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A fascinating article found its way to me courtesy of a link from a new-found colleague of mine, Wendy Rosen.
The NYT reports on a phenomenon that is sweeping the globe — the mobile-based social network.
I thought it was cool to be able to Twitter via my mobile, but that is kiddy stuff compared to [...]

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Got an email yesterday from Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications, alerting me pre-launch to a great initiative of his.
You can now pop a widget on your blog or main website that pulls in the latest stories from the various Ragan web properties.

As Mark explains, it is a way of getting some of the great [...]

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The wise Chip Griffin has started a fabulous meme over on his Media Bullseye site.
Chip argues persuasively for the ‘throwing out’ of the ‘rules’ we leading-edge social mediarists have sometimes insisted be followed.
As Chip says,
I’m here to tell you that most of the rules are bunk, and we as an industry to ourselves a [...]

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Sue Dewhurst (a fabulous communicator based in the UK) recently had one of those ‘flickering light bulb’ moments, this time regarding Twitter.
Sue confessed to previously holding a very negative view of it but realising that it might have some use in the business setting after all.
Colleague Alex Manchester from Melcrum in Sydney suggested a brilliant [...]

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From Paull Young’s Facebook photo collection comes a brilliant caption:
“Southern girls always get in the way when you’re trying to watch the footy…”

Poor Christi!
Superb caption, mate!
Currently listening to: Men at Work - ‘Down Under’
Technorati tags: paull young, christin eubanks, facebook, lee hopkins

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No, this isn’t a post about medical malpractice. But it is about corporate malpractice when organisations choose to deny 20somethings internet access to their peers.
Back when I was a youth the internet didn’t exist, nor did it exist for many of the senior managers running today’s larger organisations.
If I were them and [...]

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Following on in the tradition of ‘meme spread’ comes a brief audio report on my views about media snackers.
Fellow Twitterati Connie Reece tagged me, and here’s the background:
A new new media friend, Connie Bensen, tagged me on a meme started by one of my favorite bloggers, Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang.
Jeremiah posed the original question: Do [...]

 

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