Lawn Gnome

An online marketing blog by Daniel J. Donovan.











My name is Daniel J. Donovan. This is my blog.
I write about internet marketing, technology, online strategy, communications and photography.


Entries Tagged as 'social media'

Google Buzz – “Epic Fail?”

February 21st, 2010 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

Well, much to no one’s surprise, and much as I predicted the other day, Google did not put their best foot forward with Buzz, privacy-wise or just-about-any-other-wise.

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Salesforce.com Goes Social

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

“Why do we know crucial things about our family and friends in real time as they happen but we don’t know what’s happening with our top customers, our top deals, our critical support cases, or even our own employees we sit next to everyday?” Why indeed?

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Golden

February 19th, 2010 · View Comments · social media

We’re golden.

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Metrics for Twitter

February 17th, 2010 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

Convincing the boss that Twitter matters is still a serious thing, especially at larger firms in the B2B space where risk aversion is high, legal issues are legion and metrics are king. Putting effort into a Twitter account just because everyone else is doing it won’t fly.

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The buzz on Google

February 9th, 2010 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

Google is taking aim at social media again. Soon, you should have a new tab in your Gmail account that will give you access to Buzz, which is designed to make sense of your social media world.

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All the news that’s fit to Tweet

January 23rd, 2010 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

A French-language broadcasters group will lock five journalists in a French farmhouse for five days, giving them access to nothing but Facebook and Twitter, to see how much news they can learn about.

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See what others are doing

January 13th, 2010 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

“A Wiki of Social Media Marketing Examples“, and an analysis of same: click click click click.

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Twitter: pointless babble?

August 20th, 2009 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

A study by Pear Analytics concluded that 40.5% of messages published on Twitter is “pointless babble”. The company found that only 8.7% of messages could be said to have “value.” Learn what categories the rest of the Tweets fall under here: http://mashable.com/2009/08/12/twitter-analysis/

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Pacman on Twitter

July 6th, 2009 · View Comments · online marketing, social media

Game over man! Game over!

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