Archive for March, 2010
Saturday, March 27th, 2010
Twitter less relevant?
Justin Kownacki pointed me to this post by Jeff Pulver noting that the increasing use of geo-location social tools like Foursquare and Gowalla have made Twitter instantly a little less relevant. While I see the point tht the "I'm here now" Twitter messages by the heavy-user social media crowd have ...
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Do Bloggers Understand the Differences Between PR and Advertising? Should They (Will They) Care?
Jason Falls brings up in a post the notion that bloggers don't understand the difference between PR and advertising, highlighted by the fact that some bloggers, when pitched by PR, ask for, in essence, a "pay for ...
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
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Monday, March 15th, 2010
It has been a while since I posted here about my efforts as a participant in the Pan-Mass Challenge, an annual two-day ride to raise money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. These pre-spring weeks can be tough, in that it is not yet warm enough or light enough for me ...
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
SXSW: Geek Spring Break or Great Business Opportunity?
I debated whether or not writing something about SXSW Interactive was even relevant for me, but then realized a lot of the people that read this blog are at the conference as I write this. The most-asked question about SXSWi is, is it ...
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Thursday, March 11th, 2010
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Monday, March 8th, 2010
While putting together some points regarding corporate use of social media, the phrase "giving a s***" entered my head, rather than the social media bromides so many of us throw into documents. As I often do, I threw out my unusable phrase in case I entertained anyone, and it turns ...
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
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Facebook URLs in Ads- The "New Way" or Fad?
Edelman's Steve Rubel points out the emerging trend of companies adding Facebook fan page URLS to their advertising, and raises the question, are the on-domain URLS dying in terms of advertising. Steve seems to doubt it, and ...
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