Category: social media
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Picture Paints 1000 words – How Obama reinvented campaign finance
Communication Nation: How Obama reinvented campaign finance Barack Obama is the first major candidate to decline participation in the public financing system for presidential campaigns. He’s found a more effective way to raise money – by leveraging the power of the American people through online Social Networks. Get the pdf version here.
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SocialWebTV- Episode 1
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…
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Meme of the week – Blacklisting Bloggers and bad PR pitches
What seems to have come to a head over the last few days is the concept of Bloggers “blacklisting” PR firms that pitch them in a way they don’t want to be pitched. Gina Trapani of LifeHacker published a wiki listing PR firms that have spammed her with pitches. Suddenly, everyone’s taking sides over how…
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Leverage Virtual connections in real life, part 2
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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Dinner with a Member of UK Parliment
In what has become something of a trend after my UN meeting last month, another friend invited me to meet with a world leader to discuss Social Media. (That actually sounds more formal than the dinner last night actually was.) My US friend Tom Watson of Changing our World and On Philanthropy invited Pamela and…