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  • Study: Power of Social Networking for Women

    More than one-third (36%) of online US and Canadian women would give up chocolate, their Pradas, or their mother-in-law before they gave up their social networks, but only half would…


  • Enterprise: List of 40 Social Media Staff Guidelines

    Electronic Frontier Foundation How to Blog Safely about Work http://www.eff.org/wp/blog-safely Canadian Broadcasting Corporation http://www.insidethecbc.com/bloggingrules interesting because this version caused World War III Opera http://my.opera.com/community/blogs/corp-policy/ Harvard Law School Blogs Terms of Use  http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/terms-of-use/ Sun…


  • Zappos CEO Shares Secrets to Building Buzz & Loyalty

    TH: “Yes. A brand is a shortcut to certain emotions. We want Zappos to be a shortcut to being inspired. My presentations and most of my twitter posts don’t have…


  • Innovation at Whirlpool

    What can executives learn from Whirlpool’s approach to screening ideas? • Define Innovation A brief, concrete definition of innovation will help employees evaluate new concepts at the front end, screening…


  • I *heart* Blank

    via youtube.com How brand advocacy works through social media


  • Twittergraphy

    via nytimes.com Could we revisit a vernacular “code” boom thanks to the 140-character economy of Twitter?


  • Twittergraphy

    via nytimes.com Could we revert to a vernacular boom thx to Twitter?


  • Our Obsession With Cheap

    Part of the reason these prices are so low is that American interests work mightily to keep them that way, by scaling back protections for workers and sharply curtailing the…


  • Integrated Media Strategies Are Necessary

    While the media has been focused on reporting the demise of traditional media, Boomers have largely been ignoring their prognosticators and continue to use these mediums as their “go to”…


  • Integrated Media Strategies Are Necessary

    While the media has been focused on reporting the demise of traditional media, Boomers have largely been ignoring their prognosticators and continue to use these mediums as their “go to”…


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