Entries tagged with “youtube”

After listening to one of my favourite Podcasts, For Immediate Release - The Hobson and Holtz Report, I was struck with a thought about those who have become Citizen Journalists (pretty much any one of us who can report on...

I am always amazed to hear how many people have set up Google News Alerts specifically on their own name. It's equally surprising to hear the tales of what they discovered about themselves. It is a great first step. If...

Whether it's in meetings for client work, business development opportunities, speaking to a group of people, or doing some kind of community work, I'm being asked very similar questions, like: "should we be Podcasting?", "what could we do with twitter?",...

Daniel H. Pink is no stranger to the Six Pixels of Separation - The Twist Image Blog space. As the author of two best-selling business books, Free Agent Nation and A Whole New Mind, Pink's books always look at future...

There are many reasons why companies should Blog. It's a topic that has been written, discussed and disseminated to death. The net result has been that more and more companies are looking at the power of corporate Blogs, and how...

What's the difference between Viral Marketing and something new called the Viral Expansion Loop? "It's a type of engineering alchemy that, done right, almost guarantees a self-replicating, borglike growth: One user becomes two, then four, eight, to a million and...

I know this has been floating around for a while, but I was listening to a recent episode of the For Immediate Release Podcast and Eric Schwartzman, host of the excellent Podcast, On The Record Online, mentioned this very eerie...

This is no April Fool's joke. Both Joseph Jaffe (author of Life After The 30-Second Spot and Join The Conversation, plus Blogger and Podcaster over at Jaffe Juice) and I will be speaking at the ACA - Association of Canadian...

Traditional Marketers sit and stare at the changes taking place in the Marketing world. Here's the raw truth: they think it's just a fad. There's no doubt about it. If Marketers really believed that Social Media and Web 2.0 is...

A couple of months back I wrote a book review for Presentation Zen - Simples Ideas On Presentation Design And Delivery by Garr Reynolds and posted it here: Get Yourself To Presentation Zen. It is, without a doubt, one of...

Welcome to episode #96 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. There a little flub at the beginning of the recording. I hit the pause button and didn't unpause (it's an ugly story, and you don't want...

Did you see Google's announcement earlier this week about Google For Non-Profits? Here's the Blog posting from the Official Google Blog titled, Google For Non-Profits: "Many of you spend your days making this world a better place, and we want...

They are full of bees. Scary. I know. Hat tip to Chris Brogan (who else?) and Michael Seaton....

Welcome to episode #95 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. Whoops! I totally screwed up the intro and said, "welcome to episode #85" - I have no idea what I was thinking. Actually, that's not true...

There is a common belief in Marketing circles that for the Digital Marketing industry to grow, we need to be spending more time on college and university campuses educating young people on the opportunities available within the Digital Marketing sector....

Welcome to episode #94 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. The bottom line is that I am still trying to recover from everything that went down in the past two weeks. From sharing the stage with...

Full disclosure: iPerceptions is a client of Twist Image and I sit on their Advisory Council. That being said, I was pretty much in the dark on this project. iPerceptions teamed up with Six Pixels of Separation's favourite web analytics...

In the past few days, I've given a lot of public speeches on the Digital Marketing landscape to some varied audiences (including university students, government and big business). I'm continually amazed by how new all of these channels are to...

There's a famous saying that goes something like, "integrity is doing the right thing when nobody is looking." It's like that old chestnut, "to thine own self, be true." In the past few days I've seen countless examples in places...

Welcome to episode #93 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. From 35,000 feet in the air, here's my first PlaneCast (hat tip to Joseph Jaffe). It was a crazy week from performing on stage at the...

Welcome to episode #92 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. Whoa. I really thought this was going to be a quick fifteen-minute episode, but it turned into one very long rant about how technology is actually...

Have you checked out iBand? They're the latest musical sensation to sweep YouTube (almost 1.5 million views). The trio have hacked two Apple iPhones and a Nintendo DS. The results are awesome. It also proves that creative people can (and will)...

