September 2011
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This #FollowFriday thing really has gone too far.
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Killing it at #socialfresh -- @LisaHoffmann of...
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January 2011
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Is Instagram the Next Distribution Opportunity for...
Like Twitter, Instagram is a real-time social platform that enables popular images to rise to the surface quickly, both on its network and on the other social networks it is linked to. We doubt it will take a photo like Krums’s to get other news organizations to follow NPR’s lead. As a quick, easy-to-use tool for taking and distributing photos — and thus drawing in audiences — it arguably has no...
July 2010
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Social Media Is Not Advertising
When considering social media, I can’t fully deconstruct analytics or measurement tools. I respect them and recognize them as the valuable indicators of aggregate human behavior that they are, but I don’t *know* data. What I do know is that social media is not advertising. Rather, it’s a litmus test to individuals, organizations and companies across strata: how do you handle change? How do...
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Mobile Users Ready for Location-Based Text...
A large swathe of mobile users cannot be reached by more sophisticated mobile marketing efforts like sponsored apps, in-app ads or campaigns on the mobile web. According to location-based advertising network 1020 Placecast, opt-in text alerts are the smart way to target a fuller mobile audience. (full article…) eMarketer | Mobile Users Ready for Location-Based Text Marketing Posted via...
AP Mobile News story - Worker in trouble for...
Headlines: http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_11750/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=Ix65oGGw Get news on the go with the Mobile News Network. Visit http://www.apnews.com to learn how to get it for your phone. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Posted via email from 93octane’s posterous | Comment »
June 2010
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No Gulf seafood, no po-boys; owner shuts La. cafe
Headlines: http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8586/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=tUOpsU7x Get news on the go with the Mobile News Network. Visit http://www.apnews.com to learn how to get it for your phone. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Posted via email from 93octane’s posterous | Comment »
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Free Hydra Head Records Digital Sampler - 22...
Get the download link for the free 22-track Hydra Head Sampler HERE! TrackListing: Oxbow + Philippe Thiphaine “Coalking” From Songs for the French (5:46) Daughters “The First Supper” From “s/t” (3:18) Bohren & Der Club Of Gore “Unkerich” From Dolores (5:31) Knut “Calamity” From Wonder (1:43) The Austerity Program ...
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June Social Media Breakfast: Social Media and...
If you’re not taking advantage of Social Media in your E-mail Marketing and vice versa or your efforts aren’t as effective as you’d like them to be, then please join us for another informative and in-depth Social Media Breakfast. — Register Today — Our Special Guests: Adam Holden-Bache, CEO/Managing Director, Mass Transmit, an Internet marketing agency. Greg...
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Bringing Marketing on Foursquare Into Focus
Foursquare is getting a lot of attention these days, not just because of their meteoric growth, but also for being at the forefront of enabling businesses to market and promote with their location-based service. The promise of marketing with Foursquare is that it “will empower you to develop more engaging ongoing relationships with [your] customers” but the cost and risk involved make achieving...
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Ozzy Osbourne, Weezer Headline to Voodoo Fest in...
Metal icon Ozzy Osbourne tops the initial roster of performers announced for the 2010 Voodoo Experience, Oct. 29-31. He’ll join Muse, MGMT, Weezer, Drake, Metric, Paul Oakenfold, the Eagles of Death Metal, Cage the Elephant, Minus the Bear, Janelle Monae, Street Sweeper Social Club and dozens of New Orleans musicians in City Park. (full article…) NOLA.com | Ozzy Osbourne, Muse, MGMT,...
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Facebook page ownership can now be changed
One of the biggest complaints owners of Facebook Pages have had is that once a page is created, it was owned by that person forever. It caused quite a dilemma for a company that wanted to set up a fan page because it meant it might be owned by a person who would eventually leave the company. That’s changed. Now, any administrator of a page can remove any other administrator. It means ownership...
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Using the Conversation Prism to Establish a...
Social media is not governed by the media or technology that facilitate online interaction, contribution, or participation. It is defined by the people, the communities they join, and the parallel cultures and behavior that manifest. Technology and the networks that spawn through constant innovation will continually surface, merge, excel, or vanish. Human nature and the desire to connect,...
