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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.

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9 social media trends to keep your eye on in 2012

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Social and mobile integration: Businesses will have to begin to think about how and when people are consuming content and engaging on social platforms. We’ll have to think more about how what we post appears and engages mobile users. 49% of people use their smart phones to do social networking.

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The Cost of a Tribe

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So have mobile phone companies, which is why your obsessed with checking your email on your phone. Turns out that we all have deep motivations and when they’re triggered, we take actions that we didn’t even plan to take. We act almost instinctually.

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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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Kawasaki also covers ways to mobilize communities such as KickStarter and IndieGoGo. But throughout the book, Kawasaki provides examples of how his social community made the book better, during each phase. From crowdsourcing feedback to yes, marketing, the Kawasaki discusses how to leverage an active social community.

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