Retweets: A science?

This seems like a fitting topic since my last entry about KVBPR and paramore|redd was in fact noticed and retweeted by KVBPR.  Aileen Katcher, a consultant at KVBPR, noticed that I did not have the history for the company and she will be providing me with it.  I will add this to the post as [...]

What is it with all this tweeting?

…and now a little information about Twitter!

Twitter is such a huge part of interaction between people lately that I decided Ad+PR needed to get behind the Twitter movement. Introducing WKU Advertising and Public Relations Twitter page!
For the ones out there that are completely clueless about what this “Twitter” is, here is a very brief [...]

The Digital President

During President Elect Barrack Obama’s speech on Tuesday evening he mentioned that his use of social networking was never actually about him.
The goal was to build a movement, create a community, to connect individuals to one another and to empower people by giving them the tools to organize and take action rather than finding an [...]

MySpace Moves Into Music

MySpace is launching its ambitious music initiative, betting its broad reach, social tools and brand advertisers relationships can craft nothing less than a new business model for the ailing industry.
MySpace offers its 120 million users with the opportunity to stream full songs for free, build playlists, and buy songs from amazon.com or ringtones from jamster.
MySpace [...]

Ask.com Unveils New Privacy Tool

With the recent hype and concern about privacy on the Internet after AOL’s search queries blunder and Facebook’s Beacon crisis, it’s no surprise that Ask.com has just rolled out a new search privacy tool which allows users to delete all their search data after every search.  If users choose to delete their search information, all [...]

The Future of Mobile Marketing

Leading brand marketers are expecting a major mobile marketing revolution. Their predictions are as follows:
The Cell Phone Will Become More Personal.
Cell phone users are expected to soon be able to download features they want directly to their cell phone, making them customized to each individual user.
 The Cell Phone Will Become a Remote Control for Reality.
Mobile [...]

Bebo Expected To Hit A Home-Run In Social Networking

Step aside YouTube and Facebook!  Bebo, a new social networking platform, incorporates the two.  Bebo is quoted as a  “’social media network’ where culture and content come together and people use media and entertainment as a form of self-expression.”  Bebo users can create their own “personal video profile” to post their own videos to, as [...]

Fed Up With Facebook Ads?

Get rid of ‘em!  Click on one of the following sites to remove ads from your profile.
Flyer Remover
Feed Ad Remover
Sponsored News Remover
Everything Remover 

BIG $$ 2 Txt Ur BFF

An estimated 1 billion text messages sent across the country on any given day, making it one of the nation’s most preferred methods of communication.  Costs to tell your “BFF Rose” that you’ll “BRB” can range anywhere from 15-20 cents, depending on your carrier.  Texting packages can cost anywhere from $3-20 just for the feature [...]

Internet Finally Gets a {mostly} Good Wrap

Over the past years the news about social media sites and the move of children and teens from the playground to the internet has been mostly negative.  Kids stumbling across not-so-kid-friendly sites, sexual predators, advertisers targeting kids and thus “encouragin materialism,” lets face it, there really hasn’t been much, if any all, positive coverage of [...]