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Learning from Conversations

Apr. 19, 2009

On his Twitter usage, Dave Fleet (@davefleet) told Toronto City-TV reporter Kris Reyes, “You can learn a lot from conversations.”
Talking in the studio Friday about the rising awareness of Twitter in the wake of recent sign-ups by Oprah and Larry King–interspersed by a Skype interview with Danny Brown (@dannybrown)–245 TV viewers called a station hotline [...]

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Jimmy Fallon Pushes Twitter to the Absurd

Mar. 12, 2009

Bryan Brinkman, the 20-something graphic designer from New York, must have shat in his pants last night when singled out of the NBC audience by late-night talk show host Jimmy Fallon (the two-week-old successor of Conan O’Brien).
As you can see in the clip, Fallon sat on the dais with Diggnation technogeeks Kevin Rose and Alex [...]

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Marketing GoDaddy to the Masses

Feb. 5, 2009

Guess which 30-second Super Bowl commercial was watched the most?

“We get it, GoDaddy.com,” summarized San Francisco Chronicler Peter Hautlaub about the best and worst of football ads, casting the domain registrar among the worst. “You’re controversial. How about trying something new next year?”
Such as what?
Can I one-up Hautlaub with a request

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How to Watch Super Bowl Ads at $0 Cost

Jan. 26, 2009

Have you heard of Truman Green? He recorded this H&R Block video last spring for fun:

Whether or not Truman is a fictional person, the point remains the song is authentic. It doesn’t matter whether or not you like his singing voice (I like it) because people are virally marketing the video on YouTube.
The video works [...]

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Why Republicans Prefer Twitter Over Suicide (and Online Media Guidance for CNN)

Dec. 14, 2008

Did you catch today’s story over at CNN.com about GOP leaders vying for the Republican National Committee chairmanship and turning to Twitter to air their views and gain support?

President-elect Barack Obama is the rationale, writes Alexander Mooney, for “he appeared to revolutionize the way technology could be integrated into every facet of a campaign — [...]

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CNN’s Holographic New Media: Not What You Think

Nov. 6, 2008

Why can’t CNN uphold journalistic integrity?
CNN’s Election Night coverage attracted 12.3 million viewers. I was one of them. Were you?
Do you remember the dialogue from their New York studio when anchor Wolf Blitzer proclaimed, “You’re a hologram!” to correspondent Jessica Yellin as she magically appeared while poll votes were counted across the country?
“You’re the first [...]

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Will Social Media Replace TV, Radio & Newspapers?

Nov. 6, 2008

In a word, no.
But if you’re a business, organization, or government agency and think you can continue with your advertising, marketing, and public relations campaigns as you’ve always done without regard for this newfangled thing called “the internet,” think again!
An entry in today’s Boston Real Estate Blog questions whether social media tools like Facebook and [...]

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