March 11, 2009
This card that came in a recent book purchase made me smile. The book publishers thanked me for my purchase, told me what types of books they tended to sell, and asked me whether I wanted to receive updates on other books of theirs as they came out. In one simple card, I had a warm thank-you, some i...
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March 10, 2009
Self-identified rational people take pride in the fact that they can't be easily manipulated, but of course that's the pride part of their dumb monkey brains talking. Here's an interesting study that measured whether hard-to-pronounce words were perceived as riskier than words that were easier to pr...
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Chris Walters
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March 05, 2009
As the California Supreme Court hears oral arguments today on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, a debate is growing in our community about the effectiveness of the recent advertising and public outreach conducted by LGBT advocacy organizations in opposition to......
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Ben Finzel
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March 04, 2009
As we mentioned in Sloppy Seconds Monday, in an effort to "embrace social media" Skittles relaunched their website as a Twitter feed—meaning every Tweet that mentions Skittles appears on their homepage. Obviously, this was either incredibly idiotic or an act of genius on the part of the ...
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Emily Farris
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March 03, 2009
As I note in the headline, it's been a busy few months. The winter months may seem quiet, but the dotMobi team has been hard at work: We've launched Instant Mobilizer, a tool that puts the mobile Web into practically everyone's hands. eNom just launched it for their many resellers, and m...
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Vance P. Hedderel
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March 02, 2009
Forrester Research is out with a new brief this morning by analysts Jeremiah Owyang and Josh Bernoff that says that sponsored conversations on blogs - akin to what how Chris Brogan partnered with KMart - are going to become more commonplace. Further, they recommend the tactic provided that there are...
Micro Persuasion
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Steve Rubel
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March 01, 2009
Until very recently Scans_Daily was a livejournal fan community dedicated to comic books. Their main activity was to post scans from comics, ranging from a page though to a significant portion of a comic book – mainly recent releases but also back issues – and to summarise, critique and, a...
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Tama
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February 27, 2009
Australian eBay seller yellowscooter knows how to sell a damn bike. Dude could probably sell gamma radiation to The Hulk. This is a max wicked sick BMX. It's a Reliance Boomerang and it's done heaps of maximum extreme stunts. I have mostly done stunts on this bike since forever. Once I did a boom gn...
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As the recession erodes Web budgets, customer experience professionals hope that agencies will be keener to bid on RFPs. Forrester's survey of 46 European agencies shows that agencies expect to be slightly more responsive than they were in 2008, but preparing proposals is too costly for them to bid ...
Forrester Research: Forrester Whole View
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)">"Jonathan Browne" February 26, 2009
Earlier this week, I guest lectured on digital PR at the American University and reported on the experience, Public Relations and Communications’ Future is Bright!. I said that I would not write anything nice unless someone sent me a thoughtful email from the class. Well, I received two nice notes...
Marketing Conversation» Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC
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