http://www.copydiva.com marketing, social media, branding and other things marketers care about Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:34:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Two weeks ago, at the Mile High Social Media Club, we hosted a great panel on rights management and the social media impacts on it. We had two lawyers and a photographer on the panel, so we were able to look at it both from the creative artist's perspective as ... http://www.copydiva.com/how-to-keep-your-smb-blog-out-of-copyright-trouble/ Image via Wikipedia Hulu recently announced that come 2010, they will be come a paid viewing option. Seems like everyone I know who watches Hulu says that will be the end of watching Hulu. In the meantime, different free and paid systems are confusing. I have Comcast cable with ... http://www.copydiva.com/can-some-explain-the-tvonline-tvon-demand-model-to-me/ Recently, I have been enmeshed in a long and drawn out process to get some new honeycomb shades for my living room windows. You wouldn't think this would be a long and drawn out process, but unfortunately, the vendor I selected has created this long and drawn out process. I ... http://www.copydiva.com/twitter-customer-service-is-it-satisfying/ As I continue on my journey with Kutenda, I've had to take my enterprise marketer blinders off. We speak to lots of small business people about making it easier to connect with prospects and customers using online marketing. Many of them don't know the first thing about it, and are ... http://www.copydiva.com/does-small-business-care-about-social-media/ This may be a ridiculous post, but it has a point. Really. Even though (and I tried) I can't figure out how to make some kind of grand analogy between social media and tacos. Over at Kutenda, we do the occasional experimentation with The Google, so we're constantly updating how our ... http://www.copydiva.com/social-media-and-tacos/ For almost 6 months now, I've been firmly entrenched outside the social media industry, having gone to work for a new start-up, Kutenda, that's built an online marketing suite for the small business market. As we get ready to launch our product commercially next month, I thought I'd reflect a ... http://www.copydiva.com/outside-the-social-media-bubblesphere/ If you're one of the folks who attended the session today on social media, here are some resources for you related to our presentation: If you want to read more about Martell Home Builders, you can read a more detailed view of what they've done here. There's also a case study on ... http://www.copydiva.com/rmdmas-dm-days/ I returned last night from the Inbound Marketing Summit in San Francisco. It was cool to have a co-locate with The NewComm Forum (#sncr), which made it really easy to connect with some of those folks who wouldn't have attended IMS. I especially enjoyed my all-women dinner with KD Payne, ... http://www.copydiva.com/wrap-of-the-inbound-marketing-summit-ims09/ I am currently at the eMarketing Conference (#eMSF if you're on Twitter) at the Hilton Financial District in San Francisco. Here are a few tidbits: Roger Neal from BusinessWeek.com talked about the slow transformation of BusinessWeek, and how they are moving towards digital. There's a lot of skepticism around the future ... http://www.copydiva.com/emarketing-conference-morning-session/ Every now and again, I feel an intense need to rant on the air travel system. As someone who has had jobs off-and-on that require a decent amount of travel, and with the nearest family living close to 4 hours away by air, I've had alot of need to travel ... http://www.copydiva.com/a-call-for-smaller-airlines/