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Twitter Censorship in China (1)
on BusinessWeek Online -- Blogspotting (8) permalinkFrederick Balfour, a BWer in China, blogs about the government monitoring Twitter accounts. According to a video interview with prominent blogger Oiwan Lam, China’s thought police have monitored twitter postings of some of her friends, forcing them to limit access...Shared by Matt Dickman (72)Contribute comment
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Deconstructing The Girl Effect (6)
on Made to Stick (17) permalink[Via a friend at McKinney] If you want some practice at making ideas stickier, I have a great case study for you. Rope aside 30 minutes and follow along with the process below. It concerns the work of a group called The Girl Effect. Here’s the game plan: 1. Start here. It’s a pdf document with statistics demonstrating the value of investing in girls in the developing world. (For example: “When women and girls earn ...
- chrisbrogan.com said: The Heath boys as bloggers are even better than their book. Is that even possible?
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How to Do Viral the Right Way (1)
on ChaosScenario (2) permalinkAfter seeing this excellent JibJab video, I knew it would be an big hit. With the YouTube version being viewed over 100,000 times in a day, I'm pretty sure it satisfactorily meets the definition of "viral." Send a JibJab Sendables® eCard Today! When we encounter brilliance, it is commonly useful to examine the elements of it that make it successful, so that we can also duplicate it. 1. Create compelling contentThere are many ways to ...Shared by Matt Dickman (72)Contribute comment
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4 Social Advertising Case Studies Presented This Morning (4)
on Inside Facebook (243) permalinkWe’re here at the SWAT Summit in San Francisco, a conference on advertising and marketing inside social networks. This morning’s session is on Social Advertising Case Studies. Presenting are: Helen Har, VP of Advertising Sales, imeem Warren Ackerman, Principal and VP, Affinitive Mike La Rotonda, CEO & CPO, Votigo Will Price, CEO, Widgetbox Each case study involves Facebook in different ways. Here are notes from their case study presentations: Helen Har, VP of Advertising Sales, ...Contribute comment
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Techno//Marketer: Twitter for marketing, branding and customer service (6)
on Techno//Marketer (34) permalinkYesterday I had the opportunity to speak to the Cleveland Web Association on the topics of micromedia (Twitter, Pownce, FriendFeed, etc.). This was a follow up presentation to the one I gave back in February and is meant to dive a bit deeper into the subject. I thought the audience was very receptive to the topic and the examples absolutely help out with that. David Meade of Optiem gave a bit of a more technical ...Shared by andré.friedrichs (907) Ant (11) David (44) John F. Schneider (91) Matt Dickman (72) shwibbs (77)Contribute comment
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BlogHer Nabs New Deal With NBC (6)
on The Inquisitr (812) permalinkFemale blogging community BlogHer is joining forces with NBC in a powerful new partnership. The company has announced a deal with NBC Universal to feature BlogHer content on iVillage, NBC’s female-focused online service. Posts will also appear on Oxygen.com and BravoTV.com as part of the arrangement, and BlogHer will in turn feature content from those sites on its front page. BlogHer will get $5 million in funding along with the partnership, provided by a series ...Shared by Elisa Camahort Page (333) Eric (110) janequigley (68) julz (64) Matt Dickman (72) Robert Seidman (97)
- julz said: Very exciting!
