HarperCollins' Authonomy -- an open slushpile (5)
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Kate Hyde from HarperCollins UK sez, Want to get published? Or want to make a name for yourself as THE expert and better-than-New-York-Times-critic of Sci Fi books? of Chic Lit? of Memoir? Here's your chance. After 3 months of private testing, HarperCollins is opening authonomy (the global community site to find/promote new writing) up to a public audience tomorrow and I thought you might like a sneak preview ahead of the others. With this site, ...
Green Gaming? YUP! (2)
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This has been a very interesting week for us in Bentonville. We had the opportunity to bring in folks from Microsoft, Nintendo and Sony as well as Electronic Arts, Activision and American Game Factory for a “green gaming summit.” It was truly eye opening. We also had a representative from the Natural Resources Defense Council to assist us in this process. We talked about a lot at this meeting about packaging, power consumption and education. ...
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Marshall said:
Very interesting convergence. Gaming and green? Something really is different...
Social Media Measurement (2)
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A nice summary of this debate from my un-techy point of view from Lloyd Gofton. 1. There is no killer metric 2. Track anything possible to glean insight 3. Social media is not just about numbers 4. It’s all relative (focus on benchmarking and trends) 5. Measuring social media does not = ROI for social media 6. View monitoring social media as a social intelligence programme, involving the world’s biggest focus group Technorati Tags: Social ...
Micro Persuasion: Trends That Will Help Define the Future of PR and Marketing (50)
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In June Edelman, my employer, and PRWeek held a two-day summit on the changing media landscape and its affect on business and education. More than 90 people participated. Recently we published a paper chock full of with actionable insights for businesses. You can download it here (PDF). Here's the conclusion I wrote. Trends That Will Help Define the Future The best way to think about new media, I have learned, is to look at the ...
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Tom said:
This is a great analysis of online trends and marketing - the crisis in attention, the normalisation of social media and how brands have to adapt quickly to this environment.
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Brian said:
two interesting things here:1. I thought this quote by Eric Schmidt Google CEO was really great (funny):"By the year 2019, it's going to be possible to have an iPod-like device that will have 85 years of video on it. So you will be dead before you watch the whole [thing]."Also the idea that social networks are like air, this hits it right on the head:"Brand marketers that may be tempted to build their own social networks need to consider that there may not be room in people’s lives for more than one or two. They will need to plug into the social “air” supply that the large networks are building across the Web so that consumers can stay connected to their existing networks."Any site we're thinking about building should be built on top of these "air supplies".Which gets me thinking about using googles framework as a way of possibly be more relevant in their search results (so you think that would help?).
Crowd Surfing the video (1)
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David Brain, President and CEO, Edelman Europe (8)
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Crowdsurfing from David Brain on Vimeo. Martin and I in ‘roving reporter style’ on our new book out on September 25 and available now via Amazon. We shot this at Victoria station in between being drowned out by tannoy announcements and moved on by security. I have new respect for the journalists who do this for a living. Technorati Tags: Crowd Surfing
Yahoo’s 404 At Giants Stadium (65)
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Like a lot of other companies in Silicon Valley, TimeBridge has hired their fair share of ex-Yahoo employees. CEO Yori Nelken said most of their ex-Yahoo engineers got a chuckle when they noticed the large Yahoo advertisement on the stadium wall next to the 404 marker (for 404 feet from home plate) during a recent company outing to a baseball game. 404 errors occur when a web page cannot be located on a server. Given ...
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joekwon said:
hahaha
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Will said:
I like it. It's poetry in motion.
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Ashwin said:
Funny...
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Troy said:
Funny
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Kluzter said:
:) la ironía en la foto es etcelente... digo.. eso de poner anuncios en un deporte que nadie ve XD
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Steven McClelland said:
hilarious.
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ani625 said:
old.. but gold
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Bryan said:
404'd!
La Fromagerie Marylebone (1)
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La Fromagerie2-4 Moxon StreetW1U 4EWTel: 020 7935 0341 Date of Last Visit: Sunday, August 10 2008 The Victim: Me The Damage: £12.50 The Background: My parents are good, decent hard-working people. And they've raised a total snob. How else to describe my decision on a Sunday morning to take myself off to Marylebone for breakfast? I don't live anywhere near Marylebone. But it would be nice to live there. I can imagine myself, wandering the ...
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Marshall said:
I lived nearby for a while, and can attest that La Fromagerie outstanding.
Why youve got to able to use Microsoft Office (1)
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This post/rant started off as a comment on Richard Bailey’s blog, in response to a comment by Heather Yaxley. However, I thought it was worthy of promoting to a full post: Heather said: One final thought is that we may need to teach basic skills too. I'm constantly surprised by the lack of real ability many PRs have with Word, Excel and other software programs that were once taught and now are an expectation. Indeed, ...
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Marshall said:
Right on. If you don't know how to properly format a document, use page breaks, add up a column, or build a PowerPoint template, you're going to have a hard time.
