It’s football season again and the smack talk is already flying around the DMA offices.  Having never been enchanted by a game that I wasn’t actually participating in, it’s become quite a psychological study (one of many) for me.  Divisions.  Drafts.  Records.  Rivals. Overtimes. Bowls.  Tailgating parties.  Ah…food, now that actually sounds interesting.

I looked up Tailgate Party on Wikipedia just to see what I could learn about this social activity that has almost become a sport of its own, and I actually found a section dedicated specifically to Tailgate Fare: (more…)

In the marketing world, we have watched a lot of change over that last five years.  Facebook has grown from a meager 58 million users at the end of 2007 to over 901 million monthly active users today.  In 2007 the average number of tweets per day was 5,000 vs. 400 million tweets in June 2012.  And as exciting as this growth has been, there has been one other change that has rocked our world and that is the availability of low-cost Content Management Systems (CMS). (more…)

Inspired by our friends at Klondike Brands and their co-promotion with Meatless Monday, we decided to ditch the meat and spotlight FRESH alternatives in this edition of Office Eats.  Bountiful herb harvests and Sunset Campari’s got us thinking “bruschetta”, but we weren’t gonna settle for just the traditional version. Each of us raided our home cupboards and fridges and contributed two items, which resulted in a massive pile of gluttonous glory. It wasn’t long before our creative wheels started turning and amid a chorus of chopping, roasting, spreading and crunching, we ended up with lots of out-of-this-world apps that we will definitely make again.  Check out some of our crew’s favorites below. (more…)