after he won one of the most exciting elections in United States history. It’s […]
There are many businesspeople and Marketers out there who don’t “get” social networking tools like Facebook and Twitter. For the Doubting Thomas(es) out there that think these tools are “toy”s for the college and underemployed crowd, the Marketing Consigliere has news for you. He’s always been an admirer of David Troy‘s Twittervision, which shows one Twitter “Tweet” at a time all over the globe using Google Earth. And recently he heard […]
Poor Betty Draper. A “desperate housewife” with nothing better to do. She mysteriously appeared as a “follower” on The Marketing Consigliere’s Twitter account. He didn’t know who she was, but her picture sure was glam. Used to the advances of WASPish women seeking more than what their husbands offer, he checked out her profile… Actually, someone at AMC or one of their agencies somehow found him on Twitter, decided he was less Machiavellian than […]