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Identi.ca Early Adopter Tips

July 3, 2008

sarahintampa / Sarah Perez

If you haven’t heard the news (where have you been?), a new Twitter clone service launched today called Identi.ca. (You can read the ReadWriteWeb coverage here). Of course, because the service just launched, there are still some Twitter-esque features that have not yet been added.

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Do Crayons Qualify as Social Media?

July 2, 2008

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog / ME Liz Strauss

A Drawing Can Launch a 1000 Words! A restaurant covers their tables with white butcher paper, and in a small juice glass on each table, they keep a bunch of well-used crayons. Most people might assume that those crayons are there to keep children behaving, but more than that actually [.

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Just-in-time Open Collaboration Sets Web 2.0 Apart from Most Business Models

July 3, 2008

Common Sense PR / Eric Eggertson

It’s not every industry that gives away what would ordinarily be the key proprietary assets: source codes, communication protocols, content. In the spirit of barcamps and podcamps before it, Jeremiah Owyang is offering to hold an impromptu trade-show-cum-unconference that defies the rules of trade shows.

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A Note About Transparency in Blogging and Social Media

July 3, 2008

VoIP Watch / Andy Abramson

One of the words you'll regularly see in my blog posts is the word "client." My agency, Comunicano, represents many of the more cutting edge companies in voice, collaboration, video and mobile. When I started this blog, I had four goals, which I've stated before: 1) Become a trusted source for the media to use to gain clarity and understanding about VoIP and emerging technology.

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Matt: Twitter From Multiple Accounts

July 3, 2008

Somewhat Frank / Frank Gruber

Do you have multiple twitter accounts that you are constantly flipping between to post messages? I do. It is pretty annoying to keep having to logout and then log back in. The Carsonified team made it a challenge to help remedy this problem with their four day development sprint which is similar to the hugs they created last year.

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Real Life Examples of Business Owners Using Social Media

July 3, 2008

Small Business Trends / Anita Campbell

When speaking at events, I get the best response from talking less and asking more … in other words, encouraging the audience to share their examples and ideas. It’s more interactive that way.

Keith O’Brien :: Editor-In-Chief, PRWeek Magazine at the New Media Academic Summit ‘08

July 3, 2008

infOpinions? / Robert

The Edelman/PRWeek New Media Academic Summit, I had the pleasure of interviewing Keith O’Brien, Editor-In-Chief of PRWeek. Keith shares, what I believe to be, a great overview of why PR agencies should seek to work with academia and why experimenting with emerging digital media is so important for both students and educators.

Hey Robert Scoble and Seth Godin Did You Forget Something

July 3, 2008

Michael Gray - Graywolf's SEO Blog / Michael Gray

So Seth Godin and Robert Scoble talk about a video by Fred. When you look at all the views of his videos he has over 45 million youtube views Scoble and Seth go on to say how the traffic numbers aren’t important and it’s the quality of the viewers.

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Businesses Chafe at Consumer Reviews

July 3, 2008

Common Sense PR / Eric Eggertson

Reviews are hell. Writers, actors, directors and restaurant owners hate them. And so do business owners. It’s never easy observing or taking part in a discussion about your business, especially when customers are taking potshots at you.

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Jerry Weinstein: Social Media Is The Future of Politics . . . and Independence!

July 2, 2008

The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed / Jerry Weinstein

Lessons from Personal Democracy Forum, The "Davos of Technology": While the RIAA and MPAA have been frequent whipping boys in any debate on the failure...

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What Happens in Vegas Will Be Pointless

July 2, 2008

Where's My Jetpack? / noreply@blogger.com (Jetpacks)

The promoters of this and the believers in it will say, "Mark Cuban is the keynote speaker! Mark Cuban will be there so you know it's legit! Mark Cuban is a zillionaire and he owns the Dallas Mavericks and he's a maverick and he's the keynote speaker.

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The Pendulums, The Level, The Relationships and Commerce

July 2, 2008

Liz Strauss at Successful Blog / ME Liz Strauss

The Pendulum After years in educational publishing, I began to see a pattern. The philosophy of the day would swing from open classroom and individualized instruction to high-structure and rote learning.

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The human factor in Social Media trends (part 2)

July 1, 2008

Alexander van Elsas's Weblog on new media & technologies and their effect on social behavior / Alexander van Elsas

Monday I started something that might take a few days to finish. I called it the human factor in social media trends. For those of you that missed it, you can find the post here, and besides the comments on there was also another great discussion going on about it here.

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A "NSFW" Explanation of Social Media

July 3, 2008

PR Squared / Todd Defren

From bonafide marketing genius Marta Kagan. | View | Upload your own (Best tidbit: “Social Networking sites are more popular than porn sites.”  And they said it would never happen.)    .

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The Social CMS Dilemma: Will they lead with Community or Publishing Features?

