As more and more teens and young adults get online (we’re close to 100 percent, folks), usage habits are changing, with content creation in the form of blogging falling among both age groups and social networking activity increasing.
Or so it would seem based on a new survey on Social Media and Young Adults conducted by [...]

Cookies, gay pride, football-game crowd formations, jack-o-lanterns, pirates, republicans …
The  logo that Sol Sender and his fellows at the Chicago firm VSA designed for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign ended up in a lot of places. And Sender and co. were just fine with that.
Sender spoke last night at the Plaza branch of the Kansas [...]

Last week, we showed love for the 52nd Grammys’ massive We’re All Fans social media campaign. Quick refresher: In addition to loading up Grammys.com with social content, the Recording Academy’s marketers created wereallfans.com, an elegant promotional site featuring fluid displays of user-generated content.
Now that the ceremony is over and the numbers have come in, it [...]

13 years ago, Emily Voth began selling homemade organic soaps and aromatherapy products out of a stall at the farmer’s market. Today, her Kansas City-based company, Indigo Wild, employs some 33 people.
Indigo Wild’s Zum (as in “some”) line of bath, body and home products is sold online and in 2,000 stores. You may have seen [...]

Months of plate-shifting hype made for a volcanic debut for Apple’s iPad yesterday.
As Steve Jobs descended from Mt. Cupertino, a mock-turtleneck clad Prometheus, bringing new digital fire to mankind, every tech blogger from here to Sparta felt compelled to weigh in on the supposedly revolutionary tablet computer doohickey. And I suppose, as this post [...]

CBS News reports that according to a survey of 2,000 American youths, kids aged 8 to 18 spend around seven and a half hours a day, seven days a week, engaged with media. That’s more time than they spend doing anything besides sleeping — and it’s more time than adults spend working their full-time jobs.
Also, [...]

A couple of weekends ago, I witnessed a fascinating merging of viral videos and cult film culture.
It was a collision of the individual experience of being blown away by the outlandish, random absurdity of a YouTube viral video (think about the first time you saw The Shining Recut) and the communal experience of attending [...]

Just about every business owner in the universe right now knows that using social media to attract and communicate with customers is essential. For proof, see this and this.
But for businesses that have yet to establish an active presence on social media (and there are still many), coming up with worthwhile content for all those [...]

Our humble homebase of Kansas City won a sports bid of international proportions yesterday, and social media was at the heart of the victory.
For the past few months at the USA Bid Committee has been rallying American soccer fans to convince the FIFA to let the United States host the World Cup in either 2018 [...]

It’s a new era. The idea that companies big and small need to integrate social media into their business models is no longer just a theory. It’s a common practice. But the question of how businesses begin incorporating social media strategies is still being defined.
2010 will be the year that social media goes mainstream, argues [...]