May 2010
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Image-conscious youth rein in social networking -...
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New “Drastically Simplified” Facebook Privacy...
Facebook’s vice president of product Chris Cox announced that starting tomorrow, Facebook will be rolling out “drastically simplified” and improved privacy controls. (full article…) TechCrunch | New “Drastically Simplified” Facebook Privacy Controls Start Rolling Out Tomorrow (by MG Siegler) Posted via web from 93octane’s posterous | Comment »
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The Twitter Platform
Enduring Value When we discuss the future of Twitter, we focus on the mechanisms through which we can build a platform of enduring value. The three mechanisms most important to building such a platform are architecting for extensibility, providing a robust API to the platform’s functionality, and ensuring the long-term health and value of the user experience… Ecosystem Clarity We heard...
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way...
New Social Networking Site Changing The Way Oh, Christ, Forget It Let Someone Else Report On This BullshitWhile millions of young, tech-savvy professionals already use services like Facebook and Twitter to keep in constant touch with friends, a new social networking platform called Foursquare has recently taken the oh, fucking hell, can’t some other desperate news outlet cover this crap...
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Huge New Tweetdeck Update is Out
It’s got Buzz. It’s got Foursquare. It’s got maps. It’s got scheduled updates. It’s got video uploading. It’s got webcam recording. It’s got custom URL shorteners. It’s got custom Twitter APIs. It’s got global filters. It’s got swanky new designs. It’s got fire breath…. (full article…) The Next Web | Huge New Tweetdeck Update is Out (by Zee) Posted via web from 93octane’s...
Twitter seems hell bent on not letting you...
It would appear that the site is, in fact, filtering out any Tweet containing the letters RT from searches. (full article…) The Next Web | Twitter seems hell bent on not letting you re-tweet how you want to (by Brad McCarty) Posted via web from 93octane’s posterous | Comment »
Microsoft upgrade aims to make Hotmail cool again...
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Charlotte Waitress fired for griping about tip on...
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April 2010
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10 Essential Rules for Brands in Social Media
These days everyone seems to have advice about how to run your social media marketing program. There are so many tips floating around, it’s hard to know what truly essential strategies you should follow to effectively use social media to build your business…Our process was to query data from hundreds of our brand clients to see what testable truths emerged — and here’s...
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Millennial Employees & The Back Channel
If taxonomy is communication from the top down, folksonomy is communication from the bottom up. At the bottom is generally where you will find your Millennials, just because of where we’re at in life right now. Gen Y has a lot of social power currently but that’s about it; a LOT of this can be attributed to social media. We’ve formed ourselves into formidable members of the collective...
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Millennial Employees & The Back Channel
If taxonomy is communication from the top down, folksonomy is communication from the bottom up. At the bottom is generally where you will find your Millennials, just because of where we’re at in life right now. Gen Y has a lot of social power currently but that’s about it; a LOT of this can be attributed to social media. We’ve formed ourselves into formidable members of the collective...
March 2010
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How to Build Engaging One-of-Kind Facebook Fan...
Don’t let anyone tell you it is easy to create a successfully engaging Facebook Fan Page. It is not. It’s not an insurmountable task either. But it requires planning, time, some kind of HTML knowledge, design skill, and imagination. Originality doesn’t hurt either. Fan Page Profile Pictures You might not know this but you can use a picture for your profile page as large as 200 x 600...
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Twitter Launches A New, Dynamic Homepage
All of our recent changes embrace the notion that Twitter is not just for status updates anymore. It’s a network where information is exchanged and consumed at a rapid clip every second of the day. With so much being shared, we know that there’s something of value for everyone. People who internalize the value of Twitter understand the power of this simple medium. But it hasn’t...
5 Tips for Participating in Online Communities
Joining online communities is a great way to meet new people with common interests. It’s also a good way to get to know your customers on a more personal, human level. Before start flapping at the gums about your fantastic offer, though, you have to pay your dues. Remember: You’re the outsider. O via mediaemerging.com Posted via web from 93octane’s...
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"Now is the time and we really need you, so don't...
