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Flash Mobs Go Social in India

Waxing UnLyrical

What the iPhone is to smart phones, flash mobs are to marketing. While a slew of such campaigns have taken place in India, one that caught the fancy of many is the recent flash mob organized by the IBM OnDemand Community. Flash mobs have a way of engaging the audience. reading and traveling.

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Agency Flash Mobs vs Social Flash Mobs

Laurel Papworth

This post takes a look at how grassroots, user generated flash mobs got hijacked and became agency created, professionally choreographed and danced by hired talent, to flog products. This is an agency created (won ad of the year) flash mob for T Mobile – Saatchi and Saatchi. This is not how flash mobs started out.

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How a Video Breathed Life into a Michigan City

Ari Herzog

The beauty of flash mobs is when people come together in public places to entertain others. Train stations and outdoor plazas are typical locales of flash mobs due to their vast performance spaces and pedestrian-friendly hubs. Recent comments Recent comments.

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What drives participation in a social network?

Direct Marketing Observations

Check out these quotes from the post: There was no validation that what I did was comment-worthy, no “cute” notations on Yelps, no retweets of my witty Twitter updates. Simply put, what we do in our communities needs to be validated. We become “part&# of the dynamic of the group, of the community. Validation.

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When The Media Plays Scrooge

Waxing UnLyrical

perhaps the Washington Post should have sent out a flash mob alert. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Events | Tags: christmas spirit , flashmob , scrooge | Comments (11) Site settings comment help? Sign out Leave your comment here. Sign out Leave your comment here. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Version 2 of Viral Success

Mindjumpers

Radiotjänst really put a focus on thanking their customers and is doing so with quite extreme actions; they also did Sweden´s greatest flash mob as part of the campaign. This second version of The Hero isn´t expected to reach goals as high as the first one, but it’s a cool follow-up on the campaign and their concept.

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Coca-Cola's Happiness Machine | Justin Levy

Justin Levy

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking Coca-Cola’s Happiness Machine Written on January 20, 2010 by Justin Levy in social media , video 28 Comments - Leave a comment! link] /via @justinlevy This comment was originally posted on Twitter [link] Christi_Millar Awesome!!!

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