Digital Category Archive

Using the iPad to Reshape Content

The New York Times recently published an article about how apps and web services are enabling consumers to customize how they read their online content. From apps like Flipboard and Pulse to services like Readability and Instapaper, users are increasingly demanding to consume content whenever, wherever and however they want. When Apple introduced the iPad [...]

Marketers and Social Media: A Crisis of Confidence?

If you’re convinced that it’s just the twenty-something crowd that’s driving the use of social media, think again. When it comes to social media adoption, especially for business purposes, another real driver is you, the marketing professional. So just how involved are you in social media? In our recent survey of 350 marketing professionals conducted [...]

The Rapid Tipping of the Smartphone

Our most recent research study with 3,000 global IT, HR and Finance executives, conducted with our friends at Toolbox.com, shows that smartphones have continued to tip (to the tune of 55% of users we surveyed) among working professionals, a rate nearly three times faster than the overall population. Still more than a year away from [...]

Flavorsourced Future Shakes Day 1: Avocado Beats Out Pumpkin

Yesterday we kicked off the first day of Future Shake flavor testing for our FutureM event. The milkshake flavors, which we crowdsourced via social networks last week along with our event partner, b.good, were Avocado-Lime-Jalapeno and Pumpkin-Cinnamon-Caramel. We parked Harvey, the b.good shake truck, in Kendall Square, Cambridge and then later at State Street, Boston [...]

I need an iPad…right?

I love new tech toys and – I’ll admit – it’s usually pretty hard to not buy something new and exciting when it first comes out. Especially if I can justify the purchase by saying it will help me at work. So, when the iPad was released in early April, you wouldn’t be wrong to [...]