Social Media
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Brizzly acquires WikiRank, launches wiki-style guide to trending topics
Venture Beat &bull Yesterday
The whir of information rushing by on Twitter may get a little less intimidating. Brizzly, the social media client from the team behind Google Reader, just launched a wiki-style guide to Twitter trending topics that stays long after hot stories… Full Story »
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Conference Productivity Tips For SXSW
Jatin Mahindra &bull YesterdayConferences of any kind are only as productive as you make them. You can to to every session and learn a lot. You can go to none and do the same. If you're goals are more business driven, the hallways… Full Story »
Deltina Hay - A Survival Guide to Social Media and Web 2.0 Optimization: Strategies, Tactics, and Tools for Succeeding in the Social Web
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E-mail heading for social makeover
ZDNet Asia &bull Yesterday
The rise of social media and an influx of Web 2.0-savvy users entering the workplace are causing corporate e-mail to appear like an outdated technology, according to industry observers. Vendors that ZDNet Asia contacted are aware of the limitations of… Full Story »
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Anti-social media: Is this social media stuff really the future?
Builder.AU &bull YesterdayOver the past few months several friends and colleagues of mine have had their Twitter or Facebook accounts hacked, which was generally easily identified when fairly business-like individuals sent out messages extolling the reader to click a link with a… Full Story »
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Sysomos Offers Location Based Monitoring Service
Jatin Mahindra &bull Mar 9, 2010Social media monitoring firm Sysomos is launching a free location-based monitoring service today it's calling FourWhere. The tool mines publicly available Foursquare data (tips) and mashes them up with a Google map of the location you've entered. There's no sign-up… Full Story »
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George Brown - Social Media 100 Success Secrets: Social Media, Web 2.0 User-generated Content and Virtual Communities - 100 Most Asked Mass Collaboration Questions
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White House Tweets, but How Many People are Listening?
FastCompany: Technology &bull Mar 8, 2010
Cast your minds back to 2008. As well as the traditional settings of TV, radio and print, the race for the White House saw a new battleground: that of social media. The presidential campaign of Barack Obama used Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to good effect, alongside a… Full Story »
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Brazilian startup Compra3 launches group buying site
Venture Beat &bull Mar 5, 2010
Brazilian start-up Compra3 is leaving beta testing today and opening up its group buying site to the public, complete with social networking features, more than 100,0000 users, and almost one million products on offer. The site exclusively targets the Brazilian market at the moment, although the company says it is considering some options for expansion to Spain and the US.… Full Story »
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Take 2 on our comments system
Cnet News &bull Mar 4, 2010
Still, we're not giving up on Echo. We think there's a lot of value to bringing all your social media discussions about our stories to one place. So you'll notice at the bottom of the page that the Echo commentary… Full Story »
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Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive
Read Write Web &bull Mar 4, 2010
It's fantastic and takes about 2 minutes to set up. Let's stop talking about it though - just go download it! Check out the screenshot and details below. You don't need to give Rapportive your Gmail credentials, the service asks… Full Story »
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Rob Brown - Public Relations and the Social Web: How to Use Social Media and Web 2.0 in Communications
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Pepsi Refresh Wants to Give You $50,000 for Your Digital Pro-Social Idea
Mashable &bull Mar 4, 2010
Today we're excited to announce that we have an opportunity to get of our reader's ideas funded to the tune of $50,000, and it will all happen within the next couple weeks in conjunction with SXSW. We'll also be keeping… Full Story »
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Small Business Marketing 101
Technorati Technology &bull Mar 4, 2010
Analyze How are you currently marketing your brand? Are you attending trade shows? Are you doing email blasts? Are you doing direct mailing campaigns? Are you participating in social media marketing? Make an outline of the specific marketing techniques you… Full Story »
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Scam-Trafficking Games Company Insists Its Haiti Charity Was Not a Scam, Too
Valley Wag &bull Mar 4, 2010
Zynga's response was summarized at Social Media Today (which has pulled their post) and is translated from Folha here and here. A spokeswoman is quoted saying that a campaign last year sent 50 percent of its proceeds to Haiti while… Full Story »
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Scam-Trafficking Games Company Admits Keeping Half of Haiti Donations
Valley Wag &bull Mar 4, 2010
Zynga has reportedly confirmed to the investigative bloggers at Brazil's Folha Online keeping half the money in certain fundraising campaigns linked to Haiti relief. As if the reputation of the company behind Farmville and Mafia Wars wasn't damaged enough already.… Full Story »
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Liveblog: SMX West 2010 Keynote - The State Of The Search Union
Search Engine Land &bull Mar 4, 2010
DR: One of the interesting things about the economy as it relates to search marketing was it gave us a chance to show off our stuff. As a marketer, we were able to show results. There's been a shift back… Full Story »
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"Smart Ads" Driving Yahoo Behavioral Targeting Campaigns
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Mar 4, 2010
Yahoo has been pitching behavioral targeting (BT) campaigns far more this year to advertisers than it has in the past, and with some success thus far in 2010. But what exactly are they selling? While this is a step in… Full Story »
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How Ford Uses Social Media [VIDEO]
Jatin Mahindra &bull Mar 4, 2010At the risk of giving away too much of what we do (not really - everything we do in social media is in the public, so you just need to pay attention or search around to find out), I'd like… Full Story »
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3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age
Mashable &bull Mar 4, 2010
If there was any doubt before last year as to social media's ability to exacerbate reputation crises, 2009 settled the debate. With big names such as Toyota and Johnson & Johnson suffering similar ills in just the first two months of 2010, it seems that the second decade of the 21st Century will be as unrelenting as the first on brands that fail to effectively prepare for and respond to crises in the online marketplace. The good news is that by understanding how online… Full Story »
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B2B Marketers: 490% Increase in Social Media Spend by 2014?
Marketing Pilgrim &bull Mar 4, 2010
When we publish pretty charts and report on studies, I'm often asked: "What about the B2B guys?" Hold on to your inventory, here they come! Forrester is predicting a significant uptick in internet marketing by those in the B2B space. Full Story »
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What the Winter Olympics Teaches on Social Engagement during Events
Jatin Mahindra &bull Mar 4, 2010Neal Rodriguez is Managing Director of Shovecom, a full-service hybrid New York interactive agency specializing in driving a sh-tload of traffic to enterprise websites. Neal is a contributor for PBS and the Huffington Post. You could see Neal interview some… Full Story »
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Is Content King? Then Distribution Is Crown Prince
Silicon Alley Insider &bull Mar 4, 2010
In the next decade, we will see significant changes to the way that content is created, monetized and experienced. During the next few years, existing media players will begin to increasingly face the realities and challenges that those of us… Full Story »
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