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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. It heard about many contentious issues from industry representatives but when the report was published, the public interest was entirely absent. It was during the 2006 election that first signs that a grassroots movement was taking hold were spotted, according to Geist.

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Why Alps Bethneck is 5 Years Old

Ari Herzog

The constant parade of new verbs and nouns has been interesting: texting, “going viral,” mashups, memes, flashmobs, friending, unfriending, likes, retweets, crowdfunding, “add me,” rickrolling, circles, FollowFriday, hash tags, Pandora, Instagrams. Blogs — “web logs” as they were first called, began to appear.

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7 Traits of Highly Effective Viral Videos

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Fede Alvarez published a small film to YouTube a few weeks ago, and it landed him a $30 million movie deal. To be sure, though, solicit feedback from a group of trusted peers not directly involved in your company or marketing objectives before going ahead with publishing the video, since you need an unbiased opinion.

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The FASTForward Blog " Managing Personal Knowledge: Setting a Foundation for Transformation? : Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary

Buzz Marketing for Technology

E-Mail (Required, not published ). December 2006. John will be joined by Chuck Richard, Vice President and Lead Analyst at Outsell, a leading industry research firm serving publishers and information providers. No comments yet. » Your comment. Name (required). Want an image to appear near your comment? Go to gravatar.com.

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How to Build Community for Niche Site Success

ProBlogger

When I first started blogging about my three legged dog Jerry back in 2006, never in my wildest dreams did I think helping those facing amputation for their dogs would be my full time job five years later. For details about the fledgling Tripawds site, don’t miss my submission for the 2008 ProBlogger Video Mashup.

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

Buzz Marketing for Technology

At the time of writing this introduction (August 2006), no particular product or service exists that can definitively be categorised as a PLE, although some prototypical work is in progress. In January 2006, Blackboard Inc. , A PLE could be implemented as a mashup. EduTools, 2006).

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How to find and use TikTok sounds to boost engagement

Sprout Social

Published on. In his video, he and his friends wear Y2K-inspired outfits as they dance to a remix of Cassie’s 2006 hit “Long Way 2 Go.” From here, you can tap “ Post ” to publish the video, or select “ Drafts ” to save it for later. Major brands are already taking advantage of sound appeal and marketers should take note.