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The Gamification of News

Social Media Marketing

This week Google announced the launch of their Google News Badges. Edition of Google News now lets you collect private, sharable badges for your favorite topics. The more articles you read on Google News, the more your badges level up: you can reach Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, and finally Ultimate.

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How To Create a Conference Badge Page

Bare Feet Studios

Upload Your Graphics to a Server The logical place to stash your banners is the same server that serves your conference or event website although you can also place them on a Flickr account or other photo-sharing site. See the PodCamp Hawaii Badges page for examples.

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Repositioning Through Social Media: The Conan O’Brien-Case

Mindjumpers

. • A huge orange blimp – hot air balloon – with a build in GPS has been circling around major cities on the east coast during the month of October enabling Foursquare-users to earn a Conan-BlimpSpotter badge as well as seeing images on Flickr. • A Twitter account as we described in our previous Conan-post , which is now close to 1.8

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Monday Roundup: Renewing Your Business Strategy

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Jamie McCaffrey via Flickr, CC 2.0. Why: “Unless you are one of those people who views 80-hour work weeks as a badge of honor, then we’re all trying to get more done in less time,” says Heather Whaling as she offers some tips to increase productivity. Check out these seven posts.

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I Will Not Write About Old Spice

Adam Cohen

(By the way, I’m glad to hear he stopped the oil spill). More about this blog here. Thanks for dropping by.

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Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School

Convince & Convert

But in each case, as I’d weave through my angst filled teenage years jumping from group to group, each had its own coda, jargon, ethics, special interests, badges of honor (or dishonor) and tests of loyalty. Add texting, tweets, retweets, online reviews, Flickr, HootSuite, Droids, iPhones, transparent consumer rating sites….and

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22 Twitter revenue streams – monetizing tweets

Laurel Papworth

Social Media Monetization Models on Flickr [link]. Pay $25 a year a la Flickr for a Pro account. Collectibles buy an account and get special badges like the Pro badge above. Or Foursquare style reward badges – most retweeted, most linked. Looking at the diagram here they are one by one . 20 million?

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