Donna L. Hoffman's Blog (36)

Heading to CES!

Off to CES soon. Have walking shoes, will travel! #ces2012

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on January 9, 2012 at 11:48am — 2 Comments

Mall Shoppers Tracked By Cellphone

Footpath is testing technology that tracks the unique IDs in consumers' cell phones in order to study their "footstream" while shopping in malls. It's a very slippery slope...

SoCal Mall Tracks Shoppers

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on November 26, 2011 at 12:24pm — No Comments

Seriously, people? Just shop online!

Apparently taking a page from questionable police tactics, shoppers are now pepper spraying other shoppers during Black Friday! Pepper spray at Wal-Mart

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on November 25, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

Paul D. Converse Award Nomination

Tom and I have been nominated for the Paul D. Converse Award for our outstanding contributions to marketing scholarship.  https://uiuc.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3xTS80D2PimXqHa

Two of our contributions were acknowledged – our JM theory paper on flow in online environments (843 ISI citations/2838 Google Scholar citations) and our Marketing Science paper testing the theory (453 ISI citations/1261 Google Scholar…

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Added by Donna L. Hoffman on November 8, 2011 at 9:00am — No Comments

Beyond Facebook: Marketing Strategies for a Post-Social Media World

Tom and I recently presented some of our new ideas on what's in store in the post-social media world at the MSI Berkeley Conference on Marketing Communications in a Digital World.

One thing we talked about is the idea that “reality is no longer ‘real.’ We want digital to be real.…

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Added by Donna L. Hoffman on October 18, 2011 at 2:32pm — No Comments

Does Yahoo! Have a Future?

#w2s

Ross Levinsohn, Yahoo! EVP of Americas says their goal is to be the premiere digital company creating really rich premium experiences for consumers on their platform. They run 13 million different variations of their home page every day and hope they can serve the right ads in the right programming context. Time will tell if this is a big opportunity or an idea whose time has come and gone.  

 

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on October 17, 2011 at 4:07pm — 1 Comment

Web 2.0 Summit: Sean Parker and Spotify

#w2s. John Battle asked Sean Parker if Spotify is his chance to get napster right? Yes. Sean says it's a chance to finish what he started, creating a frictionless tier of service that enables music-sharing. It lets consumers select the music that best meets their needs and disintermediates the gatekeepers with the right product experience. Sean argued that it took the outright collapse of the music business as we know it to finally convince them to do the deals. No hints about Airtime, his…

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Added by Donna L. Hoffman on October 17, 2011 at 2:41pm — No Comments

Web 2.0 Summit Starts Today

Tom and I are here at the Web 2.0 summit in SF. This year the focus is on the data frame - examined from a distinctly mobile, social, local perspective. We're looking forward to a great three days! More as it unfolds. You can follow the event at web2.summit.com

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on October 17, 2011 at 1:09pm — No Comments

The Future of Search

Tom Novak and I participated in the video "The Future of Search" when we were on sabbatical at USC last fall.  It features Len Kleinrock, UCLA professor and inventor of packet switching, me and Tom, and other experts, discussing the evolution of online search. Check it out!



The Future of Search from…

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Added by Donna L. Hoffman on May 14, 2011 at 4:45pm — 3 Comments

UCR Sloan Center Postdoc for 2011-2012

UCR Sloan Center Postdoctoral Scholar in Marketing 2011-2012

The A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Riverside invites applications for one or two positions as Postdoctoral Scholar in marketing. The postdoctoral scholars will work with Professors Donna Hoffman and Tom Novak on funded research addressing the impact of social media on consumer behavior and well-being. The scholars will also have the opportunity to develop new, related…

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Added by Donna L. Hoffman on January 17, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Issue of Journal of Interactive Marketing on Social Media

CALL FOR PAPERS



Journal of Interactive Marketing Special Issue

Social Media: Issues and Challenges

Submission deadline: March 15, 2011

Special Issue Co-Editors

Donna L. Hoffman (donna.hoffman@ucr.edu) and Thomas P. Novak (tom.novak@ucr.edu)

University of California, Riverside

The Journal of Interactive Marketing announces a call for papers on topics related to the marketing issues and… Continue

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on October 12, 2010 at 12:00pm — No Comments

Can You Measure the ROI of Your Social Media Marketing?

Our managerial piece on social media strategy came out today in Sloan Management Review! Download the pdf: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/articles/2010/fall/52105/can-you-measure-the-roi-of-your-social-media-marketing/

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on September 25, 2010 at 5:00pm — No Comments

Web 2.0 for B2B

Last summer I wrote an article for the McKinsey Quarterly outlining the key issues managers need to think about as they develop social media strategy and summarizing our LEAD model. After that article appeared I got a lot of requests for a piece that would specifically address how our LEAD model applies given the unique challenges B2B managers face. I put together this… Continue

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on April 29, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

"Flow Online: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects" Recognized as One of Most Cited Papers

Our recent Journal of Interactive Marketing paper summarizing and synthesizing the research on the flow construct in online environments was just cited by Thomson Reuters' Essential Science Indicators as one of most cited papers in the past two years in the entire field of Economics and Business! (pdf)

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on November 6, 2009 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Internet Indispensability, Online Social Capital, and Consumer Well-Being

Hoffman, D.L. (2010), Draft of chapter to appear in the section “Technological Fronts” in Transformative Consumer Research for Personal and Collective Well Being: Reviews and Frontiers , Eds David Mick, Simone Pettigrew, Connie Pechmann, and Julie Ozanne. Download pdf.



In the last several years, researchers interested in the… Continue

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on October 6, 2009 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

Managing Beyond Web 2.0

In a recent piece I wrote for the McKinsey Quarterly, I argue that companies should prepare now for the day when Web 2.0 morphs into Web 3.0.

Let me know what you think.

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on August 26, 2009 at 11:30am — 1 Comment

ReTweet: A Digital Meditation on the Power of Twitter

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on August 23, 2009 at 11:30am — No Comments

Congrats to our Latest eLab eXchange winners - beckyjomcd and richleutz22!

Congrats to richleutz22 - winner of the Streaming Video tournament!



eLab eXchange members did an excellent job predicting the web traffic to both Fox Interactive and YouTube. The overall prediction for Fox Interactive was within 1% of the actual growth!



However, despite the growth in traffic to Fox and YouTube, Hulu… Continue

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on August 10, 2009 at 4:26pm — 2 Comments

An Open Letter to UC Alumni and Friends From the UC

"A Time of Peril for the University We All Love"



July 10, 2009: At the corner of 13th and Franklin Streets in downtown Oakland, a worn bronze plaque hangs on the wall of a two-story parking garage. Easy to miss, state Historical Marker No. 45 identifies the spot where, 140 years ago, a California miracle began. Here the University of California spent its infancy, occupying a two-story Victorian that had housed one of the state’s first colleges. In 1873 the… Continue

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on July 15, 2009 at 10:00am — No Comments

eLab eXchange BlackBerry App World Prediction Market Now Open!

How will the launch of BlackBerry App World affect the price of RIM stock? Try your hand at judging the outcome at the eLab eXchange.



With Blackberry market share on the rise, Research in Motion is set to launch the BlackBerry App Store, their application store for BlackBerry handsets. One catch, they just won't say when.



Despite a 7.2%… Continue

Added by Donna L. Hoffman on March 31, 2009 at 6:00pm — No Comments

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