The biggest gasp came during comments by Jessica Rohloff, organizer of NetSquared New Orleans, who urged Landrieu to set up a business incubator for technology companies and to market New Orleans as a hub for technological innovation, on par with Seattle and Austin. (full article…) NOLA.com | Some blunt advice for the incoming mayor (by Frank Donze and Michelle Krupa) Posted via web from...
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Why the Personal Mandate to Buy Health Insurance...
Editor’s Note: I support the Healthcare Reform Law. A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First,...
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BEST T-SHIRT AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF YOUR MUSIC:...
You know that skull being pierced by two swords? Yeah, that’s Black Tusk, the Savannah, GA, trio that comes at you with three vocalists, an army of tattoos, and a scream-heavy fusillade of bottom-heavy riffage that set the entire crowd at Encore in motion. They call it “swamp metal,” but that’s almost misleading — the way guitarist Andrew Fidler and bassist...
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ZOMG They Stole The Guitarist. Also Naked Crowd...
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February 2010
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Dear Miami...
Dear Miami: Get ready for the Who Dat Nation coming for the Super Bowl By Mark Lorando, The Times-Picayune February 01, 2010, 2:06PM Scott Threlkeld / The Times-PicayuneSaints fans celebrate the overtime win for the NFC Championship on Jan. 24 — and the chance to go to Miami. Dear Miami, The Saints are coming. And so are we, their loyal, long-suffering and slightly...
January 2010
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Ballantyne Business 2010 Kickoff Lunch Meetup...
@93octane - Lyell Petersen @richtucker - Rich Tucker @benmarvin - Ben Marvin @N1CK3LB4CKFAN01 - John Christenbury @JordonOrr - Jordon Orr @austindlight - Austin Light @susanjspaulding - Susan J. Spaulding @carolinaspy - Susan Perry Yarber @bigfleet - Jim Van Fleet @DavidWells - David Wells @NC_SEO - Robert Enriquez @budesigns - Ben Ullman @learnthat - Jeremy Reis @derekhernquist - Derek Hernquist...
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Apple’s Secret Cloud Strategy And Why Lala Is...
Apple plans to upgrade their users almost over night to a cloud music service in an ambitious move to beat Amazon and others to a cloud music service. Apple’s recent acquisition of digital music startup Lala rekindled speculation of an iTunes subscription service…but after talking to a wide variety of insider sources it’s clear there is no upcoming Apple subscription service and Apple...
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Jucifer Melts Down Volume 11
I wasn’t sure about Jucifer – sludge metal isn’t really my music – but I was interested to see a hardcore band with a female lead. Some of the songs I dialed up online were curiously beautiful, and I hoped we’d hear those. But their live show is brutal and relentless from the moment Amber Valentine slashes out an opening chord. We were doomed. I think I counted 13 amps in their stack,...
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Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass (via...
Tumblr and Posterous are the two most prominent “tumblogging” sites, i.e. sites that make blogging more straightforward by making it easier to post media. Both were launched within six months. (Actually, Posterous was started later than Tumblr.) But now Tumblr has been an Alexa Top 100 site for a while and is still growing strong. Meanwhile Posterous has about 4 times less uniques. Yet...
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Posterous Jumps On The Revenue Wagon; Signs...
I asked Posterous co-founder Sachin Agarwal how Posterous will actually make money. His answer was simple. Charge for business and commercial use of Posterous…One of Posterous’ first “clients” is Coca-Cola, which is definitely a good first start. Coca-Cola is using Posterous for its NCAA “Dept of Fannovation” where people can come up with ideas to improve the experience of being a fan, and...
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Angel Investing: What it is and how to get it,...
The LTC’s Capital Access Special Interest Group presents: “Angel Investing - What it is and how to get it” Choose Taurman and Clayton White, Directors of the South Coast Angel Fund, will review the basics of angel investing and discuss how entrepreneurs and investors looking for capital should approach angel investment groups. Who should attend - potential angels looking...
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TWITTER ANALYSIS: 40% of Tweets Are About...
With Twitter being such a hot trend right now, research firms have been anxious to study how people are using the social platform, and analyze trends in aggregate view. One such company, data analytics provider, Pear Analytics, set out to study the contents of our tweets to determine if, in fact, we’re all just sharing mindless babble, or if there was something more intellectual going on. ...
