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Getting a handle on influence and online content creation

March 17, 2010
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As you may be aware, espe­cially if you’ve been blas­ted by my twit­ter stream recently, I’m help­ing some friends out with the Empire Avenue beta. I’ve writ­ten before about Social Media and the Power of Influ­ence, but today I’m going to talk about a few things I’ve learned over the last few weeks.
A […]

Tagged as: Blogging, Communications, Empire Avenue, Lifestyle Technology, People's Market, Social Media, Stock Market, Technology

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Where’s Waldo?

March 15, 2010

This week I star­ted using Gowalla — a check-in application/game for mobile devices sim­ilar to Foursquare, which means noth­ing if you’ve not used FourSquare either…so let me explain. …more

This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

Tagged as: Entertainment, Games, GPS, Location, News, Social Media

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Social media and the power of influence

February 15, 2010
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If you’ve been fol­low­ing me or this blog for a while, you’ll know that I’m a huge social media fan — it just seems like the right medium that makes online com­mu­nic­a­tion easier. But one subtle aspect of social media is that it’s a very slick con­duit for word of mouth mar­ket­ing, pro­mo­tion, and advertising […]

Tagged as: Empire Avenue, influence, People's Market, Social Media

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How to find good music online with social media

January 20, 2010
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In a recent post over at the Future Shop Techb­log I star­ted talk­ing about vari­ous Inter­net Radio ‘sta­tions’. Today I real­ized I didn’t talk about one of my ‘go-to’ online music sources blip.fm
It’s not your aver­age music ser­vice.
Blip.fm is a hybrid social media site and music dis­cov­ery ser­vice, focused around the concept of Blips. To […]

Tagged as: Blip.fm, Entertainment, MP3, Music, sharing, Social Media, Tweet, twitter

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Still wondering why people follow me on Twitter

January 15, 2010
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Last year, I wrote a couple of posts explor­ing the reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter:

Won­der­ing why people fol­low me on Twit­ter?
The reas­ons why people fol­low me on Twitter

Well a year has passed since I did that basic research, and Twit­ter has been ‘improved’ in the mean­time — revised ReTweet func­tion, Lists, new desktop […]

Tagged as: Communications, followers, Following, Marketing, PR, Social Media, Spam, twitter

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Using Google Wave to ‘book club’ Trust Agents

January 6, 2010
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Earlier today I respon­ded to a tweet by @gregbd about form­ing a read­ing club for Trust Agents:

And now we’ve done it. It’s a pub­lic Wave that you should be able to find by search­ing with:public “Trust Agents” in the Google Wave search box, and since it’s pub­lic, feel free to join in and share your thoughts!
We’re […]

Tagged as: Book, discussion, Google, Google Wave, Lifestyle Technology, Social Media, Trust Agents

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