Alas

Whole Foods is suffering some serious setbacks, faltering heavily after an opinion piece that ran in the Wall Street Journal by their CEO, John Mackey, about health care reform. Once considered a pinnacle of industry in terms of their social media strategy, with 1.2 million followers on Twitter and 100,000 fans on Facebook, Whole Foods [...]

August 25th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

Whinging and hand-wringing

MySpace is nearing a deal to acquire iLike, the Facebook favourite which helps connect music-lovers by allowing them to share playlists, concert plans and recommends music based on those playlists and those of users friends. Boasting a user base of 50 million users, iLike will increase the stranglehold MySpace already has on the most popular [...]

August 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Social media marketing | Leave a comment

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