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		<title>The Top 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dominic Custodio
Has it really been over 10 years of internet? The Internet has come a long way, and with 2010 just around the corner The Webby Awards came out with a list of the Top 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade. Whether you agree or disagree with their selection, it&#8217;s as good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=419&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>By Dominic Custodio</p>
<p>Has it really been over 10 years of internet? The Internet has come a long way, and with 2010 just around the corner <em>The Webby Awards </em>came out with a list of the<em> Top 10 most influential Internet moments of the decade</em>. Whether you agree or disagree with their selection, it&#8217;s as good time as any to look back and appreciate how far we&#8217;ve come; to remember that what is now taken for granted, used to be biggest buzz.  The list:<br />
<strong><br />
Craigslist expands outside San Francisco (2000)<br />
</strong>In 2000, the free classifieds site broadened its reach outside of San Francisco into nine additional U.S. cities, sending chills down the spines of newspaper publishers everywhere. Today Craigslist serves free listings in more than 500 cities in 50 countries, serving as a model for no-frills business and community success and the catalyst for countless jobs, apartments, and just about anything else you can think of.</p>
<p><strong>Google AdWords launches (2000)<br />
</strong>With the launch of AdWords in October 2000, Google turned advertising on its head. The self-service ad program opened up the marketplace to any business, no matter how big or small, and allowed advertisers to target their customers with laser-sharp precision.</p>
<p><strong>Wikipedia launches (2001)<br />
</strong>Containing 20,000 articles in 18 languages by the end of its first year online, Wikipedia today boasts more than 14 million articles in 271 different languages. The free open-source encyclopedia epitomizes the Internet&#8217;s power to bring strangers from around the world together to collaborate on projects both big and small.</p>
<p><strong>Napster Shut Down (2001)<br />
</strong>Although Napster was shut down in 2001, it opened the file-sharing floodgates. Its demise sparked a wave of innovations that forever changed how we obtain and experience music and video &#8211; from Hulu to iTunes to Radiohead famously dropping its label and self-distributing their &#8220;In Rainbows&#8221; CD online for free.</p>
<p><strong>Google IPO (2004)<br />
</strong>Google&#8217;s IPO, one of the largest in history, put the six year old search engine on the path to becoming the most dominant and influential company of the decade. From gmail and YouTube to Google Earth, Google Maps, and Google Android, the Internet giant and constant innovator is the engine that powers countless aspects of our everyday lives.</p>
<p><strong>Online video revolution (2006)<br />
</strong>In 2006, a perfect storm of faster bandwidth, cheaper camcorders, and the groundbreaking use of Adobe&#8217;s Flash 9 video player by YouTube combined to launch the online video revolution. The trifecta led to a boom in homemade and professional content &#8211; the Diet Coke and Mentos guys, lonelygirl15, SNL&#8217;s Lazy Sunday, and Senator George Allen&#8217;s &#8220;macacagate&#8221; &#8211; that has reshaped everything from pop culture to politics.</p>
<p><strong>Facebook opens to non-college students and Twitter takes off (2006)<br />
</strong>In September 2006, a social networking site for college students changed its user qualifications to include anyone 13 and older with a valid e-mail address. Facebook struck an immediate chord &#8212; and almost overnight, social media went mainstream. Less than a month later, the creators of Twitter acquired the company and its assets from its investors, paving the way for the service to take off in 2007. Both companies took social media mainstream, radically changing the way we connect, collaborate, and communicate with everyone from friends to colleagues to customers.</p>
<p><strong>The iPhone debuts (2007)<br />
</strong>The iPhone was released on June 29, 2007. By the end of the weekend, half a million had been sold, and smartphones had gone from a luxury item to a necessity. The iPhone inspired the development of operating systems like Google Android, as well as an app for just about every aspect of modern life. Over the next decade, it&#8217;s estimated that a billion new users will come to the Internet for the first time through mobile devices.</p>
<p><strong>U.S. Presidential Campaign (2008)<br />
</strong>The Internet altered presidential politicking in 2008 much as television had forty years earlier during the Kennedy/Nixon race. From videos like &#8220;Obama Girl&#8221; and the Reverend Wright clip shaping the debate, to social media mobilizing voters, to record-breaking online fundraising from small donors, every facet of the way campaigns are run was permanently transformed.</p>
<p><strong>Iranian election protests (2009)<br />
