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• Will The Real Social Business Experts Please Stand Up?

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  David Armano

  7 Feb 2012 | 10:23 am

  Stop what you're doing and check out this thread (on Google Plus of all places) started by Francine Hardaway. She started it off with a simple question. "Who are the best experts in social business?"What followed was a robust discussion on what social business is, isn't and who's driving the agenda forward in the space both in thought and action. If you're interested in the emerging definition of social business (aka the convergence of enterprise 2.0 and social media) I highly recommend you taking a look. Some of my favorite thoughts:"the thread that social business is not the same as social…

• Groupon's First Earnings Call Missed the Mark, But It May Not Matter

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  8 Feb 2012 | 9:28 pm

  Today in its quarterly earnings call, Groupon reported that it did not meet fourth quarter expectations. The company posted a $43 million loss, or $0.08 cents per share. Despite the loss, Groupon's revenue in the fourth quarter 2011 grew 194% to $506.5 million, up from $172.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. In fact, the fourth quarter 2011 was the company's first quarter of operating profitability since it opening international operations in the second quarter of 2010. This brings everyone back to the same question: Is the daily deals model a real, legitimate business, or is it just a…

• Amber Mac's 60-Second Social Media Video Tip - Don't Check Me In on Facebook!: http://t.co/eW7pNCUx via @youtube

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  8 Feb 2012 | 1:59 pm

  Amber Mac Amber Mac's 60-Second Social Media Video Tip - Don't Check Me In on Facebook!: http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @youtube 12 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like Eranga de Silva liked this

• RT @ceara_red: @jmacofearth can we get a jump on that and put "Louis Vuitton Condoms" AWAY from trending in houston?

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  8 Feb 2012 | 9:02 pm

  John McElhenney RT @ceara_red: @jmacofearth can we get a jump on that and put "Louis Vuitton Condoms" AWAY from trending in houston? 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Fixing Pinterest in One Slide – Improving the Usability of the Fastest Growing Site in Social Media

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  jmacofearth

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:43 pm

  Simply put, the user would like to continue down the path of the pinboard and not have to return to the masterboard over and over. It is our hope that Pinterest will consider our solution. And of course we are going to make a Pinboard of it.

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• Will The Real Social Business Experts Please Stand Up?

  David Armano

  7 Feb 2012 | 10:23 am

  Stop what you're doing and check out this thread (on Google Plus of all places) started by Francine Hardaway. She started it off with a simple question. "Who are the best experts in social business?"What followed was a robust discussion on what social business is, isn't and who's driving the agenda forward in the space both in thought and action. If you're interested in the emerging definition of social business (aka the convergence of enterprise 2.0 and social media) I highly recommend you taking a look. Some of my favorite thoughts:"the thread that social business is not the same as social…

• People, Places & Events

  David Armano

  3 Feb 2012 | 11:01 am

  A few significant events happening over the next few months—here's where I'll be: Chicago: February 6th, Social Media Club, An Interview With Richard EdelmanOur I'll be interviewing Richard Edelman our CEO in our new office space as we host the Chicago Social Media Club. We will be discussing this Year's Trust Barometer findings. If you can't make it to Chicago, we will be live streaming video the interview at 5:00 CST. London & New York: February 13-16, Social Media Week Our London office is hosting a panel titled "Social Business In Action". A topic I'm very passionate about—then…

• How To Be A Social Media Self-Righteous Jerk

  David Armano

  1 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm

  The scale above shows the many stages one has to go through in order to become a bona fide self-righteous jerk in social media. Still, there are many people who aspire to reach this peak, but fall short in executing against it. Given this observation, I thought it would be worthwhile to piece together a few best practices which will ensure your status as a social media self-righteous jerk (or SMSRJ). In no particular order: 1. Join The Klout GestapoAll social media SMSRJ's know that Klout is simply evil incarnate and requires a organized force to take on this evil axis of influence wherever…

• Launching a Social Command Center (Without The Center)

  David Armano

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am

  "Social command centers" are all the rage today and it's not without some merit. Many organizations now find themselves in a real-time business environment where news travels faster than sound, and information is set free. As a result, some forward thinking companies have put "monitoring" in place either in-house or in combination with partners. This isn't enough. And to make matters worse, I've seen companies make the classic mistake of buying a tool BEFORE putting any thought into the design that goes into effective monitoring and response, forgetting the 3P's (People, Process, Platforms).

• Trust Shifts From Institutions To Individuals

  David Armano

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:44 pm

  Today I had the opportunity to present to academics and industry experts from the international poultry industry (you can listen to a re-cap via a short podcast from "Agwired" here). During the presentation I was able to share some results from the recently released 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer, in which the overarching theme is a general skepticism toward institutions such as government and big business with signs of hope when it comes to empowered individuals. A Person Like YourselfIn last year's study, it was the expert and even the analyst who enjoyed some degree of trust from the public…

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• Groupon's First Earnings Call Missed the Mark, But It May Not Matter

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:28 pm

  Today in its quarterly earnings call, Groupon reported that it did not meet fourth quarter expectations. The company posted a $43 million loss, or $0.08 cents per share. Despite the loss, Groupon's revenue in the fourth quarter 2011 grew 194% to $506.5 million, up from $172.2 million in the fourth quarter of 2010. In fact, the fourth quarter 2011 was the company's first quarter of operating profitability since it opening international operations in the second quarter of 2010. This brings everyone back to the same question: Is the daily deals model a real, legitimate business, or is it just a…

• Daily Wrap: January's List of Apps You Need to See and more

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:00 pm

  Dan Rowinski rounds up the best apps, in our opinion, of January 2012. This and more in today's Daily Wrap. Sometimes it's difficult to catch everything that hits tech media in a day, so we wrap up some of the most talked about stories. We give you a daily recap of what you missed in the ReadWriteWeb Community, including a link to some of the most popular discussions in our offsite communities on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ as well. Sponsor New iPhone, iPad and Android Apps for January 2012 In what is surely a labor of love, Dan Rowinski combs through the mass of apps released…

• Stop Saying "Finally"

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:50 pm

  FIIIINALLY! Google released a Chrome beta for Android! GODDDDD. What took them so long? All the Ice Cream Sandwich users have been waiting, like, FOREVER! Finally, Tweetbot for iPad came out. I've only been asking them for, like, EIGHT MONTHS! Jeez. Apple fiiiinally released iTunes Match after a whole month, and it didn't even work right! Listen to how this sounds. How do we, the tech bloggers, get away with headlines like this? Where do users get off complaining impatiently about updates to a service that costs them $2.99? Or a free service? Let's have a reality check. Remember how awesome…

• 10 Ways to Win Over Writers

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:00 pm

  As a PR person, product developer, CEO or whatever, you're probably more interested in getting noticed by the media than developing a relationship with a particular writer. That's one way to go about it. Then there's that old-fashioned "building a relationship with a real person not a robot" idea. You know, treating people like people and taking the time to get to know them. Oh right, yeah, forgot about that. Writers, like artists, are sensitive to ideas and people. But not every writer will get you or your product - and in the tech world as in any world, each writer has their own…

• Nginx Continues Growth, Adds Commercial Offerings

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:30 pm

  According to the Netcraft Web Server Survey for February 2012, Nginx was "the only server to experience a non-negligible market share increase this month" by picking up 0.27 percentage points. Good news for the upstart Web server, just as the brand-new company behind Nginx takes the wraps off its commercial packages. Nginx has had quite the growth spurt over the past year. In February of last year Nginx had 7.57% of the market, or about 21 million domains hosted with Nginx. Microsoft had 20.04%, or about 57 million. Apache was at 60.10%, with more than 171 million domains. Sponsor…

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• Amber Mac's 60-Second Social Media Video Tip - Don't Check Me In on Facebook!: http://t.co/eW7pNCUx via @youtube

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  8 Feb 2012 | 1:59 pm

  Amber Mac Amber Mac's 60-Second Social Media Video Tip - Don't Check Me In on Facebook!: http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @youtube 12 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like Eranga de Silva liked this

• Amber Mac's 60-Second Social Media Tip - Don't Check Me In!

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  8 Feb 2012 | 1:52 pm

  Amber Mac Amber Mac's 60-Second Social Media Tip - Don't Check Me In! - http://www.youtube.com/watch... 12 hours ago from YouTube - Comment - Like

• Great @strombo interview with @shephardm on "Decade of Fear" http://t.co/ByEn28MH via @youtube

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  8 Feb 2012 | 1:17 pm

  Amber Mac Great @strombo interview with @shephardm on "Decade of Fear" http://www.youtube.com/watch... via @youtube 12 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @Bell_LetsTalk: Feb 8 is #BellLetsTalk day. Help end the stigma. For every RT today, Bell gives 5¢ to #MentalHealth http://t.co/jSRasd88

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  8 Feb 2012 | 11:09 am

  Amber Mac RT @Bell_LetsTalk: Feb 8 is #BellLetsTalk day. Help end the stigma. For every RT today, Bell gives 5¢ to #MentalHealth http://www.bell.ca/letstalk 15 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @CBCPEI: P.E.I. population growth highest in Atlantic Canada http://t.co/ZpsirQBq

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  8 Feb 2012 | 10:19 am

  Amber Mac RT @CBCPEI: P.E.I. population growth highest in Atlantic Canada http://www.cbc.ca/news... 15 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

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• RT @ceara_red: @jmacofearth can we get a jump on that and put "Louis Vuitton Condoms" AWAY from trending in houston?

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  8 Feb 2012 | 9:02 pm

  John McElhenney RT @ceara_red: @jmacofearth can we get a jump on that and put "Louis Vuitton Condoms" AWAY from trending in houston? 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @alyssaroyse: Post Divorce Trust Puzzle: how, and who, do you learn to trust again? http://t.co/fznZ9ECF

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:56 pm

  John McElhenney RT @alyssaroyse: Post Divorce Trust Puzzle: how, and who, do you learn to trust again? http://datingmommies.wordpress.com/2011... 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @alyssaroyse: Like the TEDx talk on Sexual Shame? Take the survey! http://t.co/PRwTo7W4 Plz share, the more the merrier!

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:56 pm

  John McElhenney RT @alyssaroyse: Like the TEDx talk on Sexual Shame? Take the survey! http://t.co/PRwTo7W4 Plz share, the more the merrier! 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Tell Obama to Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto http://t.co/fmO1oY9x #signon

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:55 pm

  John McElhenney Tell Obama to Cease FDA Ties to Monsanto http://signon.org/sign... #signon 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• http://t.co/IC5z7Jm1 What is shameful about sex? TED TALK.

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:52 pm

  John McElhenney http://pinterest.com/pin... What is shameful about sex? TED TALK. 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

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• Fixing Pinterest in One Slide – Improving the Usability of the Fastest Growing Site in Social Media

  jmacofearth

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:43 pm

  Simply put, the user would like to continue down the path of the pinboard and not have to return to the masterboard over and over. It is our hope that Pinterest will consider our solution. And of course we are going to make a Pinboard of it.

• Online Collaborator's Toolkit: The Sharing Tools You Need to Web It Up!

  jmacofearth

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:43 pm

  With these tools you can begin to weave together rally points both on the web and within things like business plans and even financial forms. To collaborate effectively you have to get the technology out of the way. These best-of-breed tools can eliminate a lot of the momentum killers.

• Taking Twitter to the MAX: New Twitter Tags Could Help Sort Through the Noise

  jmacofearth

  7 Feb 2012 | 9:08 am

  What if Twitter introduced a whole new range of tags for your Tweets? Twitter should create some new tagging characters? The NEW Twitter Tags.

• Love, Valentine's Day Marketing, and Computers: Dell vs. Apple Marketing

  jmacofearth

  6 Feb 2012 | 9:17 am

  Both companies are driven by the bottom line, of course. Dell believes you should love them back for their discounted products. Apple believes you love their products and you should give them to someone else you love.

• Just Click It; superbowl, komen, more Pinterest, SEO missteps, inbound marketing

  jmacofearth

  6 Feb 2012 | 8:39 am

  The Super Bowl(tm) has come and gone. And Mr. Brady did not add to his ring collection. It was a fairly well-played game. And the advertisers cannot be happier about that. Even the 4th quarter buyers got their audience numbers, if not their money's worth. Let's look at the links that will keep you on [...]

