Archive for July, 2009

The Sensis Take – 7/28 Edition

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

Marketers are ‘emailing in the dark’, survey says The Sensis Take: One of the major advantages to making your direct marketing digital is the ability to easily measure your marketing activities.  If you’re measuring the wrong things, that’s a huge opportunity lost. “Two fifths of marketers don’t know if their email messages are being successfully [...]

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Out with the Old, In with the New

Thursday, July 23rd, 2009

I sometimes make it a habit to post nostalgic videos or items of interest on Facebook.  Afterall, it’s a known fact that Facebook increases productivity and turns bad alpha waves into good theta waves.  In any case, I was just about to share an old viral video I used to love that featured a couple [...]

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To the Moon and back with Louis Vuitton Luggage…

Monday, July 20th, 2009

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11′s historic moon landing, Louis Vuitton has launched a once in a lifetime microsite (www.louisvuittonjourneys.com) that features a gathering of three of the most noteworthy astronauts of all time:  Sally Ride (first female astronaut), Jim Lovell (of Apollo 13 fame) and Buzz Aldrin (anyone who doesn’t know that [...]

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The Sensis Take – 7/20 Edition

Monday, July 20th, 2009

The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online – From the Personal Democracy Forum Conference Description: A talk at the Personal Democracy Forum conference on research into the social patterns of teenagers on online networks.  Dr. Danah Boyd is a Social Media Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and a Fellow at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center [...]

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Quick Stat: 800,000 Virtual Gloves For Michael Jackson

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Just read the following on Virtual Goods News: July 7, 2009 was the day of Michael Jackson’s memorial service and also the day that Facebook made a special commemorative virtual gift available (though I saw the frenzy start on July 2nd, so not sure about the release date). The gift was a virtual representation of [...]

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How one company is using Twitter to market itself

Monday, July 13th, 2009

How one company is deftly using social media to market it’s services.

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Kids are going online fast!

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

Kids 2-11 are going online in bigger and bigger numbers.

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WeeWorld [heart] MJ & Farrah

Monday, July 6th, 2009

Since Sensis is in downtown L.A. we are surrounded by the hoopla for the Michael Jackson memorial service tomorrow, July 7th.  None of us won tickets to the actual memorial service at Staples Center; however, thanks to WeeWorld our WeeMees will be able to show their love and support. If you loved Farrah Fawcett you’re [...]

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“The White House Online Town Hall” or “Houses Fall Without Foundations”

Monday, July 6th, 2009

We at Sensis are all about social media.  We blog, we tweet, we are active participants in the real-time conversation that is taking place in Web 2.0.  We love how these tools have been used to facilitate democracy and the political discourse.   But there’s one thing you really need to know about Social Media and [...]

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