</strong>When Iran&#8217;s 2009 presidential election produced fishy results, the opposition took to the tweets &#8212; and the &#8220;Twitter Revolution&#8221; was born. In fact, it was so vital to organizing demonstrations that the U.S. State Department asked the company to delay planned maintenance.. The protests also highlighted Twitter&#8217;s key asset as a protest tool: Since most users don&#8217;t access it through a central website, it&#8217;s nearly impossible to censor.</p>
<p>An interesting selection. I would add a few that really stand out from personal experience:</p>
<ul>
<li>Gmail launches: It&#8217;s hard to believe that once upon a time, the battle was between Yahoo and Hotmail. Even I had my doubts about the new contender. E-mail addresses are a sticky commodity, like a cell phone number, which you&#8217;d ideally like to keep forever (unless you want to go MIA). Who uses yahoo and hotmail as their primary address anymore? Exactly. Conversation style email, combined with the power of Google search tipped the scales. Can you imagine your life without it?</li>
<li> Adobe buys Macromedia: Momentous, especially as a designer, because it meant the merging of the de facto design tools (photoshop/illustrator) and with the de facto web tools (dreamweaver/flash). From a production standpoint, it really meant streamlining the flow between designing and buildling sites, and blasted the creative doors wide open for web designers.</li>
<li>The rise of AJAX: Another thanks to google. With AJAX, web applications could now retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Everything Google (gmail, docs, maps), not to mention many of the standard functionalities we find on Web 2.0 sites would not have been possible without it.</li>
<li> Amazon Kindle: eBooks. Up until this point, it all seemed like a pipe dream &#8211; an empty promise from the beginning of the digital revolution. Many had tried to come up with a good e-reader and a viable business model, but with little success. And then the Kindle came a long. With its smart interface, simplicity and the backing of the largest online bookstore in the world, it became a runaway hit. You could now download not just books, but magazines and newspapers, wirelessly as well. Sony and Barnes and Noble have followed suit with their own readers, but whoever wins the battle in the end, eBooks/eReaders are a pipe dream no longer.</li>
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<p>What are your moments?</p>
<p>source: <span style="text-decoration:underline;"><a href="http://www.webbyawards.com/press/topwebmomentsdecade.php">http://www.webbyawards.com/press/topwebmomentsdecade.php</a><br />
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		<title>Lessons from Volkswagen’s Piano Stairs: How Can We Make Things Fun &amp; Change Behavior?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a daily commuter to New York, I find myself on the train and subway a lot.  As a matter of fact I frequently post updates to my Twitter and Facebook accounts about my &#8220;commuter follies.&#8221;  The thing is, I make a conscious effort to take the stairs for a bit of exercise, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=414&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>As a daily commuter to New York, I find myself on the train and subway a lot.  As a matter of fact I frequently post updates to my Twitter and Facebook accounts about my &#8220;commuter follies.&#8221;  The thing is, I make a conscious effort to take the stairs for a bit of exercise, and I frequently have them all to myself.  So this video really captured my attention and I hope it makes you stop and think for a moment too.</p>
<p><span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://kinesismomentum.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/lessons-from-volkswagen%e2%80%99s-piano-stairs-how-can-we-make-things-fun-change-behavior/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/2lXh2n0aPyw/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p><a href="http://www.thefuntheory.com/">Volkswagon’s FunTheory</a> is a brilliant idea.  If a behavior as simple as taking the stairs, instead of the escalator, can be changed simply by transforming the stairs into something as fun as a piano; what other positive improvements can be made by making monotonous tasks fun?</p>
<p>Yesterday, I was in a new business meeting discussing how we use energy and I was frequently thinking back to the &#8220;fun theory.&#8221;  It seems many companies my firm speaks with today are focusing on energy conservation and renewable energy to (1.) combat global warming, and (2.) promote the economic benefits of renewable energy.</p>
<p>Neither of these are fun, per se, however I am delighted with the challenge of brainstorming ways to make conserving energy exciting and to save the planet and save money.</p>
<p>For example, if your lights said “Thank you” and sighed with relief when you shut them off, I bet more people would turn off the light when they left a room.   FUN can certainly change behavior for the better.</p>
<p>Just a fun to thought to share with everyone on this beautiful Friday afternoon.</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hottest trends in social media is the growth of location-aware mobile applications. With the immense popularity of the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android-powered mobile devices, software developers are pushing the mobile platform forward faster than any segment of consumer electronics.
