Julie Murphy, President of Sage Communications, has taken on an additional title. Murphy, shown above, reports that "after many years of volunteering for Women in Technology (WIT) - Washington, D.C. Metro Area, I can’t wait to step into the role of WIT president for...
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Significant number of digital marketing and communications professionals in the D.C. area surveyed believe Threads will be a “Twitter killer”
A decade ago, Twitter rose to prominence by casting itself as a “global town square,” states The Washington Post, a space "where anyone could reach millions of people overnight. The platform was pivotal in facilitating large social movements, such as the Arab Spring...
Threads app, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, racks up 10 million users within first seven hours after launch
The Threads app, Meta's alternative to Twitter, racked up 10 million users within the first seven hours after it launched, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. According to Business Insider, Zuckerberg briefly returned to Twitter for the first time in a decade, sharing a...
Fast Company features Design Army campaign crafted entirely from AI
In the world of design and branding, reports Fast Company, "so many projects utilizing AI tend to be more novelty than novel: Think Coca-Cola’s “Create Real Magic” campaign, or, say, Heinz’s “Draw Ketchup” project. As with any tech advancement, the gimmick phase...
ChatGPT use projected to grow nearly 900% this year
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and ChatGPT in particular will see massive growth this year, reports Marketing Daily. Insider Intelligence forecasts that use will skyrocket 882% this year to 61.5 million -- up from 6.3 million in 2022. While growth...
AI will be top spending priority for many technology officers over the next year
AI will be the No. 1 spending priority for 47% of technology officers over the next year, according to a study by the CNBC Technology Executive Council reports Email Marketing Daily. At 21%, AI budgets are more than double the second-biggest spending area in tech:...
AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content states Financial Times
The world’s biggest tech companies are in talks with leading media outlets to strike landmark deals over the use of news content to train artificial intelligence technology, reports the Financial Times. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Adobe have met news executives in...
Marketing and social media content writers in “first wave” being replaced with tools such as chatbots, states WaPo
When ChatGPT came out last November, Olivia Lipkin, a 25-year-old copywriter in San Francisco, didn’t think too much about it. Then articles about how to use the chatbot on the job began appearing on internal Slack groups at the tech start-up where she worked as the...
WaPo announces AI Taskforce and AI Hub
"AI presents a significant opportunity to support the work of our journalists and enable us to better serve our readers," wrote Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan in a memo on The Post’s next steps in AI innovation. The rest of Ryan's email follows: Although...
Bloomberg Government unveils comprehensive social media monitoring
Bloomberg Government (BGOV), a provider of news, data, and analytics for public affairs professionals, has launched a real-time social media monitoring and analysis feature. According to a release, as an enhancement to BGOV's news and alerts, "social media monitoring...
D.C.-area agency updates: Julie Murphy, The Knowing Agency and And Wiser
Julie Murphy, President of Sage Communications, has taken on an additional title. Murphy, shown above, reports that "after many years of volunteering for Women in Technology (WIT) - Washington, D.C. Metro Area, I can’t wait to step into the role of WIT president for...
Significant number of digital marketing and communications professionals in the D.C. area surveyed believe Threads will be a “Twitter killer”
A decade ago, Twitter rose to prominence by casting itself as a “global town square,” states The Washington Post, a space "where anyone could reach millions of people overnight. The platform was pivotal in facilitating large social movements, such as the Arab Spring...
Threads app, Meta’s alternative to Twitter, racks up 10 million users within first seven hours after launch
The Threads app, Meta's alternative to Twitter, racked up 10 million users within the first seven hours after it launched, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. According to Business Insider, Zuckerberg briefly returned to Twitter for the first time in a decade, sharing a...
Fast Company features Design Army campaign crafted entirely from AI
In the world of design and branding, reports Fast Company, "so many projects utilizing AI tend to be more novelty than novel: Think Coca-Cola’s “Create Real Magic” campaign, or, say, Heinz’s “Draw Ketchup” project. As with any tech advancement, the gimmick phase...
ChatGPT use projected to grow nearly 900% this year
The use of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) and ChatGPT in particular will see massive growth this year, reports Marketing Daily. Insider Intelligence forecasts that use will skyrocket 882% this year to 61.5 million -- up from 6.3 million in 2022. While growth...
AI will be top spending priority for many technology officers over the next year
AI will be the No. 1 spending priority for 47% of technology officers over the next year, according to a study by the CNBC Technology Executive Council reports Email Marketing Daily. At 21%, AI budgets are more than double the second-biggest spending area in tech:...
AI and media companies negotiate landmark deals over news content states Financial Times
The world’s biggest tech companies are in talks with leading media outlets to strike landmark deals over the use of news content to train artificial intelligence technology, reports the Financial Times. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Adobe have met news executives in...
Marketing and social media content writers in “first wave” being replaced with tools such as chatbots, states WaPo
When ChatGPT came out last November, Olivia Lipkin, a 25-year-old copywriter in San Francisco, didn’t think too much about it. Then articles about how to use the chatbot on the job began appearing on internal Slack groups at the tech start-up where she worked as the...
WaPo announces AI Taskforce and AI Hub
"AI presents a significant opportunity to support the work of our journalists and enable us to better serve our readers," wrote Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan in a memo on The Post’s next steps in AI innovation. The rest of Ryan's email follows: Although...
Bloomberg Government unveils comprehensive social media monitoring
Bloomberg Government (BGOV), a provider of news, data, and analytics for public affairs professionals, has launched a real-time social media monitoring and analysis feature. According to a release, as an enhancement to BGOV's news and alerts, "social media monitoring...
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