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Category: Social Media

  • The Digerati Clique is Migrating

    Steve Rubel, Brian Solis, David Armano, Robert Scoble, Jason Calacanis, Scott Monty, Dave Winer, Ann Handley, Ken Burbary, Leo LaPorte, Guy Kawasaki + Greg Verdino all do it…time for you…

  • Content Strategy for the Social and Semantic Web

    Content strategy, for the social and semantic web, is a 40,000 foot strategic overview of content, aligning content, its purpose, creation, publication, and use with the overall business strategy and…

  • Maslow is dead. All hail Gramsci.

    Maslow is dead. Long live Gramsci. Oh, he’s dead too. In the literal sense. But he’s going to become a lot more well-known thanks to a new President Obama and…

  • How to Build a Social Media Strategy in 5 Days

    10 Tips to Build a Social Media Strategy

  • What is More Popular than Porn?

    What IS more popular than porn? Social networking, of course. Read a ‘craigslist lonely hearts’ from a brand marketer searching for a social media therapist.

  • Buy a Car and Get a Gun (or Gas)

    Think social media can’t make a difference to a small business? Consider Max Motors, a new and used car dealership in Butler, MO. With their recent Guns & Gas promotion,…

  • Craigslist Has… A Blog?

    In searching for my favorite craigslist feature, the ‘best of’, I found what appears to be their new blog. Which makes perfect sense for this militantly customer-focused company whose CEO…

  • The United Federation of Media

    Federated Media is an intriguing web 2.0 ‘advertising’ agency model.  It caters to Technorati 100 content developers (aka authors) — popular sites like Boing Boing, Cool Tools, Destructoid and Mashable…

  • Social Mediaxtravaganza

    One of the questions posed to the panel last night was on the topic of social media ‘success’ stories or case studies. Just catching up on my RSS feeds and…

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