Our coverage of the Web 2.0 Summit continues, and as soon as clips clear our editing suite we are bringing them to you. The quality of the 1,000 or so...

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Ever feel bad about all the four-letter-words you use on Twitter?  A new service called the Twitter Charity Swear Box is helping all the potty mouths out there put their bad words to good use.  Visit the Charity Swear Box website, submit your Twitter name and the site will tell you how many times you’ve sworn in the past month.  You’ll then be invited to make a small donation for each swear word to the charity of your choice.


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I can’t help but think over and over of my favorite movie, The Fisher King, right now. It is the story of shock jock radio host, Jack, played by Jeff Bridges, who gives violent advice during his show to an unstable man that results in a massive shooting. It’s an exceptional and, at times, heartbreaking tale of Jack’s desperate search for forgiveness. The tale is a warning from 1991 on the power of words, a medium that we, as social media professionals and gurus, use every sing [...]

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Today's shared B2B social media posts can show you some new ways of managing your online marketing to connect with your target audience, measure your success, run your social profiles more efficiently and start a blog with the correct things in mind. There are also some writing tips from Hemingway thrown in for good measure. [...]

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Today (August 25), Merriam-Webster announced they've added 150 words to their 2011 Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Among those words included are "tweet", "bromance", "crowdsourcing" and "helicopter parent". News broke just a few days ago that the Concise Oxford English Dictionary has added a few new words as well, such as retweet and sexting. Both of these ...

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Jack Layton, leader of the Canadian NDP party, died this week, and Canadians expressed their reactions on social networks.


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Well, Google bought Motorola Mobility this week, in an attempt to even further their Global Domination. I know. I know. *I* am supposed to achieve Global Domination (it is, after all, my initials). But I do much better when I have someone in my front view that I need to catch. So don't you worry. [...]

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"Wow!  That’s like…a video!"  If you’ve spent any time watching viral videos on YouTube in the last two weeks then you may have happened across a video of someone saying these five words.  YouTuber itsaninterimweb has been tacking these words, in the form of video responses, onto virtually every YouTube video to go viral over the past couple of weeks.  His channel consists of 179 videos so far, all of them proclaiming this same message.  "Wow!  That’s like…a video!"


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Guest post by Aaron Strout, head of location-based marketing at global agency WCG. He blogs at Citizen Marketing 2.1. There is a lot of excitement these days about the potential of location-based services among marketers and social media professionals. For anyone that doesn't know what a location based service is, it's an application or website

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Guest post by Aaron Strout, head of location-based marketing at global agency WCG. He blogs at Citizen Marketing 2.1. There is a lot of excitement these days about the potential of location-based services among marketers and social media professionals. For anyone that doesn’t know what a location based service is, it’s an application or website

Read More: When a Picture is Truly Worth 1,000 Words

Guest post by Aaron Strout, head of location-based marketing at global agency WCG. He blogs at Citizen Marketing 2.1. There is a lot of excitement these days about the potential of location-based services among marketers and social media professionals. For anyone that doesn’t know what a location based service is, it’s an application or website

Read More: When a Picture is Truly Worth 1,000 Words