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• Nice work on the new @foursquare Explore for mobile. Just reminded me to go to a bar in our hood that I've been meaning to check out

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  8 Feb 2012 | 6:58 pm

  Max Gladwell Nice work on the new @foursquare Explore for mobile. Just reminded me to go to a bar in our hood that I've been meaning to check out 7 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• I'm at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® (1312 Third Street Promenade, Arizona Ave, Santa Monica) http://t.co/umSfrify

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  8 Feb 2012 | 4:01 pm

  Max Gladwell I'm at The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® (1312 Third Street Promenade, Arizona Ave, Santa Monica) https://foursquare.com/maxglad... 10 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• I'm at Apple Store (1248 Third Street Promenade, at Arizona Ave., Santa Monica) w/ 6 others http://t.co/dd3nfjDf

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  8 Feb 2012 | 3:49 pm

  Max Gladwell I'm at Apple Store (1248 Third Street Promenade, at Arizona Ave., Santa Monica) w/ 6 others https://foursquare.com/maxglad... 10 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Mayor in da house (@ Jack N' Jill's) http://t.co/nnwltN0w

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  8 Feb 2012 | 1:17 pm

  Max Gladwell Mayor in da house (@ Jack N' Jill's) https://foursquare.com/maxglad... 12 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Wait, is Santorum going to win something? That's just wonderful. Keep it going GOP

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  7 Feb 2012 | 9:55 pm

  Max Gladwell Wait, is Santorum going to win something? That's just wonderful. Keep it going GOP Tuesday from Twitter - Comment - Like

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• Girl Scout Cookies and Dayquil. The diet of champions. http://t.co/mbUqR4C5

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  8 Feb 2012 | 12:09 pm

  Adam Ostrow Girl Scout Cookies and Dayquil. The diet of champions. http://twitpic.com/8hcrk5 14 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Excited to be hiring a bizdev coordinator @Mashable! We have some awesome stuff in the pipeline. Apply: http://t.co/szxmh7eQ

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  7 Feb 2012 | 7:57 am

  Adam Ostrow Excited to be hiring a bizdev coordinator @Mashable! We have some awesome stuff in the pipeline. Apply: http://mashable.theresumator.com/apply... Tuesday from Twitter - Comment - Like

• NYT's @BrianStelter on the live video trend and how all media cos are starting to look the same - http://t.co/5pBAeuZU

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  6 Feb 2012 | 8:16 am

  Adam Ostrow NYT's @BrianStelter on the live video trend and how all media cos are starting to look the same - http://www.nytimes.com/2012... Monday from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Easier to find a Clippers jersey than Pats in NYC right now http://t.co/xfd3TR17

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  2 Feb 2012 | 4:36 pm

  Adam Ostrow Easier to find a Clippers jersey than Pats in NYC right now http://twitpic.com/8exobf February 2 from Twitter - Comment - Like

• No Patriots gear?? Come on (@ Sports Authority) http://t.co/ywc7QMz7

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• Throw Away the Maps

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  6 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  People judge us by the path they’ve seen us walk before. They can’t anticipate our future steps. We, ourselves, look to how things have been, what seems to be the lay of the land, without realizing that the maps are not the territory. Want to succeed at work? Then don’t try to do your job. Instead, work towards something larger, more meaningful, and something that blends your convictions internally with your best ability to help others externally. Want to create something new? Then throw away the old, or maybe join two disparate old things together into something new. The…

• The Next Social Networks

  ceb

  5 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  The rage in social networks right now is Pinterest, partly because it’s probably the first social network that has a much higher adoption rate by females than males, and partly because it’s an interesting concept: somewhere between visual social bookmarking and scrapbooking. What also might not be immediately obvious is that it’s just “easier” to interact there. In that way, Pinterest has something in common with Instagram, which is community around photos. What I’m interested in, though, is Gentlemint, which I keep calling “Pinterest for…

• Learn From Adele – Build Your Platform

  ceb

  3 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  Jacq and I just watched Adele Live At The Royal Albert Hall (amazon affiliate link), and though every song was just wonderfully done, I found myself fascinated by what Adele was doing in between each song. Because even though most people would be interested in hearing her belt out her amazing repertoire of hits, what I took away from the performance was Adele’s real magical ability: the ability to resonate with her audience. What Adele Could Teach You About Impact I’m writing something about this right now for my upcoming book with Julien Smith, but I had to share some of the…

• Rob Gokee is a Musical Wizard

  ceb

  2 Feb 2012 | 8:05 am

  I had such a great experience working with award winning musical composer Rob Gokee. We did some musical work together, and the process was so amazing. Rob helped me create my theme song for Shhh! The Secret Show. So anyhow, he and I sat down to do an interview, and it’s a bit long, but it’s totally worth it. We talk about what collaboration feels like at a distance, what it takes to get music like this made for your own show, and a lot more. Rob’s a hero to me, and has been part of the community for a while. I was so fortunate to have worked with him. Can’t see the…

• Build Your Platform – Start

  ceb

  30 Jan 2012 | 1:30 am

  The following is part ONE of a series called Build Your Platform. If you find it interesting, please consider subscribing for free to get the rest of the series. This post is long. You might want to bookmark it for later. The age of social media oversaturation is upon us. People are declaring Twitter bankruptcy to go along with their email bankruptcy. They cite not wanting to start on yet another social network as their reason for not getting more involved with Google+. And just as soon as you start getting into Pinterest, you hear about Path, but wait: there’s Gentlemint, which is…

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• Decisions

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  8 Feb 2012 | 4:07 pm

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• What can $100.5 million do? Ask @Microsoft employees who contributed to over 18,000 nonprofits http://t.co/euEgiA1G #msftgiving #charity

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:51 am

  Beth Kanter What can $100.5 million do? Ask @Microsoft employees who contributed to over 18,000 nonprofits http://3blmedia.com/theCSRf... #msftgiving #charity 17 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• What does monitoring your brand on social media channels really mean?

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:49 am

  Beth Kanter What does monitoring your brand on social media channels really mean? - http://www.bethkanter.org/listeni... 17 hours ago from Beth’s Blog - Comment - Like

• Join me @MDGislason @JeanneBellCP @sobyronic @jdeancoffey and more! CompassPoint #WebinarWeek 2/13-17 http://t.co/M6l5zV0u #nonprofit

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  8 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am

  Beth Kanter Join me @MDGislason @JeanneBellCP @sobyronic @jdeancoffey and more! CompassPoint #WebinarWeek 2/13-17 http://www.compasspoint.org/webinar... #nonprofit yesterday from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Al-Fanar

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  7 Feb 2012 | 9:10 pm

  Beth Kanter Al-Fanar - http://www.flickr.com/photos... Tuesday from Flickr favorites - Comment - Like

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• A working formula for Trust

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  8 Feb 2012 | 10:32 pm

  Brian Solis A working formula for Trust - http://www.flickr.com/photos... 3 hours ago from Flickr - Comment - Like

• UserVoice Celebrates Its One Millionth Helpdesk Ticket

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  8 Feb 2012 | 9:53 pm

  Brian Solis UserVoice Celebrates Its One Millionth Helpdesk Ticket - http://bub.blicio.us/uservoi... 4 hours ago from Bubblicious - Comment - Like

• Jones-Dilworth Launches Totem To Give Companies A Real Press Page

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  8 Feb 2012 | 6:23 pm

  Brian Solis Jones-Dilworth Launches Totem To Give Companies A Real Press Page - http://bub.blicio.us/jones-d... 7 hours ago from Bubblicious - Comment - Like

• LAUNCH Raises Over $250k In Prizes For Startups At The LAUNCH Festival

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  8 Feb 2012 | 3:55 pm

  Brian Solis LAUNCH Raises Over $250k In Prizes For Startups At The LAUNCH Festival - http://bub.blicio.us/launch-... 10 hours ago from Bubblicious - Comment - Like

• Techmeme’s New Event Calendar Lets You Keep Track of Tech Happenings

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  8 Feb 2012 | 2:10 pm

  Brian Solis Techmeme’s New Event Calendar Lets You Keep Track of Tech Happenings - http://bub.blicio.us/techmem... 12 hours ago from Bubblicious - Comment - Like

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• Are Geeks Approachable?

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  8 Feb 2012 | 9:44 pm

  Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ Are Geeks Approachable? - http://www.youtube.com/watch... 4 hours ago from YouTube - Comment - Like

• LEGO Justin Bieber

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  8 Feb 2012 | 7:27 pm

  Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ LEGO Justin Bieber - http://www.flickr.com/photos... 6 hours ago from Flickr - Comment - Like

• What is Your Time Worth?

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  8 Feb 2012 | 6:47 pm

  Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ What is Your Time Worth? - http://www.youtube.com/watch... 7 hours ago from YouTube - Comment - Like

• Free Home Software

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• Have You Used the Windows Problem Steps Recorder

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  8 Feb 2012 | 6:17 pm

  Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ Have You Used the Windows Problem Steps Recorder - http://www.youtube.com/watch... 7 hours ago from YouTube - Comment - Like

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• .@YaronGalai I disagree. No service explicitly says that from the beginning & no one signs up for these services to be sold.

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:23 pm

  Corvida .@YaronGalai I disagree. No service explicitly says that from the beginning & no one signs up for these services to be sold. 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @YaronGalai: Reminder to all those upset at Path: If you aren't paying for a service, then you aren't the customer… you're the product being sold.

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  8 Feb 2012 | 8:19 pm

  Corvida RT @YaronGalai: Reminder to all those upset at Path: If you aren't paying for a service, then you aren't the customer… you're the product being sold. 5 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• To developers: Avoid making too many things "tappable" when creating an iPhone app. It gets in the way. cc @tweetbot http://t.co/drvruIzS

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  8 Feb 2012 | 4:47 pm

  Corvida To developers: Avoid making too many things "tappable" when creating an iPhone app. It gets in the way. cc @tweetbot http://twitter.com/corvida... 9 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @KateGardiner: RT @sciencegeekgirl: OMG, Radiolab in WNYC is hiring: admin assistant, producers. http://t.co/ClUWL2DV #bestjobsinuniverse

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  8 Feb 2012 | 4:42 pm

  Corvida RT @KateGardiner: RT @sciencegeekgirl: OMG, Radiolab in WNYC is hiring: admin assistant, producers. http://www.wnyc.org/careers... #bestjobsinuniverse 9 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Despite what we want to think, privacy is a privilege not a right.

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  8 Feb 2012 | 2:50 pm

  Corvida Despite what we want to think, privacy is a privilege not a right. 11 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

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• Nintendo and Converse collaborate on an amazing sneaker http://t.co/oUnIOmZy

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  9 Feb 2012 | 1:40 am

  Guy Kawasaki Nintendo and Converse collaborate on an amazing sneaker http://holykaw.alltop.com/nintend... 6 minutes ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Valentine's Day cards for geeks http://t.co/k7VRZVzY

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  9 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  Guy Kawasaki Valentine's Day cards for geeks http://holykaw.alltop.com/valenti... 16 minutes ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• As gas booms, calls for hydrofracking rules http://t.co/gOmz8QPO

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  9 Feb 2012 | 1:20 am

  Guy Kawasaki As gas booms, calls for hydrofracking rules http://holykaw.alltop.com/1000186... 26 minutes ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Endangered whales stressed by noisy ships http://t.co/Hv9AlUX6

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  9 Feb 2012 | 1:15 am

  Guy Kawasaki Endangered whales stressed by noisy ships http://holykaw.alltop.com/endange... 31 minutes ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Customer loyalty: What it is and why it's important [infographic] http://t.co/uiERzbGA

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  9 Feb 2012 | 1:05 am

  Guy Kawasaki Customer loyalty: What it is and why it's important [infographic] http://holykaw.alltop.com/custome... 41 minutes ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

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• Media taught us that Pirates look like Cap'n Jack Sparrow. Yet today's pirates look like this: http://t.co/1OafqAE9

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  8 Feb 2012 | 6:27 pm

  Jeremiah Owyang Media taught us that Pirates look like Cap'n Jack Sparrow. Yet today's pirates look like this: http://gizmodo.com/5877987... 7 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Put a bird on it. #portlandia http://t.co/hfeyZsy0

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  8 Feb 2012 | 5:23 pm

  Jeremiah Owyang Put a bird on it. #portlandia http://twitter.com/jowyang... 8 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• RT @SocialFlow: Introducing the Optimized Publisher http://t.co/nyTyjeZo

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  8 Feb 2012 | 4:51 pm

  Jeremiah Owyang RT @SocialFlow: Introducing the Optimized Publisher http://blog.socialflow.com/post... 9 hours ago from Twitter - Comment - Like

• Trend: we're seeing more vendor briefings position as "performance marketing" or "social optimization" than ever before. Seen this too?

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• Biggest Threat to Email Marketing? Social Media and SMS (Data) http://t.co/78lLq8DH

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• Bacon Wrapped Shrimp #foodspotting #cfm2012

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  Leo Laporte Triangulation 39: Gina Tripani 4 hours ago from Radio Leo - Comment - Like Ivan Usher liked this Hosts: Leo Laporte and Tom Merritt This Week in Google host Gina Tripani comes on the show to talk all about, open source programming, days at lifehacker, is code poetry or poetry code? And much more. Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/tri. We invite you to read, add to, and amend our show notes. Thanks to Cachefly for the bandwidth for this show. Running time: 00:56:37 - Leo Laporte

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• We just launched a new product, Seesmic Ping http://t.co/Ui7VTyAk

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• HUD Google Glasses are real and coming soon http://t.co/kn9jpAow

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• RT @ForbesTech: Why Would Anyone Buy Facebook? http://t.co/zwqvFi2c

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• RT @HackerNewsYC: With 8.7% market share, Apple has 75% of cell phone profits http://t.co/HoGkWGWi

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• Dice.com: Louis Gray on Google and Job Hunting

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• Real Valley Stories: The Unfinished Booth

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  Louis Gray Real Valley Stories: The Unfinished Booth - http://blog.louisgray.com/2012... February 1 from louisgray.com - Comment - Like Stephen McBotts and Anne Bouey liked this Stressful! - Stephen McBotts I was the "trade show guy" at the startup I worked for, so I totally understand what you're talking about. Ask me sometime about working the trade show that started on September 11th, 2001. - Brian Johns

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• Check out the latest tech industry jobs posted to the ReadWriteWeb Job Board -- http://t.co/DcY7DMW2 #jobs

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• Groupon's First Earnings Call Missed the Mark, But It May Not Matter http://t.co/Rd5sJRnr

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• Daily Wrap: January's List of Apps You Need to See and more http://t.co/EWkyJMI2

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• Hippie Gap, Bay Area’s First Whipped Cream Supply Delivery Service

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• Meme & Pepe = Bebe, Comedian Will Franken’s New One Man Show

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• I just RSVP'ed to Aloha #PubCon Paradise on Feb 14. Join us @ http://t.co/xyARh7Df #HIPubCon

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• gigaom: RSS dashboard company Netvibes acquired by Dassault Systèmes http://t.co/F1Nb3CyM

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  8 Feb 2012 | 11:34 pm

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• parislemon: Another night, another "AirPlay is magic" moment. I'm laughing at a video on iPad. @sarahlane asks why I'm laughing. Boom, it's on our TV.

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  Robert Scoble parislemon: Another night, another "AirPlay is magic" moment. I'm laughing at a video on iPad. @sarahlane asks why I'm laughing. Boom, it's on our TV. - http://twitter.com/parisle... 4 hours ago from Twitter / Favorites from... - Comment - Like

• Ross: Techmeme events is helpful, and a shrewd and well timed move by @gaberivera http://t.co/9vWATzmx

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• davewiner: Don't break stories on Twitter, BBC journalists told. (Good to see mainstream media wising up.). http://t.co/GlgVYC3S

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  8 Feb 2012 | 9:27 pm

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• davewiner: I think it's cool that while my own articles never appear on techmeme, I'm often driving the stories that do appear there.

