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Is Google Plus the New Facebook, or Just Another “New Coke” Debacle?
This month Google, leader in worldwide Internet domination, launched what they hope will become the Facebook – Google Plus. Of course the Ninjas at Ninja Central were atwitter about this new social media platform. What would it mean for our clients? What would it do for brand management? How will it potentially help search engine optimization (SEO)? And, most importantly, how in the heck do we get an invite? Well, I’m happy to report we scored the coveted Google+ invitations. Why? I guess because Ninjas lead a charmed life. Oh, and we spend a heck of a lot of time on the Internet and Google appreciates that.
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We’re Watching You, Egypt…
Like many Americans, I have been watching the crisis in Egypt play out closely. It is worrisome to think about how the uprising in Egypt could literally change the course of the world. Each day more violence seems to bubbling up with more people hurt, jailed or even killed. I am a child of a military family – my Dad, Grandfather, uncles, aunts and brother all have served our country. I have lived all over the world, went to high school in Japan, watched my Dad go off for “war games” (a term for practice in the military) in Korea. I was the child who sat glued to the television during the Iran Hostage crisis in 1979 and wore a white band around my little arm to show solidarity until the hostages were freed on January 20, 1981. I am the girl who organized a letter writing campaign in Cincinnati, Ohio to the Marines in Beirut in 1983. (Which subsequently was my first foray into PR as I was asked to be on the syndicated Bob Braun Show for my efforts…)
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Where’s Gidget, the Taco Bell Chihuahua, When You Need Her?
Okay, I’ll admit it. I love me some Taco Bell. It’s one of those things I crave from time to time and nothing else will satisfy me until I get a Baja Steak Gordita or a beef Meximelt if I’m feeling old school. Mmmm….. However, recently the thought of Taco Bell is making this Ninja’s stomach a little queasy. As many of you know, a lawsuit was filed this week by Alabama based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles alleging that the fast food chain’s seasoned beef mixture contains only 35 percent beef, with the remaining percent containing fillers…