THE BEST AND THE
WORST OF THE SUPER BOWL


Steve Wolfberg, Cronin’s president and chief creative officer,
recently appeared on NBC-TV

A MATTER OF TRUST

Steve Wolfberg, Cronin’s president and chief creative officer,
recently appeared on NBC-TV


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Dancing with Social

By Dan Weingrod on 07/20 (0) Comments

A YouTube video of Israeli soldiers dancing isn’t just notable for its humor, it’s also a case study in how organizations can deal with social media.

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The Discreet Brilliance of Chipotle Junk

By Dan Weingrod on 06/27 (1) Comments

Chipotle's new junk campaign is simply brilliant and almost too simple.

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Is email going away with the next generation?

By Dan Weingrod on 06/24 (2) Comments

Facebook says that email is probably going away. That might be a good thing for Facebook, but is it a good thing for the rest of us?

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Is Facebook Becoming a Social AIG ?

By Dan Weingrod on 05/14 (2) Comments

We may not have to bail it out with cash, but could our social investment in Facebook become too big to fail?

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Reading The Times on the Splinternet

By Dan Weingrod on 05/06 (1) Comments

The "splinternet" is a term popularized by Josh Bernoff to define the new era of devices that have their own technology, formats, design standards and even physical approaches. I got a taste of the this the other day trying to read the New York Times digitally on four different devices.

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Will the Web Like Facebook?

By Dan Weingrod on 04/30 (0) Comments

Is Facebook’s Open Graph the one Graph to rule them all?

I’m not sure, but I’m willing to go along for now.

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Are we Mocial yet?

By Dan Weingrod on 04/22 (0) Comments

Mobile + Social = Mocial, a synergy that is changing the way we connect

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Improve Web presence by making it more fun

By Dan Weingrod on 04/08 (0) Comments

It’s all in the Game

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SXSW Day Three

By Dan Weingrod on 03/14 (0) Comments

Games, Apps and Defaults

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SXSW Day Two - Social Media Universe

By Dan Weingrod on 03/13 (0) Comments

The best way to understand social media may be to look at its potential

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SXSW Day One - Social Media and Privacy

By Dan Weingrod on 03/12 (0) Comments

As Social Media grows what will happen to identity?

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Through a Smartphone Darkly ?

By Dan Weingrod on 03/04 (1) Comments

Mobile phone scanning is moving into a new science fiction space

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Who is you MTV?

By Wayne Raicik on 02/24 (4) Comments

The once mighty MTV brand sells its soul to Snooki, "The Situation", and the rest of the honkey-tonk nation.

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Buzzing on Buzz and Betting on Twitter

By Dan Weingrod on 02/22 (2) Comments

I decided to wait a while after the release of Buzz before commenting, but I think that it’s become pretty clear Buzz is, at best, a work in progress.  Based on my own listening and experience it looks like reaction falls into two categories: I hate it and I’m not going to use it or I’m going to tolerate it because I can’t ignore Google. Both of these reactions portray a sad place for Google to be.

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All the buzz, without spending all the bucks

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Of underwear, flatulence and Betty White

By Steve Wolfberg on 02/05 (0) Comments

The Super Bowl ads will be a mixed bag of low-brow humor and high-beam controversy.

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First Thoughts on the iPad

By Dan Weingrod on 01/27 (0) Comments

It's not that I'm underwhelmed, it's more that I think that the iPhone was a more momentous launch and will ultimately have more historical resonance.

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Is “The Pepsi Refresh Project” a Hail Mary pass or a well-designed drive to victory?

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The money won’t stop.  Hopefully the rhetoric will.

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Twitter Bootstraps Itself with Bing and Google

By Dan Weingrod on 11/04 (0) Comments

So all of a sudden real time search has become the big discussion point online. Bing announced a deal t0 incorporate a twitter feed late last month and Google followed suit just a few days later. But between the two search engines lies a large and interesting gap in a business philosophy and targeting. More importantly the biggest immediate winner is Twitter.

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iDon’t know how to advertise the Droid

By Dan Weingrod on 10/20 (0) Comments

I caught a glimpse of Verizon’s Droid TV ad during the Yankees-Angels playoff two Sundays ago. The recurring iDon’t’s list was eyecatching and intriguing to a paranoid iPhone user like me. Naturally the first thing I did was go to my laptop.

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Men Gone Mad:  Don Draper “Most Admired?”

By Steve Wolfberg on 10/10 (0) Comments

He cheats, he lies and he's a fictional character.  Perhaps we should raise the bar a bit, guys.

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It’s not about the click

By Dan Weingrod on 10/08 (2) Comments

I heard about Comscore’s latest click study (link after the jump) via a tweet from a friend as I was going into a client meeting. The headline read: “Study Shows 50% drop in number of US Internet users who click on Display Ads”. By pure coincidence part of the meeting was to be about online advertising and this could not have come at a better time.

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