Best and Worst of Social Network Marketing, 2008

Sunday, July 20th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Forrester is out with a report this week on the "Best and Worst of Social Network Marketing in 2008." Jeremiah Owyang, who authored the report, has a great overview on his blog -- Web Strategy By Jeremiah. Couldn't agree more with his overall premise: It’s true, most social network marketing isn’t ...

IA Summit 2008: Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?

Friday, April 11th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Here's the presentation that I'm giving at the IA Summit in Miami on consumer behavior and Web 2.0. It's called Do Real People Really Use Tag Clouds?: Research To Help Separate Web 2.0’s Hits From Hype and is an evolution of the consumer behavior research we did late-last year. From ...

Quick Web Design Hits For Hard Economic Times

Tuesday, March 25th, 2008 by Garrick Schmitt

Last week I had the opportunity to talk to a leading industry analyst about a number of potential small web site investments that marketers and publishers could make to yield the biggest possible pay-off. The premise being, of course, that in economic hard times site owners needed to stretch ...