Marketing

Here is a list of current trends that will dominate marketing strategies in 2009: -- Social Networking: Wise marketers will capitalize on the growing appeal of social networks. Besides the obvious leaders (MySpace, Facebook), social networks exist in niches for teens (Pizco and Tagged) to seniors (Eons), photographers (Flickr), activists (AllDayBuffet) and B2B (LinkedIn and Plaxo). Chase Bank's partnership with Facebook has helped make its “+1″ credit card the card of choice among college students. Marketers will be smart to…

It may be a digital world here, but the importance of the printed and bound book remains as vital as it was 100 years ago. This month, the team at Ninthlink will be hosting a book drive on behalf of Books First! to collect new and gently used children's books which will be distributed to classrooms all over the county. (more…)

An iGener Interviews Her Pioneering Father By Amanda McNamara Looking Back Most people have childhood memories that, I hope, are fond to look back on. As weird as it may sound, my own fondest memories are going to work with my dad. Not only did I get out of school for an entire day, I was able to play all the free games I wanted at the Atari offices. (more…)

This is Critical Mass. This is Green 2.0. This is the last friday of every month. This time, it is September 26th. This is everyone, and their cool older brother, on a bike, or some other form of self-powered wheeled transportation (Matt claims he saw a longboarder once), riding throughout the San Diego streets. (more…)