“The Twitter Hashtag is the New Neon Sign”

“The brand lives in connections.” This simple—yet powerful—statement from Noah Brier, co-founder of Percolate, emphasizes the importance of social media.  Yet compelling as it is, we can take this statement one step further: I offer that your brand can also live in...

Predicting the Future with Social Media

Forget predictions from Nostradamus or the Mayan Calendar.  Now, we have companies like Recorded Future analyzing semantics and sentiments to foretell the future.  They do this by sorting through thousands of news publications, blogs, tweets, comments, trade journals,...