Poor T-Mobile. First they lose all the Sidekick data from their Microsoft-hosted server. Then people scoff at their offer of $100 or to comp a free month for users. Then they allow customers to get out of the contract without penalty. Now T-Mobile is the defendant in two class-action lawsuits accusing them of misleading users with regard to the integrity of their data storage. $100 million worth of headache, embarrassment, […]
eMarketer fanfared the results of a MailChimp survey result this week. There are millions of users of “free” email through providers like Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft with Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, and Hotmail, respectively. AOL is included in the report, although its services are not free; the email is part of the overall package. Of those users, however, which are the most “engaged” with their email? We predict that people will use free email, even in business situations, […]
For five years, Digg has been a leading social news website, allowing users to find and share any Internet content by submitting and/or voting on links and stories. As you probably know by now, rankings push a story either up (“digging”) or down (“burying”); the fundamental utility of Digg is that users can then see what is popular or not. This model has been copied throughout social […]
The Marketing Consigliere is pleased to have been invited to attend the Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference at George Washington University today. Sponsored by The Phoenix Project and Corporation for National & Community Service, the Accelerating Social Entrepreneurship Conference 2009 should be a very interesting because its focus will be on technology and the role technology is playing in social innovation (and marketing, of course) and where it will take the United States […]
The first Microsoft Dynamics CRM Incubation Week is being held from December 15th to 19th, 2008 at the Microsoft Technology Center in Reston, Virginia. This week-long program will include some training and several days of prototyping and development, and a presentation competition for prizes. This event is free to enter but if selected, travel, lodging, meals, etc. are out-of-pocket for entrants. Each team will be allowed up to three team members. Companies […]
The Marketing Consigliere cursed Bill Gates before he ever knew he existed. His first job out of college was with Mayflower Moving. (How he got from working in trucking industry to working in the Internet industry is simple – they’re both transportation related. One is with packages while one is with packets – you must deliver them both on time without dropping them.) Or you could […]