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• Google Chrome Update Brings Faster Browsing

  Stan Schroeder

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:12 am

  The new stable release of Google’s web browser Chrome brings several improvements, most importantly faster browsing and more protection from malicious downloads. From now on, when you start typing in Chrome’s address box (or omnibox, as Google calls it), as soon as Chrome autocompletes the URL you’re likely to visit, it will prerender the page, making your overall browsing experience faster. As far as security goes, Chrome now does checks on executable files you’ve downloaded from the net. It matches the executables against a whitelist – a list of programs known…

• ‘Bachelor’ Contestant Courtney Gets Auto-Tuned [VIDEO]

  Samantha Murphy

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:19 pm

  Fans of The Bachelor are all too familiar with this season’s over-the-top contestant Courtney, who makes snide comments at the camera and likes to take off her bikini top. Now, a video has popped up on YouTube that has turned some of her signature phrases — from “Winning!” to “I do modeling” — into a catchy Auto-Tune clip. The contestants are vying for a rose from winemaker Ben, and Courtney has rubbed many of them the wrong way, and this video shows why. This is not the first time YouTube users have turned pop culture moments into Auto-Tuned videos.

• Facebook Talks About Social Games and Mobile Apps for 2012

  Kate Freeman

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:09 pm

  Facebook revealed its roadmap for social games and mobile apps for the rest of the year at the Inside Social Apps 2012 conference on Wednesday in San Francisco — and it’s good news for app developers. Want to create an app for Facebook’s Open Graph? The mobile space presents a huge opportunity to create cross-platform social games, said Carl Sjogreen, director of product management at Facebook, who spoke to a packed conference center filled with IT insiders about Facebook’s projections for the mobile social gaming and app space for this year. “You sort of had to…

• What Digital Non-Profits Can Learn From Companies Like Google

  Daniel Atwood

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:46 pm

  Daniel Atwood works with organizations in the social sector to craft meaningful experiences for customers and constituents, and to find innovative product, campaign and messaging ideas in unexpected places. We live in a world where new digital products are solving problems daily — from managing our finances to remembering the groceries. Often, they’re solving problems we didn’t know we had, like the need to connect several times a day in 140 characters or less. Occasionally, they’re creating new problems (but that’s a topic for another conversation). What…

• Comment and Highlight on Websites with commentto

  Alissa Skelton

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:30 pm

  The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: commentto Quick Pitch: Comment anywhere. Genius Idea: Commentto is a browser add-on service that allows users to highlight, bookmark, comment, save and share bookmarks and excerpts on websites. Do you ever want to add extra knowledge to a news story or other content on the web? Well, browser add-on commentto lets you comment on anything you want. Commentto allows users to highlight…

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• Hacker News vs. Google+

  Robert Scoble

  5 Feb 2012 | 10:20 am

  I might as well have titled this “Hacker News vs Marketers.” Or “Hacker News vs Bloggers.” Or “jerks vs nice people.” But I never participate in Hacker News for a few reasons and I just was faced with these reasons again when I read the responses there to my blog post yesterday. 1. Programmers often have an attitude of “I can code, you can’t, so I am defacto better than you.” This often comes out in Hacker News comments. 2. Programmers love to bash people anonymously and then, in real life, they will come begging for PR for their companies…

• It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web

  Robert Scoble

  4 Feb 2012 | 5:02 pm

  The date was January 3, 2008. Facebook had kicked me off for running a script to try to save the common web. See, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very simple things: 1. It grabbed all my friends names. 2. It grabbed all their phone numbers. 3. It grabbed all their email addresses. 4. It gave me a simple CSV file with all that data so I could bring them back to Google, or Microsoft, or anywhere else I wanted to put them. Facebook’s answer was predictable. They shut…

• HTML 5 pushback in San Francisco? Best mobile app designers say yes

  Robert Scoble

  1 Feb 2012 | 3:39 pm

  The new Path? The one that won a Crunchie last night for great design? It’s not done in HTML 5. This morning I saw something new coming soon from Storify. Not done in HTML 5. This morning I visited Foodspotting, which just shipped hot new apps on iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Not done in HTML 5. More and more I’m hearing that designers and developers are ignoring HTML 5, especially for the high end of apps. Why? Well, Path’s founders told me it just isn’t possible to build a great user interface, the way they did it in HTML 5. Storify’s founder told me it…

• Why Facebook will be worth a half trillion by 2015: the mobile and open graph revenue it’s leaving on the table

  Robert Scoble

  1 Feb 2012 | 2:48 pm

  Lots of people think Facebook is overvalued, at about $100 billion (it just released their S1, announcing its IPO). But in talking with developers, like I did with Foodspotting’s founder, Alexa Andrzejewski, and in reading the S1 I see that Facebook has left most of the potential revenue on the table. That makes me think that the folks crying “overvalued” are nuts. Check that interview out, Foodspotting is one of the hottest San Francisco startups, aimed at people who are looking for better places to eat. Here it is from just this morning: See, Mark Zuckerberg is sandbagging…

• 2012 brings a pause in the disruption

  Robert Scoble

  31 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm

  OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m seeing a trend that is worth talking about. What is it? We’re seeing the end of one of the most disruptive ages in human history. I believe that we’re seeing a pause in the disruption. More on that a little later. Just think about all the changes humans have been asked to adopt in the past eight years. Most of us, back then, didn’t carry mobile computers in our pockets. If we did use tablets, like I did, they were expensive,…

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• Interview: How Kate Spade uses social to “live colorfully” (part 1)

  Meghan Meehan

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:22 pm

  Screenshot of the Kate Spade NY Pinterest I am delighted to congratulate one of our most successful clients, Kate Spade, on receiving two nominations in the Fashion 2.0 Awards. The awards honor the most innovative fashion brands for their leadership in developing online communities. It only takes one quick glance at Kate Spade’s Pinterest, Facebook, blog or Tumblr to see that this is a brand that truly loves sharing and receiving inspiration from their customers. I sat down with Johanna Murphy, VP eCommerce, and Marissa Kraxberger, Web Art Director, to learn more about Kate Spade’s social…

• Is the iPad the new cookbook?

  Andrew Dodenhoff

  3 Feb 2012 | 6:31 am

    The iPad, displaying the latest recipe creation on the kitchen counter, has replaced the traditional cookbook, provided one can avoid spilling spaghetti sauce or splattering it with oil.  Even just weeks after its release in April 2010, the New York Times saw it “poised to be an indispensable tool” for the kitchen.  And now, augmented reality apps like Blippar allow consumers to create interactive recipe books by scanning products while in the store aisle.  From the first release of Betty Crocker’s Big Red in 1950, and thousands since, recipe-sharing has gone digital and…

• Finally, augmented reality with real utility: meet Blippar

  Ian Greenleigh

  30 Jan 2012 | 7:39 am

    It seems like we’ve been talking about augmented reality for years now. It’s perpetually the next big thing in mobile, and is still at the very beginning of the technology adoption curve. Honestly, I had kind of checked out of the AR conversation—unfairly—after waiting for it to move from flashy demos to actual utility. AR’s utility has only been realized in a few apps, like Yelp’s Monocle, but the wow factor has overshadowed the practical applications of this technology. And then I met the guys from Blippar at CES. Blippar is an app from the UK that succeeds where most…

• Infographic: Millennials will change the way you sell

  Ian Greenleigh

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:01 am

  The “kids” who invented Facebook, never call when they can text, and don’t go out without their smartphones – they’re growing up. And soon, your business will depend on them. It’s true. By 2017, Millennials – those consumers now in their mid-teens to mid-30s – will have more spending power than any other generation. This generation, sometimes called “Generation Y,” shops differently than their predecessors. Millennials are hyper-social, constantly connected to social and endlessly curious about what others are doing, buying, and enjoying – strangers as well as friends.

• How patient voices are transforming healthcare

  Andrea Stout

  19 Jan 2012 | 8:17 am

  Almost everyone has spent time at a hospital. Whether you’re visiting an aging family member, welcoming a new addition into the family, or seeking a routine treatment, the service you receive leaves a lasting impression. No matter the outcome, patient satisfaction along with the quality of treatment has never been more important. We want to feel cared for. We want to be treated as an individual and respected as a patient. And we will share our experience with others. When selecting a health care provider, we often turn to our friends for recommendations, browse for information from…

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• How Social Media Is Changing the Agency/Client Relationship

  Matthew Grant

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:03 am

  This week on the Marketing Smarts Podcast, we discuss the evolving relationship between agencies and clients in the era of social media. Our guest is Glenn Engler, CEO of Digital Influence Group, a full-service digital agency with “social media at the core” of everything they do. The jumping-off point for our interview was that “social at the core” position. I wanted to know what that meant, and Glenn explained that, in a nutshell, it doesn’t make sense for an agency to offer “social” as a capability to its clients (as in, “We can also do…

• 5 Super Bowl XVLI Ads That Could Have Been Improved with a Mobile Call-to-Action

  Jeff Hasen

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:49 am

  Marketers buy into the Super Bowl telecast because it is the one time of the year when consumers are actually tuning in to commercials instead of muting the volume or fast-forwarding on their DVR. Here’s an old school recipe for success: One part new product or service offering upgrade A tear-inducing script (Tears can be a result of hilarity or a message that pulls at the heartstrings.) One teaspoon of a timely message (Think Valentine’s Day and/or tax season.) A cute animal or hot celebrity A tease in the media What’s missing in this day of 24/7 social, mobile consumers? Mobile calls…

• The Questions I Would Ask If I Were Marketing Your Business

  Jason Falls

  7 Feb 2012 | 6:53 am

  Advice from Internet marketing pundits is becoming like rock and roll was to a previous generation—it sounds like just a bunch of noise. Every blog-as-media-outlet, thought-leader platform, and social technology company’s website screams top 10 ways to do this and how-to posts to do that. And marketing professionals are left trying to filter the wheat from the chaff. The challenge marketing and brand managers face today, however, is not the basic how-tos of social media. They need less of the top five and top sevens and top 10s, and more content that marries the tactical to-dos…

• How to Deliver Your Sales Pitch, So Folks Listen

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  6 Feb 2012 | 6:56 am

  A guest post by Sarika Periwal of karmaCRM. Talking is the best tool of a salesperson. The only way that you have face to face of convincing a person to buy a specific product or service is by convincing them that they need it. This includes highlighting the benefits that the product brings to their life to make it simpler. It also means that to be a successful salesperson you need to have impeccable communication skills. However, this is not an inherent skill but one that has to be developed through practice. Here are a few things that you should keep in mind when you next deliver your sales…

• Free Friday: Marketing Smarts Podcasts

  Veronica Maria Jarski

  3 Feb 2012 | 10:00 am

  On this Free Friday, check out all the free Marketing Smarts podcasts organized neatly on one page for you. Hosted by MarketingProfs own Matt Grant, this weekly podcast features in-depth interviews with bright, engaging marketers. You’ll get insights and advice that will inspire you to pump up your marketing. Podcast topics include: Making the Most of a Mobile Moment (with Tim Hayden of 44Doors) Sally Hogshead and the $500 Cup of Coffee (with author Sally Hogshead) Have You Killed an Innovation Today? (with author and professor David Owen) Calculating the ROI of Social Media (with guest…

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• Altimeter Webinar Recording: State of Social Media Management Industry

  jeremiah_owyang

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:08 am

  This week, Altimeter (myself and Andrew Jones, researcher) hosted a webinar stemming from the the recent report on Social Media Proliferation, which you can download the full report on this blog post. In the embedded slides and video below, you’ll be able to get additional insights on how we perceive how this market will change in the coming years: We’ll see a vendor shakeout, although expect pure play vendors of each of the five uses cases to remain Consolidation will occur from market forces of email marketing, web analytics, CMS, marketing automation, brand monitoring, support…

• Hey Retailers! Refine That Mobile Marketing Strategy (Altimeter Report)

  jeremiah_owyang

  7 Feb 2012 | 10:01 am

  This latest Altimeter Report, by my colleague Industry Analyst Chris Silva, focuses on how companies must develop a mobile marketing strategy. It sources research from 26 ecosystem contributors including brands, agencies, and technology providers. To learn more about this report, please register for the webinar in which Chris will provide deeper knowledge from the report. This report is powerful in a few ways, it indicates the growth the in space, referencing that 45% of all mobile phone users are carrying a smart phone, and the growth rate for tablets is 23% annually. The report also…

• Five Trends: How Brands Integrated Social, Mobile, and Web into 2012 Super Bowl Advertisements

  jeremiah_owyang

  6 Feb 2012 | 8:39 am

  By Altimeter’s Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, and Zak Kirchner Findings: Five Trends Indicate Cross Channel Integration a Mainstay. Super Bowl ads, while only representing the nation’s largest consumer facing ads are a bellwether for advertising trends for the remainder of the year. To best understand these trends, Altimeter Group’s research team analyzed each Ad in real time, and conducted analysis to best understand the advertising trends for 2012.  Using Chicago as a middle ground, we reviewed all ads from kickoff till the game clock expired and found that trends out of 87…

• P&G Layoffs Signal Focus on Digital Industry

  jeremiah_owyang

  4 Feb 2012 | 10:49 am

  Last week was a tremendous change, giant marketer P&G announces 1600 layoffs as they reduce jobs in various roles, and instead shifting budget to digital marketing. The CEO, when pressed, indicates a strong focus on digital marketing, citing: “In the digital space, with things like Facebook and Google and others, we find that return on investment of the advertising when properly designed, when the big idea is there, can be much more efficient” -Bob McDonald, Chairman-CEO, P&G Yet this is a trend, as P&G had previously cut advertising spend on soap operas on traditional TV,…

• People on the Move in the Social Business Industry, Jan 31, 2011

  jeremiah_owyang

  31 Jan 2012 | 7:32 pm

  More jobs are coming in on the Web Strategy job board, see right nav, or see the full listing. In particular, AAA is hiring quite a few community managers, hear from their social strategist, Kim who’s listed below as getting promoted at the firm. Both the submissions on this job announcement board, as well as available social media positions at corporations continue to pour in. In this continued digest of job changes, I like to salute those that continue to join the industry in roles focused on social media, see the archives, which I’ve been tracking since Q4, 2007. People on…

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  Chris Pirillo

• What’s Your Price for Privacy?

