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Best Social Media Presentation

There are a slew of presentation decks floating around online that consultants and agency folk have created in an effort to explain social media to their clients. I’m no PowerPoint or Keynote guy, but I have shaped several social media strategies for a handful of clients, so as a matter of course, was involved in [...]

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Social Media Improves Learning Abilities

Go figure. We’re humans. And we like interacting with other humans. So, when we interact, we learn more than we would by just watching other humans on a screen. Or so says Patricia Kuhl in an article that appeared today in The Wall Street Journal.

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Wrapping up my thoughts on the #CrunchUp.

“Before brands can collaborate externally with social media, they need to learn how to collaborate with themselves.” — Ross Mayfield I’ve had some time to digest the many ideas that were exposed on Friday. But to me, that quote from the final discussion was among the most poignant. Brands are increasingly engaging in social media [...]

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TechCrunch Real-Time Stream #CrunchUp Final Panel Discussion

Here’s the great discussion that ended a very interesting day full of banter, inspiration, great ideas, and overall coolness. (These were shot in HD and compressed for upload. Sorry about the slightly jumpy video, I’ll re-compress at a higher file size later. Still a great talk.) Part 1: Part 2: Part 3:

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