We are all used to “Sound Bites” – a short few seconds of words which are normally taken out of context to create sensational headlines. Few people realise that speech writers have for years worked on developing speeches to include a couple perfect “sound bites” for use by others. Of course while some social media […]
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Many of you have heard of the 3 P’s of marketing: pills, porn, and poker. They are the bane of most people’s online existence, as we are constantly bombarded with seeing these kinds of “offers” being sent to our spam filter. Enter Twitter. As you know me by now, I like to look at the
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Last fall a fellow by the name of Joe Hall got in touch with a new toy he was working on in hopes of getting some insight. Seems he wanted some insight from the tool’s perspective, being a Grade A tool myself, his reasoning seemed sound. I figured that was surly the reason as my
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You may have noticed a few small social changes that we’ve instituted for 2009: Twitter. We’ve been quiet on this front for far too long. While it won’t be all of us running the account, expect some solid updates from @nowsourcing and @thegypsy. Why follow? Well, we have some interesting things to say and will
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Image by gem fountain It seems that now-a-days we can do most things online… clothes shopping, looking for Colleges, buying Holiday gifts, doing our banking… pretty much anything. But there is something else we can do online….. something much more personal and sacred. We can even work on mending our inside pain and turmoil. Before
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With us today is Matt Daines, lead developer of the popular Twitter directory, Twellow. Twellow just released Twellowhood, so we thought now might be a good time to check in with him and see how things were going. 1. Give us a bit of background about yourself. Originally from Utah, I’ve been in the IT
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Hey hey and a ho ho ho to all (or any other festive feeling that may apply:0)… just a quick post to highlight the winners of the Mashable Web Awards from today. There are likely a few new sites for you to check out as I’ve found a few nuggets already. Of interest YouTube came
Results are in; Mashable Web Awards for 2008 Read More »
We decided to skip the perfunctory “Happy 1st Birthday, Collective Thoughts” year in review and turn it on its edge. We were all talking and wondered the last time you saw a birthday post that you’d refer to later on. Birthday post are formulaic and predictable. You can usually expect: contests and giveaways highlights of
Have You Ever Seen a Birthday Post With Legs? Read More »
First let me apologize for muttering the R-word but it goes without saying, it’s currently an influencing social and economic trend. The recession indicators I’m going to talk about aren’t your typical indicators as seen through the eyes of economists like the stock price of Starbucks or lipstick sales. What I’m going to point out
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I was playing with some toys earlier and thought; why don’t we look a little deeper into the world of Buzz Monitoring. And I don’t mean for tracking buzz altogether either. What about utilizing it when crafting new content or blog posts? Buzz monitoring need not be a glorified vanity search endeavour when it can
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