Social Media Case Study: U2, You Tube and Twitter

Posted on October 26th, 2009 by Clare Lancaster

This case study is so sexy I can hardly stand it.
We’ve got U2 – a huge band – teaming up with You Tube – a huge force in social media – and the community sharing the experience  with each other in real time on Twitter.

In this world first – U2 have broadcasted their Los Angeles [...]

Social Media Case Study – Cinderella Wine

Posted on October 8th, 2009 by Clare Lancaster

Cinderella Wine is the latest business venture for the Wine Library group run by Gary Vaynerchuk.
If you haven’t heard of him yet – Gary Vaynerchuk took over his family business and grew it into a 60 million dollar business. He leverages social media tools like Twitter and Facebook to promote his daily video blog about [...]

How Dooce is monetising the hate

Posted on September 21st, 2009 by Clare Lancaster

I visited one of my favourite sites this morning – Dooce.
If you don’t know about Dooce yet her story begins with getting fired from her job in 2002 for blogging about her workplace.
I’m browsing through the site and I notice a new button on her menu bar called “Hate”.
I’m intrigued. I know that a lot [...]

Does Cotton On know about its Social Media failure?

Posted on August 14th, 2009 by Clare Lancaster

If it does – it’s not handling it right. It’s not handling it at all.
In an example of the power of word of mouth online – Australian brand Cotton On is being flamed in social networking site Twitter as I write this.
This morning I noticed a tweet by popular Australian blogger Mia Freedman. “I have [...]