20 2025 February
What Meta’s Latest Effort to Help Kids Spot Predators Really Tells Us
There is a question that journalists learn to consider often which we should all get better at asking: why now? Any time a story crosses...
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08 2025 January
Will Facebook Become a Sad AI-Dominated Graveyard in the Coming Year?
Facebook announced they are going to get more aggressive with allowing AI-generated users and profiles on Facebook. In a move literally no one was asking for,...
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03 2024 September
The One Time When Everyone Lies on Social Media: After Getting Laid Off
Getting laid off is hard. Though I’ve now been an entrepreneur for nearly ten years, I do remember those moments (yes, plural!) in my life...
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10 2024 April
The App That Recreates Social Media’s Dopamine Hits Without Actually Letting You Post Anything
One of the irresistible allures of social media has always been the dopamine hit from people engaging with the things that you post. Getting likes feels good....
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02 2024 April
How To Post on LinkedIn (Or Social Media) Without Feeling Embarrassed
LinkedIn can be a cringey place. As a “jobs board with a social network layered on top of it,” the platform has a consistent stream of...
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22 2024 March
Facebook Brought Back the “Poke” Button … Here’s Why So Many People Started Using It Again
About a decade ago in a Facebook post, Mark Zuckerberg once wrote “we thought it would be fun to make a feature that has no...
Read Now15 2024 March
Inside the Ban on TikTok and Why It Could Work
In general, the idea of banning something that kids really want to do or use hardly ever works. Betting against the ingenuity of young minds...
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3 Observations from TikTok’s New 2024 Trend Report
The newly released TikTok 2024 Trend Report offers more than a few to-be-expected trends that are essentially meant to promote the platform to advertisers … but some of...
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New RXBands Offer a Secret Stretch Code and a Marketing Case Study
Here’s something you probably haven’t seen before … a protein bar company launching a discount code promo that only appears once on an exercise band...
Read Now21 2023 October
The Search for the Realest Person on Earth Starts with … Social Media?
Social media today is often the home of negative emotions and addictive outrage. It’s no wonder many surveys are showing a mass exodus with shrinking usage on...
Read Now26 2023 July
When Influencer Marketing Goes Predictably Wrong
When a fast fashion retailer often criticized for negative environmental and labor track record wants to recast its brand image, it is not a good...
Read Now10 2022 July
3 Marketing Lessons From The Minions Movie
Last night we got dressed up to see a movie. To be more specific, my boys and a group of their friends created their own...
Read Now16 2022 June
How To Archive Yourself In the Digital Age
This article helped me consider the value of discarding that archive so I can move beyond the past version of myself that it commemorates. No doubt it is easier to become a better person when your past self isn't just a resurfaced tweet away.
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