  Chris Pirillo

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm

  Everyone’s got a price! Admit it. If Google offered you a certain dollar (or pound or euro or peso or whatever) amount to install a program that would track your Web surfing habits and other personal Internet traffic data to make it available to various advertisers, you’d do it. Some of... Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/

• Google Me All Night Long or Bing Me (But Don’t You Dare iTouch Me)!

  Chris Pirillo

  7 Feb 2012 | 4:35 pm

  There’s no such thing as an iTouch (at least not as a device that’s made by Apple or for family friendly purposes, I’m guessing)! For that matter, there’s no such thing as an iPod Touch. iPod touch (note the lowercase “t”) is the official Apple designation for... Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/

• LEGO Bells, Batman Smells, Catwoman Laid An Egg

  Chris Pirillo

  6 Feb 2012 | 4:42 pm

  Hey, look here! I’ve got LEGO superheroes. I’ve got LEGO supervillains. When the lights go out, all bets are off as to what I’m going to find when I return to the home office the next day after a full night of rest. Or, in my case, a few hours of rest. Insomnia is a [...] Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/

• A Locker Full of Gnomies

  Chris Pirillo

  3 Feb 2012 | 4:29 pm

  Fridays are always fun around LockerGnome World Headquarters. It closes off a week of steady TLDRs (and gives me a chance to recharge my batteries so we can do it all again next week), and Diana and I usually have our date night. This week, my parents are still in town, and my Dad was [...] Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/

• Would You Vote Through Social Media?

  Chris Pirillo

  2 Feb 2012 | 4:13 pm

  So it’s an election year, and it’s always fun to imagine ways we could use technology to move the democratic process along — at least beyond how we used it last time around. By the next one (provided the end-of-the-world nuts aren’t correct about this year’s dire... Read the full article on http://chris.pirillo.com/

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  GigaOM

• 3 key differences between Tesla and Fisker

  Katie Fehrenbacher

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:00 am

  Tesla Roadsters lined up outside of the Model S Beta Customer event This week two Valley-backed and government-supported electric car companies — Tesla and Fisker — have been taking two very different paths: one up and one down. As you read this, I’ll shortly be heading down to Tesla’s design studio to attend the company’s Model X electric SUV launch event. The Model X is the company’s third electric car — which will be one of the first electric SUVs ever in the world — and Tesla could start selling the first Model X cars by the end of 2013. By…

• RSS dashboard company Netvibes acquired by Dassault Systèmes

  Colleen Taylor

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:32 pm

  Netvibes, the San Francisco-based company that allows people and brands to create personalized RSS and social media feed dashboards, announced Wednesday evening it has been acquired by French enterprise software firm Dassault Systèmes. Financial terms of the deal are not being disclosed. Netvibes CEO Freddy Mini The deal makes sense on a few levels, as Netvibes’ engineering team is based in France (CEO Freddy Mini splits his time between France and California.) The company has also been around for a while — since 2005 — and in that time has grown from being a personal RSS…

• Report: Google gets Drive cloud storage ready to roll

  Barb Darrow

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:41 pm

  Google is finally about to big-foot its way into the cloud storage business, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. With its “Drive” or “G-drive” service — which has been talked about for some time — Google would take on some very popular consumer-oriented cloud storage entrants, notably Dropbox and Apple’s iCloud. People use these services as virtual closets for their digital photos, documents and music. Once their material is in the cloud, they can access it from many devices. According to the report, posted late Wednesday: The Google…

• Forget the People’s Choice Awards, we’ve got Twitter

  Derrick Harris

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:09 pm

  Who needs an awards show to tell us what movies and actors fans prefer when we have Twitter? In yet another partnership with the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, IBM is turning its skills in social-media sentiment analysis to Hollywood awards so the world can see which movies and stars are generating the most buzz on Twitter. IBM has done similar analyses of both the World Series and the Super Bowl, and although they’re no doubt part of a marketing effort to demonstrate its big data prowess, the projects are pretty fun and rather insightful. It’s new Senti-meter, which appears as…

• Is Ericsson rolling out 3G using someone else’s technology?

  Kevin Fitchard

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:09 pm

  When Ericsson bought Nortel’s wireless business in 2009 it instantly propelled itself to the top of the North American mobile infrastructure heap, largely because the deal exposed the Swedish vendor to the dominant network technology in the U.S., CDMA. But the CDMA portfolio Ericsson bought wasn’t entirely Nortel’s own. Rather than develop CDMA’s 3G component, EV-DO, internally, Nortel licensed the technology from radio specialist Airvana. Now Airvana is claiming that Ericsson is reneging on its licensing deal and is instead selling a “knock-off” version of its EV-DO technology to…

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   louisgray.com

• Dice.com: Louis Gray on Google and Job Hunting

  7 Feb 2012 | 10:53 am

  Last fall, shortly after I joined Google, Michelle Greenlee contacted me for a quick interview about the Google hiring experience, and what tech-savvy job seekers can do to leverage the influence of social media to influence hiring managers. The story was finally posted this morning.The biggest take-away is probably my last note in an answer to her final question: "The world is becoming social and the new world of business and hiring can find great candidates through how you present yourself online."See: Dice.com: Louis Gray on Google and Job Hunting/via My Google+ Profile.More:…

• 50 Things a +1 Can Mean

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:15 am

  A +1 is simple. It’s one of the easiest ways on the web to take an action that endorses the content and says you saw something. But it can mean many different things. That’s the beauty of +1. You can +1 things you like. You can +1 bad news. You can +1 things you love. You can +1 casual status updates or items that change the world.Often, we get asked what it means to +1. Here are some ideas. We’d love to see yours./via The Google+ Page (Which I maintain)1. A +1 can say you agree with the post.2. A +1 can say your photo is beautiful.3. A +1 can say your joke was funny.4. A +1 can mean…

• Two Numbers: 1 and 90 Million

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:10 am

  By now, you all have seen the dual bits of news today - first that Google+ has achieved 90 million users with at least one new feature every single day, over 1 million businesses and brand pages, and sign in of 60% daily, 80% weekly.Also, earlier today, Google was (for the 3rd time) named the best place to work by Fortune Magazine (see http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/best-companies/2012/snapshots/1.html). We're working on making Google+ the best place to be for you so you can be just as proud about these numbers and this news. To stay on top of all this great stuff,…

• Daria Musk Visits Google+ for Live Performance

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:08 am

  Last Monday, I had the great pleasure of meeting Daria Musk and interviewing her on stage, to learn more about her story and rise from relative obscurity to becoming a Google+ sensation. As I told the Google+ team, assembled in the private concert, in my introduction, Daria epitomizes the community here as well as anyone I know.She is fully invested in this platform, is tireless, upbeat, and to boot, is incredibly talented. I'd heard her sing in many a hangout, but to hear her sing live at Google was transformative. Nothing beats a live performance by an artist with passion, energy…

• 10 Great Ways to Get Discovered on Google+

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:04 am

  As social networks evolve, so to do your circles. Even in the few months since our launch, you’ve probably added a lot of people to your circles who you didn’t know before - people who share common interests, or came by recommendation of a trusted friend or expert. Some people have rocketed their way to high visibility, added to hundreds of thousands of circles, by virtue of their actions on Google+. So while I can’t promise you the big numbers, here are ten ways you can get found on Google+, and examples to boot.1. Embrace the Community While Doing Something Unique and Creative.Daria…

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• Brisk and Stars Wars Join Forces For BriskSaber Gaming App

  Corvida Raven

  13 Jan 2012 | 10:36 am

  You can now find Brisk Iced Tea in a galaxy both far far away and as close as your iPhone or Android device. I’m talking about the BriskSaber game that is making a splash in the App Store and Android Market. In preparation for Stars Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace in 3-D, Brisk joins forces with LucasFilms to put a modern and techie spin on classic Star Wars action and fun that’s hard to resist. Price: FreeDownload: iOS App Store | Android Marketplace Since its January 3rd debut, Brisksaber has amassed 520 reviews in the App Store rating it an incredible 4.5 star out of 5!

• The Next Generation RAZR: Motorola Droid RAZR Review

  Corvida Raven

  13 Jan 2012 | 7:26 am

  The Motorola RAZR was a mobile icon during my early teen years. Just about everyone I knew had one. It was surprisingly thin for a phone! The screen was impressive and it could do one thing very well that all of my friends love: transfer ringtones via bluetooth. Fast forward to today and the Motorola RAZR doesn’t compare to my iPhone 4. So, I was skeptical and intrigued when Motorola announced a successor; the Motorola Droid RAZR. With the help of Verizon’s 4G LTE network, could the Droid RAZR recapture the swagger and appeal of the original RAZR? The Look & Feel Though the…

• How To Get The New Facebook Timeline Look Right Now

  Corvida Raven

  16 Dec 2011 | 7:49 pm

  Facebook Timeline is a drastic departure from the currently tired look of your Facebook profile. Announced at Facebook’s F8 conference in October, don’t be too quick dismiss Facebook Timeline as yet another new redesign from Facebook. It’s a complete departure from Facebook’s past! If you’re not afraid of change, here’s how you can get Facebook Timeline right now. If you don’t want to wait, you can get Facebook Timeline right now by visiting: Facebook.com/Timeline. In the bottom right corner of the page, you’ll see a green button with the…

• The Life of an Instagrapher: GE, Jet Engines, and Instagram

  Corvida Raven

  9 Dec 2011 | 1:47 pm

  Are you a frequent Instagram user? Would you like a free trip to a world-class GE jet engine facility in the UK to take pictures and send them to Instagram? If you answered yes, then great because you only have 3 days left to enter GE’s Instagrapher contest to make this wish come true! “For our next Instagram photo shoot, we’re going to a world-class GE jet engine facility in the UK to capture some amazing technology. Help us decide who the photographer should be. Because it could be you.” Get your iPhones ready and load up Instagram to begin entering the contest. But…

• Finding Great Content on Twitter Gets Easier With #newnewTwitter Redesign

  Corvida Raven

  8 Dec 2011 | 7:00 pm

  Twitter’s got a brand new look and not just a tweak here and there. Trending as the #newnewTwitter, it’s a fresh with a simplified and streamlined design, most of the changes center around getting the best content as quickly as possible. The redesign doesn’t  stop at your desktop either. Twitter’s iPhone app, Android apps, and mobile website have received the new makeover too. Facebook, take notes! Readers, let’s take a look at what’s new, shall we? The new design may seem very different at first, but honestly it’s not. Mainly, a lot of things have…

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  Signal vs. Noise

• Behind the scenes: Reinventing our Default Profile Pictures

  Jamie

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:34 am

  Mister Default Here he is: our default profile picture. You may know him as “Generic Avatar”. He’s the picture you get when you create a new account and profile on Basecamp, Highrise, Backpack, and Campfire. Mr. Default is a standard guy. He’s found everywhere on the web (in variations): message boards, comments, activity streams. He forces everyone to look like him regardless of gender, race, and physicality. He’s also very boring. Time for a change People don’t usually have a picture on hand to change the default avatar. What happens is none of the…

• What's your answer?

  Jason F.

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:00 am

  “If a customer asked you why, how would you answer?” This is a question I’ve been asking a lot lately. Why could be “why does it work this way?” or “why can’t I do that?” or some variation on that theme. I think your answer to those questions is a great way to measure your product. Are you happy with your answers? Are they fair answers? Are they clear answers? Would you be happy with the answer if you were the one asking the question? The goal isn’t to get to “Yes” on every answer. The goal is to listen to your answer and ask…

• No framework needed

  Noah

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:42 am

  It goes without saying that we use Rails a lot here at 37signals. Often times, when we look at a problem, we turn to Rails or something similar, because when you have a high-performance precision screwdriver, everything starts to look like a finely engineered screw. Sometimes, what you really need is a big hammer, because what you’re looking at is a nail. Our public sites – sites like 37signals.com and basecamphq.com – are a perfect example of this. Let me tell you about our journey with these sites over the years, and how we’ve landed on a simple solution that boosted…

• SaaS: Change starts easy and then gets really hard

  Jason F.

  7 Feb 2012 | 12:58 pm

  Basecamp just turned 8 years old. Here’s the launch announcement right here on this blog back on February 5, 2004. That’s a long time ago. We’ve learned a ton since then. One of the most interesting lessons has been the increasing degree to which time influences change. When we first launched Basecamp, we could iterate rapidly. We were incredibly prolific those first few months. We launched a bunch of new stuff and made rapid improvement every few weeks. Eventually it plateaued and slowed down. Why is that? Part of it is because many of the improvements we wanted to make…

• Lessons from Moneyball: don't get left behind

  Noah

  6 Feb 2012 | 7:32 am

  I recently read and watched “Moneyball”, and enjoyed both greatly. It’s a great story in and of itself, but I also found it to be an interesting parallel to the state of the “web software” industry today. Moneyball starts in the week before the 2002 baseball draft, with a set of meetings that pit Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane against his team of scouts. The scouts’ primary mechanism of evaluating players was visual – did the guy look, walk, and talk like a major league baseball player? On the other hand, Billy, with his assistant Paul…

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  How to Change the World

• Raising Money: What Not to Say and What Not to Believe #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 10:46 am

  Over the past two weeks via my partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve provided templates of models for you to create enchanting PowerPoint pitches, Word business plans, and Excel financial models. They are all available for you to download from my SkyDrive account. I hope these documents and blog posts help you save a boatload of time and increase the quality of your efforts.I leave you with two sets of top ten lies: one of entrepreneurs and one of investors so that you know what not to say and what not to believe. Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs “Our projections are…

• Design a Sam Adams beer

  GuyKawasaki

  20 Jan 2012 | 8:24 am

  Now this is a fun project. I’m helping Sam Adams “tap” the knowledge of beer drinkers and crowd source its next brew. Join the party by getting the app and designing your beer: The final brew will be released in Austin in the first week of March. #sponsored

• How to Create an Enchanting Financial Forecast #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  17 Jan 2012 | 1:52 pm

  This is the third post in my Microsoft partnership, and it’s all about numbers. The topic is crafting your financial forecast to include in your pitch. Bill Reichert, my partner at Garage Technology Ventures, created an Excel model and wrote this blog post. There’s a lesson in this too: Get the best person for the job. His grasp of financial models and how to present them exceeds mine by two orders of magnitude. The Purpose of Financial Projections When it comes to financial projections, there are two types of entrepreneurs: first, the “visionary entrepreneur” who…

• How to Create an Enchanting Business Plan #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  12 Jan 2012 | 8:16 am

  Here is the second post in my series about planning, pitching, and launching a new business venture. In partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps, I’ve created a Word document that outlines a good business plan. It’s saved to my SkyDrive folder here. Feel free to download it and use it as inspiration. And if you’re working with a partner, you can use the free Word Web App to stay in sync. I provided the PowerPoint document before the Word document because a good business plan is an elaboration of a good pitch as opposed to a good pitch being a distillation of good business plan.