Of all the location-aware mobile applications, Foursquare is perhaps the most exciting. Foursquare was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=400&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>One of the hottest trends in social media is the growth of location-aware mobile applications. With the immense popularity of the iPhone, BlackBerry and Android-powered mobile devices, software developers are pushing the mobile platform forward faster than any segment of consumer electronics.</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-401 alignright" title="Foursquare Logo" src="http://kinesismomentum.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/foursquare.jpg?w=240&#038;h=86" alt="Foursquare Logo" width="240" height="86" />Of all the location-aware mobile applications, <a href="http://www.foursquare.com" target="_blank">Foursquare</a> is perhaps the most exciting. Foursquare was created by Dennis Crowley and Neveen Selvadurai and launched earlier this year. Crowley&#8217;s previous project, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodgeball_(service)" target="_blank">Dodgeball</a>, was one of the pioneering social networking services for mobile devices. Dodgeball required users to text their location into the service and they would be instantly notified of friends, other Dodgeball users and points of interest all in their close vicinity. Dodgeball was purchased by Google and has since morphed into Google Latitude, Google&#8217;s up-and-coming foray into location-aware social networking still in its infancy.</p>
<p>Foursquare takes the basic principles behind Dodgeball but presents it in a much more robust and user-friendly way. Rather than text in one&#8217;s location, Foursquare users simply fire up the mobile application on their device and it utilizes the phone&#8217;s GPS technology and data network to presents them with a list of venues near their current location. The user selects their location from the list (or adds it if it&#8217;s not currently in the system) and they are &#8220;checked in.&#8221; By connecting to Twitter and Facebook, users can instantly and automatically alert their social networks of their location.</p>
<p>Foursquare doesn&#8217;t end there; Crowley and Neveen have implemented an ingenious reward system into their applications that not only encourages repeat use of the applications, but truly bridges that gap from &#8220;virtual world&#8221; to &#8220;real world.&#8221; Based on the city one is in, Foursquare users can unlocked badges based<a href=";">javascript:;</a> on their check-ins. For example, New Yorker&#8217;s that check into a venue above 59th Street can unlock the &#8220;Far Far Away&#8221; badge. Check in to three karaoke venues unlocks you the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Stop Believin&#8217;&#8221; badge while checking in at a gym venue 10 times or more in 30 days earns you the &#8220;Gym Rat&#8221; badge.</p>
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<p>Perhaps the most innovative feature built into Foursquare is the &#8220;Mayor&#8221; system. Users that check into a venue with the most frequency in a set period of time are tagged as the mayor of that particular venue. Aside from the bragging rights that come along with being the mayor, more and more locations are taking Foursquare off the mobile devices and into the real world by rewarding mayors with a variety of prizes. Restaurants are offering free food to the Foursquare mayor while some bars have been known to give free drinks to their respective mayors.</p>
<p>Foursquare users also have the option to leave a tip for others at the venue they are checked into. Whether it&#8217;s raving about a particular restaurant&#8217;s salmon dish or urging others to try the Long Island Iced Tea, Foursquare&#8217;s system is posing a real threat to popular social review services like <a href="http://www.yelp.com" target="_blank">Yelp</a> and <a href="http://www.citysearch.com" target="_blank">CitySearch</a>.</p>
<p>Crowley and Selvadurai have created a system that not only is immensely fun for its users, but allows local businesses to market themselves leveraging social media in a whole new way. Whether this was truly intended or is simply a side-effect of the game&#8217;s popularity, there&#8217;s no denying that Foursquare is creating a new level of interaction between businesses and customers that is sure to be a growing trend in 2010 and beyond.</p>
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		<title>Think Social Media Doesn’t Impact Your Business?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This 4 minute, 23 second video pretty much sums up our thoughts on Emerging Media and the impact it has on a company, product and/or service … whether you know it or not.  (And whether you like it or not)

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>This 4 minute, 23 second video pretty much sums up our thoughts on Emerging Media and the impact it has on a company, product and/or service … whether you know it or not.  (And whether you like it or not)</p>
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		<title>Is Your Communications Strategy Stuck in the Past?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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Do these look familiar?
