January 2012
8 posts
Of course it’s a nice winter because with the little beans I can’t take advantage of running outside. Oh life! - G
The Top 12 Social Trends in ‘12 →
I posted this a few days ago, but this is the link to the post on the Ogilvy blog. Enjoy, share and discuss! - G
Twitter Reboots →
My thought leadership piece on Twitter that has just been submitted for a WPP Atticus award!!! - G
SOCIAL TRENDS FOR 2012 by Geoffrey Colon for...
With the new year upon us and 2011 now in the rear view mirror, it’s time to pay attention to where we, the social team known as Digital Influence in Ogilvy New York City predict social media to take us this year. In December we hosted a year end 2011 Social Trends Lab and predicted a number of things based on what happened in 2011 and how we think these will influence 2012. Have a...
Why Tumblr Fan Mail Will Beat Facebook Messages &... →
Tumblr just announced a new private messaging feature called Fan Mail. It’s a more personal means that’s not email, which requires you to know your favorite blogger’s email address (do you?) or the handwritten form of the 20th century, snail mail. That leaves two social network-y means of contact: Facebook private messages and Twitter direct messages. Depending on the...
December 2011
10 posts
You might work in social media if…
Your parents keep up with your life through your Twitter feed.
You are actually using Google+.
You have sent a DM to someone sitting within 5 feet of you.
It’s been years since someone mentioned news to you that you hadn’t heard already. - Derek Shanahan
You verbally hashtag real world conversations.
You are the mayor of something other than your home. - John Hondroulis
You judge anyone with a...
WatchNew video for Swedish House Mafia vs. The Knife “Antidote.” I officially proclaim that the nu-rave or neo-rave music movement has begun. Many will call this dubstep but that’s a stupid UK term for what basically is a rehash of 90s sounding bleepy techno made popular by Sheffield, UK based Warp Records by producers like LFO (Low Frequency Oscillation). - G
Anonymous Donors Pay off Kmart layaway accounts →
The true meaning of Xmas. Not that stupid media-generated garbage about Black Friday. - G
Twitter Reboots by @djgeoffe
Twitter Reboots by Geoffrey Colon @djgeoffe
While most of the world of social media was getting excited a few weeks ago about the launch of brand pages on Google+ and earlier this week with Facebook finally rolling out their new Timeline feature across their entire platform, this past Thursday the other platform aka Twitter decided it would not be upstaged by the other whales in the ocean called...
You're the Boss: Why a Mediocre Web Site Is So... →
A Web site can be a small business’s single most important marketing and sales tool. Do it right or don’t do it at all! Same thing with social. Social is to 2012 as websites were to 2001!!! - G
November 2011
5 posts
The New Progressive Movement →
As before in history, the moment has arrived when people just can’t take it anymore. Politics moves in ‘long swings, not short staccato bursts. We are nearing the end of the Reaganomics era when the Top 1% became filthy rich and the bottom 99% barely had enough to pay their health bills even with a corporate plan. The new era of progressivism is upon us. - G
“These things should be simple: 1. When, as an adult, you come come across...”
– John Scalzi (via lucy-vanpelt)
October 2011
17 posts
The Emergence of Digital Secret Social Clubs →
judyabel:
This is a repost of an article I wrote for my work blog in September on the rise of the secret social club in the digital space. __________________________________________________________
Very interesting. Adds an exclusivity factor that usually doesn’t exist within the communal social realm. - G
Emptyage: Generation X Doesn't Want to Hear It →
Earlier generations have weathered recessions, of course; this stall we’re in has the look of something nastier. Social Security and Medicare are going to be diminished, at best. Hours worked are up even as hiring staggers along: Blood from a stone looks to be the normal order of things “going…
Boomers, Gen Y, Millenials are all entitled mofos. Gen X is the real deal. I graduated from a...
WatchJon Stewart crushes Sean Hannity again! :) - G
Watchkileyrae:
liberalsarecool:
Great Video: Alan Grayson on Rachel Maddow on #occupywallstreet
“They’re doing the one last human thing left; they’re going somewhere.”
Can we just hold a special election and get him back in Congress now? America needs Grayson.