July 3, 2008

Web Strategy by Jeremiah / jeremiah_owyang

Apparently, a chord was struck in this recent post “Social Software: Here come the CMS Vendors“. In summary, the post indicuates that CMS vendors are sniffing the community space, and the comments lit up (you should read them) with vendors from both camps indicating this discussions are happening behind the curtains and hands are extending [.

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Is social media that complicated?

July 3, 2008

Make the logo bigger. / Make the logo bigger (noreply@blogger.com)

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OMG! Look Out Everyone – It’s A Twitter Clone - OMG!

July 3, 2008

WinExtra / Steven Hodson

For most of this evening I have been watching an amazing event. It is totally fascinating to watch a group of what should be intelligent and well educated folks suddenly become drooling masses of quivering jelly like substance.

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Crack Cocaine for Social Media Junkies

July 2, 2008

Blogging Me Blogging You / Ed Lee

Haven’t done this for a while but I’m shutting down my machine after a few days of use and there are some interesting tabs open in my browser: Jeremiah Owyang: CMS Vendors Starting to Enter Social Software Scene - if you need any proof that CMS vendors are eyeing up the social space, check out Dell’s [.

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LinkedIn explained for the common folk!

July 2, 2008

blog.bradgrier.com / bgrier

Every time someone asks me to explain why I use and promote LinkedIn, it seems I have a good 15 or 20 minute conversation coming. Then they invariably want to check out my profile and see who I’m LinkedIn to.

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Could Social Media See the End of Google’s PageRank?

July 2, 2008

Mashable! / Steven Hodson

One of my favorite bloggers; Alexander van Elsas, has been penning a series of posts having to do with Social Media and People. Today he wrote something that sparked a lightbulb: Instead, having instant access to information will drive a need for knowledge.

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Social Media Yellow Card

July 2, 2008

Movie Marketing Madness / Chris

Social Media Yellow Card Originally uploaded by cethilk If you work in social media at all, you might want to have these ready for when you’re in meetings with folks who don’t get it just yet.

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LG blogger relations case study

July 2, 2008

NevilleHobson.com / Neville Hobson (neville@nevillehobson.com)

Yesterday’s Marketing 2.0 event in Manchester, organized by KMP, included some great presentations that, collectively, add up to a good overview of the roles social media play in the overall marketing mix.

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St Louis - The Mortgage Crisis - The Public Work Begins

July 2, 2008

Robert Paterson's Weblog / Robert Paterson

As my regular readers know, (Context in the link) I am working with KETC, Channel 9 in St Louis on a project funded by CPB, to see how a Public TV station could use its position as a Trusted Space,...

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Social Media Demands A Reinvented Agency

July 1, 2008

Online Spin / Joe Marchese

Madison Avenue wasn't built to service brands in social media and, more importantly, Madison Avenue is not built to make money from the proper activation of social media for brands. The question is, can the system adapt, or will a new breed of agency be born in the vacuum of effective social media campaigns?

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Swurl lets you blog without writing anything | Webware

July 3, 2008

Newsvine - technology / Ms CYPRAH

Swurl is a service for people who want to create a blog made from their activity on various social-media services. Like FriendFeed, SocialThing, or any other aggregator, you start building your Swurl blog by plugging in your usernames on each service.

Facebook Beach Party Stalled By Police

July 3, 2008

WebProNews Feed / Mike Sachoff

A beach party organized on Facebook that was expected to attract as many as 10,000 revelers has been canceled after police warned that it was illegal.More than 7,000 people had confirmed on the social networking site that they would attend the party billed as "a night of mayhem," in the coastal town of Torbay, England.

Check Out Brent's Webinar on Barack Obama and Social Media; Very cool stuff. Coming To A PC Near You....

July 3, 2008

PGreenblog / Paul Greenberg

ANA Embraces Social Media

July 3, 2008

ANA Marketing Maestros / Association of National Advertisers

In an effort to connect marketing professionals and share invaluable industry insights, ANA has established a presence on social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn, and information-sharing communities such as Flickr and Slideshare.

Social Media How To

July 3, 2008

Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Blog / Frank (noreply@blogger.com)

Two SoMe Links To End a Short Week

July 3, 2008

Jumping Puddles in the Rain / Sarah (noreply@blogger.com)

Social Media Training Wheels

July 3, 2008

AttentionMax / Max Kalehoff

Shel Holtz offers good advice for companies seeking to enter the world of social media in non-threatening ways. He suggests two passive approaches: For your external communications, add a “share this” link to every article or page.

ShoZu adds support for even more social media/networking sites to the list!

July 3, 2008

IntoMobile / dusanb

Just when we thought they've covered virtually every single social media and social networking site with their last batch, ShoZu recently added 9 new services to the mix. New services include: Snapfish - photo printing and storage site, Ovi - Nokia's personal media storing and sharing service, SnapMyLife - mobile photo sharing service, BlueString - AOL's media sharing site, Xdrive - [.

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