At one time, these were the height of communications convenience.
Last night, while returning to New York, via Penn Station, I stumbled across what is by today’s standards considered an ancient form of communications.
Phone booths used to be everywhere.  Everyone knew how to use them.  Now, they are seen less and less, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=376&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>Do these look familiar?</p>
<p>At one time, these were the height of communications convenience.</p>
<p>Last night, while returning to New York, via <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_%28New_York_City%29" target="_self">Penn Station</a>, I stumbled across what is by today’s standards considered an ancient form of communications.</p>
<p>Phone booths used to be everywhere.  Everyone knew how to use them.  Now, they are seen less and less, and many crack a smile (like I did) when they spot one.</p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">The communications world has evolved well beyond phone booths. </span>Did they see it coming?  I’ll bet they didn’t.</p>
<p>Is your company’s digital marketing strategy up to speed?  Some companies are compatible for 1999, but that was 10 years ago.</p>
<p>Now is the time to really scrutinize how your company markets itself, which audiences it wants to establish a relationship with, and how the web and emerging media is changing how everyone communicates.</p>
<p>Are you aware the fastest-growing demographic on Facebook is women 55 and older?  If this is part of your customer base  is your company present where THEY are?</p>
<p>Now is the time to step up.</p>
<p>Don’t let your company be “that guy.”</p>
<p>The sad, lonely and empty pay phone booth that no one talks with and engages.</p>
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		<title>FD kinesis launches an interactive billboard in Times Square for Coldwell Banker</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting a consumer’s attention in NYC’s Times Square is no easy feat, but FD kinesis managed to do just that for Coldwell Banker, with an interactive text-enabled billboard. This 150 ft tall billboard &#8211; which dominates the pedestrian area in front of the W hotel &#8211; instructs passersby to text “Homes” and their zip code [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=367&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Getting a consumer’s attention in NYC’s Times Square is no easy feat, but FD kinesis managed to do just that for Coldwell Banker, with an interactive text-enabled billboard. This 150 ft tall billboard &#8211; which dominates the pedestrian area in front of the W hotel &#8211; instructs passersby to text “Homes” and their zip code (or postal code if you’re from Canada) to a specified number, and within seconds the billboard will display a range of actual property listings in that area.</p>
<p>The Coldwell Banker® billboard encourages people to use their mobile phone to text the word “homes” and any zip code to the number, 30241. Within moments, the billboard will display the highest-, median- and lowest-priced properties in that area. They will also receive a text from Coldwell Banker Real Estate directing them to a link with more information.  <span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://kinesismomentum.wordpress.com/2009/07/14/fd-kinesis-launches-an-interactive-billboard-in-times-square-for-coldwell-banker/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/yb5D6mMpbRY/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
<p>“Times Square represents the epicenter of creative marketing, and as people from around the world take in the bright lights of the big city, they can also send a simple text to get real estate information that’s relevant to them,” said Michael Fischer, senior vice president of marketing, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. “Consumers want quick access to online listings and this campaign reinforces how easy it is to find listings and information, anytime, anywhere.”</p>
<p>Coldwell Banker Real Estate also incorporated elements from its “Portraits” Campaign into the campaign, which features portraits of the company’s dynamic (albeit deceased) founders, Colbert Coldwell and Benjamin Arthur Banker, who started the company back in 1906. The founder portraits will offer humorous quips on the Big Apple and modern-day technology, mirroring the commentary they provide in current Coldwell Banker commercials.</p>
<p>The unique, interactive billboard is the most recent undertaking in a series of industry “firsts” Coldwell Banker Real Estate has initiated. In September 2008, Coldwell Banker Real Estate became the first full-service national real estate brand to launch a customized online platform for iPhoneTM users. They continued to steadily pave the way in innovation by also being the first to launch an application for Microsoft Surface (March 2009). In May they became the first real estate company to launch a branded YouTube channel, Coldwell Banker On Location.</p>
