Are you familiar with that half melancholic, half regretful feeling one sometimes has when looking back at a project or relationship that did not go very well and thinks of what could have been if only a few little aspects would have turned out differently? Change few to a lot and you will get my feeling after testing MyOnlineToolbox for a couple of days.
Chris Wisecarvers home state of New Hampshire gets a boost from his YouTube video going viral. First we say Topeka and Google in the social media branding exchange, now states are getting in on the act of visibility, but not from their experts, from would be rappers gone digital.
For April Fools Google changes its name to Topeka. The interesting thing is how Topeka changes the city’s name to Google. The city website is now called “The City of Google”, so millions may think Google bought Topeka perhaps? Google’s brand is so strong the sky is the limit as far as their applying it.
You can plug a billion dollars into a PR machine, but you still cannot sell ice cubes to Eskimos. Waggener Edstrom has tried to sell Microsoft’s Bing search engine with everything from hot fashion models to the man on the street, still the prodigal search entity languishes at third banana on the search treadmill. What will WE try next?
Facebook supposedly surpassed even Google recently in traffic, or so the reports say. Certainly Facebook has a rapidly growing user base, but if the company is making money they sure are hiding it well. What good is traffic if it won’t pay the light bill. Facebook uses 5 times as much bandwidth as Google or YouTube, and no one knows how much they win or lose daily. Can speculation and hype continue to keep an online startup in business?
Toyota, GM, Nissan, and now Pringles potato chips, what’s next? This year has been the year for recalling products for safety reasons. Today Pringles announced the recall of batches of potato chips due to possible Salmonella poisoning. The FDA got a tip which led them to a company supplying Pringles.
So much PR and marketing dogma these days is about the keys to success. But just how many experts do we need to tell us good products and effective communications lead to success? This article is about deconstruction of Silicon Valley and worldwide salesmanship in favor of creating true methods for digital success.
CeBIT 2010 in Hannover wraps up this week after presenting some of the finest technology hardware, applications, software and innovations in the world to a captivated audience of business, political and technology leaders. Some of the finest companies and minds in the IT and technical world were on hand for the world’s most prominent IT event.
Nissan, Japan’s third largest auto maker, became the next in line of world auto makers to announce a major recall today. The news comes on the heels of GM and Toyota announcing recalls with safety implications, prompting many to ask questions about quality control and safety.
One of the world’s most trusted spiritual gurus, Swami Nithyananda, supposedly caught on video in sex scandal. One of India’s most revered spiritual leaders is implicated by a video released by Indian Sun TV which shows someone who looks like the guru in bed with a lady many think is a famous Tamil actress. The reports have not been denied or confirmed at this point, but Everything PR News has the original broadcast.
