Category: socialmedia
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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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Marvel Comics pisses off core audience
Who is the core audience of “Iron Man” the movie? Geeks. Computer hugging, email sending, twittering geeks. Geeks with big Mac Book Pros who have money to spend. And the pied piper of the Web 2.0 geeks, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch, had invited geeks to a special pre-screening of the movie. And Mike got the…
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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…
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My big endorsement deal with Union Square Ventures
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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…