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gordonandfrank.ca

Published February 6, 2006

Bell’s new mascots – two talking beavers named Frank and Gordon – have an eponymous web site – frankandgordon.ca.
I’m glad to see that the folks working on the site heeded One Degree’s recent advice and allow people to drop the "www" and still get to the site.
I also really like that they registered the .com version of the domain but still use the .ca in the ads to make it clear this is a Canadian thing.

Frankandgordon

Unfortunately they didn’t read an older One Degree post called How To Add Spell-check To Your Domain Names (go read it, I’ll wait). Now there might be some obvious typo domains that they could have registered (and they may have for that matter – I didn’t check them all), but I know they missed a really big and obvious problem with that domain.
Imagine this scenario which is close but not quite what Bell’s marketers imagined happening:

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Being A Good Marketer In A Post-Cluetrain World

Published January 24, 2006

Tara Hunt
One Degree Contributor and “Riya’s”:http://www.riya.com/ chief instigator Tara Hunt has written a great post on “Marketing in the post-Cluetrain era”:http://www.horsepigcow.com/2006/01/marketing-in-post-cluetrain-era.html. If you are at all struggling with what this whole “markets are conversations”:http://www.cluetrain.com/ thing really looks like in action you should read this.

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Election 2006 and Social Media – The Liberals

Published January 20, 2006

Be sure to check out all five articles in this series:

Finally we review the Liberal Party of Canada and its use of social media. As the current party in power but with a minority government (and a scandalized one at that), they have a unique challenge in getting their message out to a jaded and weary Canadian public. Will they take advantage of social media to ensure that their support is shored-up and ready for the election? Or will they see their ruling party status as sufficient and ignore the power of the digital conversation?

Ndpiconzoomlj OK, before we even get to the Liberals, hot off the press, the NDP has blog badges and MSN icons! These were not there a couple of days ago. And then my NDP article was published. Who says one vote, one voice in the wilderness, doesn’t make a difference? Right, on to the Liberals …

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