Tag Archives: Twitter

Gary Vee’s ‘Crush It’: Facebook, Twitter and social media marketing that makes money

April 29, 2010 12 Comments


I was speaking at the Connect Now conference with Gary Vaynerchuk a couple of weeks ago and he kindly gave me a signed copy of ‘Crush It!’ to pass on to someone. That’s him signing it below. It’s a truly inspirational …

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

April 14, 2010 19 Comments


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 …

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Evan Williams Twitter keynote at SXSW: The Art of Good Business

March 15, 2010 4 Comments


Today’s keynote by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams was much anticipated. Even though the fireside chat approach was too quiet for some, I found Evan Williams to be incredibly succinct and articulate. Prompted by questions from Harvard Business Review’s Umair Haque, …

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Guest Interview: Riyaad Minty, Head of Social Media for Al Jazeera

March 11, 2010 10 Comments


Thanks to the Brookings Institute I recently had to privilege of attending the U.S./ Islamic World Forum in Qatar participating in the working group, ‘New Media in the Era of Globalization’. One of the other members of my group was …

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Shel Israel’s, Twitterville: Book review and Giveaway

January 29, 2010 14 Comments


Twitterville is the first book in my new giveaway-extravaganza-bonanza-athon. Now I hear giveaways can get problematic so I’ll post some guidelines on my site shortly. But the goal here is just to keep going ideas flowing among us and to …

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Seeing through other’s eyes: Social media and compassion

August 25, 2009 4 Comments


There’s no doubt social media makes the world smaller – friends and family across the country and around the globe are only a click away. There’s also no doubt that as frontrunners like twitter and facebook monetize their business plans, …

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Angry twitter, clever friendfeed: A lesson in creating desire

August 11, 2009 6 Comments


The acquisition of friendfeed by facebook was more than the latest battle in the war for social networking supremacy. It was a timeless lesson in creating desire. The strategic positioning of friendfeed made their brand more than desirable. It was …

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The Experience Revolution: How Augmented Reality is about to change how you live, advertise and brand

July 13, 2009 21 Comments


A day doesn’t pass without a new augmented reality application for the iPhone 3GS making its tour of Twitter and the web. A recent example is the great London Tube app below. It’s utility can’t be denied. You simply hold …

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