It's Not Your Father's Pizza Place
Attention Triangle Foodies. There is a new restaurant in the area that you need to try. Bella Mia, the Triangle’s first coal-fired pizza place, is now open off Harrison Avenue in Cary. We are working with the Guerra family, former New York residents, as they embark on their adventure to bring traditional Neopolitan-style pizza to our area. Members of the HM&P PR and Social Media teams had the opportunity to partake in this culinary experience a couple days before the restaurant opened. More »
Twitter Launches Places Feature
This week, Twitter announced the launch of a new Twitter Places feature that allows users to tweet their exact location. With this feature, users have the ability to tag their tweets and add new locations. Users can also view public tweets from nearby and a list of local points of interest. More »
The 2010 FIFA World Cup: A Social Media Event
The month of June is a time of anticipation and celebration as fans watch their favorite soccer teams (Go USA!) represent their home turf in the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Even though these events are being hosted in South Africa, social media has enabled viewers around the world to be updated and involved in every aspect of the game.
Video Tape
Something scary is going on in the creative department at HM&P. And it involves a whole lot of duct tape.
Dan Nelson will be painting in Cameron Village
Our 2009 BASF illustrator, Dan Nelson will be painting outside the Little Gallery in Cameron Village from 5-8 pm on June 17th. Watching Dan paint and interacting with him is nothing short of fun and amazing! He has frequented downtown Raleigh scenes in the last 10 years and delights crowds with his oils, watercolors, and acrylics. Go visit for fun and a bit of food and libation to tide you over until dinner. A collection of his completed works will already be hanging on gallery walls and will continue to do so until July 4th.
Location-based Apps Picking Up Steam
It seems like the location-based social media apps like Foursquare, Gowalla and BrightKite are finally beginning to pick up steam. Starbucks was an early adopter of Foursquare, and now I’m starting to see more and more small businesses take advantage of the opportunities that are being afforded by this new medium. In fact, our social media group is currently working with several clients, including O2 Fitness, to roll out location-based promotions. More »
Creating a Website? Improve Your SEO
The most important thing to keep in mind when optimizing your website is the page title.
According to Chris Haddad, inbound marketing consultant at HubSpot, a page title is an important aspect search engines look at to figure out what the site is about. How effective or ineffective your page title is will determine how strongly it is pulled up in the appropriate search. More »
Ready for awesome? OK Go!
I’ve been attending the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco for the last week, and last night was the official Apple party. The one where almost every developer and Apple engineer here, all 6000 of us, go across the street to the Yerba Buena Gardens, get fed, and listen to a band rock out. Last year they had Cake, the year before it was Barenaked Ladies, but we didn’t know who the band would be until we got there. There were rumors all over the place, but there wasn’t any proof. No lost iPhone with a memo on it revealing the band’s indentity. Nothing. Well, not until people started looking at the stage and discovered a piece of tape on a mic that said enough.
Tweet, Tweet…Meow?
Since Twitter’s launch in 2006, the social media site now has more than 21 million users and averages about 3 million tweets each day. According to the Pew Research Center, the largest percentage of users fall in the 25 to 34 age range.
I wonder if that accounts for cat years? More »
