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2010 Social Media Inspiration

As part of Jack Morton Boston’s 2010 Kickoff today I’m giving a presentation about Brand Community and specifically social media.  The presentation is primarily a collection of inspiring creative and strategy from 2009 delivered in my typical fast and furious style.  So if you were there and missed something or are just interested, here are [...]

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Simplicity, Elegance and Customization With The Lifestream WordPress Plugin

I dabble with Lifestreaming, displaying activity from across multiple social media and networking site in one location, and have gone as far as to tweak a plugin to add a bunch of feeds and work just like I wanted, but it takes a lot of maintenance.  Currently my Lifestream page is down again and not [...]

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Facebook and Yelp Steal Effectively From The Competition

Last week saw the announcement of feature migrations from one social network to another.  First there is the the new retweet feature on Facebook called via.  With it you can repost a link posted by one of your friends to your own network.  Just like retweeting, this allows you to extend a link’s reach and [...]

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LinkedIn, Where’s Your BlackBerry App?

Last December I wrote about 3 BlackBerry social network applications that were expected by the end of 2009. They were Foursquare, Twitter and LinkedIn. This week the well done and extremely useful Foursquare BlackBerry app was released as a public beta and also a screen shot was released of the native Twitter app that has [...]

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Review: Foursquare For BlackBerry

Foursquare just released their application for the BlackBerry as a public beta, giving the largest number of smartphone owners access to the location based social network that iPhone and Android users have had for awhile. Foursquare members who have been using the mobile site on the BlackBerry will be very, very happy with the new [...]

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Google Mobile Searches BlackBerry Contacts And Messages

The Google Mobile app for BlackBerry rolled out a new trick earlier this week and is now searching your contacts and messages as well as the web. While this immediately seemed like a nice addition to the functionality as I’ve been using it the new functionality seems more like a logical addition, but not one [...]

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Steve Rubel Interviewed By Social Media Examiner

Following is an interview of Steve Rubel, Senior Vice President from Edelman, interviewed by Michael A. Stelzner of Social Media Examiner, In the 9 minute video they discuss many things such as shared mutual game for companies and consumers, his switch to Posterous for blogging, keeping an eye on digerati and 20 and 30 somethings [...]

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Wordbooker Simplifies WordPress Facebook Cross Posting

Writing a blog post is only half the battle.  Once it’s published you need to spread the word that it’s done and attract an audience.  I do that through RSS and Twitter and together they do a lot of the heavy lifting.  However that leaves my Facebook friends out, unless  of course we are also [...]

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Foursquare Goes Crimson With New Harvard Badge

Yesterday I lobbied for some local badges on Foursquare now that the social network has gone borderless and even proposed one for my home town, Cambridge “our fair city” MA. Then I foundout that the local college went and partnered with Foursquare even getting their own badge! Yup, Harvard has a Foursquare badge that they [...]

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Foursquare Makes Us Citizens Of The World

After months of expanding into new cities, countries and continents location-based social network Foursquare removed all geographic barriers last week eliminating the city-based account associations and badge awards in an inclusive, one world, love-in of sorts. If you don’t know Foursquare, it’s a social network that is based on where where you physically are.  You [...]

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