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Make Signal From Noise With AideRSS (6)
on Social Media Explorer (37) permalinkAideRSS gets some kudos today. Not just for providing a service that helps bloggers determine which of their posts are the most engaging. Not just for building out a Google Reader plugin (plus integration with Newsgator and others) that lets you weed out the less relevant or active posts and cut down the noise to get a better signal from your feed reading experience. And not just for having easy to understand how-to videos on ...Shared by AideRSS (31) Christopher (110) ericholter (64) Matt Dickman (72) shwibbs (77) thornley (49)Contribute comment
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Scott Monty Why I won't make a viral video for you (5)
on Social Media Marketing (18) permalinkThis is something of a public service announcement. I can't tell you how many times I've heard clients/companies say "we'd like you to make a viral video for us." As Greg Verdino would say, "I think I just threw up in my mouth a little."People, people. It just doesn't work that way. You can't will something to be viral, any more than you can tell an author to go write a bestseller, a director to ...Contribute comment
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Companies, It’s Time to Gen Y-ify Your Career Site (2)
on Brazen Careerist (149) permalinkThe purpose of a Career Site is to put your best foot forward and make a great first impression on talent. So why are so many companies throwing up a page that makes most of us want to scratch out our eyes because it’s so lame? Let’s discuss. You have a career site that you direct candidates to ‘check out your jobs’, right? WRONG. What you have is a boring spot on the Internet that ...Shared by Matt Dickman (72) shwibbs (77)Contribute comment
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Pedestrian PR Pitch (1)
on The Flack (4) permalinkAny pitch that starts off with "Hope you're well" is the kiss of death as New York Times business columnist, and now blogger, Joe Nocera astutely confirmed for us yesterday in his "Executive Suite" blog.The object of his disaffection: a publicist named Amanda from a PR firm that shares its name with the sporting world's most coveted brand. (I'll let you guess.)Other than the extreme length of the pitch -- don't journos eye glaze over ...Shared by Matt Dickman (72)Contribute comment
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Twitter + Summize (339)
on Twitter Blog (455) permalinkLast month, Twitter had a very special date in New York City. We met with another startup, had lunch at the famous Shake Shack, and spent some quality time together in Union Square. The meeting with this other startup was largely a formality—we had already fallen in love with both the technology and the team.Keeping up with interesting news and people you care about is one dimension of Twitter, but what if you need to ...Shared by 1001 noisy cameras (128) 4braham (40) Absalon Isaac Prieto (39) Adam Fuhrer (450) Adam Maldonado (579) Adam McDonald (60) Adrian (45) Adrian (52) aholmes360 (16) AJ Vaynerchuk (44) Alberto (40) Alex (190) Alex (297) Alex Berger (32) Alex Dumitru (2053) alyssa (47) Anders (42) Andrew (117) Andrew Hughes (177) Andrew Lim (15) Andrew Long (15) Andrew Schott (381) Andy (43) Andy (43) Angel (156) Anton Kast (14) Ash Laws (28) AshTR (122) Atilano (135) Auggie (52) Austin (8) Austin Hamilton (10) Backhandzeus (91) berivan (2) Brad (175) Brad Proctor (11) Brajeshwar (94) Brando (13) Breyten (107) Brian (481) Brian (12) Brian (35) Bridget (24) Bruno Campagnolo de Paula (309) Bryan Webster (146) Caleb Brown (35) Calvin Robinson (69) Cam (12) CampMaster (70) Ch (197) Chad (388) Chad Byrum (4) Chad Jaggers (43) Chad Norman (54) charleshudson (35) charlie anzman (377) Chetan Thaker (406) Chris (15) Chris (47) Chris Bailey (122) Chris Fizik (33) Chris Garaffa (2) Chris Harrison (21) Chris L (99) Chris Moritz (335) Chris R. 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- charlie anzman said: Confirmed - Twitter acquires Summize
- Ed's NextInstinct said: These folks are defining Web 3.0, right now.
- Jared said: yay!
