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10% of companies allow full access to social media

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What’s surprising is the other half of the study — that 94% of these companies have decided to go digital AND invest in social media marketing.

I once gave a talk on blogging in the workplace for an anti-virus company. The objective was to wean employees to get them to blog, which would eventually lead them (engineers) to updating their coroporate blog. During the Q&A

The never ending cycle continues. Many companies today try to invest in social media as if it were rocket science — hiring “experts” from viral agencies to do the work. This is wrong. The best candidates for handling social media roots from the company’s own payroll.

Originally posted on October 20, 2009 @ 10:04 pm

AP and News Corp Set To Go To War With Google ?

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associated pressThe leaders of the Associated Press and News Corp said Friday it is time for search engines and others who use news content for free to pay.

The leaders of these two companies have made an alliance as ad profits from online media have been eerily going down since the beginning of the financial recession about 2 years ago.

Many media companies argue that sites like Google have reaped a fortune from their online content without just compensation from the corporations producing the content.

To me it’s hilarious you would take a potshot at Google when they send you thousands of visitors a minute to your subsidiaries. But hey what do I know. I would never slap the hand that feeds me if I was a multibillion dollar corporation like News Corp, or the Associated Press.

This just seems like posturing or a twisted negotiating tactic.

Weekend Update:
Newsweek has an interesting solution to Fox and the AP’s problem.

Originally posted on October 9, 2009 @ 6:50 pm

Is social media calling out celebrities to apologise more quickly?

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Dannii Minogue and Danyl from X Factor
Dannii Minogue and Danyl from X Factor
If you’ve been keeping an eye on British show business over the past few days, you’ll have seen a couple of fairly minor celebrities making objectionable or suggestive statements and being lambasted for them.

Firstly Anton du Beke caused a(nother) race row at the BBC when he made a poor “joke” to his Strictly Come Dancing partner Laila Rouass.

Then, live on Saturday’s X Factor, Dannii Minogue questioned whether contestant Daryl should’ve changed the lyrics on his song because he’s bisexual.

In the second case, particularly, this sent up a flurry of activity on Twitter — it’s not often that something from the UK makes the trending topics so consistently — and elsewhere, with some of it calling for Dannii to leave the show, or at least apologise. [Read more…]

Originally posted on October 12, 2009 @ 10:20 am

Gravity Forms: Contact Forms on Steroids

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Gravity Forms is truly the most revolutionary plugin on WordPress IMO. It does multiple things that I wish WordPress Core had built in. Form Management to create a user generated content site, to customer relationship management, to a user generated job board. The possiblities are ENDLESS.

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RocketGenius recently released their 1.2 Version of Gravity Forms

We are happy to release Gravity Forms v1.2! This is an exciting release that adds some new, exciting and very powerful features to the mix. Developers will love the data integration capabilities and novice users will love the new features that makes managing forms even more powerful.

I’m a big WordPress nut and this is truly one of the most exciting developments to hit WordPress imo since the creation of the Thesis Theme for WordPress. On the outside and inside this looks like a solid product that you could build some solid sites on.

Originally posted on October 12, 2009 @ 3:21 pm

Angels Want Startups To Pay To Pitch

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Jason Calacanis get’s it right when he says that Angels shouldn’t be asking Startups for cash for the time to pitch to them. First off Angels have the cash, and the time to listen to startups, and if they don’t have the time they shouldn’t ask startups to pay.

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Jason Calacanis says it a lot better than I can, and in a rare moment I really agree with him on this.

I’ve been in the startup scene since 1994 and in those 15 years I’ve met, interviewed — and in some cases, pitched — the most powerful investors in technology. None of them have ever charged me a dime for doing so.
Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE RICH!

It’s low-class, inappropriate and predatory for a rich person to ask an entrepreneur to PAY THEM for 15 minutes of their time. Seriously, what is the cost to the party hearing the pitch? If you answered “nothing” or “the cost of two cups of coffee” you win the prize!

Originally posted on October 10, 2009 @ 10:04 pm