Summary: Beyond Social Media Show, Episode 104 Co-hosts B.L. Ochman & David Erickson discussed Amazon's underwhelming Prime Day; CNN's latest reporting failure; the latest nail in Flash's coffin; Starbucks jobs program; Facebook's Moneypenny digital assistant; Mark Cuban's Mark Tank fundraiser; the rebirth of Bloom County; Wilco's Star Wars giveaway; Rachel Platten's duo with a sick six-year old; plus great new apps and important stats and a lot of stuff in between. Worst Digital Cases * #AmazonPrimeDay Bashing Was Fun (But Sales Are Up) (http://www.whatsnextblog.com/amazonprimeday-bashing-was-fun-but-sales-are-up/) * CNN Mistakes Parody ISIS Flag For The Real Thing (http://www.maxwellcomms.com/the-idiocy-of-cnn-another-body-blow-for-journalism/) Best Digital Cases * Firefox Blocks Adobe Flash & Facebook Calls For Its Death (http://www.theverge.com/2015/7/14/8957177/mozilla-blocks-flash-as-facebook-security-chief-calls-for-its-death) * Starbucks 100,000 Opportunities Initiative (http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/13/business/starbucks-and-other-corporations-to-announce-plan-to-curb-unemployment-of-young-people.html) * Facebook's Moneypenny Shopping Assistant (http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-messenger-moneypenny-digital-assistant-2015-7) * Mark Cuban's Mark Tank Fundraiser (https://www.chideo.com/chideo/mark-tank) * Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County (http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/13/422545636/) * Wilco Gives Away New Album (http://yahoonewsdigest-us.tumblr.com/post/124316644134/alt-band-wilco-delivers-surprise-star-wars-album) * Rachel Platten Sings Fight Song With 6-Year Old Fan Battling Cancer (http://www.creativepr.com/basilica-block-party-highlights/) Shiny New Stuff * Readz (http://www.readz.com/) * 6 Apps For Watermarking Your Photos Online (http://readwrite.com/2014/01/13/watermark-apps-online-photos) * NameChanger (http://mrrsoftware.com/namechanger/) - Batch file renaming software * Quartz Charts (http://atlas.qz.com/) - Embeddable charts that were used in Quartz stories Projects * BL's AdAge column: Seven Steps for Handling Twitter #Hashtag Screwups (http://goo.gl/sDHl7O) * David's blog post: 4 Tips For Naming A Brand In The Internet Age (http://www.creativepr.com/tips-on-naming-a-brand/) Beyond Social Media Show is now on iTunes & Stitcher! We'd be wildly appreciative if you would give us a review: * iTunes (http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/itunes) * Stitcher (http://beyondsocialmediashow.com/stitcher) The Daily Numbers * Facebook & Twitter As News Sources (http://trends.e-strategyblog.com/2015/07/14/facebook-twitter-as-news-sources/25341) BEYOND SOCIAL MEDIA HOSTS David Erickson * David Erickson on Google Plus (http://plus.google.com/+DavidErickson) * @derickson (http://twitter.com/derickson) * @TheDailyNumbers (http://twitter.com/thedailynumbers) * e-Strategy Content Marketing Blog (http://e-StrategyBlog.com/) * e-Strategy Trends (http://Trends.e-StrategyBlog.com/) * Success @ Creative PR (http://creativepr.com/blog) * eStrategy YouTube - Marketing Videos (http://youtube.com/estrategy) B.L. Ochman * BL Ochman on Google Plus (https://plus.google.com/u/0/+BLOchman/) * Maximum-Plus.com - Online Event Production & Coaching for Google+ Success (http://maximum-plus.com) * @WhatsNext (http://twitter.com/whatsnext) * What's Next Blog (http://WhatsNextBlog.com/) * Whats Next Blog on YouTube (http://youtube.com/whatsnextblog) Audio Version Of This Episode
