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Text to Change Takes on Child Trafficking

The mobile for health industry in Africa continues to expand. "We can teach larger organizations a lot," the group's founder tells us. "We move really fast."READ»

ELECTIONS   |  Comment

Neuromarketing the 2010 Elections: Scoring Campaign Ads

How, exactly, does neuromarketing work? Darryl Howard, the founder of Attraction Pattern Research and a consultant for two Republican winners in this week's elections, agreed to share specific examples of his work. READ»

GOOGLE   |  Comment

Candidates Turn to YouTube for Geo-Specific Ad Campaigns for Mid-term Elections

Google has seen adoption rates for online political ads increase by 800%. Will YouTube's campaign service impact the mid-term elections?READ»

ADVERTISING   |  Comment

Advertising of future? Part I of discussion with Involver

Advertising is going through a huge sea change thanks to social networks and video networks like YouTube. This isn't your father's TV ad network system anymore. One of the most innovative companies in the new advertising spaces is ...READ»

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Advertising of future? Part II of discussion with Involver

Advertising is going through a huge sea change thanks to social networks and video networks like YouTube. This isn't your father's TV ad network system anymore. One of the most innovative companies in the new advertising spaces is ...READ»

INVOLVER   |  Comment

Advertising of future? Part III of discussion with Involver

Advertising is going through a huge sea change thanks to social networks and video networks like YouTube. This isn't your father's TV ad network system anymore. One of the most innovative companies in the new advertising spaces is ...READ»

CAMPAIGN   |  Comment

Advertising of future? Part IV of discussion with Involver

Advertising is going through a huge sea change thanks to social networks and video networks like YouTube. This isn't your father's TV ad network system anymore. One of the most innovative companies in the new advertising spaces is ...READ»

Small Business Marketing Campaign: Keys for Social Networking

In an effort to attract new customers, businesses are looking how they can run a small business marketing campaign on a social network like Facebook or Twitter.  The two key elements to any effective small business marketing ...READ»

YAHOO   |  Comment

Yahoo's New Ad Blitz: It's All About "Y!ou"

Before getting into how we feel about Yahoo’s new marketing campaign, let’s get the news out of the way. The company's new slogan is “It Starts With Y!ou.” That’s their spelling (or misspelling), not ours. Yahoo is spending ...READ»

TWITTER   |  Comment

One Possible Future For Twitter: a Vehicle for Charity Micro-Payments

There's a rumor that the majority of first posts from newbies on Twitter goes something like "Just trying to work out what Twitter is for!" It's undoubtedly a successful invention, yet sometimes it feels like a solution in ...READ»

The Banality of Obama's "Cutting-Edge" Web Event

President Obama has availed himself of almost every major medium in this month's PR blitz. 60 Minutes, Jay Leno, ESPN, CNN, primetime press conference, The New York Times. Now he's taken to the Web, keeping Americans apprised of his ...READ»

The Third Act of Chris Hughes [exclusive]

Chris Hughes has helped to create two of the most successful start-ups in modern history, Facebook and the Barack Obama campaign. Now, the online organizing guru is jumping back into entrepreneurial life, but keeping progress close to his heart.READ»

Inaguration of President Bararck Obama and the Brand Campaign

  Never have we seen an elected president, and maybe even any single person come into the spotlight as quickly, and with as much force as Barack Obama has over the last 4+ years.  If online search (googling) can give any ...READ»

The Brand Called President

Will President Obama Change Government the Way Candidate Obama Changed Campaigning?READ»

How Obama Won It With the Web

Both candidates used the Internet to reach America's voters. But Team Obama mastered the medium early and exploited it to the hilt: from an active texting strategy to the MyBarackObama.com social networking site. And along the way, Obama's technology strategy changed the face of politics -- and perhaps the U.S. government -- forever.READ»

BURNOUT   |  Comment

Tech Watch: Obama Launches Video Game Campaign; Microsoft on Windows 7; and Adobe Ships CS4

In a last-minute campaign effort, Obama's team has launched a full force Video Game Campaign extending the candidate's reach into the 18-34 market.READ»

Log Off, Latch On, Make Facetime: Dentyne's New Campaign Turns Heads

Attractive, twenty-somethings canoodling and exchanging minty kisses. Friends locked in tight embrace. Dentyne's provocative new ad campaign is hard to miss.READ»

MARKETING   |  Comment

Presidential Campaign Offers Great Lessons for Corporate Marketers/Communicators

As the U.S. presidential campaign get's insaner by the minute, it's providing great examples/lessons for corporate communicators and marketers. Today the Obama campaign offers a great example of clear, hard-hitting communication in ...READ»

I'm Voting For: The Youth Vote Goes Online

When I was in college, I worked for a non-profit, unaffiliated organization that registered people to vote, specifically targeting young people. We would drive to supermarkets and movie theaters, wherever there was foot-traffic, and ...READ»

The Clinton Campaign: Tomorrow Never Dies

In an e-mail today addressed to her supporters, Hillary Clinton offered her thanks and expressed a willingness to help the Democratic party unite behind Senator Obama. On Saturday, she plans to hold an event in Washington that will ...READ»