If I had a nickel (ok, maybe a quarter) for every time someone said to me, “Yeah, Twitter is interesting, but I don’t see the marketing value in it,” I would be quite well off.  Well, here I have an outstanding example of a business using Twitter to its benefit-Kogi Korean Barbeque.

This is a mobile restaurant based in southern California that announces its location by tweeting.   Yes, they deliver a good product, but they add to the mix by making the meal an adventure, because you have to find them.  This creates a type of scarcity, which we know from Robert Cialdini, author of Influence: Science and Practice that can make a product seem even more valuable to us.  In addition, they have used this new marketing format to drum up lots of MPR.  They have been featured on the Food Network, you can be one of their 50,000 plus followers on Twitter, read over 1200 overwhelmingly positive reviews on Yelp, and even read more about their next venture in the Wall Street Journal.

This, my friends, is Twitter done right.

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Ping! 10/16/2009
 
Ok, I know I may be a little late to the party on this one, but I just started using Ping.  I am finding it to me a great way to broadcast a status update to all of my social media platforms.  Yes, I know, you can do a lot of the same with Twitter, but this just seems more user-friendly to me.  Plus it updates LinkedIn easily.
 
Find the killer 10/14/2009
 
 Dexter takes interactive viral video one step beyond the "Elf Yourself" model.  I found this when one of my students, Heather Waber, sent me a link.  Pay attention to the evidence bag at the end of the clip.
 
 
Thanks to the most creative Creative Director I know, Bill Childs (Morning Call/Tribune) for sharing this.