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OneRiot Brings Its Real-Time Ads to the Web
OneRiot is targeting these new ad units at services that are already in the real-time ecosystem, including social networks, real-time meme trackers and other social sharing services. While we can't verify this data, it doesn't come as a surprise that these ads, which usually point to interesting and relevant content on OneRiot's partner sites would have high click-through rates, especially if users are already on news site or are using a browser-based Twitter tool. Until now, anybody who wanted to implement real-time ads from OneRiot 's RiotWise network had to get these ads through OneRiot's API and create a customized user interface around these ads.
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Three iPhone Apps To Save Yourself & The World
The app offers a seafood guide, which customizes content according to geographical region, lets you search according to what type of fish you're considering buying or eating at a restaurant. GoodGuide is the more all-encompassing package, looking at more than 60,000 products and rating them according to "health, environmental and social performance". The team employs a range of scientific We saw a cartoon recently that shows the attendees of a "Climate Summit", with a single naysayer yelling out from the back of the crowd "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
ReadWriteWeb - Friday, March 19, 2010
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Test Driving RandomDorm: Collegiate, Dude-Heavy Version of ChatRoulette
are experiencing and contemplating similar issues, questions, social lives, GoodCrush aims to be much more social, playful, and informal. Adds Weinstein, "Our goal isn’t for users to spend their time on their computer, but rather use our services as a social utility to complement and catalyze off-line activities and opportunities." The Big Question - Privacy It’s also hard not to draw parallels to that other (wildly successful) social utility founded by an Ivy League student. As the spotlight beams brightly on ChatRoulette and its attendant lumps, humps, and hairy backs, there is another, more wholesome, site that's just debuted.
Fast Company - Friday, March 19, 2010
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  • Six Social Media Trends for 2010
    In 2009 we saw exponential growth of social media. So what could social media look like in 2010? In 2010, social media will get even more popular, more mobile, and more exclusive — at least, that's my guess. Social media begins to look less social With According to Nielson Online, Twitter alone grew 1,382% year-over-year in February , registering a total of just more than 7 million unique visitors in the US for the month. Meanwhile, Facebook continued to outpace MySpace.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, November 2, 2009
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  • Debunking Social Media Myths
    He said "I was selling in the idea that social media is free, until the community manager headcount came in." This underscores a fundamental truth to social media that many organizations underestimate-- being social means having real live people who actively participate in your initiatives. The economics of using social media in business require the participation of people to fuel it. I recently spoke at and attended the Conversational Marketing Summit in NYC. On day two, I heard something from Brian Wallace of Blackberry that echoed thoughts I've been preaching
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 29, 2009
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  • Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategies
    If you've got an experienced social media team, a solid budget and an appetite for innovation, you can create an original online presence that engages your customers or supporters in an entirely new kind of online experience. That doesn't limit your social media options to a generic corporate news blog or a standard-issue Facebook page. But many organizations lack the time, budget or experience to start from scratch. Here are three great options for robust social media presences that let you manage cost and risk by building on existing tools and established best practices.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, July 27, 2009
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  • How Ford Got Social Marketing Right
    The Fiesta Movement promised to be the most visible, formative social media experiment for the automotive world. Under the direction of Jim Farly, Group VP at Ford and Connie Fontaine , manager of brand content there, Undercurrent decided to depart from the viral marketing rule book. They're always looking, they're always hungry, they're always looking for more content to create. I Ford recently wrapped the first chapter of its Fiesta Movement, leaving us distinctly wiser about marketing in the digital space. Ford gave 100 consumers a car for six months and asked
    HarvardBusiness.org - Thursday, January 7, 2010
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  • CoP Series #8: Content and Community
    am finally getting the rest of the series up.   Part 1 , part 2 , part 3, , part 4, part 5 , part 6 , and part 7 are all here on the blog. We have talked throughout this series on communities of practice about “content.” 8221; Well, what the heck is content, why is it important and how do we make the most of it - especially when there is a LOT of it. This is the eighth  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick late last year. I
    Full Circle - Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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  • 10 Ways Social Media Will Change in 2009
    "Social media" was the term du jour in 2008. We have social media gurus, social media startups, social media books, and social media firms. It is now common practice among corporations to hire social media strategists, assign community managers, and launch social media campaigns, all designed to tap into the power of social media. Consumers, companies, and marketers were all talking about it. But social media today is a pure mess: it has become a collection of countless features, tools, and applications fighting for a piece of the pie.
    ReadWriteWeb - Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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  • 10 Ways to Build Social Media Expertise Using Personal Web Projects
    When Timex sponsored a Twitter party in late 2009, it leaned on the social media expertise of Stefania Pomponi Butler and her partners in Clever Girls Collective to deliver a conversation that would engage women consumers with the Timex brand. But Stefania's social media smarts weren't born from a corporate campaign or formal training: this former marketing pro got her start in social media by blogging about life as an urban mom . The success of her personal blog brought forth paid blogging gigs, which turned into editing gigs and then production gigs. Eventually, she
    HarvardBusiness.org - Tuesday, February 2, 2010
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  • Five Challenges Social Media Will Bring to Business
    A recent survey conducted by Proofpoint found that 8% of companies had terminated employees due to social media usage (common causes including sharing sensitive information on a network). And while the statistic seems significant, it only underscores one of several upcoming challenges nearly every organization will face as changes in people, process and technology fueled by the collective movement we call social media begin to transform business. Here are a few challenges that every organization should be planning for right now: 1.
    HarvardBusiness.org - Friday, August 14, 2009
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  • New Twitter Research: Men Follow Men and Nobody Tweets
    We then compared our findings to activity on other social networks and online content production venues. By comparison, only 60 to 65% of other online social networks' members had at least one friend (when these networks were at a similar level of development). These results are stunning given what previous research has found in the context of online social networks. Twitter has attracted tremendous attention from the media and celebrities, but there is much uncertainty about Twitter's purpose. Is Twitter a communications service for friends and groups, a means
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, June 1, 2009
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  • Overcoming the Obstacles To Social Business
    While social media often commands favorable media attention, the less often told story is that successful initiatives are rare to come by and that there still a number of organizational roadblocks that managers need to overcome in order to make progress. Externally, social media is a vastly significant iteration of the Web which has empowered the public in ways we never imagined. Still, we are seeing signs of progress in the form of new efficiencies, more direct ways to connect with customers, and ways to make products and services better. From my experience working and talking
    HarvardBusiness.org - Monday, November 9, 2009
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