Posts tagged with:media

The CEO of Central Media Enterprises, Adrian Sârbu, a Romanian, has quit today. He will stay on board until the end of 2013 and then make his next move. He made waves a few years ago when he was named CEO, being the highest position a Romanian entrepreneur has ever occupied The smart money is […]

Companies from Romania are paying great attention to Social Media, that translates into money from content and counseling. Which is great. There have been more money spent in Social Media in 2013 than in 2011 and 2012 combined, or so I feel.

The year started really good. There are a few directions I have noticed going on: Companies moving away from the “like and share” model, as they find out likes do not translate into sales. The smart ones (Coca Cola, Milka) started experimenting with content created for social media. Companies still chasing the like and share […]

This article is not new. But is very useful in pointing out how and what journalism has became. And in Romania also, don’t think we are special. We got AdPlayers.ro, an advertising blog, who charge 5.000€ a year for listing a company on their directory and bashes companies and people who do not subscribe. I […]

Social Media and the noise that accompanies it has made us forget the lost art of being humble and modest. Those who bark the loudest are believed to be the experts they say they are. There is this great scene in "Predators" where the Yakuza guy is  asked why he, if he does speak English, […]

I thought the media agencies are making the big money, keeping their clients’ presence up to date, creating facebook apps and more. But it seems not. Could the bloggers and the influencers be the ones that are making money with Social Media?

Some months ago, a US friend came to visit and we chatted a bit about social media . We were balls deep in Facebook and Twitter and felt like we discovered the world. They passed that some time ago. Sure, Facebook has a lot of visitors and interactions, but the smart people have found ways […]

I found myself asking the title question to a manager asking me for advice regarding a social media strategy he was paying a lot of money for. The strategy was simple and you’ve heard it before: build facebook apps, get more likes, get more shares, get more retweets. Nothing wrong with that, but where are […]

Amongs Google PageSpeed ranking factors is one regarding a Content Delivery Network, that wants to use subdomains or a CDN for distributing content. If you have basic DNS and HTML knowledge you can do these easy steps: add to your DNS Aliases (A records) with the name cache1.yourdomain.com and cache2.yourdomain.com in order to point to […]

So, I’ve installed Windows 7. It’s faster, but i really hate the way it works. It needs a lot of tweaking. I like Apollo very much. Small player, good with mp3 and streaming. It’s all I need. I like Media Player Classic. Same stuff. But the big bad WMPlayer wants to be the default player. […]