Category: social communications


Online criticism: how to make friends and influence people

Looking at this rather amazing photo on flickr I’m quick to interpret it thus: armageddon for brands that have been so sorely attacked in the public domain that they must slink away into the night.
One thing is for sure: whether you and your stake-holders like it or not, with the ever increasing advent of self-regulating […]

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Posted by Jim Amos on Thursday, April 24th, 2008

All hat, no cattle is (shockingly) not the best CGM strategy

We talk a lot about finding ways to convince our clients to take advantage of the “new world” of marketing; underscored by brand ownership by the customers, and the urgency to provide WOM tools, or at least participation.
In his upcoming book, Satisfied Customers Tell Three Friends, Angry Customers Tell 3,000: Running a Business in […]

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Posted by Chris on Monday, February 11th, 2008

How many workers at Google?

Brilliantly illustrated by Blogoscoped. Apparently over 16,800. Link via infosthetics

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Posted by Davezilla on Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Fast Company on fire

Yesterday Fast Company launched their new web site (still in beta). Seems to me after spending a couple of hours on it this morning that this is the one of the best niche social network/community sites out there right now. Scores big on clean design (sure Davezilla can provide more detail on Drupal), content focus, community, multimedia interactivity, and (more than anything) […]

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Posted by Jeremy on Saturday, February 9th, 2008

How to use Keynote

From Larry Lessig’s blog. A 20 minute “video” explaining why he supports Barrack Obama. I’ve posted this to show how to make an incredibly cheap (read: free) video. Maybe companies should do things like this to promote their products and/or services. You have to answer this question. Is this more powerful than a :30 […]

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Posted by misterarthur on Wednesday, February 6th, 2008