• How to Create an Enchanting Pitch #OfficeandGuyK

  GuyKawasaki

  9 Jan 2012 | 8:01 am

  Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts I’ll be doing as part of a partnership with Microsoft and Office Web Apps. Over the next two weeks, I’ll cover everything a budding entrepreneur needs to turn an idea into an enchanting investment opportunity—from the perfect pitch to a killer business plan to financial forecasts. I’m going to start with a little dissertation on creating effective PowerPoint pitches for your company. I embedded the sample deck for you to click through by using the PowerPoint Web App. When you’re ready to get started, you can download the…

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  Blonde 2.0's Blog

• My Interview with Robert Scoble at DLD 2012

  Ayelet Noff

  31 Jan 2012 | 9:06 am

  This year’s DLD conference in Munich Germany was great.  With all the amazing speakers and great networking opportunities, I barely had a minute to rest.  However, amid all the excitement, I was able to take a moment and sit down with my good friend and tech superstar, Robert Scoble.     Watch my interview with Robert where he discusses what he likes best about this year’s DLD conference.   Don’t miss Robert showing off his fancy new shirt!    

• Stop SOPA! Support SOBA!

  Jonah Balfour

  19 Jan 2012 | 6:53 am

  With the Internet revolt over SOPA and PIPA in full swing, we at Blonde 2.0 could not stand idly by and let this critical moment in the history of the Internet pass with adding our voice to those defending free expression on the web. We have decided to take action, and to that end we are responding to SOPA and PIPA with a proposed legislative initiative of our own: the Stop Online Boredom Act (SOBA). This is a new law that calls for harsh punishment for those responsible for mindless, boring content that is posted to the Internet. After all, if SOPA passes, everyone will be so terrified of…

• The Golden Age of Gaming Addiction

  Shahar Goldfinger

  17 Jan 2012 | 5:34 am

  How I feel about being a gamer in our society up until the past year can be summed up in 2 words:  It sucks. I started out gaming at the early age of 5, but soon enough most of my friends gamed in one form or another, it’s the most regular thing in the world, right? A kid playing around with videogames, back then it felt like the most natural thing in the world, but even then I felt like something was amiss.  I was always more dedicated, more emotional and more addicted (some would say) to gaming. My gaming addiction became clear around 11th grade.  It was obvious that gaming…

• A Wedding – Social Media Style

  Kevin Swaine

  5 Jan 2012 | 7:54 am

    In the time that I have been working in social media, I have seen how social media has been used to help launch a company, promote a product or even to help organize a protest. Last week I saw how social media directly impacted an event in my life by making the world that much smaller. This past Wednesday, I was lucky enough to marry the most incredible woman in the world, okay so you might think that I am a little biased but the facts are the facts! So a little background is that I come from Johannesburg, South Africa and she is from London in the UK so we have family and friends…

• Spend New Year’s Eve Partying with Your Facebook Buddies from Around the World on .Friends

  Ayelet Noff

  29 Dec 2011 | 8:55 am

  This post was originally posted on socialmedia.biz on December 28th. You and your friends from all over the world walk into a bar on New Year’s Eve. The music is great, the bartender is friendly, and you and all your friends are dressed up in your favorite outfits. Your friend from London decides to pick a different song from the jukebox, your friend from Brazil decides to listen to the band instead, while the buddy you just met from Istanbul decides to play a cool YouTube video on the wall of the bar. You head out to the dance floor, whip out some amazing dance moves that are…

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  Connection Agent

• Passion Matters

  Steve Woodruff

  7 Feb 2012 | 4:30 am

  When I think of Angela Maiers, I think of one word. Passion. She’s a passionate educator. A passionate blogger. And, this Tuesday night (Feb 7th) on LeadershipChat, Angela will be talking about a core passion of hers. #YouMatter. Simply put, YouMatter is Angela’s summary of a conviction deep in her DNA – that a sense of significance is central to our well-being and growth. Since it’s really not possible to replicate Angela’s passion in a second-hand blog post, I’d urge you to watch this video – or if you can’t afford the 20 minutes to watch,…

• Caribbean Connections

  Steve Woodruff

  6 Feb 2012 | 7:21 am

  Ever heard of Digicel? Yeah, me neither – until a few weeks ago. When my eyeballs were saturated with their branding. Upon landing in Haiti, I was surrounded, not only by a sea of people, but by an ocean of red Digicel signs. They are a company run by an Irish entrepreneur, who targeted Jamaica and other Caribbean islands (and has now expanded outward). You will look in vain to find much reference to AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint in Haiti. But you can hardly look anywhere without seeing Digicel branding. Day or night. Digicel painted on walls. Digicel T-shirts. Digicel sun-umbrellas…

• Out of my Comfort Zone: Haiti

  Steve Woodruff

  3 Feb 2012 | 3:47 am

  As many of you know, I recently went on a mission trip to Haiti (small team from my local church). My role was to help one of my long-time friends with a building project – topping off the walls of a partially-constructed church building and putting up a roof on it. The trip was an amazing privilege, and the whole adventure was WAY outside my comfort zone! Nonetheless, it was a fulfilling and eye-opening experience. I thought I’d share some of the pictures I took of the country, its people, and the project. Here is the photo set on Flickr. If you scroll through, you’ll see…

• Are You Getting Ahead?

  Steve Woodruff

  30 Jan 2012 | 5:14 pm

  This week on LeadershipChat (on Twitter, 8 pm ET Tuesday nights), we welcome Joel Garfinkle, author of the recent book Getting Ahead: three steps to take your career to the next level (Amazon link). This book introduces Joel’s PVI-model of advancing your career; (1) Actively promote yourself as an asset and valuable person inside the organization (perception), (2) Increase your visibility to gain others’ recognition and appreciation for your efforts and (3) Become a person of influence who makes key decisions inside the organization. Our focus during Tuesday’s chat will be on…

• Search My World with Google – so what?

  Steve Woodruff

  13 Jan 2012 | 4:39 am

  So, Google has now introduced a new feature in search, whereby you not only search the public web, but can view results from your Google+ network. Good on ‘em. I hope they keep experimenting, keep evolving. Some stuff Google has tried has failed; other approaches have taken off. Google’s DNA has this feature: no status quo. Push forward. This new feature  will stick if it provides long-term value. If not, they can just turn it off (and you do have a show/hide switch to toggle if you wish). People may be tempted to moan that Google is monkeying with their main “search”…

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  TheWayoftheWeb

• What brands need to learn about true fans

  Dan Thornton

  5 Feb 2012 | 11:57 am

  Are you watching the Super Bowl tonight between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants? I’ll be watching at least some of it, but my main interest in the NFL was in the in 90′s, watching Troy Aikman and the Dallas Cowboys in whatever coverage was available in the UK. By contrast, I was on the edge of my seat during the Ireland – Wales match in the Six Nations Rugby today. And [spoiler alert] being a passionate Ireland supporter (The two manifestations of my Irish ancestry are in rugby and whiskey), the end result was a bit of a kick in the teeth. Chatting with a…

• The book that inspired my career…

  Dan Thornton

  4 Feb 2012 | 8:50 am

  I don’t know about you, but I’ve always been fascinated by surfing. Something about the elegance of seeing someone balancing on a board floating over the forces of nature manages to be both inspiring and relaxing to watch. But despite a period of trying to conquer skateboarding, I knew I’d never be a surfer. Partly it was down to geography – Kent in England is not necessarily a hotbed of surfing talent. More importantly, I combined a lack of balance with a dislike of swimming. But around the age of 11 or so, I read the amazing Walking on Water by Andy Martin. Like me,…

• Failing to understand the social media economy?

  Dan Thornton

  3 Feb 2012 | 9:27 am

  This is a great example of how you can listen to someone talk about the way that social media, social business and engagement are all supposed to work, and yet miss the entire point when it comes to actually trying to interact. If you’re not familiar with Gary Vaynerchuk, it’s worth me pointing out there’s some strong language. It’s so often the case, particular with larger companies and the relentless need to show immediate ROI that even when someone understands the concept of earning what they want, that they succumb to the temptation of just diving straight in with…

• Why it doesn’t matter if not all user-created content is great…

  Dan Thornton

  23 Jan 2012 | 2:20 pm

  Youtube users are currently uploading an hour of content every second, or 60 hours every minute. Assuming 0.25% of all content being uploaded is great content, that’s 3.6 hours of amazing videos every day. That’s 25.2 hours of great content per week, with the average TV viewing in a UK household somewhere between 20 and 30 hours per week. Pretty amazing, and also why the follow-up attempts to enact laws such as SOPA and PIPA will occur with regularity in the U.S, and the influence of the U.S will be increasingly felt on every country around the world which might be encouraged or…

• How to kill a cultural icon…

  Dan Thornton

  22 Jan 2012 | 5:44 am

  There’s a classic Bill Hicks routine which states that as soon as you appear in a commercial for a product, you are removed from the artistic cannon forever. And I struggle to think of a time when applying that role would have caused me to miss out on something particularly great – although the age-old tradition of celebrities popping up in seemingly random adverts in countries like Japan mean they may be some examples. But what happens when the stars aren’t human, but characters in a story which has become immensely popular and adopted by millions around the world with…

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  Don't drink the koolaid

• What we’re reading this week: Pinterest

  Katie

  3 Feb 2012 | 9:32 am

  You may have heard a thing or two about Pinterest in the last few months. The social bookmarking site that allows brides, party planners, hoarders and marketers alike to collect and share things online is now making its way into the mainstream and causing businesses to pay attention to this oh-so-addicting thing we call pinning. I’ve read a number of blog posts within the past week contributing to my thoughts on why consumer marketers should quickly pay attention to Pinterest. Here are a few of the best reads: Pinterest Drives More Traffic Than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn Combined Zoe…

• Google – The Thread to Success in Tourism Search

  Indra

  30 Jan 2012 | 9:59 am

  Brett Barash, VP at Digital Edelman, presented some interesting statistics at the recent ONE Travel Conference in Orlando, Florida. It doesn’t come as much of a surprise that 66% of US leisure travelers use the Internet to research upcoming trips. But if this doesn’t convince every business that relies in any way on tourists for revenue that a relevant and compelling presence on the Internet is important to survival, I don’t know what will. What really caught my attention in his presentation was the life cycle of a travel seeker online. People seeking information about a…

• Coopertition and the State of US Travel Tourism

  Indra

  26 Jan 2012 | 9:26 am

  Last week I attended the ONE Travel Conference for Shopping, Dining and Cultural Tourism in Orlando. I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, but the speaker line up looked good and I thought the conference’s focus on shopping, dining and cultural heritage made sense; it certainly hit our agency’s sweet spot in consumer marketing. The women who co-presented the conference Rosemary McCormick, President of Shop America Alliance and Sheila Armstrong, Executive Director of U.S. Cultural & Heritage Tourism Marketing Council are a formidable pair with surprising energy, a…

• Ads from a Consumer’s Perspective

  Meredith

  18 Jan 2012 | 10:26 am

  I recently went to the San Diego Auto Show and it was awesome!  I remember my dad dragging me along to the Los Angeles Auto Shows as a kid.  Aside from the time I got to spend with him, I never had an interest in any of the cars or what was going on.  The San Diego Auto Show changed my mind. My car is 9 years old now and I’m starting to think – maybe I should get a new car?  I definitely have a couple of years left on my 2003 eclipse, if I want them.  But seeing all the new cars made me seriously think about making a purchase. As a person who has worked in media my entire life, and…

• 3 core advertising trends to watch in 2012

  Ryan

  12 Jan 2012 | 9:15 am

  Hello 2012. The year flew by fast didn’t it? Do you feel overwhelmed with all the information out there these days? Things are changing so quickly it’s hard to keep up, even for the super techno genius. Even though technology is evolving at light speed, what we really need to pay attention to is how to use these tools to best communicate with our target audiences. As marketers we need to understand the audiences we intend to interact with and how we can best achieve a valuable interaction. Technology will continue to evolve and offer us different avenues to communicate, for commerce, for…

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• hotdogsladies: @danielpunkass Daniel, you handle my ass pennies every day. Every. Day.

