June 2008
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Need Press? Repeat: ‘Green,’ ‘Sex,’ ‘Cancer,’... →
These certain buzzwords in pitches and press releases cause journalists to perk up and pay attention.
—Alyssa
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Cartier Comes To MySpace -- With Love →
This is a good example of the evolution of branding on MySpace.
-Maria
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Posterous Beats Tumblr In Simplicity →
Posterous claims to be an even simpler blogging tool than Tumblr. You decide.
-Maria
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Grou.ps Pulls In $1.1 Million, Opens Up Code To... →
TechCrunch interview with Grou.ps founders. The site offers chat, blogs, wikis, forums, mailing lists, photo albums, bookmarking, calendaring and maps, among other features. You can run all of your group’s collaboration tools from one Grou.ps domain using a single login.
-Maria
John McCain Is Way Behind Online →
Obama continues to take the online portion of his campaign by storm.
-Maria
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Newsweek and Target partner for a very cool Earth... →
—Josh
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WatchMartha Stewart explains blogging, for the middle-aged mom set. Kind of hilarious.
(via Best Week Ever)
—Alyssa
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Huffington Post to expand with local sites →
The Huffington Post will launch a Chicago-focused site in August, to be followed by a dozen more city-specific sites.
—Alyssa
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Newspaper Outsourcing Comes To The OC →
Even journalism is being outsourced to India these days.
—Alyssa
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How to Manage an Office Full of 20-Somethings →
As a 20-something myself, I would say this list is pretty accurate.
—Alyssa
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Google to Offer a Tool to Measure Web Hits →
Thanks, Google! Very useful.
—Alyssa
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200 million friends and counting →
Interview with MySpace co-founder Tom Anderson.
—Michelle
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Journalist Blogs About Being Laid Off →
Journalist Brayden Simms blogs for the Miami Herald about being laid off…by the Miami Herald.
(via Gawker)
—Alyssa
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Facebook overtakes MySpace worldwide →
Facebook has the largest monthly traffic worldwide, while MySpace still remains the leader in the U.S.
— Megan
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Even The New York Times is Twittering now →
But they sort of just post links to their newest articles.
(via Gawker)
—Alyssa
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Twitter Will Die? →
Interesting read…
—Josh
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TV Viewing Drops Among Online Video Downloaders... →
—Josh
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Modeling the Real Market Value of Social Networks →
This article uses advertising values, rather than unique visitors, to rank the top 25 social networking sites.
-Elise
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WatchApparently we’re all “idiot babies,” haha.
-Alyssa
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Great tips for how marketers should get involved... →
-Josh
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“Hi. My name is Steve and I suffer from Shiny Object Syndrome (SOS for short)....”
– Steve Rubell
Some great observations on FriendFeed and SocialThing!
-Josh
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A user-generated movie... →
Interesting way to engage the online community.
-Josh
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National Float Day!
Very Cool Promotion
-Josh
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YouTube Shifts Strategy, Tries Long-Form Video →
This could get very interesting.
-Maria
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How-To: Gathering Market Intelligence from Social... →
Great article on best practices for finding market intelligence online. A MUST read.
-Maria
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Social media and PR: Big brands share their... →
Check out some of the future predictions in this article, especially the ID tagging concept.
-Maria
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No Mocha For Me, Thanks. I've Gotta Buy Gas →
Glad I don’t have a car!
-Maria
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Traditional Media Not Dead Yet for Marketing,... →
Apparently more consumers still respond to traditional media ads over digital ones. But that’s probably just because they’re usually stressed out while surfing the Net, or they’re not comfortable with the medium yet.
-Alyssa
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McDonald's to Employees: Participate in Social... →
McDonald’s has its own employee social network called Station M, and recently appointed McD’s crew member Rick (for some reason, his webpage is all in Spanish) to the position of official company blogger.
-Alyssa
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Travel Writers Ruminate on When To Send Press Kits →
Do travel writers really bring your press materials along on their trips? Good to know…
-Alyssa
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How to Go Viral on MySpace With 4 Easy-to-Try... →
This can translate across other network platforms too!
-Maria
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Check out what The New York Times is doing tonight... →
Very cool.
- Josh
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Social networks by demo →
Jeremiah posts a comprehensive list of online communities/social networks by demo. Very helpful!
-Josh
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Vote for Spraychel! →
Great NYT story about how marketers are leveraging the political campaign season to promote brands. Our Spraychel campaign for I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter! is featured among Svedka and Jones Soda. Make sure to vote for Spraychel beginning June 23rd and become her fan on Facebook!
-Josh
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Social Media's Role In a Media Plan →
If you’re on Twitter, you can follow SocialVibe president Joe Marchese.
-Maria
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The Associated Press to Set Guidelines for Using... →
The A.P. doesn’t like it when bloggers quote from its articles.
-Alyssa
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WatchTo draw attention to its FiOS marketing campaign, Verizon created a teddy bear that Twitters. Cool, but…what does that have to do with a fiber-optic internet network? Seems like a bit of a disconnect to me.
-Alyssa
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10 Social Networking Apps →
From Time magazine, their 10 favorite social networking applications. Unsurprisingly, Zombies did not make the cut.
-Alyssa
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50 Most Bizarre Social Networks →
Look no further for the perfect social network, Cnet offers a variety of the world’s weirdest.
-Maria
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Can Nintendo Survive Without the Geeks?
A really weak move by Nintendo…
-Maria
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“PR spam is like a garden hose you can’t turn off. Every Monday, Tuesday...”
– MetaFilter founder Matthew Haughey, on how not to pitch a blogger
-Alyssa
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MySpace's Redesign, Coming Next Week →
Facebook’s ugly big brother has decided to get on the bandwagon and launch a redesign of the site. Hopefully it will ban retina-searing backgrounds and epilepsy-inducing animations.
-Alyssa
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The Role of SEO in PR →
That’s a lot of acronyms! How search engine optimization can help your clients get more attention on the Web.
-Alyssa
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Facebook Profiles for Sale →
-Maria
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