Ever see a blue McDonald’s Logo or the ever recognizable scripty fonted Coca-Cola printed in neon green? Me neither! These super-mega-world-domineering brands practice a very simple marketing rule… consistency.

The web today is changing the face of marketing…  allowing individuals, small businesses, non-profits and super-mega-world-domineering brands alike the opportunity to reach their audiences in new and amazing ways. Still, I believe consistency is as important as it ever was.

Marketing is shifting away from the drowning roar of “let me tell you why you should buy my thing-a-ma-bob” to “let’s have a relationship and you will buy my product cause you like & trust me.” There are so many online social marketing tools available now, with more popping up each day… your brand (personal or corporate) can become very easily and quickly diluted. Enter the age old rule of consistency… make sure you look and sound the same where ever you are. Well what does that look like? If you are just getting your feet wet with social marketing/media, try this as a goal:

• Your avatar is the same on facebook, twitter, linkedin, flickr, etc.
• You name is the same everywhere.

• www.jjlassberg.com
• twitter.com/jjlassberg
• jjlassberg at g mail dot com
• www.flickr/jjlassberg

• You website, blog and twitter background all compliment each other… if not exactly the same.
• Where ever you are online, make sure that all the info, pictures, colors, fonts and design elements are as consistent as you can make them.

This will let people know that no matter where they connect with you online, they have indeed connected with YOU… which goes back to the trusting and liking and buying from you thing.

T is for Twitter

Here is a list of some very cool twitter tools that were buzzing around the Summit:

1. Twitter Search (Summize): What are Twitterers Tweeting about these days
2. Twirl: Nice API. Floats on your desktop. Has notification pop-up and a makes tweeting a little easier.
3. TweetDeck: Saw lots of this at the summit. Has all the typical Twitter Tool functionality with the addition of group/deck feature. Create your own groups… put people in ‘em… word of warning, DON’T close a group you have created… it will go away… for-EVER! and you will have to start it all over again
4. TweetScan: Tweet Scan searches Twitter
5. Splitweet: Easy management for multiple Twitter accounts and brand monitor
6. TwitterBerry: Twitter for your Crackberry… this is how I do all my out and about Twittering… it has made me a master at the Crackberry keyboard.
7. TwitterSnooze: Stop following someone for a few days cause they are taking notes on a conference via twitter and the hashtags and twittering every freakin’ 5 seconds is starting to drive you batty… or something like that.
8. Mr. Tweet: Suggestions on who to follow
9. Friend or Follow: In case you just have to know…
10. TweetGrid: Twitter search dashboard
11. Twittervision: I don’t know if this actually useful, but it is totally fun
12. CityTweet: Search local tweet by city. This sounds really cool… but its not available for Houston… sigh…
13. TweetLater: Automated Tweets like auto-follow new followers.
14. TwitterFeed: Automatically post your new blog entries to Twitter. (Guy says this is a must, must, must!)

And Not Twitter related by Guy Kawasaki related:

1. Tynt Tracer: When your content is copied, Tracer automatically adds an attribution link to claim it as yours. Pretty cool way of tracing where your content if heading off to once you set it free.

Fab!Hubby walked in Sunday morning and announced, “Twitter is main stream!” He relaid he had heard 5 different references to Twitter in his 30 minute drive back from a job site he was checking on. And I have to agree with him… a large portion of the Mom 2.0 Summit was focused on Twitter. Lots of talk about twitter, lots of #mom2summit twittering on twitter, lots of intro’s and how-to’s for twitter users (more on that later) and I decided to take the opportunity to put down pencil and paper and take up the challenge of live twitter note taking. It turns out, posting out the things I want to remember in 140 characters or less was actually quite useful.

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  jjLassberg: Over and over and over again the theme to being successful in marketing today is be human!!! Start a conversation, have a relationship #mom2
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  jjLassberg: http://twitpic.com/1llm1 – @ericaogrady party-harty #mom2
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  jjLassberg: OH: oh my god JJ, there is a phone in here!!! #fourseasonroompotty #mom2
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  denaoutloud: @jjlassberg is showing me twitter #mom2. yippie.
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  jjLassberg: http://twitpic.com/1l98t – Add baby holder to job description of mediator at #mom2
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  jjLassberg: Ditto @ToThink Ditto! RT @eMom: You know what I would <3 at #mom2? Some kind of list or script to enable me to follow all the attendees….
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  jjLassberg: OH: I talk about vibrators on my blog so that works for me #mom2
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  jjLassberg: If you are blogging your a writer, if you are twittering you are short writer #mom2
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  jjLassberg: @eschipul just rub it in! #mom2 #bathrooms
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  jjLassberg: Women customize everything… Want me to buy? Let me customize #mom2
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  jjLassberg: OH: “moms don’t buy our products… Um, the gator-aid didn’t just walk into my house” #mom2
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  jjLassberg: Marketers… Don’t tell… Ask!!! Don’t tell me to buy… Ask me about me… Sound familiar #mom2
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  jjLassberg: Women trust each other… Not corporations, goverment, doctors, journalists #mom2
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  jjLassberg: Moms who blog should me time person of the year #mom2
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  jjLassberg: What’s missing in branding and marketing is the emotional connection to women #mom2
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There is nothing I can add to this… it is the definition of elegance.

Credit goes to:

• eschipul
• AAF
• Pastorini Bosby talent agency in Houston
• and the brilliant actor David George who is AWESOME. WORD.

Less than a minute (approximately) after this photo was taken by Eye-Fi’s very own Ziv Gillat, it was uploaded to Flickr and then projected onto the wall of the Warehouse Live Theater where the Mom 2.0 Summit Party was in full swing… now that is Techie Geek Sexy Cool! And Gwen’s Wonder Woman Francie Pants are pretty dang sexy too… talk about brilliant product placement. This is exactly what the Mom 2.0 Summit was all about for me. Not Gwen’s francie pants!!! Though they are awesome don’t get me wrong.

The summit was about bringing women and marketers together to talk about getting rid of the bull horn approach (we are not listening, I promise) and focusing on how we as women really choose to spend our money – on the items our girlfriends, sisters, moms, etc…  tell us about. We just happen to be telling each other about the new fandangled thing-a-ma-bob on flickr or twitter or facebook or kirtsy or… you get the picture. Which brings me back to… I REALLY want this!

Gigabytes of Storage. And Wi-Fi. Just Add Camera.

The Eye-Fi Card stores photos & videos like a normal memory card. When you turn your camera on within range of a configured Wi-Fi network, it wirelessly transfers your photos & videos. To your computer. Or to your favorite photo sharing web site. Or both.