Persuasive Picks for the week of 01/11/10

Coke drops campaign sites in favor of social mediaWill Cooper from NewMediaAge explains Coca-Cola’s shift away from creating campaign-based micro-sites to utilizing social media platforms like Facebook and YouTube, in an effort to place their brand where people are – rather than trying to drive people back to their own sites. Social Media Success [...]

Persuasive Picks for the week of 10/12/09

PR pros drank hard in the 1960s Get a taste of the the “Mad Men” era and the “three or four” martini lunch with this Big Think video interview featuring The New Yorker’s Calvin Trillin. Trillin explains how the PR and journalism crowd engaged in a liquid lunch just as much as the ad-men did. [...]