My name is Ann Marie, and I am the newest addition to the Red McCombs Media team. I am a senior at THE University of Texas. Hook ‘em! I am an advertising major interested in the new business and account services area as well as client management. Online is the present and the future of [...]

Flickr has been my favorite photo application for as long as I can remember. Tagging, sharing, commenting, distributing, it makes me want to carry my camera with me everywhere I go. I love participating in social media, and I love taking pictures. When Twitter took the web by storm, it was just natural that people [...]

So my former cynicism regarding the launch of Bing has been tempered by my initial experiences with the search engine. I still haven’t switched my default search tool to Bing, but I am intrigued that Microsoft will “buy” my loyalty with Bing Cashback. I discovered this when doing a side-by-side comparison of Google & Bing’s [...]

Yet another “new” search engine, Bing.com, was released yesterday this time by Microsoft. This is another in a string of new search engines that are supposed to revolutionize the way we search, so far, I have been underwhelmed. Upon their launch, AskJeeves.com, Ask.com and now Bing.com all promised to provide internet users with a superior [...]

Is new media advertising simply banners on websites? Video ads? Or maybe new media is sponsored text listing on search engines? Hmmm. Oh, I know, new media is Social marketing. No No No – it’s viral marketing through some catchy, funny or controversial content distributed through video. WOW, how silly of me, it’s got to [...]