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Omo has combined GPS technology with a prize giveaway promotion as part of their “Try Something New With Omo” campaign. GPS devices are hidden in 50 detergent boxes throughout Brazil and the device is activate4d when the box is removed from the supermarket shelf.

The promotions agency then track the box to the consumer’s home, where winners receive a pocket video camera as well as an invitation for a day of outdoor fun at Unilever’s expense.  To help alleviate consumer concerns the promotions team can cause the GPS to start beeping – let’s hope they don’t think it’s a bomb ticking :)

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Most Contagious 2009

Most Contagious 2009 is a presentation full of inspiring content that covers digital marketing, viral, outdoor as well as integrated campaigns.

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Consumer Trends – 2010

Trendhuntertv has created this interesting report which highlights 20 top trends that are emerging for 2010.

The list of the top 20 includes

  • Personalization
  • Unservice
  • Peacocking
  • Rental
  • Culture
  • Prodependancy
  • DIY Healthcare
  • Nostalgia
  • Crowdsource
  • Emotionology
  • Simpletising
  • Ecopolitan
  • Greenpliances
  • Nomadabodes (portable living spaces)
  • Pop-uptailing
  • Life-swapping
  • DIY Decor
  • Next Besting
Social Media Monitoring – categorisation

As organisations start to embrace social media monitoring, it’s important for them to categorise conversations to allow a suite of various engagement response tactics to be executed.

This beautiful slidedeck from Amber Naslund, highlights the key categories that should be considered.

Frontiering Shopping cart
Having used X-cart at the shopping cart solution at Gourmet Shopper, I was interested to see that the X-cart developers have released a new AJAX style shopping cart solution called Ecwid.
Here’s an example shopping cart that I have been testing, which as well as working inside WordPress.

The Cart tool is reasonably simple to setup and configue, and whilst there are some limitations, it promises to be an excellent option for shops wanting to syndicate their content across their growing range of interaction points.
Here’s an image of how it looks in Facebook (see example)

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