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  Online Marketing Blog

• Innovative Search Features Drive Engagement – Paul Vallez #OMS12

  Ashley Zeckman

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:30 am

  "Google taught us how to search." - Paul Vallez Paul Vallez admits that when he started at HP less than a year ago he had just come from Ask.com and was pretty cocky about what he knew.  Vallez also shares that he wasn’t very open to new ideas and wanted to step into his new position at a big brand and immediately demonstrate value. What was his approach? 75% Cocky 25% Open to new ideas In Vallez’s presentation he identified what he called “3 Key Learnings” that he shared with the audience for improving the way that your search strategy is implemented for…

• #Optimize This: Online Marketing Summit 2012 Presentation

  Lee Odden

  6 Feb 2012 | 7:21 am

  I’m headed to (hopefully) sunny San Diego today for the annual Online Marketing Summit conference where I’ll get to present on one of my favorite topics: Optimization. Of course, if you read Online Marketing Blog very often, you’ll know my definition of optimization is a bit different than traditional SEO.  My post last Thursday “Are You Optimized?” touched on this. The competition for attendance during the breakout sessions at OMS is really tough during the time slot I’m scheduled for. SAP, Wider Funnel and SAP are all presenting at the same time as…

• Online Marketing News: Facebook IPO, Harmonize with Google+, Pinterest Dominates Traffic

  Ashley Zeckman

  3 Feb 2012 | 4:55 am

  Facebook in Numbers: Prior to the IPO The big news in social media and business this week is Facebook’s new IPO.  This infographic from statista and creative commons shares some very interesting figures about Facebook, before it goes public. Highlights include: In 2012 Facebook is expected to reach: 90% of U.S. Social Network Users & 60% of Internet Users. Assuming a valuation of $100 billion, Facebook would be work 67 to 100x’s it’s estimated 2011 net income. The Social Media Buzz “How to Harmonize Google+ With Your Other Social Platforms”  Search Plus has placed even more…

• Essential Shifts in Online Marketing: Are You On Board? Are You Optimized?

  Lee Odden

  2 Feb 2012 | 7:21 am

  Is your company adaptable? Is your marketing optimized? I think most online marketers get the fact that marketing and communications on the web is a fast changing place and that most companies are structured to move at a slower pace than the digital world is evolving. Take for example, the notion of Search Engine Optimization (SEO). It’s been around for about 15 years or so and in just the past few months Google has made the most significant changes ever. Despite the crystal clear focus towards search integration with social, many companies and digital pundits are still skeptical about…

• Blogger Relations: Push or Pull? How to Get Bloggers to Mention Your Brand

  Lee Odden

  1 Feb 2012 | 9:38 am

  Is Your Blogger Relations Using Push & Pull PR Tactics? Yesterday digital PR maven Adam Vincenzini pinged me about a post he was researching on how brands could make it easier for bloggers to talk about them. It’s a great question because mentions and links from influential content sources are priceless for credibility, awareness and in particular, social SEO. This is a topic close to home because after 8 years of blogging here at Online Marketing Blog attracting hundreds of thousands of visitors, nearly 50k RSS subscribers, 13k blog Facebook Fans and 16k blog Twitter followers,…

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  Scobleizer

• Hacker News vs. Google+

  Robert Scoble

  5 Feb 2012 | 10:20 am

  I might as well have titled this “Hacker News vs Marketers.” Or “Hacker News vs Bloggers.” Or “jerks vs nice people.” But I never participate in Hacker News for a few reasons and I just was faced with these reasons again when I read the responses there to my blog post yesterday. 1. Programmers often have an attitude of “I can code, you can’t, so I am defacto better than you.” This often comes out in Hacker News comments. 2. Programmers love to bash people anonymously and then, in real life, they will come begging for PR for their companies…

• It’s too late for Dave Winer and John Battelle to save the common web

  Robert Scoble

  4 Feb 2012 | 5:02 pm

  The date was January 3, 2008. Facebook had kicked me off for running a script to try to save the common web. See, I worked with Plaxo to run a simple script. One that would have taken my contacts out of Facebook and put them back into the common web. The script did some very simple things: 1. It grabbed all my friends names. 2. It grabbed all their phone numbers. 3. It grabbed all their email addresses. 4. It gave me a simple CSV file with all that data so I could bring them back to Google, or Microsoft, or anywhere else I wanted to put them. Facebook’s answer was predictable. They shut…

• HTML 5 pushback in San Francisco? Best mobile app designers say yes

  Robert Scoble

  1 Feb 2012 | 3:39 pm

  The new Path? The one that won a Crunchie last night for great design? It’s not done in HTML 5. This morning I saw something new coming soon from Storify. Not done in HTML 5. This morning I visited Foodspotting, which just shipped hot new apps on iOS, Android, and Blackberry. Not done in HTML 5. More and more I’m hearing that designers and developers are ignoring HTML 5, especially for the high end of apps. Why? Well, Path’s founders told me it just isn’t possible to build a great user interface, the way they did it in HTML 5. Storify’s founder told me it…

• Why Facebook will be worth a half trillion by 2015: the mobile and open graph revenue it’s leaving on the table

  Robert Scoble

  1 Feb 2012 | 2:48 pm

  Lots of people think Facebook is overvalued, at about $100 billion (it just released their S1, announcing its IPO). But in talking with developers, like I did with Foodspotting’s founder, Alexa Andrzejewski, and in reading the S1 I see that Facebook has left most of the potential revenue on the table. That makes me think that the folks crying “overvalued” are nuts. Check that interview out, Foodspotting is one of the hottest San Francisco startups, aimed at people who are looking for better places to eat. Here it is from just this morning: See, Mark Zuckerberg is sandbagging…

• 2012 brings a pause in the disruption

  Robert Scoble

  31 Jan 2012 | 4:58 pm

  OK, I’ve been talking with hundreds of geeks from around the world this year at three conferences, CES, DLD, and World Economic Forum. I’m seeing a trend that is worth talking about. What is it? We’re seeing the end of one of the most disruptive ages in human history. I believe that we’re seeing a pause in the disruption. More on that a little later. Just think about all the changes humans have been asked to adopt in the past eight years. Most of us, back then, didn’t carry mobile computers in our pockets. If we did use tablets, like I did, they were expensive,…

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  Seth's Blog

• How do they know you're not a flake?

  Seth Godin

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:43 am

  Before your link gets clicked or your proposal gets read, a busy person is going to triage it to find out if it's even worth glancing at. Since everyone is now connected, the new permeability has created a deluge of noise, and just about everyone worth contacting is taking defensive measures. Do I know this person? Did someone I trust send them over? Where does she work? (Ideo? the FDA? The New York Times?) Has she won an award? Is she famous? Are there typos and is the design sloppy? Are they pestering me? Do I already follow this person online? Does music play when I visit the website? Will…

• Horizontal marketing isn't a new idea

  Seth Godin

  7 Feb 2012 | 2:09 am

  But it is the new reality for just about every organization. Vertical marketing means the marketer (the one with money) is in charge. Vertical marketing starts at the top and involves running ads, sending out direct mail and pushing hype through the media. Your money, your plans, your control. It might not work, but generally the worst outcome is that you will be ignored and need to spend more money. Horizonal marketing, on the other hand, means creating a remarkable product and story and setting it up to spread from person to person. It's out of your control, because all the interactions are…

• Who is your customer?

  Seth Godin

  6 Feb 2012 | 2:26 am

  Rule one: You can build a business on the foundation of great customer service. Rule two: The only way to do great customer service is to treat different customers differently. The question: Who is your customer? It's not obvious. Zappos is a classic customer service company, and their customer is the person who buys the shoes. Nike, on the other hand, doesn't care very much at all about the people who buy the shoes, or even the retailers. They care about the athletes (often famous) that wear the shoes, sometimes for money. They name buildings after these athletes, court them, erect…

• In search of a timid trapeze artist

  Seth Godin

  5 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am

  Good luck with that, there aren't any. If you hesitate when leaping from rope to another, you're not going to last very long. And this is at the heart of what makes innovation work in organizations, why industries die, and how painful it is to try to maintain the status quo while also participating in a revolution. Gather up as much speed as you can, find a path and let go. You can't get to the next rope if you're still holding on to this one.

• Will energy consumption stay private?

  Seth Godin

  4 Feb 2012 | 11:45 am

  It's clear that the consumption of energy has external effects that impact more than just the person who is paying for it. Geopolitical, health and economic issues come to the neighbors and nearby citizens of entities that are using a lot of power. It was always straightforward to see who was burning a lot of wood or drove a huge car. It's easy to see when a company has a huge smokestake belching carbon. What happens when sensors make it easy to see how efficient a machine is, how much of a resource is being consumed and how much exhaust is being spewed? What happens when Google maps shows…

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  kottke.org

• Updates on previous entries for Feb 8, 2012*

  Jason Kottke

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:11 pm

  More on iPhone address book privacy orig. from Feb 08, 2012 One athlete plays for your soul orig. from Feb 07, 2012 * Q: Wha? A: These previously published entries have been updated with new information in the last 24 hours. You can find past updates here. Tags: post updates

• More on iPhone address book privacy

  Jason Kottke

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:13 pm

  Yesterday, developer Arun Thampi noticed that the Path iPhone app uploads a user's address book to their server without asking the user first. And by address book, I mean all the phone numbers and addresses and email addresses of everyone in your phone's address book just gets sent off to Path. And not only that, Path stored that information on its server. To their credit, Path apologized and deleted the data from their server. But this is a larger problem than just Path. In a post from earlier today, Dustin Curtis reveals the dirty little secret of iPhone developers everywhere. It's not…

• Where's the social networking on Star Trek?

  Jason Kottke

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:25 pm

  Cat Valente remarks on the old-fashionedness on display in Star Trek DS9, particularly in regard to what the characters do and don't do with their free time, infinite bandwidth, extreme connectedness, and lack of scarcity. Nobody sits around and plays Farmville. Nobody gets embroiled in a flame war concerning the portrayal of Klingons in human vids or just sits and watches vids with their feet up. Nope. The brave men and women of the future read (super old) books, talk to each other face to face, and even in their VR fantasies practice for things they will have to do in real life or,…

• Those who think The Onion is real journalism

  Jason Kottke

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:19 am

  The Literally Unbelievable blog is collecting examples from Facebook of people who think stories from The Onion are real. (via ★swissmiss) Tags: The Onion   weblogs

• Self-deportation

  Jason Kottke

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:41 am

  The bulk of the Jan 27th episode of This American Life was about Alabama's tough new immigration laws. Last Summer, Alabama passed HB56, the most sweeping immigration bill in the country. It's an example of a strategy called "attrition through enforcement" or, more colloquially, "self-deportation" -- making life so hard on undocumented immigrants that they choose to leave the country. But as reporter Jack Hitt found, the new law has had lots of other unintended consequences. Tags: audio   legal

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  Logic+Emotion

• Will The Real Social Business Experts Please Stand Up?

  David Armano

  7 Feb 2012 | 10:23 am

  Stop what you're doing and check out this thread (on Google Plus of all places) started by Francine Hardaway. She started it off with a simple question. "Who are the best experts in social business?"What followed was a robust discussion on what social business is, isn't and who's driving the agenda forward in the space both in thought and action. If you're interested in the emerging definition of social business (aka the convergence of enterprise 2.0 and social media) I highly recommend you taking a look. Some of my favorite thoughts:"the thread that social business is not the same as social…

• People, Places & Events

  David Armano

  3 Feb 2012 | 11:01 am

  A few significant events happening over the next few months—here's where I'll be: Chicago: February 6th, Social Media Club, An Interview With Richard EdelmanOur I'll be interviewing Richard Edelman our CEO in our new office space as we host the Chicago Social Media Club. We will be discussing this Year's Trust Barometer findings. If you can't make it to Chicago, we will be live streaming video the interview at 5:00 CST. London & New York: February 13-16, Social Media Week Our London office is hosting a panel titled "Social Business In Action". A topic I'm very passionate about—then…

• How To Be A Social Media Self-Righteous Jerk

  David Armano

  1 Feb 2012 | 4:28 pm

  The scale above shows the many stages one has to go through in order to become a bona fide self-righteous jerk in social media. Still, there are many people who aspire to reach this peak, but fall short in executing against it. Given this observation, I thought it would be worthwhile to piece together a few best practices which will ensure your status as a social media self-righteous jerk (or SMSRJ). In no particular order: 1. Join The Klout GestapoAll social media SMSRJ's know that Klout is simply evil incarnate and requires a organized force to take on this evil axis of influence wherever…

• Launching a Social Command Center (Without The Center)

  David Armano

  27 Jan 2012 | 8:05 am

  "Social command centers" are all the rage today and it's not without some merit. Many organizations now find themselves in a real-time business environment where news travels faster than sound, and information is set free. As a result, some forward thinking companies have put "monitoring" in place either in-house or in combination with partners. This isn't enough. And to make matters worse, I've seen companies make the classic mistake of buying a tool BEFORE putting any thought into the design that goes into effective monitoring and response, forgetting the 3P's (People, Process, Platforms).

