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Bing: Top Searches for 2009

The turkey’s only just been turned into stock and there are 31 days left in the 2009, but Bing’s posted their list of the top 10 topics searched for in 2009.  They are:

Michael Jackson
Twitter
Swine Flu
Stock Market
Farrah Fawcett
Patrick Swayze
Cash for Clunkers
Jon and Kate Gosselin
Billy Mays
Jaycee Dugard

Clearly Bing searchers used the mourning of past their prime celebrities [...]

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Event Social Agent: Live At The Conference

I wrote previously about the preproduction work that has to be done by the event social agent before the event or conference in order to be set the stage and be prepared for the big day or few days when they’ll be actively engaged with attendees.
Arm For Bear
The event social agent needs the right tools [...]

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Being Thankful

The other night at a Tweetsgiving event I was asked what I was thankful for and I added my part about a job, friends and family. But really, I have so much more to be thankful about. I am thankful for being one of most fortunate people on earth to be well employed, [...]

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Thankful for Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving which means a short day today, clogged highways, airport delays, a significant drop in attention to the media (except football) and of course long lines at Whole Foods.  I had a few posts lined up for this week about the event social agent and BlackBerry application reviews, but due to the aforementioned [...]

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Event Social Agent: Advance Work

You cannot expecting an event social agent to hit the ground running on the day of the conference.  Preproduction for the event social agent is just as important as for the rest of the event crew. There is plenty of work that needs to be done in advance so that he has the tools that [...]

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Event Social Agent In Action

A colleague told me the other day that his client doesn’t want to use social media because once their content is “out there” then they have no control of how it is used or disseminated.  Of course what is interesting is that the client assumes that their content isn’t already “out there.”  Just because the [...]

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Charter For Compassion

The Charter For Compassion is the result of a cooperative effort led by 2008 TED Prize winner, author and “freelance monotheist” Karen Armstrong.  The goal of this effort is to change our world’s dialogue from selfishness and antagonism to a more open, understanding and supportive tone that eliminates hatred.  The charter is the result of [...]

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Review: Yelp for BlackBerry

Yelp is the popular review social network that operates in US metropolitan areas, Ireland, the UK and other countries in Europe.  Their application for the BlackBerry was launched over the summer and an update was released in the last few weeks.  It brings the encyclopedic listing of locations and crowd sourced reviews into the palm [...]

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Review: Flickr Application for BlackBerry

I use the Flickr BlackBerry application just about every day to support my Boston Moment project. It’s a really useful tool for uploading photos from your BlackBerry to your Flickr photostream and is critical for anyone with a Flickr account who occasionally adds pictures taken from their BlackBerry.
Uploading images with the application is very easy.  [...]

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Social Media Agent

At our 1 Jack virtual meeting yesterday on the future of conferences I presented the following concept for a Event Social Agent who would attend every event and conference that we produce.  The following is a simplistic description of the position as naturally  pre and post event work should be included as well as development [...]

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