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Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile makes appearance in Hawaii | Akamai.

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Hawaii is celebrating its 50th year as a state this year, the Weiner mobile started in 1936, making the Weinermobile the older of the two. Oscar Meyer’s stunt is perhaps the oldest and longest running mobile marketing campaign in the country. The Oscar Myer Weinermobile makes an appearance in Hawaii this week.

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Case Study and Lessons Learned: App Product Launch and Awareness

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At a City of Honolulu sponsored hackathon, a citizen developed a mobile app, DaBus, which adds functionality to the bus system with GPS tracking and to the minute updates on bus schedules and locations. Think: In order to encourage app usage, a mobile “Geeks on the Bus” tweetup/kick-off event was planned. 425 Tweets.

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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

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Content, Content, Video: Creating content will continue to be a considerable aspect of a social media program. We’ll see more and more video as the content type of choice. The challenge for most businesses will be creating video content that creates conversation and isn’t just a commercial.

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What the ComScore Digital Year in Review means for small biz marketers

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ComScore suggests that the reason for decline in this area is increased reliance on mobile communication such as texting and if you’ve ever seen a 15 year old send a 30-word text in less than 5 seconds, this won’t be a surprise to you. Mobile apps aren’t going away – people love their ease of use.

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Book Review: APE – Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur by Guy Kawasaki and Shawn Welch

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Guy Kawasaki says that after having 75 people review the manuscript of APE, multiple readings by the authors themselves, the copyeditor found 1,500 errors, this was after Guy’s community had already provided feedback and content suggestions. Kawasaki also covers ways to mobilize communities such as KickStarter and IndieGoGo.

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