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Free Culture and Attention as Currency

Waxing UnLyrical

Now, with the barriers lifted, a swamp of creators are competing the bigwigs, creating a culture with 1,000 broadcasters for 10 million listeners. Image: Loius Volant on Flickr, Creative Commons. The repercussions of “free” extend to music, books and authors. The ratio is only poised to rise with time. No, not really.

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Where to Get Awesome Free Images for Your Social Media (Without Stealing Them)

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CC0 (Creative Commons Zero). This license does not include the right to compile photos from Reshot to replicate a similar or competing service.”. These aren’t beautiful stock images, but you’ll find stuff here that you’ll find nowhere else, such as engravings from books, vintage photographs, and some great people shots.

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How Google Instant Might Impact Your Small Non-Profit

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. This would mean the same number of organizations competing for a smaller number of keywords. (So Shall We Tweet?

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Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News

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When you SEO a timely news release, you are competing with news, correct? Image: Andras Pfaff via Flickr , Creative Commons Was this helpful? Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? But what about SEO for news sites, particularly Google News? Have any questions?

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How To Become A Public Relations Star

Waxing UnLyrical

Image: Nick Fletcher via Flickr, Creative Commons But I’m getting ahead of myself. I wasn’t looking at their ability to be in the course, but their competency in being a future colleague for the thousands of us that are out there. Not as common is a genuine interest in the things around them. An ability to listen.

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My CES Gear Bag and Advice

Justin Levy

Hope we can catch a few minutes to chat about your book and bringing you on the podcast soon. The book is scheduled for release in May so we'll definitely chat before then! JustinRLevy.com by Justin Levy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Release is in Feb. Gear up for SXSW!

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Why “International” Bloggers Have an Unfair Advantage

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Image copyright NASA Goddard Photo and Video, licensed under Creative Commons On the other hand, blogging in English seems like an equally bad idea at first glance: How are you supposed to compete with an army of bloggers whose command of the English language greatly exceeds your own?

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