Last week turned out to be a good one with Served Fresh Media relaunching New York Viral Media Meetup (@nyviralmedia) at a sold out event full of digital media minds looking for insights into the latest viral media tricks and trends.

I tried it. A few times, at that. Partially out of curiosity (early sneak peaks looked promising), partially out of obligation (I am a Digital Media Strategist whose job it is to stay on top of all social media related trends). I dutifully downloaded Twitter's Vine

I had the pleasure of being an invited guest at Inbound Marketing Summit 2012 (one of the country’s leading conferences on digital, social and mobile marketing with events in Boston, New York and San Francisco). Over the course of two days, the discussion surrounding digital marketing ran the gummut from email marketing, to social media, to content marketing and everything [...]

Millions of new followers in a short time span is great. Non-stop mainstream media coverage coupled with celebrities and big brands jumping on board is spectacular. But everyone knows that the indisputable, defining mark of a social network startup that has “arrived” is when people begin to use to the social startup’s name as a verb: Google me. Tweet me. Facebook me. The [...]

With the sudden explosion of interest in Pinterest, you can bet that an army of developers have begun developing apps to compliment the user-experience of the photo-social platform. Having said that, there’s plenty of room for app development in the Pinterest pool.

We lost another one. Though she fought her share of inner-demons in life, many would agree that Whitney Houston had a gift only an angel could share with the world — a gift that continues to move people, even after her death. A legend by anyone’s standards.

You’ve probably never heard of Elk Creek, Nebraska.  If you have, you probably don’t know much about it.  It sounds like one of those sleepy towns featured in a Warner Brothers teen, angst vampire drama (thanks to Warner Brothers, any town that has “creek” in its title is pretty much full of vampires or desperately horny, misunderstood teenagers). I’ll admit [...]

Go on.  You know you want to apply to be the former president’s social media whiz so that you and Obama’s social media strategist can become BFFs with Obama’s social media strategist and swap witty tweets.  Here are the qualifications: Overview: This position is responsible for helping drive the social media and online marketing strategy for the Clinton Foundation. It [...]

Dan Zarrella (@DanZarrella) (Viral Marketing Scientist at Hubspot and author of “The Social Media Marketing Book” and The Facebook Marketing Book) studies the data, numbers, trends, etc., behind social media to give us a deeper understanding of it — he is a Social Media Scientist.  His popular blog Social Media Scientist is full of unique, fascinating content on his research [...]

Jennifer Preston was in her Social Media Editor position at The New York Times for little more than one year.  Apparently, that was enough time  convince honchos that her position as the paper’s first Social Media Editor was… meh… not as relevant as they thought it would be. Jennifer Preston is said to have lobbied to have her position phased [...]

According to a study published this summer by Experian Simmons, baby boomers and senior citizens (the over 50 crowd) is the fastest growing segment of social network users online.  And apparently, they don’t give damn about privacy the way the uptight young ones in their 20′s do. The Older Adults Technology Services organization in New York (OATS) wants you to [...]

WebStrategist.it has done us all (and by “us” I mean social media freaks, geeks and entrepreneurs) a favor by compiling a comprehensive list of  social media monitoring and analytics platforms (and by “comprehensive” I mean 245 companies – sweet). This chart contains must-have info when researching an analytics platform like the platform’s social media monitoring source, whether it’s free or [...]