Three Steps to Add Social Technologies to Your Site

| MCM staff

Nearly 20% of social consumers are now using social networks as their core navigation tool. Rather than using search engines or content hubs such as Microsoft or Yahoo, these consumers are looking for content within social networks and clicking from there. Here’s what that trend means for e-commerce.

Elfing Himself: Q&A With Office Max’s Bob Thacker

| Tim Parry

Bob Thacker, the senior vice president-marketing and advertising at Office Max, has elfed himself again. The number of visitors to ElfYourself.com dropped last year, but Thacker says engagement by those visitors rose, which is part of the reason ElfYourself.com has returned for 2009.