Creative Concepts Discusses The Microsoft Yammer Acquisition
Microsoft’s $1.2 billion acquisition of Yammer on June 25 further confirms that the enterprise space is ready for social networking. Yammer, a Facebook-like social network for businesses, has built a base of 200,000 customers with 80% of Fortune 100 companies in less than four years. The…
Creative Concepts Highlights An Added Public Relations Skill Set For Today And Into The Future
The digital age has forever changed the PR world. The internet and social media have thrown traditional public relations practices for a loop and PR professionals are finding their roles are changing almost daily. Communications professionals are taking on additional tasks and are expected to…
Creative Concepts Shares How To Craft a Blogger Disclosure Statement
In December of 2009, the Federal Trade Commission began requiring that bloggers disclose their relationships with brands and companies who supply them with products or who sponsor individual posts. In the two and a half years since this story broke, disclosure has become so routine…
Creative Concepts Shares The Perfect Summer Wardrobe For Modern Moms
As we say on the Creative Concepts Twitter bio, Social Media, PR, SEO, & Marketing are what we live for but we also like to chat about Fashion, Beauty, Food & Drink, Eco-Living and good Causes (we also sneak some great parenting tweets in there too)! We would like to…
Creative Concepts Take A Look At The Facebook IPO
On May 18, Facebook went public and was considered to be one of the most highly anticipated IPOs in the past decade. The decline of the stock price as well as Nasdaq’s errors allegedly made during the IPO process are hot topics. The stock plunged below $30 in late…
Creative Concepts Offers Five PR Tips for Businesses in a Down Economy
Businesses have been hit hard in this economy and are on tight budgets. The good news is that it is easier than ever to communicate directly with your potential customers and local media utilizing an online strategy. Here are five low cost PR tips that…
Creative Concepts Shares A Teen’s Point Of View On Finally Getting An iPhone
Green with envy is an understatement in describing how I felt regarding my friends with iPhones…because I didn’t have one. They had cool apps, could access Facebook from school (shhh don’t tell anyone) and easily group message each other among other things. I resented that…
Creative Concepts Shares Susan Wagner’s Love/Hate Relationship with Facebook
Last week’s Facebook IPO put Mark Zuckerberg front and center in the cultural debate about the value of social networking — again. This time, the discussion has revolved around the actual monetary value of Facebook, particularly since the company’s stock price started to drop (which…
Creative Concepts Shares A Teen’s Point Of View On The Use Of Twitter’s Hashtags
Perhaps one of the most important parts of Twitter is the hashtag. It’s not necessarily the 140 characters available per tweet that gets a message out; it is the “adding of your voice to the general discussion” through the hashtag that makes the impact, according…
Creative Concepts Reviews 7 Hottest Business Trends in Social Media
As businesses extend their marketing strategies to include social media, the rate at which social technologies are changing makes it hard to stay informed and on top of the best channels to reach your audience. Mari Smith and Guy Kawasaki recently hosted a webinar titled…