Alan Grayson is an intelligent man. PRobably the reason he’s not in Congress anymore. ;) - G
People Are Awesome: New Blog Features Millionaires... →
brooklynmutt:
Called “We Are the 1 Percent,” the new site piggybacks off the blog “We Are the 99 Percent,” on which Americans having a hard time during the recession sound off about exactly how the financial industry and particular government machinations have caused them to lose their jobs, their homes, their sanity. We Are the 1 Percent is a bit different. While the goal is still the same—to...
A reply to a thread on Facebook from me to a...
In the world of social the ever changing constant that has come up is constant dialog. Digital communities have fostered an environment that allows for people to discuss, possibly get an answer to their inquiry (if it’s something simple) but in many cases communities are the infrastructure to continue a conversation. This is why brands do poorly in communicating with their advocates in...
WatchHope Solo, GK for the USWNT, doing a photo shoot for the ESPN “Body” issue. Whoa, look at those abs!!! ;) - G
“If companies sit on their cash (during this recession), they’re going to...”
– Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO. He just said this on 60 Minutes and called for a new tax system in the U.S. similar to the one in the UK and Germany so there are no “loopholes” and they would pay tax. The only issue is GE is not an American company. It’s a multi-national so if the tax...
Brooklyn Mutt: Fed up with weak reporting on... →
jayrosen:
See Robert David Graham, Independent reporting of #OccupyWallStreet
By reporting, I mean such things as contacting the park’s owners asking for an official statement. The protesters are occupying Zuccotti Park, owned by the same company (Brookfield Office…
just over 5 weeks until we are a family of four
I realized today that I haven’t posted much (read: at all) about my pregnancy this time around. I’m sure its due to a combination of work/life balance issues, and the fact that I generally have not had as much time to focus on being pregnant this time around. There are hours and hours that go by during the day when I actually forget that we’re adding another little one to our family.
Now that...
September 2011
11 posts
WatchDon Draper pitches Facebook’s “Timeline.” - G
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“Has anybody been watching the debates lately? You’ve got a governor whose state...”
– President Barack Obama
Obama says GOP debates ‘not reflective of who we are’ - latimes.com
(via zainyk)
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Welcome to Newburgh, Murder Capital of New York →
Beautifully situated on a picturesque bend in the Hudson about a 90 minutes’ drive north of New York City, Newburgh does not look, from a distance, like a community mired in High Noon levels of lawlessness. But in actuality, it has less in common with bohemian Beacon, just across the river (“Williamsburg on the Hudson,” as the Times recently anointed it), than it does with, say, West Baltimore....
The Porn and Spam Behind Tumblr''s Meteoric Rise →
Feels weird posting this on Tumblr. I love this platform and I think that it can only grow but with its recent $85 million venture capital infusion let’s hope it doesn’t turn into a spam fest, porn site or worse, gets cluttered with ads. - G
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Early Onset of Night: Rick Santorum said he would... →
early-onset-of-night:
“Period.” This was after Americans booed a soldier in uniform WHILE he was serving in Iraq, because, you know, “We support the troops” and all that happy shit. Santorum is against freedom and equality in every way, shape, and form. Back in the 90s, his wife even got a late-term abortion to…
I agree. The Democrats don’t help by coddling so much with the...
The new FB "Timeline" visuals →
The New Facebook Changes and What You Need to Know...
Mark Zuckerberg just finished his keynote address at this year’s F8 Developer’s Conference. As many people know, the changes to Facebook are vast because it hasn’t had a real big update since the “Like” button was added three years ago. Here is a notation of the new user layout and UX:
1. Timeline: Although users wall and photo section will still exist, users will...
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Google Chairman: Economy Needs Stimulus, Not... →
Plain and simple, most Americans don’t understand how the economy works. They just want to cut spending becuase they have had to cut spending after drunkenly charging everything the past 10 years. - G
A rant about the ConAgra/Ketchum debacle...
*Disclaimer: This is the opinion of Geoffrey Colon and not any agencies or clients that I represented in the past, currently represent or will represent in the future.
In the past many of my rants have been about the stupidity of the music industry. Those who know my history know that I predicted the rise of Napster, MP3 technology, digital distribution and the collapse of the industry and the...