Tag: New media
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The Esoteric Secrets of Pomegranate, Kisses, and Social Media
There are two basic kinds of secrets – secrets of information and secrets of experience. Secrets of information are data points. The ingredients in Coca Cola. The Colonel’s 11 herbs and spices. These secrets are valuable until the information becomes commonplace or available enough that competitors can use them to their advantage and your disadvantage.…
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Charles Jo gets it
I sent out a request for a recommendation/referral to my LinkedIn contacts this morning for a senior web app dev for Edvisors, knowing full well that there are some recruiters in the list, even though we explicitly state in the job ad that we don’t use recruiters or agencies. More than a few folks sent…
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The Passion Funnel
The passion funnel is much less dirty than it sounds. For every discussion of monetization in new media, there’s an equal discussion about the amateur, the practitioner who does something for the pure love of it and not for money. However, amateurs can still take a great deal of knowledge from the professional world and…
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Nothing in life is free
There is no such thing as free unless the thing in question is without value. When you write a blog post you give away to the world on your blog, it is not free. You spent time, energy, effort, and knowledge writing it, time that could have been spent doing something else. When you share…
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Will social media burn conferences to the ground?
Every conference these days has a hashtag and attendees are (unless explicitly prohibited) tweeting, live-blogging, streaming audio and video. If you wanted to, from your desk, you could attend nearly every conference in the world, and for free as opposed to paying 50-5000 to attend. In terms of content, you’d probably get anywhere from 80%…
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A Week With A View: Canada
It’s Canada Day (or Dominion Day) so I thought I’d pick something Canadian for today’s A Week With A View. The trouble is, there’s too much to pick from. Here’s a selection. Clouds in Quebec by Michel Fillon: Victoria Glacier in Alberta by Laszlo: Vancouver Island by Zedzap: And new media friend Angela Misri, shot…
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Rockstars of conversation
Last night I had the opportunity to attend Radian6’s Rockstars of Social CRM. Interesting event. The panel discussion was mostly on interaction with customers, but all of the side conversations throughout the night made it absolutely epic. Some highlights: Talking with Olivier Blanchard about the ultimate evolution of social media and speculating what true mastery…