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A cocktail of advertising, social media, and technology
A cocktail of advertising, social media, and technology
Nov 16th
Fear not, I am not going completely loopy and randomly blogging about sex!
As I was walking around Soho last night, I found this intriguing artwork on a Soho shop. As I was in the middle of Soho (the gay quarter in London, famous for its trendy bars, gay clubs and and sex shops), and as a typical jaded Londoner, I didn’t think much of it, until I came home and saw this comment from my friend Cristiano on my Flickr stream.
I quickly went onto the ifancyasnog.com website and found out that this shop in fact sells delicious-looking frozen yogurts for health-conscious consumers.
So far I find the concept really interesting: eye-catching slogans, a cool name, a healthy and interesting product sold at a time where consumers are increasingly health-conscious…
The icing on the cake for me was to find out that these guys are very much into social media with a blog, Facebook group, Flickr stream , as well as a YouTube and Vimeo channels. Good stuff!
Overall I think it’s a nice effort, but I think all of their social media presences could do with a little fine tuning, and plenty of conversations and engagement! I am happy to discuss my ideas with the Snog team should they be interested in getting a little advice!
According to ifancyasnog.com the Soho shop is due to open early next year but if you can’t wait to get your hands on a snog, head over to their other shop in South Kensington.
Oct 9th
I got thinking about Twitter today (hat tip to Simon D.) and started doing some research about its origins – I came across both this interview and this photo by Jack Dorsey.
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
Reading the Twitter homepage, made me think about the different tools I have used to stay in touch with my friends and family over the years:
This timeline (and time-consuming exercise!) has made me realise that Twitter is in fact, a repackaged MSN Messenger Windows Live Messenger.
The way we communicate and need to communitate is radically changing… I wonder what Maslow would think about that