Allvoices.com: How social media built a global community of citizen journalists with Amra Tareen

April 27, 2010

I recently had the pleasure of chatting to Amra Tareen, CEO and founder of the world’s largest citizen journalism platform, allvoices.com She is deeply committed to making sure all people have a voice and to shine a spotlight on those areas that can help the lives of others the most.
Amra commands 300,000 citizen journalists in [...]

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Facebook’s Open Graph: Is privacy a given or a taken away?

April 26, 2010

The internet has been ablaze this week with discussion around the impact of Facebook’s announcements at the f8 conference last week. Effectively Facebook has dismantled the walls between it and the entire web inviting conjecture that the entire web will become social and that Facebook is making a bid for control. From a user’s point [...]

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Will Facebook come unstuck now that it’s the social glue?

April 21, 2010

Today was transformative for the Web. When Facebook announced that its ‘Like’ button is going to appear on publisher sites throughout the web they smashed their own dam walls positioning themselves as treasurer of the social currency of emotion.
This not only gave Facebook the capacity to capture an almost unlimited amount of real-time consumer data, [...]

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Chris Brogan on social media tools and how brands use them effectively

April 18, 2010

I got a chance to sit down with Chris Brogan at SXSW but the sound in the blogger’s lounge was so crazy loud you can barely hear a thing.  So here’s a transcription (and the video if you want to try to hear us). Chris is always gracious with his time and he shared great insights [...]

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Fundraising for Haiti using gold, sorbet and a spoon: Charity Sorbet

April 15, 2010

“It is not about what makes you/me feel good, it is about doing something for the people that at the moment have nothing.” Jayson Bryant, Gianpaolo Grazioli.
I recently had the pleasure of meeting Jayson Bryant, one of the great people behind this year’s most delicious outreach for Haiti – Charity Sorbet. The Winevault and Giapo are fundraising $10,000 [...]

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Twitter’s ad platform: Will advertising be the death of social media?

April 14, 2010

The launch of Twitter’s own advertising platform, Promotional Tweets, is risky for several reasons.
Firstly, the monetization of these platforms, while inevitable, goes against the very attributes that made these new social platforms so compelling – people could connect free from advertising and its ulterior motives.
Secondly, as with any new business model, there is a learning [...]

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Gary Vee on arrogance, ad agencies and what brands need to know.

April 13, 2010

This week I had the pleasure of speaking at Connect Now in Australia with some great people including @garyvee @briansolis @debs @missrogue @huxley @silkcharm @fibendall @worldnomads and @problogger (all great people to follow). We learned a lot from each other and the conference was a huge success so congrats to @SiobahnBilfun.
At one point Gary and I [...]

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How Non-Profits think like For-Profits

April 8, 2010

Connect Now Revised
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Here are my slides from Connect Now in Sydney today. The topic is: “How Non-profits think like For Profits”. I’m sharing these here because I want the seminar to be a creative exchange rather than a lecture. To that end I’ve collected a lot of examples of best practices in the [...]

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