Archive for March, 2011

Email Marketing: Continuing the Conversation

Posted: March 16, 2011 by captaininbox in Best Practice Strategy, Data and Targeting, Email Marketing, Message Content and Design, Recipient Experience, Total Strategy

I have just read Scott’s fantastic blog “Email Marketing: A Conversation Starter“. It was so good and in line with some conversations a few of us had been having recently, I was inspired to reply. But before long I’d written a whole blog post so I moved it over here… – – – Scott, Awfully [...]

Is Facebook Messaging spam-bot heaven

Posted: March 8, 2011 by captaininbox in Best Practice Strategy, Email Marketing, Social-and-viral, Total Strategy

I’ve just found a nicely put together article called “Facebook Messaging: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly” By Joseph C Lawrence 03.08.11 for Memeburn. It very nicely puts together lots of what I have already written out Facebook Messaging as it rolls out. Joseph also talks a bit more about the SMS aspect of [...]

Facebook vs Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and everyone else

Posted: March 2, 2011 by captaininbox in Best Practice Strategy, Email Marketing, Social-and-viral, Total Strategy

Just found this old draft, I thought I’d best publish it, I’t probably out of date now though? – – – Rumour has it that Facebook will be introducing Email, Search and Docs in today’s Web 2.0 conference. Rumours state that Facebook will likely make it the email completely open, allowing POP and IMAP access [...]