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Stop Press: Publishers Start to Take Social Media Seriously

Finally, ten years after I first began building "online communities", five years after MySpace took the world by storm, four since Facebook stole their social networking crown and 18 months after Twitter went mainstream - publishers are starting to take social media ser...
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The Top 10 Viral Video Adverts of 2009 And Why They Worked so Well

I spent a greatly amused hour watching Mashable’s “Top 10 Most Innovative Viral Video Ads of 2009” today. The list includes slick agency produced ads, amateur films, bloopers, spoofs, a protest video and a wonderfully botched Windows 7 video from Microsoft. My fav...
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Monitoring Social Media 09: A Short Funky Video

We don't yet have the full video footage of Monitoring Social Media 09 (MSM09), so we've put together a funky little video using pics from the day. We used Animoto for this which, if you're interested, is a really, mind-crushingly simple way of creating a fun, short vid...
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