Influencing Influencers

By: Sergio Morales, Account Coordinator Last week, the RBOA family attended The Florida Public Relations Association’s (FPRA’s) Capital Chapter’s monthly luncheon, where we had the pleasure of participating in an engaging presentation about influencer marketing by Social Fresh Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder Jason Keath. Throughout this presentation, he brought up many important marketing strategies…

118 = New # 4 Ur URL Tweets: How to Get Your Message Across …The Right Way

By: Emily Allman, Account Manager Twitter is cutting back. As of February 20th, you’re going have to downsize on your tweets. If you’re tweeting out a URL, you will max out at 118 characters and 117 characters for http links. Twitter claims that the t.co wrapper protects users from malicious sites that spread malware, phishing…

Why You Should Be Like Nike

By: Aubry Hawks, Account Executive When you think of Nike, what comes to your mind? For me, it’s words and images of professional athletes like Michael Jordan, outstanding performance, community leaders, quality, strength and Nike’s trademark “swoosh.” These are the things that are engraved in my subconscious. You might ask yourself, “how did they establish…

For the Love of Wikipedia

By: Stephanie Aanstoos, Account Executive Wikipedia is perhaps the best example of “collaborative production,” a term described by Clay Shirky in Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations as one of the effects of the Internet. Collaborative production and Shirky’s analysis of Wikipedia can be broken down into five key points: Group editing-
Wikipedia is…

The Perks of Event Social Media

By: Adrianne Miller, Account Manager Last week, three members of the RBOA team road tripped to Orlando for a client conference, FETC 2013, the content-rich conference that brings education leaders and technology experts together to exchange techniques and strategies for teaching and learning success. The RBOA team was responsible for manning the press room and…