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AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk AOL Newsroom: A Model for the Future or Shades of 2001? Standards of quality and editorial voice must be maintained, and news organizations in particular play a more important role in society than simply manufacturing content for the sake of making money from it.

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10 Years Ago Today! My 1st Article About Blogging

Debbie Weil

22, 2001 , that I published my first article about business blogging. The talk is now of Facebook and Twitter; yet the concept is the same: open the gates, come down from the mountain and listen, really listen, to your customers and let them talk back to you - even if it’s not what you want to hear.

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10 Years Ago Today! My 1st Article About Blogging

Debbie Weil

22, 2001 , that I published my first article about business blogging. The talk is now of Facebook and Twitter; yet the concept is the same: open the gates, come down from the mountain and listen, really listen, to your customers and let them talk back to you - even if it’s not what you want to hear.

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Praying and piggybacking: Who is Nesamani and why are brands talking about him?

Unmetric

Nesamani is a character played by Tamil actor and comedian Vadivelu in the 2001 film Friends. A user on a Facebook memes page asked a harmless question about hammers, leading to a Tamil user making a reference to Nesamani. Every social media manager, including yours truly, is out there trying to craft contagious content.

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Social Sharing – Getting News Content Right in 2011

Proactive Report

. “The challenge now is to produce content – not ads – that can create connections between people. In this environment, forward-thinking advertisers are shifting budgets towards social strategies that center around creating content that’s likely to be shared.&#. Facebook drives 3x more traffic to news sites than Google News.

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This weeks #SocialMedia Tweetchat Topic: Destruction of the Media Industry: Will We Be Better Off In the Long Run?

Direct Marketing Observations

Newsroom employment would peak in 2001 as newsstand sales of the top 100 magazines approached 30 million. Last year, people spent six billion minutes on Facebook , downloaded one billion YouTube videos and logged over 1.4 Today anyone can produce content and distribute to a potentially sizeable market. No one had heard of blogs.

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10 BtoB Marketers Predictions for 2010

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Facebook Advertising will take off – This year Facebook saw their advertiser base triple! Facebook ads today remind me of Google AdWords in 2001 with low CPC’s on topics and segments many marketers will want to reach. I predict you will see Facebook surpass Google by Valentines day 2010. Share this on Facebook.

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