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Entries in Current Affairs (98)

Tuesday
Dec072010

How Movember set a new record for fundraising

Well Movember has come and gone, and although the fund raising is never really cut off

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Tuesday
Nov302010

Remember, Remember the Last Day of Movember

Normally this would be our Tuesday blog article concerning all things social media. But today we wanted to use this space to promote an agency wide initiative that is ending today, Movember.

 

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Monday
Nov292010

Movember, Week 4: A Movember Contest!

As we enter our last week of Movember, we decided to have a small contest that will double the impact of your donation

 

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Friday
Nov262010

Facebook Censorship

Last week was a big week for Facebook. They announced the release of their new email/SMS/IM service that they hope will replace your need for other email clients (they’re talking about you Google).

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Tuesday
Nov232010

An Internet guide to Thanksgiving

In the United States, Thanksgiving is this Thursday, November 25. It's a holiday that is rife with overindulgence, football, and family (and all the unhealthy dynamics that family represents).

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Monday
Nov222010

Movember, Week 3: The best looking men in advertising

As we enter our third week of Movember, The Duffy Agency's mustachioed (thanks Grant) crusade in the name of cancer research, the progress with Team Duffy has been noteworthy (hence this small note).

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Tuesday
Nov162010

Facebook Messages: Taking Control of the Conversation

On Monday, Facebook finally revealed it's long awaited messaging system to the world. And though not quite the "email killer" many prognosticated

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Monday
Nov152010

Money raised during Movember is helping research

It's the end of the second week of Movember for The Duffy Agency and our intrepid mo-growing crew is cultivating some awesome lip hair.

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Friday
Nov122010

How marketers are utilizing social media in 2010

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again, if you’re not in social media or planning to get into social media this year, you’re going to be left behind.

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Tuesday
Nov022010

7 Ways Smart Phones are the Wallets of the Future

Remember what it was like in the old days (circa 2000)? You needed multiple arms to juggle the myriad of electronic  gadgets and accessories we all carried around. You had your laptop, cell phone, PDA, and other bright, shiny accessories.

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Friday
Oct292010

4 great ways to celebrate Halloween online: Zombie Edition

It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The time when ghosts, ghouls and creepy things emerge from their hidden depths and burst through to the mainstream to run amok on your computer screen.

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Friday
Oct222010

Y Connect? ... I'm Really Not Sure.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) broke a story earlier this week that Yahoo will be launching a new service called Y Connect—a Facebook Connect-like feature that will allow users to log into Web sites using their Yahoo ID and easily share content with Yahoo friends.

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Friday
Oct152010

Social media screw ups - A brief history

They say that those that don’t learn from the past are doomed to repeat it. Adage.com has released a new presentation that looks at the past seven years in social media marketing and mistakes

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Tuesday
Oct122010

Can Twitter affect real social change?

Malcolm Gladwell posted an interesting article in The New Yorker last week about the effectiveness of Twitter in affecting real social change.

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Tuesday
Sep282010

Tweets now on sale for $100,000

We blogged about Promoted Tweets back in April when the new advertising model was first announced, proclaiming Twitter to be on the right track in their quest to monetize the service.

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Tuesday
Sep142010

Twitter Microsites: Gaining influence through hashtags

Twitter launched a microsite for New York Fashion Week (NYFW) last week sponsored by several Fashion Week players such as American Express, Bergdorfs and Modelinia

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Friday
Sep102010

How Google Instant has fundamentally changed SEO

If you live in the US, you probably noticed that Google has been acting funny the past couple days. The search giant has implemented Google Instant into their engine, showing you streaming search results as you type. 

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Tuesday
Sep072010

Is Twitter biting the hand that feeds it?

We’ve been watching and writing about Twitter for over a year now and a recent Mashable article highlights some of the concerns we’ve seen with recent Twitter developments

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Friday
Aug272010

Google one step closer to communication dominance

Given their recent track record with the likes of Google Wave and Google Buzz basically tanking from the word go, it’s difficult not to feel skeptical when Google releases a new “revolutionary” product.

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Tuesday
Aug242010

Top social media stories of the week

If there’s one thing we love Twitter for, it’s sharing social media news and ideas. Just in the past week we’ve found a good heap of fascinating and useful stories

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