Bob Williams

Delaying the inevitable – businesses ignoring social media

If your company doesn’t use social media tools to interact directly with customers now, it’s only delaying the inevitable.

Every day there are news stories, blog posts, television commercials, radio ads, and print pieces about consumers and businesses using the internet and rich media to communicate with each other. Some consumers and businesses are still on the sidelines whether out of apathy, denial, or ignorance because they claim these tools are not relevant to their lives or business. For business, sitting on the sidelines often lasts as long as the first brand or public opinion crisis.  Check how active BP was on twitter, facebook, etc. before the oil spill of …Continue reading >>

Bob Williams

What we can learn from carrier pigeons tweeting the score

This morning I was reading a few pages in the Historical Baseball Abstract by Bill James. The book is full of baseball history “stuff”. The interesting find today was a story about using carrier pigeons to deliver baseball scores across Philadelphia in 1883. The account reads that zookeeper Jim Murray sent carrier pigeons with scores back to his fellow workers at the zoo after each half inning. Can you imagine a dude showing up at the ticket gate with a cage full of pigeons? Apparently the idea caught on and other fans requested to get on the message distribution (the first twitter follower?).

Carrier, or homing, pigeons had long since …Continue reading >>