The Botanist (1)
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The Botanist7 Sloane SquareSW1W 8EETel: 020 7730 0077 Date of Last Visit: Friday, August 10, 2008 The Victims: Al, Darsh, John, Rutton The Damage: £62 each The Background: Rutton says I don't write enough about the restaurants I visit in London. He wants more details. But see...I have a short attention span. So I assume everyone else does too. And I'm not Giles...I can't get away with 1,374 words. Michael Winner's latest comes in at ...
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Marshall said:
Had lunch at the Botanist yesterday. It was excellent. Best tagliatelle I've had since I've had in london.
London's Lexicon #1 (1)
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From a city wine bar by Orhan* Contribute your photos of words around town to this discussion in the Londonist Flickrpool.
Top 20 Libertarian Blogs (2)
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1. Guido Fawkes2. Devil's Kitchen3. Tim Worstall4. Samizdata5. UK Libertarian Party6. An Englishman's Castle7. Last Ditch8. Huntsman9. Freedom & Whisky10. Old Holborn11. Charles Crawford12. Nought Point Zero13. Nation of Shopkeepers14. Question That15. PJC Journal16. Looking for a Voice17. Underdogs Bite Upwards18. Saxon Times19. Womble on Tour20. Libertarian AllianceClick HERE for a list of all 33 Libertarian blogs in the Total Politics Directory.These blogs were voted for by the readers of more than 60 UK political ...
"I Had That Steve Redgrave In The Back Of My Canoe Once..." (2)
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Little Venice today welcomes one of its big sister's more notable icons - the gondola. Well, sort of. British Waterways have licensed a number of paddle-powered taxis to plow along the Regent's, Grand Union and Hertford canals, and today the fleet of ten take to the water for the first time. 'Expert' canoeists (of which we've currently got a few doing rather well in Beijing) will pilot anybody willing to fork out £50 per hour ...
"The Gergen Rule" (1)
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An absolutely priceless gem from today's Lois Romano profile of McCain campaign chief Steve Schmidt, that The Bullet is hopefully getting ready for framing: Nonetheless, Schmidt says he won't allow the campaign to get thrown off by momentary distractions and pundits shooting from the hip. To that end, he and his colleagues have developed what they jokingly call the "Dave Gergen theory of the campaign" -- a metaphor for all talking heads. Gergen, a veteran ...
Jeffrey Sachs: The digital war on poverty (2)
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The digital divide is beginning to close. The flow of digital information – through mobile phones, text messaging, and the internet – is now reaching the world's masses, even in the poorest countries, bringing with it a revolution in economics, politics, and society. Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation. But mobile phones and wireless internet end isolation, and will therefore prove to be the most transformative technology of economic development ...
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Marshall said:
This is cool.
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Jason said:
I think poverty will only end with a major shift in economic mindset, but with so many people connected online perhaps that will be part of what creates that new mindset. Perhaps this will start knocking down some other old cultural artifacts as well... female-genital mutilation, stoning women to death, that sort of thing? A utopian can dream.
Sorry Steve Rubel, but youre on the wrong track on this one (2)
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I missed Steve Rubel’s post on Tuesday on ‘Does the Thrill of the Chase Make PR Obsolete?’, but picked up on it today via e-consultancy. Steve writes a compellingly convincing post, but I’m more than doubtful that it reflects the reality. Like Steve I get a lot of pitches from PR companies (large and small), start-ups and big companies. And Steve’s right, most of them are so terrible it’s hard to know where to start ...
Lenovo Olympic Bloggers (8)
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Check out this site where Lenovo is aggregating the blogs, tweets, pictures, and video of Olympic athletes from around the world. Lenovo provided these athletes with Ideapad laptops and video cameras and let them go at it.
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Marshall said:
Great example of content curation.
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Josi said:
too bad i just found out this today, could have been fun reading the athletes' blogs during the past two weeks
Get Paid to Twitter Using the Adjix Link Shrinker (41)
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I was just contacted by a reporter who is working on a story about Adjix, a new service that conceivably gives everyone on Twitter a way to make money for tweeting. It could be a smash hit, but it's got caveats. Adjix, like TinyURL, is a URL shortener - but with at twist. It's also an advertising network that wraps your redirected links with a small ad frame. If you create an account with Ajix ...
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Marshall said:
Cash to twitter? Sounds interesting. I'm far to lazy to actually set it up though.
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Alex said:
INteresting. Web, go innovate. Eeady, set, g....
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Jeffrey said:
interesting, this will either work really well or not work at all (but then again, that's some pretty poor analysis, since it seems like most web-startups are like that...)
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Laurent Courtines said:
Interesting and creative way to make money on link currency and leverage a network. Someone outthere is going to make money on PV from social networks one day!
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Shane said:
Oh god, this is horrible. Can't we have just _one_ service that marketers and monetisers don't try to rape and pillage Viking style?
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sarahintampa said:
nooooooooo
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