On January 26th of this year I had a Blog posting titled, Social Media Journey, that told a very cool story about how the rock band Journey had discovered their new lead singer, Arnel Pineda, through YouTube. It is a...

On February 12th, 2008 (about four days ago) I posted a video to YouTube called, Apple Macbook Air Sony Vaio Parody. I did three things after that: I wrote this Blog posting called, Apple Macbook Air Sony Vaio Parody -...

How are your New Year's resolutions coming along? We tend to talk about those a lot all through January, and then never mention them again from February on (I think we all know why). The main resolution I made was...

I've been Blogging about my Sony Vaio ultra-portable laptop for a long time. I'm also extremely tempted to grab a new Apple MacBook Air. As I contemplate my purchase, I thought I would demo what my Sony Vaio can do,...

Um, this makes me laugh. No clue why. And, I'm not the only one. ... and it seems highly viral as of late. Maybe there is no real formula to making a video viral other than capturing the imagination (and...

A little Friday fun and further evidence how great content finds its way to the Web, and is able to have a shelf-life well beyond the slated broadcasting time doled out by the big (and traditional) television networks. When videos...

Have you been watching the Second Life and Virtual World backlash lately? I find it all a little funny. You have Disney scooping up Club Penguin for lots of millions, newly-formed agencies cutting major Brand gigs and deals with some...

“'I was frustrated about not having a singer,' explains guitarist Neal Schon, 'so I went on YouTube for a couple of days and just sat on it for hours. I was starting to think I was never going to find...

While it was one of the worst-kept secrets, Apple unveiled (in usual stellar Steve Jobs style) the new MacBook Air today. Loyal readers of Six Pixels of Separation already know my penchant and passion for ultra-portable laptops. My highly talked...

I've been thinking a lot about Google lately. I recently gave my full-day seminar on Social Media Marketing, and as I was running through the section, Tools of the Trade, I realized how much I rely on Google applications to...

Sometimes, there are no words except... Happy Holidays......

If you're still trying to figure out what to get that somebody special in your life, you're a little late. If you happen to get some cash instead of gifts this Holiday Season, these two items I just got might...

The emails are going out to the Twist Image distribution list as I type this, but I thought I would post the link to our holiday greeting here for you to enjoy as well. The fact is, you're a huge...

There's been lots of Web chatter about the viral power of the latest Web video from Burger King. It's called Whopper Freakout Commercial. It's on YouTube and you can view it here: When I first watched the Whopper Freakout Commercial,...

It's been a long while since a website has stirred up this much buzz... this fast. Have you checked out The Story Of Stuff with Annie Leonard yet? I've had a fistful of email and calls about it. Here it...

Seth Godin has a Blog post today called, Time Has A Long Tail Too, that highlights perfectly the problems that Advertisers and Marketers are having with the Digital Marketing space. The crux of Godin's post is about how still, after...

My mind is still buzzing from today. I was invited by Google to come and speak at their CommerceThink '07 conference, which took place today (and tomorrow) at the Googleplex. Obviously, it was a speaking offer I could not refuse....

Check out this piece of Consumer Generated Content from Nick Haley - an eighteen-year-old university student from Leeds in the UK. iPod Touch Ad - Nick Haley: Apple checked it out too. They liked it so much that they brought...

In what is turning out to be a regular feature here, Professor Michael Wesch of Kansas State University, Digital Ethnography, and the guy behind the two amazing online videos, The Machine is Us/ing Us, and more recently Information R/evolution (of...

The rock band Arcade Fire (they're from Montreal too :) launched the official Website for their latest disc, Neon Bible, this week and it's all one, big interactive video. In a world where Musicians are doing anything (and everything) to...

You didn't really think that I would ask that question... did you? Dove is back with more online, long-form video action for their Campaign For Real Beauty. Here it is: Dove Onslaught: What do you think? It's been on YouTube...

I could hardly believe it myself when I read it. One of my favourite email newsletters is still Research Brief from the Center For Media Research, and when I saw the headline, Nine Billion Videos Viewed Online in July, I...