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Airbnb Social Media Strategy: Sharing Stories, Building Community

Keyhole.co

By blending collaborative consumption with experiential tourism and replacing impersonal hotel stays with a sense of community. Founded in 2008, Airbnb struggled to build trust in its unique business model initially. million listings and a community of reliable hosts around the world ready to welcome guests with open arms.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

Stop thinking like a marketer/business owner/blogger- extraordinare for a moment, and pause. What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. 640 Million on Facebook.

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

Festivals make your marketing dollars go farther. We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. How many of our tourism, PR, communications, and advertising execs blog or podcast or twitter? What more can I say? Virtually none.

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

By encouraging businesses to start out with their focus and strategy and then move through to the other elements, the authors Dover and Moffit support what so many marketers know, but what so many companies ignore in their rush to create a program. Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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New Media Expo 2008 Wrap up & Ideas

Bare Feet Studios

Video recorded by user’s WebCam on Sat Aug 23 11:48:18 MST 2008 Share/Bookmark Thanks for reading! Roxanne Darling August 25, 2008 at 9:35 am @Arjun Singh does not look your video went thru. Colin Devroe August 25, 2008 at 9:55 am I wasn’t under the impression that this wasn’t a podcaster event.

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On Alice in Wonderland and Social Media

Akamai Marketing

Alice had lots of marketing avenues to explore, and one day, while Alice was pondering her next marketing move, she saw a White Rabbit. Be prepared to test the market, and don’t be afraid to fail. That’s how PEOPLE view MARKETERS. Even when you fail, you’ll learn something: just like Alice in Wonderland.

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What is Work Literacy?

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Of course if youre lucky youll find something valuable in the mix of agile software, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, eLearning, technology, politics and marketing that I write about. Thursday, June 05, 2008. Looking forward to the beginning of true space tourism and pursuing software craftsmanship. community. (5). marketing. (1).

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