Privacy takes center stage: Sp ’11 Delicious tag analysis
Marketing tags confirm: Privacy is hot
In the spirit of “crisis” brand management, let me admit that my Delicious bookmarking fell off in March and April. Maybe that’s a good thing as the articles that did get my attention had to be serious intellectual or hot news contenders. And, it seems, they were.
Early Spring ’11 speaks to empowerment and engagement.
Privacy, browsing, and tracking continue to heat up. Peer-to-peer wisdom suggests average consumers applaud anti-tracking legislation without fully understanding. They assume tracking behavior compromises individual privacy that includes e-mails and personal identity. All the hacking and security breaches don’t help the matter. Congress is heating up the battle with legislation proposals. Industry organizations are hustling to complete opt-in privacy and do-not-track options.
Here are the top three articles that tell the whole story:
How to fix (or kill) Web data about you
Apple’s Safari browser boasts anti-tracking tool
Groupon primes itself to become next Zappos | Digital – Advertising Age
Smart startup aims to keep 60 million global consumers feeling the love by focusing on service with a smile, phone calls and manpower.
Mail-away cobbler makes old shoes new again : Lifestyle :: American Express OPEN Forum
When Eric Neuner, then a 23-year-old newly-minted MBA, bought a chain of cobbler shops in the mid-1990s, it seemed as if the shoe repair industry was going the way of land line phones, paper mail, etc. He saw an opportunity.
Thank you to MediaPost, the New York Times, American Express OPEN Forum, Digital – Advertising Age. This month’s wordpring created with WordItOut. © 2011.Wordprint content © 2011 eamcc.wordpress.com. All rights reserved.
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