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TMI: What Happens When Bloggers Share Too Much

TMI: What Happens When Bloggers Share Too Much

05/25/2012 – 2:15 PM | 1,330 views

How personal should bloggers get online? The editors of FMM discuss the dangers of sharing too much.
Here at FMM, our blog is our business. We work hard to being you intelligent, professional content about the latest in fashion digital marketing trends. In addition to this news-focused blog, we also post the prettiest pictures we can …

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Fora.TV to Stream Gamification Summit

05/30/2012 – 5:21 AM | 372 views

Fora.tv to broadcast the GSummit gamification conference on demand June 20-July19.

Do you want to improve customer loyalty? Increase engagement? Get people excited about your brand and involved with your brand story? What to know to to use social game mechanics in your social media and digital strategy?

If the answers to these questions is yes, then you are interested in gamification. Social gaming is a unique tool for online retail success that innovators like Stylmee and New York Fashion Week have used to build their brands.

gamification gsummit event fora.tvSo how can you get your gamification education? At the upcoming GSummit conference in San Francisco June 19-21. GSummit is the only event that brings together leading thinkers in the gamification, loyalty and behavioral engineering space together to talk about best (and worst) practices, new products, how to disseminate data and how to create a more fun and engaging world. The event, in its second year, is attended by companies like Microsoft, Salesforce, United Airlines, NBC and Recyclebank.

Don’t have time to travel to San Francisco? Well, you can watch the entire conference live on Fora.tv. In fact, if you’re not able to catch the live stream, Fora.tv will have the event available for on-demand viewing for 30 days.

Thanks to our relationship with Fora.tv, FMM is pleased to offer its readers 20 coupons for a 20 percent discount for the GSummit livestream. Simply enter the discount code FMMGS12M2 at checkout. You know you want to keep your digital strategy current. You’re welcome.

For more information about GSummit and the role it plays in tech and marketing, watch event chair Gabe Zichermann explains how this year’s conference will educate attendees.

Disclosure: Fora.TV is an paid advertising partner of FashionablyMarketing.Me. The content of post is representative of that partnership.

Lyst launches Sale Alerts for Pinterest

05/25/2012 – 2:15 PM | One Comment | 1,052 views
Lyst launches Sale Alerts for Pinterest

Social commerce platform, Lyst.com, launches a new tool which lets users receive instant notifications whenever any items in their Pinterest boards go on sale.
Once a user connects their Pinterest account to Lyst (at www.lyst.com/pinterest), they will receive instant sale alerts on all the products they have ‘pinned’ or ‘repinned’ from the hundreds of fashion retailers …

IFB Launches Interactive Instagram Campaign for Summer

05/25/2012 – 8:50 AM | 799 views
IFB Launches Interactive Instagram Campaign for Summer

Independent Fashion Bloggers Launches Interactive Instagram Campaign for Summer.
Independent Fashion Bloggers (IFB) is going to take you on the blogging community’s ultimate summer escape with its “Day in the Life” Instagram campaign, a virtual summer road trip that gives Instagram users the chance to explore the country through the eyes of their favorite digital personalities.
The campaign will …

Video: LuckyFABB West – How to Monetize Your Blog

05/25/2012 – 5:51 AM | 504 views
Video:  LuckyFABB West – How to Monetize Your Blog

Watch the “Ways You Didn’t Know You Could Monetize” panel from the LuckyFABB West blogger conference.
The LuckyFABB West blogger conference and event held April 30 in Santa Monica was an incredible resource for fashion bloggers. If you weren’t one of the lucky few who attended this amazing event, never fear, we’re here to help. We are …

Coffee: The Rise of Pour Over Culture in Los Angeles

05/24/2012 – 5:49 AM | 319 views
Coffee: The Rise of Pour Over Culture in Los Angeles

FMM founder and publisher Macala Wright explores pour over coffee culture in Los Angeles.
As any who works in fashion and technology knows, addiction to coffee is both a blessing and curse. The deeper the addiction has run, the more refined my palette has come. Let’s face it, Starbucks and Coffee Bean are now what you …

Coursera Brings You An Ivy League Education, Free

05/23/2012 – 8:43 AM | One Comment | 348 views
Coursera Brings You An Ivy League Education, Free

The Inspiration: Get a free Ivy League education online with Coursera.org.
Remember college? Not many people do. Most teens leap from high school to college before they even know what they want to study, or even what they want to do with their lives. That’s why we were thrilled to discover Coursera, the website that wants to …

Inside The WWD Beauty CEO Summit 2012

05/23/2012 – 5:41 AM | 387 views
Inside The WWD Beauty CEO Summit 2012

Video: Watch the WWD Beauty CEO Summit 2012 on Fora.TV on Wednesday, May 30.
Were you lucky enough to attend the WWD Beauty CEO Summit, one of the top beauty industry events of 2012? This year’s event, “Leading in a New World,” was held at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida May14-16.
Top executives from the best beauty companies …

Ten Tips to Get Your Fashion Tech Startup Funded

05/22/2012 – 8:56 AM | One Comment | 1,060 views
Ten Tips to Get Your Fashion Tech Startup Funded

Ten tips to get your fashion tech start-up funded were offered during Third Wave Fashion’s discussion during Internet Week New York.

As an influx of fashion tech entrepreneurs enter the fashion tech space, the first question on their minds is how to get funded. At a recent NYC Meetup event during Internet Week New York, Third …