If you missed it a few weeks ago, the New York Times wrote a piece about redefining public relations. You see, the last time PR was defined was in 1982. Yes, 30 years ago. And, in the last five years, our industry has completely been turned on its head. All of the journalists we spent our [...]

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Wikipedia's About page says articles are written by anonymous internet volunteers "without pay". Yet salaried marketers with the right policies, guidance and expertise can fill a crucial content gap for Wikipedia. Consider some data about Wikipedia Wikipedia is attracting fewer new contributors. The number of active contributors is dropping. But the number of articles is [...]

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This guest post is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. As you’re reading this, it’s 80º Fahrenheit and sunny with a light breeze. Not necessarily where you are, but somewhere. That somewhere is where I’ve chosen to blog for a living. Most of the time, that means Las Vegas. Right now, this being November, [...]

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This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. If you’re a blogger, do you know how to stay on the right side of the law? Do you know what you need to do to keep the FTC from knocking on your door or to keep from getting a dreaded cease and desist letter? Fortunately [...]

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This is a question that needs answering. Today, I'll write about Google+ and my own opinions, but I want to start with yours. What are your thoughts? Is it really growing or is it missing? Please reply in the comments and I'll expand on this post later today.

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Have you built your career working in digital, PR, or marketing agencies? Are you passionate about the commercial potential of social media? Have you been able to demonstrate that passion on projects for your clients? Then read on… So yesterday we got the news that we were one of the winners in the Future 50: [...]

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Only five days ago, Facebook launched its new Subscribe feature which allows users to follow the public feeds of other users without having to friend them. The service is meant to compete with Twitter and Google+'s ability to provide an asymmetrical social network, where instead of having to confirm friend requests, users can independently subscribe or follow any other user on the platform.To gather a bit of feedback on how active social network users have been responding to the new feature, we [...]

Read More: What Facebook needs to do in order to populate the Subscriptions ghost town

Only five days ago, Facebook launched its new Subscribe feature which allows users to follow the public feeds of other users without having to friend them. The service is meant to compete with Twitter and Google+'s ability to provide an asymmetrical social network, where instead of having to confirm friend requests, users can independently subscribe or follow any other user on the platform.To gather a bit of feedback on how active social network users have been responding to the new feature, we [...]

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The social networking doors are closed. The finalists have been announced with Google+ walking into the room and closing the door on everyone on the outside. In the finalists room are a handful of networks that encompass everything that we could possibly need from a networking perspective. It's time for the industry to focus on [...]

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The U.S. military is taking aim at social media as a starting place to pool information from platforms like Facebook and Twitter. The purpose is to gain intelligence into potential worldwide conflicts, political instability and more. For that reason, the military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has a $42 million budget to pursue developing a strategy and funding to anyone who can think of ways to assist the military in analyzing social media, according to the New York Times.< [...]

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Marcia Marcia Marcia! As it was in the Brady Bunch, so it is in real life. Like Marcia, the iPad is getting all the attention. Honeycomb tabs are living a life of obscurity, unable to get a footing in the general consumer mindset, and are genrally as unlikable as an unloved middle sister. Why? Marketing. Apple is good at it and Honeycomb tab makers are bad at it. It's that simple.

Everyone knows about the iPad. Even my 87 year old grandfather told me about an article in his local newspaper abou [...]

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There are some apps that are only good for you if when used in areas where a critical mass of users has emerged. I suspect this is one of them:WhatWasThereHere's the two sentence description for the app: After launch, the app will detect where you are and show you any historic photographs that were captured nearby plotted on a map! Switch into Camera view for an augmented reality experience of the history that surrounds you! The public can submit photos to WhatWasThere's col [...]

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