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7 Social Media Roles You Haven’t Considered
When you think of social media roles, chances are you think of a community manager or the oh-so-generic “social media manager”, which is usually some function of the marketing department managing strictly social media programs. But there are loads of other potential roles that can integrate or represent social media alongside other business areas. Considering these is one of the primary ways to...
The 10 Most Spectacular Shipwrecks from the past...
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Customer service startup Get Satisfaction raises...
With the new funding, Get Satisfaction has raised $4.8 million in all. It now has more than 25,000 company pages, and apparently, chief executive Wendy Lea was just invited to the White House meeting of business leaders. Competitors include RightNow, Lithium, and Salesforce.com’s Service Cloud. (full article…) VentureBeat | (by Anthony Ha) Posted via web from 93octane’s...
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Jucifer’s Amber Valentine Is Not A Meth-head |...
Since 1993, the furious duo of Amber Valentine and Edgar Livengood have been confounding and entertaining with their eclectic musical mix that frequently and wantonly crosses the boundaries between metal and rock. Jucifer’s unrestrained artistry has led to some pretty impressive albums, including two for Relapse Records: 2006’s If Thine Enemy Hunger and last year’s L’Autrichienne. As the...
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Nobody Has A Million Twitter Followers
[ I need your help! If you landed here by following a link, would you please take a short moment to leave a comment about whether or not you find my posting format (abstract w/link to full article) of value to you, and what, if anything, you would change about this technique? Any other comments are always welcome. I appreciate your feedback, thanks! -@93octane ] Does that mean Twitter’s...
CarMax Promotion Taps into Market of Twitter Users
[ I need your help! If you landed here by following a link, would you please take a short moment to leave a comment about whether or not you find my posting format (abstract w/link to full article) of value to you, and what, if anything, you would change about this technique? Any other comments are always welcome. I appreciate your feedback, thanks! -@93octane ] CarMax is looking to boost sales...
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Twitter Kicks Off 2010 Hiring People Away From...
Starting today at the new Twitter offices in San Francisco are no less than 10 new staff members in a variety of roles. The biggest fish Twitter caught is likely Bakari Brock, a former attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton who has served as Corporate Counsel for YouTube and Google since September 2007. It’s not only Google losing key staff to Twitter, though. [Louis] Gray also tracked these people,...
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Seesmic Acquires Ping.fm
Seesmic applications on Blackberry, Android, Web, Windows and OSX via Air will all have advanced Ping.fm integration very shortly and therefore will instantly support 50 social networks. Seesmic users will also be able to update not only with the apps they are used to, but also with Ping.fm’s email, sms and chat gateways.via blog.seesmic.com Seesmic.com | We’ve acquired Ping.fm. Get...
December 2009
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First ever Suicidal Tendencies DVD to be released...
Suicidal [Tendencies] recorded live at the Olympic Auditorium in front of 4,000 Cycos…you can enjoy it in the safety of your living room. (full article…) Tracklisting 01. Intro 02. I Shot Reagan 03. War Inside My Head 04. Subliminal 05. Ain’t Gonna Take It 06. Suicidal Failure 07. We Are Family 08. Possessed To Skate 09. I Saw Your Mommy 10. Waking The Dead 11....
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Twitter 2.0: API Rate Change Could Lead to a World...
Twitter’s Director of Platform Ryan Sarver followed up on earlier public announcements this weekend with an email to developers explaining plans to raise the limit on the number of times an application can request information from Twitter for a single user to 10 times what it is today (from 150 req/hr to 1500/hr), and to offer everyone the same kind of paid access to the full “fire...
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LinkedIn Polishes Its iPhone App Into A More...
There is a new main screen that features 12 main buttons. Yes, this is just like the new Facebook app main screen that features big buttons. With LinkedIn’s you’ll get easy access to “All Updates,” “Status,” “Profiles,” “Discussions,” “Connections,” “Favorites,” “Inbox,” “Invitations,” “Recents,” “Reconnect,” “In Person,” and “Themes.” Of these, the Reconnect, In Person, and Themes areas are...