• Trust Shifts From Institutions To Individuals

  David Armano

  23 Jan 2012 | 9:44 pm

  Today I had the opportunity to present to academics and industry experts from the international poultry industry (you can listen to a re-cap via a short podcast from "Agwired" here). During the presentation I was able to share some results from the recently released 2012 Edelman Trust Barometer, in which the overarching theme is a general skepticism toward institutions such as government and big business with signs of hope when it comes to empowered individuals. A Person Like YourselfIn last year's study, it was the expert and even the analyst who enjoyed some degree of trust from the public…

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  Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing

• Altimeter Webinar Recording: State of Social Media Management Industry

  jeremiah_owyang

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:08 am

  This week, Altimeter (myself and Andrew Jones, researcher) hosted a webinar stemming from the the recent report on Social Media Proliferation, which you can download the full report on this blog post. In the embedded slides and video below, you’ll be able to get additional insights on how we perceive how this market will change in the coming years: We’ll see a vendor shakeout, although expect pure play vendors of each of the five uses cases to remain Consolidation will occur from market forces of email marketing, web analytics, CMS, marketing automation, brand monitoring, support…

• Hey Retailers! Refine That Mobile Marketing Strategy (Altimeter Report)

  jeremiah_owyang

  7 Feb 2012 | 10:01 am

  This latest Altimeter Report, by my colleague Industry Analyst Chris Silva, focuses on how companies must develop a mobile marketing strategy. It sources research from 26 ecosystem contributors including brands, agencies, and technology providers. To learn more about this report, please register for the webinar in which Chris will provide deeper knowledge from the report. This report is powerful in a few ways, it indicates the growth the in space, referencing that 45% of all mobile phone users are carrying a smart phone, and the growth rate for tablets is 23% annually. The report also…

• Five Trends: How Brands Integrated Social, Mobile, and Web into 2012 Super Bowl Advertisements

  jeremiah_owyang

  6 Feb 2012 | 8:39 am

  By Altimeter’s Jeremiah Owyang, Brian Solis, and Zak Kirchner Findings: Five Trends Indicate Cross Channel Integration a Mainstay. Super Bowl ads, while only representing the nation’s largest consumer facing ads are a bellwether for advertising trends for the remainder of the year. To best understand these trends, Altimeter Group’s research team analyzed each Ad in real time, and conducted analysis to best understand the advertising trends for 2012.  Using Chicago as a middle ground, we reviewed all ads from kickoff till the game clock expired and found that trends out of 87…

• P&G Layoffs Signal Focus on Digital Industry

  jeremiah_owyang

  4 Feb 2012 | 10:49 am

  Last week was a tremendous change, giant marketer P&G announces 1600 layoffs as they reduce jobs in various roles, and instead shifting budget to digital marketing. The CEO, when pressed, indicates a strong focus on digital marketing, citing: “In the digital space, with things like Facebook and Google and others, we find that return on investment of the advertising when properly designed, when the big idea is there, can be much more efficient” -Bob McDonald, Chairman-CEO, P&G Yet this is a trend, as P&G had previously cut advertising spend on soap operas on traditional TV,…

• People on the Move in the Social Business Industry, Jan 31, 2011

  jeremiah_owyang

  31 Jan 2012 | 7:32 pm

  More jobs are coming in on the Web Strategy job board, see right nav, or see the full listing. In particular, AAA is hiring quite a few community managers, hear from their social strategist, Kim who’s listed below as getting promoted at the firm. Both the submissions on this job announcement board, as well as available social media positions at corporations continue to pour in. In this continued digest of job changes, I like to salute those that continue to join the industry in roles focused on social media, see the archives, which I’ve been tracking since Q4, 2007. People on…

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  Doc Searls Weblog

• Live blogging Politics of the Internet

  Doc Searls

  25 Jan 2012 | 12:30 pm

  So I’m at Micah Sifry’s Politics of the Internet class at the Kennedy School, and risk live-blogging it (taxing my multitasking abilities…) Some questions in the midst of dialog between Micah (@Mlsif) and the class (#pol-int)… Was there a $trillion “internet dividend” over the old phone system, and was it a cost to the old system? Did the Internet have to happen? Is the IETF‘s “rough consensus and running code” still a prevailing ethos, or methodology? Is it an accident that the rough consensus above is so similar to the #Occupy methods?

• Surf’s up! Look north

  Doc Searls

  24 Jan 2012 | 2:44 pm

  According to this… … the Aurora is on. The Kp Index has hit 5, and a geomagnetic storm is on. Here’s today’s SpaceWeather on the matter. Follow the links there. Bear in mind that the aurora are curtains of light up to a thousand miles high. So if the auroral oval is pushed down over southern Canada (which these storms tend to do), it should still be visible far south across the United States. Current links: Northern Lights over the UK  metofficenews.wordpress.com) An Easy Guide To Observing Aurora  mbcalyn.wordpress.com) Epic Geomagnetic Storm Erupts :…

• 2025 in 2012

  Doc Searls

  23 Jan 2012 | 4:07 pm

  Marcel Bullinga is a Dutch futurist and author of Welcome to the Future Cloud. Today I got pointed on Twitter to a Q&A with Bullinga by Aaron Saenz at SingularityHub. Interesting stuff. An excerpt: SH: Welcome to the Future Cloud seems to be very supportive of intellectual property (IP) rights and digital rights managements (DRM). Are IP and DRM necessary to the development of a healthy future? MB: Yes and no. The trend is twofold. We will have ironclad ways to protect our data, our virtual sources and our identities. We will wrap our virtual belongings with what I call a Cloud Seal. A…

• PR’s problems, 20 years later

  Doc Searls

  22 Jan 2012 | 8:37 pm

  I was near the end of my career as a PR guy when I wrote the essay below for the January 1992 issue of Upside. Since then Upside has been erased. Some bits of it still persist on the Internet Archive, but nothing before 1996. But I did save my own draft of the piece, and put it up here, back in the mid-90s, where it has remained all but invisible. So I thought it would be fun to surface it now on the blog, on the 20th anniversary of its original publication. Here goes: THE PROBLEM WITH PR Toward a world beyond press releases and bogus news By Doc Searls There is no Pulitzer Prize for…

• Can’t lose, in a way

  Doc Searls

  22 Jan 2012 | 2:34 pm

  I grew up in New Jersey and New York, rooting for the Giants. (And, in the Namath era, the Jets too.) Then, after 20 years in North Carolina (mostly as a college basketball fan), I lived in the Bay Area for 25 years, and rooted for the 49ers there. One daughter lives in the Bay Area, and most of my wife’s huge family lives in the Bay Area, and most of them are hard-core for the Niners. We were out there a week ago and got some great hang time watching the Niners beat the Saints. However, I’ve worked and lived in New England for five and a half years now, and have been rooting for…

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  dooce® main feed

• "It's only time, it will go by"

  dooce

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:46 pm

  I've currently got a chunk of panic in my throat, but I can see the end of the day over there. Listen to this with me. by dooce in Daily© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published by Heather B. Armstrong for dooce.com as "It's only time, it will go by". This post cannot be republished without express written permission.

• Chuck, the bad influence

  dooce

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:13 pm

  "Want you tie them round MY neck." click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Chuck© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published by Heather B. Armstrong for dooce.com as Chuck, the bad influence. This post cannot be republished without express written permission.

• Compass

  dooce

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:23 am

  The scenery in Salt Lake is spectacular, yes, but it's also a built in navigation system. You always know which way is north because of your position next to the mountains. If that still confuses you, I will gladly never be a passenger in your car. click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Photo© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published by Heather B. Armstrong for dooce.com as Compass. This post cannot be republished without express written permission.

• Classy

  dooce

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:54 am

  This may be my favorite Cami ever. Sun-drenched perfection. Fur collar jacket: vintage (I REPEAT: VINTAGE) Dress & boots & necklace & sunglasses: thrifted Belt: H&M Purse: vintage Dooney & Bourke (You can find Cami here. Photos by Billy Concha.) click image above to see the photo on dooce.comby dooce in Daily Style© Armstrong Media, LLC. All rights reserved. Originally published by Heather B. Armstrong for dooce.com as Classy. This post cannot be republished without express written permission.

• Hair, day thirty

  dooce

  7 Feb 2012 | 2:35 pm

  "Do you see a light at the end of the tunnel?" That's the question almost everyone keeps asking me, and so far it's the one thing that doesn't make me cringe or want to cry or run outside and punch my fist in the ground. It's an innocent, heartfelt question that doesn't make any assumptions about what happened or is happening or who is to blame. Sometimes people send me advice and it is so colored by their own pain, pain that I honor and regard with reverence, but it wants to believe so much that isn't true about this. This thing that I'm living through. This thing that is full of details and…

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  Digital City Mechanics

• 24 Jan 2012 | 7:56 pm

  marccanter

  24 Jan 2012 | 7:56 pm

  Here’s the pitch Marc Canter gave in Kansas City recently for the Gigabit Challenge.  A Microsoft guy (writing for Silicon Prairie News) thought Marc was the best! Digital City Mechanics, Gigabit Challenge Finale from Curt McMillan on Vimeo.

• PolymerOhio program

  marccanter

  18 Oct 2011 | 9:37 pm

  PolymerOhio has contracted with Digital City Mechanics to develop multimedia case studies using an intern team that is trained by Digital City Mechanics.  These case studies will support PolymerOhio’s Polymer Portal which provides affordable access to expensive modeling and simulation applications and training in their use.

• Connecting the dots at the CONTACT conference

  marccanter

  18 Oct 2011 | 6:35 am

  I’ll be speaking at the CONTACT conference in NYC this week. My theme will be “connecting the dots.”  Everyone at the conference will be well intentioned, super intelligent activists, thinkers and doers. “So what can I say – which will make a difference?” 1.  We’re all still operating in silos – in our own unique worlds and networks. 2. By inter-connecting between each other, yes knowledge can be shared, but also money can be used more efficiently.  Share space, help each other create web sites and viral campaigns, support each other’s…

• Digital City – Tampa

  marccanter

  15 Oct 2011 | 7:20 am

  I’ve just returned from an amazing trip to Tampa and the Tampa Bay area.  I presented to an overflow crowd of entrepreneurs, government officials and community leaders, I was interviewed several times and I met with the Mayor of Tampa. Things are looking great for the launch of our program down there – soon! Tampa has a rich history, plenty of diversity and immigrant population, potential investors – who wish to help out their communities – and LOTS of industry who can potentially sponsor programs and projects.  These are all the ingredients necessary for a…

• Digital City project Prezi

  marccanter

  8 Oct 2011 | 2:24 pm

  the Digital City project on Prezi

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  gapingvoid

• My next book… and some personal thoughts on the future of the economy.

  Hugh MacLeod

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:23 pm

  [The paperback galley copies. It’ll actually be coming out in hardback and Kindle only etc.] I already broke the news on Twitter a while back, but yeah, gapingvoid Book Number Three comes out in April [Amazon pre-order link here]. Like I said earlier: Think of it a wee love letter to the blog. As everything and everybody gets swallowed up by Facebook, Google+ and other “Death Stars”, remember the importance of having one’s own piece of real estate to call one’s own… It’s also very, very short. I was in Brevity Mode at the time. And I made sure to put lots of new cartoons in…

• You chose money

  Hugh MacLeod

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:27 am

• Story of my life:

  Hugh MacLeod

  7 Feb 2012 | 8:15 am

• All good relationships

  Hugh MacLeod

  6 Feb 2012 | 8:27 am

  [Sent out recently in the gapingvoid newsletter. Sign up here etc..]

• For all you zen-hipster knuckleheads in the audience:

  Hugh MacLeod

  2 Feb 2012 | 11:05 am

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  Twitter / TheBloggess

• TheBloggess: RT @cherryrocketeer: @TheBloggess OMG! He saved you from the PAPER TOWEL MONSTER. How lucky is that.

  9 Feb 2012 | 2:07 am

  TheBloggess: RT @cherryrocketeer: @TheBloggess OMG! He saved you from the PAPER TOWEL MONSTER. How lucky is that.

• TheBloggess: RT @weekrockgirl: @TheBloggess "morning minion! I redecorated!"

  9 Feb 2012 | 2:06 am

  TheBloggess: RT @weekrockgirl: @TheBloggess "morning minion! I redecorated!"

• TheBloggess: Those are paper towels, by the way. And a cat who *eats* paper-towels.

  9 Feb 2012 | 2:06 am

  TheBloggess: Those are paper towels, by the way. And a cat who *eats* paper-towels.

• TheBloggess: What I woke up to at 4am. http://t.co/OKJpWVDg

  9 Feb 2012 | 2:01 am

  TheBloggess: What I woke up to at 4am. http://t.co/OKJpWVDg

• TheBloggess: http://t.co/fa6X32N2 Sometimes people who hate you are an opportunity to practice patience even when you want to stab them.

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:49 pm

  TheBloggess: http://t.co/fa6X32N2 Sometimes people who hate you are an opportunity to practice patience even when you want to stab them.

• 

  Twitter / GuyKawasaki

• GuyKawasaki: Earth-friendly Lego alternative http://t.co/x8WRCnNC

  9 Feb 2012 | 2:00 am

  GuyKawasaki: Earth-friendly Lego alternative http://t.co/x8WRCnNC

• GuyKawasaki: Nintendo and Converse collaborate on an amazing sneaker http://t.co/oUnIOmZy

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:40 am

  GuyKawasaki: Nintendo and Converse collaborate on an amazing sneaker http://t.co/oUnIOmZy

• GuyKawasaki: Valentine's Day cards for geeks http://t.co/k7VRZVzY

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:30 am

  GuyKawasaki: Valentine's Day cards for geeks http://t.co/k7VRZVzY

• GuyKawasaki: As gas booms, calls for hydrofracking rules http://t.co/gOmz8QPO

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:20 am

  GuyKawasaki: As gas booms, calls for hydrofracking rules http://t.co/gOmz8QPO

• GuyKawasaki: Endangered whales stressed by noisy ships http://t.co/Hv9AlUX6

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:15 am

  GuyKawasaki: Endangered whales stressed by noisy ships http://t.co/Hv9AlUX6

• 

  Twitter / chrisbrogan

• chrisbrogan: Goodnight, moon. : )

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:26 pm

  chrisbrogan: Goodnight, moon. : )

• chrisbrogan: @fitarella - goodnight, Sue Ellen. : )

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:23 pm

  chrisbrogan: @fitarella - goodnight, Sue Ellen. : )

• chrisbrogan: @ccdoan - just type one somewhere in the text.

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:58 pm

  chrisbrogan: @ccdoan - just type one somewhere in the text.

• chrisbrogan: @amymcctobin - very kind!

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:53 pm

  chrisbrogan: @amymcctobin - very kind!

• chrisbrogan: Mindful eating, via @fitarella for #12er - http://t.co/NBYv1mr7

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:46 pm

  chrisbrogan: Mindful eating, via @fitarella for #12er - http://t.co/NBYv1mr7

• 

  Twitter / armano

• armano: @RayProck one to live by.

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:46 pm

  armano: @RayProck one to live by.

• armano: Don't Confuse Passion with Competence http://t.co/l5zdnFgs

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:35 pm

  armano: Don't Confuse Passion with Competence http://t.co/l5zdnFgs

• armano: Religion & faith. Often confused, not the same thing.

  8 Feb 2012 | 9:33 pm

  armano: Religion & faith. Often confused, not the same thing.

• armano: @abfdc ha. Well enjoy. I'm ending my workout with beast of burden. I'll never be it.

