Across the Sound

My good buddy, Mitch Joel, and my new colleague, Powered's CMO, Aaron Strout, "sat down" to debate whether the industry needs a dedicated social media agency or alternatively, whether digital agencies are best suited/positioned to deliver on social as just another element of an expanding digital toolbox. The seed for this was an Adweek article. Clearly, both Mitch and I have our own unique biases. He works for a digital agency and I work for a social media agency. That said, Mitch and I both felt that there isn't enough productive debate (read: disagreement) in the industry right now and...

Been a little slow on the draw to cross post my monthly stint on The BeanCast, so here is the direct download (which will download automatically if you are subscribed to Jaffe Juice - The New Marketing Podcast) Topics covered on the show included: Haiti Text Messaging Campaign and Best Practices Conan versus Leno (Told ya!) IKEA's Easy to Assemble Web Video success Google leaves China Vanity Fair's Tweetheart Racism Kerfuffle Guests on the show (including yours truly) included: Bill Green, Publisher, Make The Logo Bigger and co-host of AdVerve Joseph Jaffe, Chief Interrupter, Powered (Find out about Joe's podcasts,...

Recorded live via Talkshoe, a unique opportunity to hear from the principals of all 3 companies acquired by Powered, including crayonista Greg Verdino, Powered CMO Aaron Strout AND even an ex-crayonista and current social media marketer muckety-muck, Scott Monty...so give it a listen if you'd like to hear more about the acquisition, motivations for selling, vision we're buying into and thoughts about whether the industry needs a social media agency (hint: yes) As always, send in your audio comments to me on +1 206 203-3255 or follow me on Twitter (why? I have no idea) Direct download here iTunes subscription...

At the recent PRSA conference in Slam Diego, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Eric Schwartzman, host of the fantastic "On the Record" podcast. I'd never met Eric before, but as a fellow podcaster, we were bound by our secret code of friendship (and our subscription to the very exclusive and almost impossible to join, CAPOW = Communications and Advertising Podcasters Of the World). Here's the link to listen to the podcast directly, but while you're at it, you should subscribe as well. Shownotes are below to give you a sense of what we discussed (hint: more Twitter...

"The police asked Tiger's wife how many times she hit him. "I can't remember," Elin said, "just put me down for a 5." - when you're getting jokes like that coming from About.com, you know Tiger Watch isn't over. Here's my JJTV take on Tiger (it's still my Beancast story to watch) and here's the rest of Sunday's episode... Host Bob Knorpp expertly moderated (or my case, attempted to restrain) a panel with myself and: Bill Green - Make the logo Bigger and Adverve Aaron Strout - CMO, Powered Matt McDermott - ACD, Renegade We discussed a range of topics...

Rich Text Area. Another day, another Beancast. This time I shared the virtual stage with Kelly Eidson (Modea, Ad Age), Angela Natividad (Live and Uncensored, Adverve) and Ian Schafer (Deep Focus) Black Friday and Cyber Monday took up the lion's share of our discussion for all you retail junkees, but equally tasty was the discussion about Aol's new logo/branding/identity/SSDD efforts plus some Peperami crowdsourcing for desert. Now if that doesn't cause an ulcer, I don't know what will :) Direct download here iTunes subscription here

My buddy, Mitch Joel, just wrote a book. It's called Six Pixels of Separation and it's the prelude to his blog and podcast. In this special episode, we talk about the book, his rationale and motivations behind writing it, the central themes behind the book and of course, Jay Leno. So give it a listen, buy the book (of course) and send in your audio comments to me on +1 206 203-3255 or follow me on Twitter (why? I have no idea) Direct download here iTunes subscription here

So it's official. Jeremiah and I are not working together. You'll have to listen to hear details of his new gig. But the two of us are going to record an episode of the show together once a month (schedules permitting). Should be fun. Audio comments to +1 206 ... . Follow me on Twitter (@jaffejuice) and Jeremiah (@jowyang) Direct download here iTunes subscription here

I guess I'm becoming somewhat of a regular (once a month that is) on The Beancast. By putting it out on the Jaffe Juice feed, you get a bit of extra Jaffe, plus host Bob Knorpp, ABC's Becky Worley and sadly, you'll need to put up with ex-crayonista, Ford's Scott Monty as well :) In last night's convo, we tackled a bunch of pretty intersting topics, including: Whether the "new PR" is lacking in the fundamentals Those creepy Palm Pre ads YouTube's version of Adsense The launch of sponsored tweets Facebook ad crackdown Listen to the show here or subscribe...

I recently had a chat - or perhaps I should say, a skat - with Forrester's Senior Analyst, Social Computing, Jeremiah Owyang. Follow Jeremiah on Twitter here or check out his very popular blog, Web Strategist, here. Audio comments to +1 206 203-3255 Direct download here iTunes subscription here