Interactive Marketing Category

Using Alternate Reality Gaming in the Classroom

Monday, December 31st, 2012

Many of you might be wondering about recent appearances of the rarely seen superhero, Bagel Boy. Or, perhaps, you recently heard that the ghost of Wilson Hall escaped and was demanding cookies?  Or maybe you were wandering around campus on December 3, and a student offered you a free cookie?
These events were all related.
This past [...]

Tech Improvements and New Opportunities at CRUX

Thursday, September 20th, 2012

It’s been two and half years since we announced the opening of the Center for Research in User Experience (CRUX). Our capabilities have significantly grown in that time and we wanted to share with you what we look like today. We now have four different types of usability and eye-tracking solutions, all of which are [...]

Reflections on AIMS Silicon Valley: Year One

Friday, April 27th, 2012

 
It seems like such a long time ago, but it wasn’t much more than a year ago when Rich Moran, a Miami alum and advisor for AIMS, planted the seed with Peg and I. He said “you know – you can bring us folks from the Bay Area to Oxford all you want, but students [...]

Social Business Readiness 101

Monday, September 26th, 2011

Altimeter Group recently released an eye-opening report detailing the lack of social business readiness characteristic of the vast majority of organizations. The consequences are huge: more than 75% social media crises the researchers analyzed could have been diminished or averted if companies had invested in social business requirements. Lead author of the report, Jeremiah Owyang, chronicles [...]

2011 Finalists – AMA Cincinnati Student Marketer of the Year Award

Wednesday, May 11th, 2011

Congratulations to Miami University AIMS students Mackenzie Bruce, Nomiki Frangopoulos, Lindsay O’Hara and Jay Schmiedeskamp, and to Ursuline Academy student Megan O’Brien, finalists for the 2011 AMA Cincinnati Student Marketer of the Year Award. The students were nominated for the work they did to increase site traffic and strengthen the social media presence of Boston-based [...]

AIMS Partners with Startup Healthetreatment.com

Tuesday, February 8th, 2011

Two groups of AIMS students put their social media and web usability testing skills to work this fall, helping a young company, Boston-based healthetreatment, improve its web presence.

What the Digital Humanities (Is)n’t: Free

Wednesday, January 5th, 2011

In 2009, UCLA hosted a series of talks, funded by the Mellon Foundation, called, “What Is(n’t) the Digital Humanities,” and I take my title from that series, with a slight modification.  While Todd Pressner and Jeffrey Schnapp, the organizers of the UCLA series, hoped to better define what it is via what it is not, [...]

Small Talk

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

A recent article in Ad Age explores consumer responses to banal Twitter and Facebook posts sent on behalf of brands. They’re not just banal, they are very characteristic of simple back-and-forth dialogue between friends. Something like:
Brand: “Have a good Thanksgiving.”
Consumer: “Yeah, you too.”
To the astonishment of many, myself included, consumers are very willing to participate [...]

When saying “I’m sorry” isn’t enough

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This summer we (Jim Coyle, Glenn Platt and Ted Smith) presented some research at the International Network for Social Network Analysis Conference that looked at how the types of tweets that companies send in response to customer problems/concerns can influence other consumers who might see those tweets when searching for information about a company.
Here’s what [...]

Convergys

Thursday, April 1st, 2010

Administration metrics. Case Study: Convergys (2006) Convergys Corporation a global leader in providing customer care, human resources and billing services, needed to build an operations dashboard for AT&T Network Connection (ANC), a platform of long-distance services. Convergys requested that Armstrong Interactive (AI) design an operations dashboard intended to monitor the status of daily operations.
AI Methodology: [...]