Monday, July 6, 2009
Nike Harnessing the Power of Social Media
This is an incredible social media campaign (tied in w/ Livestrong) that Nike is executing during the Tour de France. Check out the vid below -- and for more info read here.
Microsoft v. Google - The Green Challenge!
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
Service with a Smile?
Through a chance click on a promotional e-mail I received from Calvin Klein, I was directed to their Facebook page - where - to my surprise, the very first post on the public wall was from a very disgruntled customer discussing how she feels she was taken advantage of via some shady pricing practices. She included a link to her personal blog (here) where she includes photo evidence. It'll be very interesting to see how, if at all, CK responds to the allegations. Stay tuned!
UPDATE (7/6/09)
Interesting development since this story was posted. I noticed at the end of June that the CK had removed the customer complaint from Facebook. I checked the customer's blog page and saw that CK has responded to her and offered recompense. BUT, does that justify them removing the post from their Facebook page? Would it not build better trust with customers to keep the negative criticism posted and comment on how that customer had been recompensed? I know I would appreciate that more than being paid to basically shut my mouth. Other companies have failed in this regard (i.e. Wal-Mart and Dell) by underestimating the intelligence of social media users. I'm sure I'm not the lone person on Facebook that was following this story nor was I the only one to notice that it mysteriously disappeared from the wall posts. When I contacted the blogger she confirmed that it was not her that removed her own post. She also noted that not only was her initial wall post removed, but also a comment of hers in response to another angry customer's dismay with a controversial CK billboard in New York City. It truly is a bummer, because I like the fit of all my CK clothes.. but now the brand has been tarnished by shady practices. Hmph.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
NYT Gets OWNED
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA - this is hilarious in so many ways! But - I wish that newspapers weren't in the hole so much... I was just reading in Gore Vidal's second memoir that half of Americans will never read a newspaper. HALF! It makes you wonder how many decisions are being made by the Uninformed.
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Jumping with GLEE!!!!
4 minute preview of Fox's new musical series. VERY EXCITED! I met star Lea Michele at Mark's on La Cienega a few months ago when she was performing. She did a duet w/ BF John Lloyd Young (Jersey Boys). I'm so excited to see her work!
Monday, May 11, 2009
The End of Pre-Fab Homes?
Crazy video below of a residential development area in Southern California being leveled after the homes could not be sold and the bank that financed it all was being fined by the city for every day these incomplete homes were standing. Back in NC, I used to see these neighborhood developments all the time. Literally, and entire neighborhood would be carved out on hundreds of acres open land and roads, sewer, housing, etc. would be built before anything was actually sold! The developers were banking on the market and that if you build it, buyers will come. I guess 2009 is a different story.. ya know.. with the recession an' all.
Friendly Skies! (FINALLY!!)
It's about time! American Airlines has announced that it will now offer award travel for one-way trips at HALF the mileage cost of a round trip. In case you weren't savvy to travel rules, airlines charge a minimum of 25,000 miles for a coach ticket when flying in the US - whether you are flying round-trip or one-way. Maybe the other airlines will follow suit soon. On a positive note, US Airways started complimentary beverage service again!! For a while they were charging for a cup or water or apple juice!
I Heart Jon Stewart
Many pundits have been talking and talking about the fate of the Republican Party. Honestly, it's a big who cares for me as long as they aren't the majority. They'll come back eventually... It's only a matter of time before Democrats mess up like the Republicans did. Remember, we're still on Planet Earth where shit tends to happen. However, I do like Stewart's take on it all. See below!
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I'm back! Took a little hiatus.
Sorry the lack of posts recently. I've been crazy busy wrapping up life here in LA and getting ready for the big move to North Carolina! I'm very excited to be closer to family and in a state where the budget doesn't invoke Judgment Day fears and I could actually buy a home before I'm 50. Yay North Carolina!
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Friday, April 24, 2009
NY One Step Closer to Marriage Equality!
Governor Paterson's marriage equality bill will be reviewed by the state Assembly's Judiciary Committee on Tuesday of next week. Meanwhile on that Tuesday, gay rights group Empire State Pride Agenda is hosting its Equality & Justice Lobby Day. Let's hope the state legislature moves quickly to pass this!
Monday, April 20, 2009
Teabagging America!
I know Tax Day was last week but I just got this great clip of MSNBC's Rachel Maddow discussing "Teabagging" and it's amazing how the Right is oblivious to today's definition of teabag (as a verb). Check it out below!
Friday, April 17, 2009
National Review Crazies
Apparently when a pro-choice person speaks at a Catholic university commencement a baby angel gets its wings ripped off and is thrown in a tank full of rabid sharks infected with Hepatitis - or at least Kathryn Jean Lopez would want you to think so. She's all up in arms that President Obama was asked to speak at Georgetown University:
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Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City — On Tuesday the president of the United States gave a much-anticipated economic address at Georgetown University. While speaking there, a usually impossible-to-miss “IHS” — a common monogram for Jesus Christ — was missing from its perch at the center of the auditorium stage.
Georgetown is, of course, a Catholic university, and the fact that Jesus Christ is represented prominently in the school’s much-used auditorium is no surprise. And it wouldn’t come as a shock if someone from the school — perhaps aware that a defender of infanticide was coming to speak — attempted to remove any sense that Jesus might be endorsing the president (or his Sermon on the Mount-metaphor speech).
That the president’s people might have asked the school to remove the IHS wouldn’t come as a shock either. After all, a speech on the economy is no Passover Seder at the White House, and who knows who might be offended. As it happens, the White House did request that the IHS be hidden during the president’s appearance. But Georgetown officials should have reacted immediately by asking that the speech be delivered elsewhere — anything to avoid obscuring the school’s reason for being.
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Seriously K-Lo? Seriously? Can someone get me Chris Brown's # please? I have a job for him.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Are You Safe?
Hate Crimes happen across the country every day, but not every state includes "sexual orientation" in their hate crimes legislation. Just this month, two students at UVA were attacked in what law enforcement described as a "gay bashing." However, Virginia is one of 14 states that do not protect gays from hate crimes. The other states are: Alabama, Alaska, Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.
UVA story here.
UVA story here.
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