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July’s issue of NY Enterprise Report features an article I wrote, entitled Networking 2.0. In this piece, I describe how several firms are using LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to reach customers, save time, and close sales.
Cut from the piece was my interview with Kevin Lee, Executive Chairman and co-Founder of DidIt.com, an online marketing firm. [...]

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Coming out of the Supernova 2008 conference, three social web developers have started a show to discuss some of the top issues around openness and give an intelligent backgrounder on the disagreements between Google and Facebook over connecting systems to benefit users.
The Social Web TV: The Pilot: ‘Talk to our lawyers… bitch’
In the pilot [...]

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In this post on using “Live Connections to Leverage Virtual Connections to get new, important Live Connections” I wrote last month, I interviewed Chuck Hester of iContact.
Today, the NYTimes had the same idea. Congrats to Chuck on the great publicity - he does a great job on LinkedIn Live, and all his activities.
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The BBC has been able set up a malicious application that can steal details of not only your information but the people you’re connected with. This is because in Facebook, applications have permission to ‘walk the tree’ of your friend contact details, letting the apps do things like populate the list of people for you [...]

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Seems I’m endorsing Union Square Ventures on Facebook**. Tip of the hat to Michael Pinto, who was served this wonderful ad.

Fred, Brad, call me. Let’s do lunch. Who knows how big this can get…
(**Of course I knew this could happen when I became a “fan.” That’s why I’m only fans of products I [...]

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Forward this…

My post today at the Conversation Hub »
Forward this…and see what happens. Familiar title, no? How many times in the recent past have you received something like this on a social network service? “Forward this and see who looks at your profile the most!” “Forward this and a cute dog will wink at [...]

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Sharon Jaffe reviews FB and decides she’s getting a bit fatigued.
Jaffe Blend: Hot or Not (interested)?
On hearing about Facebook fatigue, I admit to being somewhat less interested in Facebook thesedays. My primary annoyance being the Superwall posts which are a (futile?) attempt to see who accesses your profile by forwarding a useless picture of something [...]

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Several people, including my wife, have asked me why I do things like Twitter, update my Facebook status, and blog about where I’m going and what I’m interested in. I always believed it was a combination of sharing with my friends (who might learn about a conference, event, or topic from my posts), “eating my [...]

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I can’t believe this is back. After all this discussion you would think that Blockbuster must have SOMEONE watching the blogosphere who might have alerted someone not to use David in an ad. But No, HE’S BAACCKKK!
BTW, this appeared on my Facebook News Stream.
UPDATE: David has blogged this again, and has created a contest!
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The other day I reviewed David Berkowitz’s dilemma regarding being the subject of an ad that changed him from a “fan” of Blockbuster on Facebook to a brand spokesperson. The post at David’s Blog has garnered over 70 comments, and he has asked for some of us to further comment in a post that just [...]

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