Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Remember the advertorial ?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Image: Lorenz Seidler via Flickr , Creative Commons I was distraught when I got a Facebook IM from one of my friends in Mumbai, telling me of the first bomb blast. Since nothing was being reported at the time, I took to Twitter to see if anyone else knew what was going on. media started broadcasting the story).

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

And when I looked at some of the comments on reports of the campaign, that seemed to be a frequently-expressed sentiment, like this one on PopWatch: Hmm. Image: Shawn McClung via Flickr, Creative Commons You have to really, really be paying attention to notice if someone hasn’t tweeted in a while, unless you talk to them every day.

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Bare Feet Studios

APRIL 6, 2009

When a podcaster finds a song s/he uses, she provides a link on the podcast page and reports it back on the site, which automatically notifies the artist. So the Podsafe Music Network was born. Here’s how it works: musicians upload the songs they want to share. The Result? Podcast quality goes up. They tell their friends about you.

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Bare Feet Studios

APRIL 29, 2008

for free hosting and built-in blog; geared to episodic shows Tube Mogul for batch distribution across the web & stats tracking Creative Commons for licensing your work if you want something other than full copyright. Links Mentioned Visual Hub – Encodes in multiple formats; $23.32

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Image: Matthew Smith via Flickr, Creative Commons Can you say “love at first byte&# ? My friend (and client, but he’s a friend first) Shashi Bellamkonda is, I think, genetically-wired to try and talk about new things – no doubt why he’s Network Solutions’ “social media swami,&# and he mentioned it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Image: Katie Harris via Flickr , Creative Commons Connect with the people you serve The goal wasn’t to create a blog. Previous to this she was the managing editor of U of R Report, the University’s faculty and staff internal publication and a print journalist in Manitoba. The answer: I didn’t do it by myself.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Image: Tinkerbots via Flickr , Creative Commons Tools are beginning to do a solid job with the most mind-numbing parts of research (i.e., Vendors often report “accuracy” percentages around the 70%-90% range, but these numbers are deceptively high. Are you planning on using automated sentiment to alert you to potential crises?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Title image: Edgely Cesar via Flickr, Creative Commons My take Measurement should be, but still isn’t, the jewel in the crown of PR. Image: Felipe Venâncio via Flickr , Creative Commons The solution really comes back to education, doesn’t it? You tell me. Utopia aside. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Image: Kurtis Garbutt via Flickr, Creative Commons Kim, who runs the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV), asked what I thought was a valid question on her blog: where is all the purple? Recent reports show it has skyrocketed in past years which is VERY scary and sad. These fine folk did: Jan.

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