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Renegades: Lathan Hodge on 5 Takeaways about "Mass-Personalization"

Okay, so you've created awareness of your brand. How do you maintain continuity and momentum with the relationship you've just established? Here are 5 takeaways about "Mass-Personalization" in a digital world.READ»

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At just 28, Jason Silva is thinking about DEATH - a lot

He’s one of the best-known faces on Al Gore’s TV network Current TV. Venezuelan born media persona Jason Silva is some newfangled hybrid of Journalist, Anchorman,Documentary Filmmaker, and Content Curator. Silva says he ...READ»

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Why Content Curation Is Here to Stay

For website content publishers and content creators, there’s a debate raging as to the rights and wrongs of curation. While content aggregation has been around for a while with sites using algorithms to find and link to content, ...READ»

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5 Things NING Got Right

Brain Trust: Ning chairman Marc Andreessen (he built Netscape back in the day), with Bianchini, at the company's HQ in Palo Alto. | Photograph by Art StreiberIn May of 2008 Fast Company put Gina Bianchini on the cover and heralded the ...READ»

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Filter or Be Flooded: Do You Need a Content Strategist?

The first time I noticed the word "Content" had changed, I was being ushered into the inner sanctum of Zappos by a woman answering phones in an Elvis costume. Why is there a content department at Zappos? Don't they sell shoes and ...READ»

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How NPR Became the Hippest Way to Discover New Music

Podcasting. Live concerts on-demand. Full previews of albums. Original performance videos. Curated streaming in 100 different genres. It's not on YouTube. It's on Npr.org/music, a fast-growing site launched by the nonprofit as a way ...READ»

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How We Help Emerging Companies in the SW Grow

At Growth Nation we GROW our customers with marketing solutions that are a great fit for their business.   "The brand positioning process by Growth Nation helped our Company create a strong messaging platform ...READ»

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Music Lover, Can You Spare a Dime?

According to indie rocker Jill Sobule, there's only one thing record labels are still good for and that’s financing albums. Everyone is preoccupied over which music-distribution model will win out, but the fallout of the Internet's ...READ»

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Fast Talk: Inside the Mind of a Cylon

Ronald D. Moore Executive Producer, Battlestar Galactica Los Angeles, California Ronald D. Moore, 43, has created fanatical followers for the Sci Fi Channel by using the Internet to let fans see the inner workings of his ...READ»

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Fast Talk: Night Stalker

Jimmy Kimmel Live's Jill Leiderman on how to run a late-night talk show.READ»

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Take Our Kids To Work Day Guest Blogger

Today the children of Fast Company, Inc. Magazine, Inc.com and FastCompany.com have gathered at the offices shared by their parents for annual Take Our Kids to Work day. These kids who are of a variety of different ages have spent ...READ»