This cultural phenomenon didn’t take shape overnight and there are hidden secrets to bacon’s success that can be applied to a content marketing strategy. Five Things Bacon Can Teach Us About Content Marketing. Your content can do the same by taking your audience on a trip down memory lane. Your content should follow a similar philosophy. Creating remarkable content your customers and prospects find inspiring empowers them to repurpose your original idea and get a link back to the source. Like a good content marketing strategy, bacon is always top-of-mind. MORE >>

single story may present some elements through a television series or a motion picture with additional narrative threads explored in other media: Comic books, video games, or a collection of micro-sites, Twitter feeds, and online content. NBC Digital Entertainment released a series of online content in 2008, including more original web content, wireless iTV interactivity, graphic novels available for mobile viewing, and webisodes. What This Means for Content Creators. Follow him on Twitter at  jasonkonopinksi. Participatory Entertainment and Media. MORE >>

If you’re on Twitter, you’ve likely found yourself more than once pondering about what hashtag to use for a tweet. Or maybe you’re a Twitter lurker, and you just want a more efficient way to find content related to, well, content. With Twitter having more than 170 million users and over 300 million tweets every day , it’s easy to get lost in Twitter’s black hole. content. RT @ cormur21 : 11 bloggers and writers you #content types will want to add to your RSS feeds right now: bit.ly/LuVz6w. Content is King. LuVz6w. MORE >>

Why do people share content? However, in trying to answering it, one can find a lot of value for his business and “target groups” in this social media and multi-channel marketing age where content plays an increasing role and content marketing is a hot topic. Content is an enormously broad concept that we use every day without really defining it. We talk about how it should be: how important relevant and share-worthy content, how crucial it is in lead nurturing, how it makes or breaks our email marketing programs and even how it has become a currency. MORE >>

Twitter sent an email around to users yesterday, giving four suggestions for getting the most out of Twitter in 2011: Follow your interests: Follow the people who share your passions. Return to Twitter: A call for lapsed users to return to  a service that apparently now has over 200 million user accounts. Ask your Twitter friends for recommendations on who to go with. Filter your reading –  Rather than fearing drinkin from the Twitter firehose, create a list of people who consistently post things that interest you and let them generate your reading list. MORE >>