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		<title>New Coldwell Banker ‘On Location’ Youtube Channel First In Industry To Fully Tap Power Of Video For Real Estate Search And Insights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 21:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Branded YouTube Channel to Use Dynamic IP Lookup to Generate Specific Local Results and Help Consumers Learn About Real Estate Issues That Matter to Them
Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC today launched an innovative branded YouTube™ channel designed to offer consumers a new way to search for and interact with real estate information and listings.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=362&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>First Branded YouTube Channel to Use Dynamic IP Lookup to Generate Specific Local Results and Help Consumers Learn About Real Estate Issues That Matter to Them</p>
<p>Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC today launched an innovative branded YouTube™ channel designed to offer consumers a new way to search for and interact with real estate information and listings.  Named Coldwell Banker On Location (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/coldwellbanker">www.youtube.com/coldwellbanker</a>), the channel was created to more fully tap into the power of video for real estate search and discovery, and to drill deeper into the local insights that consumers want.</p>
<p>To create On Location, Coldwell Banker Real Estate closely collaborated with both YouTube, a Google subsidiary, and Google to develop a customized framework and user experience – offering what is arguably one of the most comprehensive and immersive brand channels on the YouTube platform.  On Location is the first branded YouTube channel to use dynamic IP lookup to search for videos, which automatically serves up local results when visitors first hit the site.</p>
<p>An Emphasis on Video and Local Content</p>
<p>Two areas of strategic focus set Coldwell Banker On Location apart from other real estate Web sites.  First, it showcases the power of video to bring real estate more vividly to life – offering behind-the-scenes looks at towns and neighborhoods, smart tips and timely news on real estate topics, and video listings of homes for sale.  Second, content posted to On Location has a strong emphasis on local information and insights, so consumers can dig deeper into the areas of the country that interest them most.</p>
<p>Supporting this highly localized perspective is one of the more unique aspects of Coldwell Banker On Location – the ability to search for videos through a special map feature that has been developed specifically for the site.  The map ‘widget’ is a prominent feature at the top of the On Location site and the main starting point for consumers searching for a home, a specific area of the country or more information on a real estate topic.</p>
<p>At launch, Coldwell Banker On Location will be the first YouTube brand channel to use dynamic IP look-up, so visitors to the site will automatically be shown video search results from their own area / zip code.  Then by clicking the link “Browse By Map,” consumers can enter the city / state or zip code of their choosing – which will immediately pull up all videos posted to On Location associated with that area.  These video results are displayed as icons on the map.</p>
<p>Each search will return a wide range of video results, including video listings, spotlights on that local community and Coldwell Banker sales associate/representative profiles.  Consumers can click through to view specific videos – as well as connect back to the main Coldwell Banker Web site to learn more about a specific property for sale.</p>
<p>“Video is a critical part of how today’s consumers want to explore real estate, and we intend to use it to an extent never before seen in our industry,” said Jim Gillespie, president and chief executive officer, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.  “On Location provides an exciting new platform for our vast network of thousands of sales associates to directly share the kind of local insights and knowledge that is invaluable to consumers hoping to learn about a new area.”</p>
<p>Gillespie noted that the site will appeal to a broad range of consumers.  “You might be a first time homebuyer deciding between a few different towns in your area, someone about to relocate across the country, a Boomer thinking ahead to where to retire, or simply a person who’s dreaming about your ideal home.  No matter what stage you’re at in your life or the real estate process, On Location has the insights you need served up in an exciting new format,” he said.</p>
<p>“Coldwell Banker On Location is about building the Web’s richest array of real estate video content that is also the richest in local insights,” said Michael Fischer, senior vice president of marketing, Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC.  “It’s the combination of these two missing pieces of the puzzle that make this site so exciting.  In addition, Coldwell Banker Real Estate is the first in the industry to put the full power of its brand and network behind a tool that represents the future of real estate – the video listing.”</p>