- Karpuscul said: Twitter и Summize объединились! Теперь ходить сюда: search.twitter.com
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1m iPhones sold over launch weekend (1)
on SMS Text News (94) permalinkA quick strawpoll of friends may suggest that the hype about the iPhone 3G is overrated. Comments such as “meh, I’ll probably wait” or “My blackberry has Wi-Fi now, why would I need an iPhone” have come back from 3 out of four friends questioned. That said, I think my friends might be in the minority. Having taken 2 1/2 months to sell one million iPhones it has taken just one weekend to sell that ...Shared by Matt Dickman (72)Contribute comment
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Could 5G be on its way in Korea? (1)
on SMS Text News (94) permalinkA while back I wrote a piece of PR tripe which concluded that the only missing piece in mobile gaming is 4G. There was, I wrote, no point in having really powerful phones that could run them if you had to pay a fortune to download them. 3G is fine for looking at email and even (just about) checking Facebook. But you’re never going to download more than a cut down version of FIFA soccer ...Shared by Matt Dickman (72)Contribute comment
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iPhone's Location-Aware Apps (18)
on O'Reilly Radar - Insight, analysis, and research about emerging technologies (615) permalinkThe iPhone's location-aware APIs are being used by developers for all sorts of applications. I wrote some of my initial thoughts about the implementation on Friday. I've downloaded a ton of applications, but these are the ones that I have so far found to be most noteworthy. I am sure that by the end of the month I will have an entirely new list. If you don't have an iPhone these posts are going to ...Shared by Adam (30) aemkei (54) Andre Charland (15) ariel (20) charlesnadeau (392) Christopher Osborne (34) Deborah Petersen (3464) dobata (1581) Filippo (10) Hyunhak (34) javaneze (116) lauren pressley (13) Matt Dickman (72) olifante (115) Peter (11) Priyank (12) retrofitweb (6) Thomas Amberg (192)Contribute comment
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Mobile Users = 3x the size of the web market! Let's not forget the 3Billion mobile users... (3)
on SMS Text News (94) permalinkWow. It has to be said. Actually, I’ll say it again. Wow. Google and Yahoo have just described the mobile internet market and stated their desire to go after it. According to the channel mag ARN the two companies want to go after 3 billion (that’s nine zeros) mobile phone users. “The phone is three times the size of the market as the Web, so why not people turn on the phone first?” remarked Andy ...Contribute comment
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Don't pitch if it isn't news (3)
on The Marketing Minute (22) permalinkEveryone wants media coverage and gets frustrated when they don't get it. Reporters and editors aren't ignoring your news releases - they're just doing their job. If you help them do their job, they will help you do yours. The media (of all kinds) gets bombarded with releases every day. Think about some of the recent releases you've written. Your business celebrates 25 years. You won an industry award. Important to you? You bet. But ...
- Danacea said: lesson for certain members of my company here :)
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Ten Reasons You Should Be a Blogger (5)
on Blogging Tips (36) permalinkTen Reasons You Should Be a Blogger A blog is a journal on the World Wide Web. They can cover any topic you can think of. They provide a great outlet for getting your opinion out to the world and they are an extremely powerful medium. Blogs appear to be shifting the way we use the Internet. Rather than simply consuming information blindly, we are an active participant. Anyone wishing to voice an opinion or ...Contribute comment
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Mobile Not Getting The Cash, Social Media Is… (1)
on Mobile Marketing Watch (10) permalinkAn article in Online Media Daily this morning discussed a new study that may surprise some of you out there. It discussed where venture capital funding has gone in the fist quarter of 2008 compared to last year. More specifically, where the money went in regards to Ad-Network, Social Media, and Mobile startups. According to the latest M&A report lead by Petsky Prunier- social media and user-generated-content companies acquired nearly $1.5 billion in funding during ...Shared by Matt Dickman (72)Contribute comment
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Win a Free Set of Pocket Wizards (7)
on Strobist (96) permalinkYeah, I'm pretty much thinking that headline got your attention. It's Christmas in July, baby, and Santa is bringing the Plus II's. Keep reading after the jump for all of the details...Flash back a coupla months ago, when the folks at Pocket Wizard check in to say how much they like what's been going on with this group, and want to know what they could do to help keep the party rolling."Weeeell," I suggested, "You ...Shared by Brad (84) Don Hazelwood (53) Herman (79) Matt Dickman (72) Rick Yazwinski (22) Rob (91) Susheel (46)Contribute comment