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:53 pm

  armano: @abfdc ha. Well enjoy. I'm ending my workout with beast of burden. I'll never be it.

• armano: @abfdc and I'm not even drinking scotch. Late night workout. :-)

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:47 pm

  armano: @abfdc and I'm not even drinking scotch. Late night workout. :-)

• 

  Twitter / Pogue

• Pogue: My new NY Times column is online: state-of-the-art Android (RAZR Maxx, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound). http://t.co/gHI9KbHV

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:13 pm

  Pogue: My new NY Times column is online: state-of-the-art Android (RAZR Maxx, Samsung Galaxy Nexus, HTC Rezound). http://t.co/gHI9KbHV

• Pogue: RT @jotkali: Do you know who the %$@# I am ? It's hard being an amnesiac with Tourette's!

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:19 pm

  Pogue: RT @jotkali: Do you know who the %$@# I am ? It's hard being an amnesiac with Tourette's!

• Pogue: TONIGHT'S MEDITATION: Did you hear about the paranoid dyslexic? He thought he was following someone.

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:15 pm

  Pogue: TONIGHT'S MEDITATION: Did you hear about the paranoid dyslexic? He thought he was following someone.

• Pogue: TONIGHT'S MEDITATION: If you're going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

  6 Feb 2012 | 7:24 pm

  Pogue: TONIGHT'S MEDITATION: If you're going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.

• Pogue: With each update, Apple drags Final Cut X closer to pro readiness. Now restored: Multicam, file relinking, ext monitor. http://t.co/hXWqRA7A

  4 Feb 2012 | 4:03 pm

  Pogue: With each update, Apple drags Final Cut X closer to pro readiness. Now restored: Multicam, file relinking, ext monitor. http://t.co/hXWqRA7A

• 

  Twitter / Scobleizer

• Scobleizer: A better SMS? Yes, says @inZair in this video: https://t.co/CmuYEEWt Send geofenced messages, interesting new messaging system.

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:51 pm

  Scobleizer: A better SMS? Yes, says @inZair in this video: https://t.co/CmuYEEWt Send geofenced messages, interesting new messaging system.

• Scobleizer: I'm reading @ShelIsrael's new book on presentations, and wish every entrepreneur would read it too. http://t.co/S5V6fIeZ

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:39 pm

  Scobleizer: I'm reading @ShelIsrael's new book on presentations, and wish every entrepreneur would read it too. http://t.co/S5V6fIeZ

• Scobleizer: Does the world need another iPad book reader? @Readmill says yes in this video I did: https://t.co/kVoddbYP

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:37 pm

  Scobleizer: Does the world need another iPad book reader? @Readmill says yes in this video I did: https://t.co/kVoddbYP

• Scobleizer: Cine: Moving Fork (taken with cinemagr.am) http://t.co/IL16BEie #cinemagraph #gif

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:48 pm

  Scobleizer: Cine: Moving Fork (taken with cinemagr.am) http://t.co/IL16BEie #cinemagraph #gif

• Scobleizer: @marcsommer http://t.co/526jcihf Path message to users. They deleted already uploaded data.

  8 Feb 2012 | 12:30 pm

  Scobleizer: @marcsommer http://t.co/526jcihf Path message to users. They deleted already uploaded data.

• 

  Twitter / GreenGirls

• GreenGirls: Overcoming Challenges That Prevent Business Growth http://t.co/kGBx1sTG via @monicadear

  8 Feb 2012 | 5:47 pm

  GreenGirls: Overcoming Challenges That Prevent Business Growth http://t.co/kGBx1sTG via @monicadear

• GreenGirls: The Hottest Places for Solar Panels - Triple Pundit http://t.co/BcrKSQP5 #solar #news via @WorldSolarCorp

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:09 pm

  GreenGirls: The Hottest Places for Solar Panels - Triple Pundit http://t.co/BcrKSQP5 #solar #news via @WorldSolarCorp

• GreenGirls: January 2012 fourth warmest for contiguous United States: Alaska extremely cold http://t.co/SCC1P73a

  8 Feb 2012 | 1:09 pm

  GreenGirls: January 2012 fourth warmest for contiguous United States: Alaska extremely cold http://t.co/SCC1P73a

• GreenGirls: Cute! RT @MyBeautyBunny: Cruelty Free Beauty! DIY: Heart Shaped Braid for Valentine's Day http://t.co/LXFHjq85

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:58 am

  GreenGirls: Cute! RT @MyBeautyBunny: Cruelty Free Beauty! DIY: Heart Shaped Braid for Valentine's Day http://t.co/LXFHjq85

• GreenGirls: #Green #Photos: Sharks - Whale shark + diver. Photo credit: Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. http://t.co/Dw7YNrre via @livetraveladv

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:40 am

  GreenGirls: #Green #Photos: Sharks - Whale shark + diver. Photo credit: Conrad Maldives Rangali Island. http://t.co/Dw7YNrre via @livetraveladv

• 

  Twitter / gapingvoid

• gapingvoid: Gibbon's "Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire" really is THAT good. Though it'll easily take you MONTHS to read...

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:17 pm

  gapingvoid: Gibbon's "Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire" really is THAT good. Though it'll easily take you MONTHS to read...

• gapingvoid: RT @cmstudios: The award for Best Book Title Ever goes to @gapingvoid's "Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear" http://t.co/HiUfHKuV

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:56 pm

  gapingvoid: RT @cmstudios: The award for Best Book Title Ever goes to @gapingvoid's "Freedom is Blogging in Your Underwear" http://t.co/HiUfHKuV

• gapingvoid: @petershankman Just heard you on the BBC World Service :) #smallworld

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:28 pm

  gapingvoid: @petershankman Just heard you on the BBC World Service :) #smallworld

• gapingvoid: RT @brendankoerner: Watching a deeply creepy movie version of "Alice in Wonderland" from 1903. Yes, 1903: http://t.co/sijtJjCL

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:15 pm

  gapingvoid: RT @brendankoerner: Watching a deeply creepy movie version of "Alice in Wonderland" from 1903. Yes, 1903: http://t.co/sijtJjCL

• gapingvoid: @robinoula PS Please say hi to RB. I'm a fan of what he created :)

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:13 pm

  gapingvoid: @robinoula PS Please say hi to RB. I'm a fan of what he created :)

• 

  Twitter / ChrisPirillo

• ChrisPirillo: How to Ask Questions: http://t.co/sCOKgmXa

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:08 am

  ChrisPirillo: How to Ask Questions: http://t.co/sCOKgmXa

• ChrisPirillo: @ThisDamnScots - Yes, and I think the latest blog post on Gnomies.com will come in handy for TeamSpeak / IRC. :)

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:52 am

  ChrisPirillo: @ThisDamnScots - Yes, and I think the latest blog post on Gnomies.com will come in handy for TeamSpeak / IRC. :)

• ChrisPirillo: Minecraft Live Stream http://t.co/P2Ca9KFP

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:26 am

  ChrisPirillo: Minecraft Live Stream http://t.co/P2Ca9KFP

• ChrisPirillo: Welcome to Gnomies @tenhagen! - http://t.co/Yf3PRNAk

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:30 pm

  ChrisPirillo: Welcome to Gnomies @tenhagen! - http://t.co/Yf3PRNAk

• ChrisPirillo: Welcome to Gnomies @StephenCraig! - http://t.co/Gua3sgcJ

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:05 pm

  ChrisPirillo: Welcome to Gnomies @StephenCraig! - http://t.co/Gua3sgcJ

• 

  Twitter / wilw

• wilw: Disco Stu doesn't advertise.

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:36 pm

  wilw: Disco Stu doesn't advertise.

• wilw: @shanenickerson The mall is probably a good place to start.

  8 Feb 2012 | 6:35 pm

  wilw: @shanenickerson The mall is probably a good place to start.

• wilw: Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:57 pm

  wilw: Bears. Beets. Battlestar Galactica.

• wilw: My house smells like cooking bacon. We haven't cooked bacon here since... ever. OH MY GOD MY HOUSE IS HAUNTED BY BACON. #BACONHAUNTING

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:19 pm

  wilw: My house smells like cooking bacon. We haven't cooked bacon here since... ever. OH MY GOD MY HOUSE IS HAUNTED BY BACON. #BACONHAUNTING

• wilw: @ThePeterHa I don't currently have plans to go to that thing. Any chance you're coming to LA?

  8 Feb 2012 | 3:04 pm

  wilw: @ThePeterHa I don't currently have plans to go to that thing. Any chance you're coming to LA?

• 

  Twitter / NEENZ

• NEENZ: #socialmedia Scheduled Publishing To YouTube For Non-Partners -The Reel Web Creator Tip #25 http://t.co/7FAkRo20

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:47 am

  NEENZ: #socialmedia Scheduled Publishing To YouTube For Non-Partners -The Reel Web Creator Tip #25 http://t.co/7FAkRo20

• NEENZ: #socialmedia Online Collaborator's Toolkit: The Sharing Tools You Need to Web It Up! http://t.co/J7F00NID

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:47 am

  NEENZ: #socialmedia Online Collaborator's Toolkit: The Sharing Tools You Need to Web It Up! http://t.co/J7F00NID

• NEENZ: #socialmedia StumbleUpon Primer for Bloggers, Part 2 http://t.co/bZfvI82p

  9 Feb 2012 | 1:47 am

  NEENZ: #socialmedia StumbleUpon Primer for Bloggers, Part 2 http://t.co/bZfvI82p

• NEENZ: #socialmedia My next book… and some personal thoughts on the future of the economy. http://t.co/fzMLqble

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:46 am

  NEENZ: #socialmedia My next book… and some personal thoughts on the future of the economy. http://t.co/fzMLqble

• NEENZ: #socialmedia Wishpot Integrates with AddShoppers http://t.co/49pJ3Y8P

  9 Feb 2012 | 12:46 am

  NEENZ: #socialmedia Wishpot Integrates with AddShoppers http://t.co/49pJ3Y8P

• 

  Twitter / stevegarfield

• stevegarfield: RT @SeeCraig: @Wirecast live streaming show Feb 9 1pm EST/10am PST at http://t.co/cn5lJdl5 Learn about Live Streaming. Show Promo at htt ...

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:44 pm

  stevegarfield: RT @SeeCraig: @Wirecast live streaming show Feb 9 1pm EST/10am PST at http://t.co/cn5lJdl5 Learn about Live Streaming. Show Promo at htt ...

• stevegarfield: @MichelleMMM Obama for America | 2012 | Store | Runway to Win http://t.co/xMYVzfZN #fashion

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:32 pm

  stevegarfield: @MichelleMMM Obama for America | 2012 | Store | Runway to Win http://t.co/xMYVzfZN #fashion

• stevegarfield: RT @twitlive: RT @lynnfu: #TWiT at the 2012 #NABShow in April. If you want to go, check out details here, http://t.co/ECSQlW7r #NAB

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:58 pm

  stevegarfield: RT @twitlive: RT @lynnfu: #TWiT at the 2012 #NABShow in April. If you want to go, check out details here, http://t.co/ECSQlW7r #NAB

• stevegarfield: My Writing Buddies – Scrivener and Freedom | C.C. Chapman http://t.co/Z1MUQ1Yo

  8 Feb 2012 | 4:51 pm

  stevegarfield: My Writing Buddies – Scrivener and Freedom | C.C. Chapman http://t.co/Z1MUQ1Yo

• stevegarfield: I just clicked on File > "Mail Contents of This Page" Let's see if the recipient likes it.

  8 Feb 2012 | 2:45 pm

  stevegarfield: I just clicked on File > "Mail Contents of This Page" Let's see if the recipient likes it.

• 

  Twitter / MarketingProfs

• MarketingProfs: @AstridAndrade08 :)

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:09 pm

  MarketingProfs: @AstridAndrade08 :)

• MarketingProfs: @MDCudahy same here.

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:09 pm

  MarketingProfs: @MDCudahy same here.

• MarketingProfs: @sliewehr lol! I can imagine!

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:09 pm

  MarketingProfs: @sliewehr lol! I can imagine!

• MarketingProfs: @sliewehr glad you liked... :)

  8 Feb 2012 | 8:09 pm

  MarketingProfs: @sliewehr glad you liked... :)

• MarketingProfs: @MDCudahy done!

  8 Feb 2012 | 7:40 pm

  MarketingProfs: @MDCudahy done!

• 

  Twitter / briansolis

• briansolis: @gallizio Yes, but that's this: http://t.co/177Y4tPB - trust is earned. BTW, @charleneli & I are focused on #resilience & #amplification :)

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:17 pm

  briansolis: @gallizio Yes, but that's this: http://t.co/177Y4tPB - trust is earned. BTW, @charleneli & I are focused on #resilience & #amplification :)

• briansolis: RT @LoriGama: Still valid/ahead of its time: http://t.co/VbE4TtsD @Brian Solis and @Jess3's Social Marketing Compass infographic from 2009.

  8 Feb 2012 | 11:06 pm

  briansolis: RT @LoriGama: Still valid/ahead of its time: http://t.co/VbE4TtsD @Brian Solis and @Jess3's Social Marketing Compass infographic from 2009.

• briansolis: A working formula for Trust...what do you think? http://t.co/Nh3OG5JI

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:33 pm

  briansolis: A working formula for Trust...what do you think? http://t.co/Nh3OG5JI

• briansolis: Reminder...please hold your Fri night at #SXSWi, 3/9, 8 - 11 for the 4th annual #official opening night TechSet party. http://t.co/9wnGwmA9

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:22 pm

  briansolis: Reminder...please hold your Fri night at #SXSWi, 3/9, 8 - 11 for the 4th annual #official opening night TechSet party. http://t.co/9wnGwmA9

• briansolis: @Kbcoldgold That's a good question. Lets's ask @wileybiz...Where can she get #EndofBusiness if she lives in Sydney. p.s. was just there!

  8 Feb 2012 | 10:18 pm

  briansolis: @Kbcoldgold That's a good question. Lets's ask @wileybiz...Where can she get #EndofBusiness if she lives in Sydney. p.s. was just there!