<p>“Every month, millions of people search on YouTube for real estate content,&#8221; said Sam Sebastian, Classified and Local Advertising Director at Google. &#8220;Consumers are hungry for real estate-related videos. I&#8217;m thrilled that Coldwell Banker is developing such a substantial innovation for real estate video. I look forward to seeing Coldwell Banker build On Location into one of the most active destinations for real estate search, discussion and engagement.”</p>
<p>Some of the video and written content for On Location will be supplied by a select group of content providers, including the Associated Press, CNN, Reel Productions TV, This Old House and TurnHere.  Coldwell Banker On Location will complement the company’s main Web site at www.coldwellbanker.com – including the ‘Learn’ section which features educational content as well as news articles and updates on the real estate sector. It extends the company’s already robust social media strategy, which includes Facebook pages for the brand and its two founders, Colbert Coldwell and Arthur Banker, a Twitter feed (www.twitter.com/coldwellbnkr) and profiles on Flickr and FriendFeed.</p>
<p>In addition to using YouTube as a platform, Coldwell Banker Real Estate is using the Google family of ad networks and channels for promotion of On Location.  This includes both Google and YouTube search ads, YouTube banner promotions and Google TV.</p>
<p>Development of the On Location site was a collaborative effort by Coldwell Banker interactive agency partners, FD Kinesis and Bootstrap Software, Inc.</p>
<p>To see a video about Coldwell Banker On Location please visit:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AKZDhUrLY</p>
<p>YouTube is a subsidiary of Google Inc.</p>
<p>About Coldwell Banker®<br />
Since 1906, the Coldwell Banker® organization has been a premier full-service real estate provider. In 2008, Franchise Times magazine’s prestigious Top 200 issue ranked the Coldwell Banker system No. 1 in real estate for the ninth straight year and 12th among franchisors in all industries. The Coldwell Banker System has approximately 3,500 residential real estate offices and 105,300 sales associates in 46 countries and territories. The Coldwell Banker System is a leader in the industry in residential and commercial real estate, and in niche markets such as resort, new home and luxury property through its Coldwell Banker Previews International® division. It is a pioneer in consumer services with its Coldwell Banker Concierge® Service Program and award-winning Web site, www.coldwellbanker.com. Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC is a subsidiary of Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation services. Coldwell Banker® is a registered trademark licensed to Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC. Each office is independently owned and operated.</p>
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This weekend, I bought my four year old a swing, which was not my intention.
I had done my homework and set my sights on the Mercedes of swing sets – two slides, a clubhouse and a rock wall &#8212; which I thought was the coolest thing and would certainly win me Mommie of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kinesismomentum.wordpress.com&blog=1042129&post=364&subd=kinesismomentum&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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<p>This weekend, I bought my four year old a swing, which was not my intention.</p>
<p>I had done my homework and set my sights on the Mercedes of swing sets – two slides, a clubhouse and a rock wall &#8212; which I thought was the coolest thing and would certainly win me Mommie of the year.  We piled into the car and drove to Toys R Us to purchase the fabulous swing set.  Upon arrival, my son beelines it to a single disc swing (retail price $22.99) and insists this is the swing set he has wanted “all his life”.   Disappointed and skeptical, we bring it home, set it up, and he’s happy.  So maybe I am still in the running for Mommie of the year…</p>
<p>This got me thinking about the value of consumer research, which tends to get skipped over for a variety of reasons – budget, timing, and the fact that we think we know what the consumer wants.  However taking this out of the equation opens up the possibility of a less effective campaign and a missed opportunity. </p>
<p>How many times have you read about an ad campaign that backfired (think back to the Motrin for mommies campaign)?  I’m willing to bet most can be attributed to decisions that were made based on assumptions.  </p>
<p>So what is a marketer to do?  Research can be expensive and time consuming.  Not to mention that, in this economy, we all are trying to make every advertising dollar work harder and go farther.  Thanks to the internet, there are options that are cost effective and easy to implement.</p>
