http://lockerpartner.com Disruptive Social Media and Music Management Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:50:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you were trying to make a career in music, would you participate in a popularity contest that forced you to stop using your own personal Facebook, Twitter and MySpace accounts? Seems a bit defeating, doesn't it? Evidently, this season's round of American Idol contestants have been forced to give up ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/american-idols-stop-social-media/ Recent developments with the mobile app Foursquare are making it look more and more like the next big thing experts predicted it might become. Whereas the playing field for Facebook and Twitter is the Internet, Foursquare takes place online via the real world of brick-and-mortar businesses. For those unfamiliar, Foursquare is ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/foursquare-game-changing-geolocation/ If you'd told me 15 years ago that come the turn of this decade, I'd be talking to Taco Bueno, I'd have gone straight into medical school. But yesterday, I did have an exchange with the Texas-based fast Mexican food chain -- or, at least, with the brand's social media ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/taco-bueno/ How did you watch the Oscars last night? Did you turn on your TV and ignore everything else, or were you continually glancing at Twitter and Facebook to see how your friends were reacting to the awards? Though traffic wasn't quite up to the fail-whale-inducing levels of the Super Bowl, Twitter ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/oscar-tweets/ Like skydiving or heroin, the webcam phenom Chatroulette is something I'd rather listen to folks talk about than actually try myself. That's my attitude now, anyways. And it's still the same even after watching this smart, funny and profound video by the very talented Casey Neistat. But what a great ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/chatroulette/ Topeka made a media splash earlier this week when it officially changed its name to "Google, Kansas" in a bid to become a test city for Google's experimental fiber-optic broadband network. Other small, broadband-hungry cities around the country have answered the call, too, including Greensboro, North Carolina, and Fort Smith, Arkansas, ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/google-wars-duluth-attempts-to-one-up-topeka-in-parody-video/ "Desperate" and "suck up" are words some national bloggers have used to describe a recent proclamation by the mayor of Topeka, Kansas, to change the town's name to Google, Kansas, for the month of March. The screenshot below is taken directly from the state capital's website. The reason for this civic ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/topeka-changes-name-to-google/ A report by the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland shows that American small businesses' use of social media has doubled in the past year, from 12% to 24%. According to the report, titled the Small Business Success Index, one in five small businesses are adopting ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/small-businesses-use-of-social-media-has-doubled-in-past-year/ Billing itself as "A Compendium of the World's Wonders, Curiosities and Esoterica," the Atlas Obscura is an online travel guide to the globe's most unusual, out-of-the-way places. You'll find out about crazy places like the Pyramid of North Dakota and the Blood Falls of Antarctica. And if you know of a weird ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/03/atlas-obscura-day/ The social web is always changing. Platforms such as Friendster and MySpace rise and fall, and others like Facebook, Twitter and now Buzz take their places. As social networking sites become more and more intrinsic to the way we consume media and interact with our peers and customers, it can ... http://lockerpartner.com/2010/02/stand-and-deliver/