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Facebook Jumps on the Location Based Check in Bandwagon

Thu, 08/19/2010 - 12:10
And I for one LOVE it! I am an iPhone, Foursquare, Facebook junkie (as my wife and children can attest). Facebook announced yesterday that they are rolling out location based check-in just like Foursquare and Gowalla (I hate Gowalla - see previous post). I have been using Foursquare for about 6 months now and have [...]

Chris Abraham Included In List of 25 Essential PR Bloggers

Wed, 08/18/2010 - 10:56
Our very own Chris Abraham was included In Public Relations Blogs - 25 Essential PR Bloggers You Should Be Reading

Abraham Harrison "What We Do" Video

Mon, 08/16/2010 - 12:53
Sort of bakes their digital PR practice into an adorable and comprehensive video treat.

Homebrew Shoulder Rig For My Canon EOS T2i DSLR Camera and H

Sat, 08/14/2010 - 17:28
If you're making videos for your social media marketing campaign then you'll want nice steady shots. I recently put together a shoulder rig for my Canon EOS T2i and my H2 Zoom audio recorder so that I could take more stable moving videos and record better audio than with the built in microphone. It's made [...]

The 8 Most Insanely Obvious Signs In The World (PHOTOS)

Fri, 08/13/2010 - 13:31
Some signs we depend on. Some signs... well, not so much.

How a 16-Year Old Kid Made His First Million Dollars

Fri, 08/13/2010 - 09:21
This British boy—who lives in Corby, Northantshire—got his first computer age seven. Three years later he got a Mac and taught himself web design. Four years later—at age 14, in 2008—he started his first company. It was a simple site that some of you may now: Mac Bundle Box. The site was pretty, rooted into Apple's own design guidelines and style.

Easily Turn Your Blog into an ePub eBook

Thu, 08/12/2010 - 20:04
Anthologize enables anyone working with WordPress to easily publish their content in a variety of book formats, including PDF, ePUB, and TEI, an open XML format. Anthologize can handle WordPress blog content as well as feeds from other sources, allowing these items to be updated, reordered, and edited, and then exported.

Scholars Build Blog-to-eBook Tool in One Week

Thu, 08/12/2010 - 17:22
Here's a cool new Wordpress plug in that turns your blog into an ePub or ebook!

The Facebook Offices From a Zeppelin Airship

Sun, 08/08/2010 - 14:43
I was able to visit the new Facebook offices in Silicon Valley California from a thousand-odd feet up while on a 90-minute Airship Ventures zeppelin tour out of Moffett field in Mountain View, California.

A Latina Looks @ Social Media Marketing & Hispanic Community

Sat, 08/07/2010 - 09:19
For many years, Hispanics have been categorized in the other side of the digital divide compared to non-Hispanics in the US. This theory has developed from the underlying assumption that Hispanics have limited access to technological resources such as computers and/or internet. However, eMarketer expects that in 2014, 70% of the Hispanic population

Is Twitter’s Who to Follow List Merit- or Money-Based?

Thu, 08/05/2010 - 23:06
Could these these recommendation be another form of advertising? Paying to make yourself a priority recommendation, sort of like Jason Calacanis tried to do with his offer of $120k, $250k, or $500k for being a top recommended Tweeter on Twitter. (Did they ever take him up on it?)

Successful SNS's Will Be Modeled on the College Campus

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 22:20
The future of Social Network Services (SNS) can be discovered on High School and College campuses. I believe that topic-specific “vertical” SNS’s are very important, but I also think that the model needs to be University-like – a modularized SNS

Gift and Asset Distribution is Essential Online

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 22:09
Why should the online conversation change because of you? Why should online communities care about what you have to offer?

Virtual Relationships, True Love

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 21:53
we’re all searching for birds of a feather and it is surely easier to find people “like me” online in a pool of tens-of-millions rather than your town. We also want love, respect, appreciation, and adoration instead of simply acting out of obligation. We’re sick and tired of living shotgun lives.

Online Communities are Real Communities of Real People

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 21:50
Do you think that people who play Second Life, World of Warcraft, Xbox Live, MMOGs, and MMORPGs are freaks? Do you consider message boards, forums, virtual realities, and virtual communities to be a waste of time, populated by losers?

Virtual Communities are More Real

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 21:47
Online communities are not virtual. They don’t exist only in the bits and bytes on the series of pipes known as the interwebs. To the contrary, I have found, in the 26-years that I have been online, that the relationships and bonds that people form online are not only real but in many cases are more authentic.

Fox News Has The Most Satisfied Customers

Tue, 08/03/2010 - 17:30
The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) released reports measuring customer satisfaction for various industries. This year marked Social Media’s first time entering the index of measurements by the ACSI.

The Web's New Gold Mine: Your Secrets

Fri, 07/30/2010 - 20:35
A Wall Street Journal investigation finds that one of the fastest growing businesses on the Internet is the business of spying on American consumers. First in a series.

How Many Twitter Auto DMs are Too Many from Hangen PR?

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 17:31
I wasn’t intending on blogging this as there is honor amongst thieves; however, I just got pissed off there were so many copies of the exact same auto DM that I got sick and tired of deleting them.

For those who still wonder: why Social Media?

Tue, 07/20/2010 - 00:39
The author of Socialnomics, Erik Qualman, once again finds a way of captivating the audience with a short video that shows some impressive statistics about the role of social media in the business world.