Archived Posts from October 2008
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I love how mainstream the idea of crowdsourcing has become. In my Coldplay e-mail update this morning, I found out that the band is looking for fan-generated videos to go along with the accoustic release of hit, "Lost" from their most reacent album. Details read:
LOST? VIDEO COMPETITION
Hello again. Yesterday evening Coldplay.com launched a contest for you folks to create a video for Lost? (the acoustic version of the upcoming single). As Prospekt explained in his brief, you ...
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I'm going to preface this post by saying that I think Gartner is an extremely smart company. They consistently put out great research, they hold world class conferences and their brand name is unparalleled in the analyst/technology space. With all that said, up until recently, Gartner has done a miserable job participating in social media. They didn't blog. They didn't Twitter. They didn't attend non-Gartner conferences (at least not to my knowledge) yet they have an analyst, Nikos Drakos, that ...
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As we get closer to the upcoming Social Media Strategies Conference on October 29-30 at the Stanford Court Hotel in San Francisco, CA, WebGuild has announced three similarly themed webcasts leading up to the event. I am leading the first webcast titled, Social Media Analytics Strategies. I'll be leading the session with friends and fellow experts in the space, Francois Gossieaux, principle of Beeline Labs and Mukund Mohan, principle of BuzzGain.
The description of the event is below. Make sur ...
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