<p>The first of these options are online consumer panels, which are available through a third party provider.  These are people who have consented to answer survey questions on a periodic basis.  You can target it against demographics and the like and you are allowed to ask a couple of questions.  The result is a statistically significant breakout of consumer reaction to your message.</p>
<p>If you like the idea of an online panel and have a consumer database, you can always create your own panel internally.  Which is a great way to see the reaction to your concepts with consumers who are familiar with your brand.  </p>
<p>Another great way to gauge consumer sentiment and drive your messaging is through conversation mining.  For a nominal price tag, you can track relevant keywords and monitor what consumers are saying about your products online.  You can even get involved in the conversation as long as you stay transparent and identify who you are.</p>
<p>There are many other options you can use such as site intercepts and surveys, so don’t be afraid to get creative and try a couple of outlets until you find the combination that works best for your brand.  </p>
<p>They say knowledge is power, and my focus group of one resulted in a huge cost savings.   </p>
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		<title>Wither our post?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 03:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 5pm today I decided that I couldn&#8217;t keep up with what had become a wildly distorted debate that had its roots in a post I made last week regarding the set-up experience I and my colleagues had on the Microsoft Surface.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Around 5pm today I decided that I couldn&#8217;t keep up with what had become a wildly distorted debate that had its roots in a post I made last week regarding the set-up experience I and my colleagues had on the Microsoft Surface.</p>
<p>In the original post, I wrote about the comical event it was in getting our new Surface unit plugged in and the touch-screen interface launched. I made a point to say that my critique was limited to just the set-up experience &#8211; that once launched, the Microsoft Surface unit offered a really stunning user experience. But by 5pm today that discussion had become so chock full of &#8220;web-muck&#8221; (the online equivalent of the telephone game, where the original message gets lost in the transmission) that it was becoming a huge distraction. So like a ship captain desperate to jettison a fouled cargo, I took it down. No one asked me to, I was just overwhelmed with 20,000+ people wanting red-meat in the tireless Apple vs. PC debate.</p>
<p>To those many thousands of  people who asked some really insightful questions about the Surface experience, I&#8217;ll happily post a &#8220;real-life demo&#8221; of the unit itself (from &#8220;on&#8221; to &#8220;off&#8221;) and the application we developed for it next week. As I&#8217;ve said, I really love the product and I&#8217;m excited to be doing more work on it in the future.</p>
<p>To those impassioned souls who accused me of being everything from a &#8220;Microsoft Apologist&#8221; to &#8220;M$ fanboy&#8221; to a &#8220;complete idiot&#8221;, let me just lay out some facts here:</p>
<p>Fact 1: I&#8217;ve been working on a Mac since 1989, I own 2 iMac&#8217;s (including the old &#8220;flower&#8221; model), 3 iPod&#8217;s (including a 2nd generation one that&#8217;s still singing) AppleTV and an original, day-1 iPhone. We also have a HP laptop at home.</p>
<p>Fact 2: I wrote a blog post based on the faulty impression that our experience was what other Surface customers would also encounter.  I got a call from a guy named Jason who works at Microsoft, who first thanked me for pointing out some areas of improvement to their new product, told me he thought my post was funny, and then pointed out that our experience in fact wasn&#8217;t what Microsoft intended. Turns out, in fact, that our experience will most likely be unique, in that all customers should either receive an installation service or two days of training. He directed me to the online Surface &#8220;Eco-System Partners&#8221; site for additional help, info and community. I thanked him for the call, and we hung up.</p>
<p>Fact 3: By 5pm today, the &#8220;web-muck&#8221; had grown so thick around the original post (&#8220;Microsoft Surface is a useless table&#8221;, and other hyperbole) that I took it down and replaced it with this <a href="http://kinesismomentum.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/skin-deep-usability-take-2/" target="_blank">second post</a>. It explains the circumstances around how we came by our experience, and why it is unique. And it being unique, how that undermines much of the first post.</p>
<p>I really, really appreciate the debate about usability &#8211; I love the fact that there are thousands of others actively engaged in it as well, and with equal or even greater passion than me. But it doesn&#8217;t have to devolve into the Montagues vs. Capulets (happy birthday Mr. Shakespeare!) &#8211; or the Hatfields vs. McCoy&#8217;s. We live in a multi-tech world, and we seek to create quality user-experiences on whatever platform we work (which so far has included the Internet, the iPhone, the Surface and &#8211; coming soon &#8211; Google Android, among others). In our office we love our Mac&#8217;s. We love our Microsoft Surface. We love running MS Office on our OSX machines.</p>
