Archives for the 'Walmart' Category
Walmart Saga Motivates Lawyers To Phone The Bloggers
I get to go nose-to-nose with some really good corporate lawyers who want to better understand what their bloggers and/or marketing and/or communications teams are planning to unleash on-line.
John Slafsky, a partner at Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosatti, the powerhouse law firm that represents Sun, Google, Netflicks and HP warned me early on that “as [...]
Learning From Walmart’s Failed Social Network (and Microsoft and Nike’s successes)
Pete Cashmore wrote a good post on Walmart’s ill-conceived The Hub which was closed down after only 10 weeks. The Hub was Walmart’s attempt to recreate MySpace for their Gen Y shoppers. The problem is their Gen Y shoppers were having too much fun on MySpace to care one iota about The Hub. There’s a [...]