<p>We also love all this traffic to our previously sleepy blog page &#8211; come back next week to get the tour of the Surface app!</p>
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		<title>Skin Deep Usability, Take 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My post last week on the  poor set-up experience we had in getting our new Microsoft Surface running has struck a chord. Until last week, our sleepy little company blog could count on about 20 hits a day (thanks Mom!), and as of today we&#8217;ve gotten over 20,000.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>My post last week on the  poor set-up experience we had in getting our new Microsoft Surface running has struck a chord. Until last week, our sleepy little company blog could count on about 20 hits a day (thanks Mom!), and as of today we&#8217;ve gotten over 20,000.</p>
<p>I should have known what a potent potion I was brewing &#8211; world&#8217;s biggest technology company + hot new product + usability = lots of opinion.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;d like to make 2 things clear to this new, enormous audience -</p>
<p>1) the Surface unit itself is a fantastic touch-screen computing experience (as you can see in this <a href="http://kinesismomentum.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/fd-kinesis-brings-real-estate-to-the-microsoft-surface/" target="_blank">short video</a>), the usability of which is as highly polished as the iPhone &#8211; my critique was limited to the one-time set-up of the unit alone.</p>
<p>2) the poor set-up experience I described was the result of a simple error &#8211; had the use case that Microsoft envisioned happened correctly, I would never have had to struggle to find the power supply input.</p>
<p>Turns out that Microsoft offers the Surface in two flavors &#8211; &#8220;Commercial&#8221; &amp; &#8220;Developer&#8221;. The &#8220;Commercial&#8221; model is designed for businesses that order multiple units to run the same application in different locations, and at $12,500 it comes with a comprehensive installation service as part of the purchase agreement. The &#8220;Developer&#8221; option delivers essentially the same piece of hardware , but at $2,500 more it comes with additional SDK licenses and 2 full days of training in Seattle for a Designer &amp; Developer. Additional instructions come with this unit, as well as an invitation to an online community complete with helpful instructional videos and articles. It is clearly designed for the use-case we were.</p>
<p>You can see how this makes sense &#8212; many units, you just need someone to deploy them in many locations and then teach the people at those locations how to turn it off an on. Just one unit, they train you how to be become an expert operator.</p>
<p>The person who purchased our Surface ordered the &#8220;Commercial&#8221; unit, but then scheduled the installation service to be performed at the business conference where we were going to unveil the Surface and our application 2-weeks later. Thus, we were delivered a unit designed to be set-up by someone else, in another time and place.</p>
<p>As the  helpful Jason McConnell from Microsoft explained to me on a phone call earlier today, &#8220;Your blog post took us all by surprise &#8211; it was valid from your perspective, and funny, but it shouldn&#8217;t ever have happened.&#8221; He then added that  one part of my post that they are looking at addressing is with the initial set-up screen &#8211; &#8220;We want to add some goodness right there &#8211; the user shouldn&#8217;t have to wait to be greeted with some of the excitement of the product&#8221;.</p>
<p>As with any brand-new product, there are bound to be hiccups. It is reasonable to argue that our use-case wasn&#8217;t that far-fetched, that someone along the way should have helped us realize we were going off-path, or that the documentation should have been sufficient to set the unit up without assistance.  That didn&#8217;t happen, but with anything as complex as the Surface &#8211; and as necessarily big an organization as Microsoft is &#8211; it isn&#8217;t surprising that this slipped throught the cracks.</p>
<p>However, I really do appreciate the folks at Microsoft taking the time and care to reach out to me and find how they can improve their delivery process and ensure a similar tale isn&#8217;t told in the future. And, as I want to stress again, I really do appreciate the fantastic usabilty experience that they have produced with the Surface product. It is a great platform that will be exciting to watch develop in the future.</p>
<p>And thank you for reading our sleepy blog &#8211; come back next week when we talk about our love of Tito&#8217;s Burrito&#8217;s in Morristown, NJ!</p>
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