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Viral Loop: Jason Calacanis Q&A From the Top of the Leader Board

The leader board, which ranks the top 20 Viral Loop Facebook app users by value, has a new name at the top: entrepreneur and Mahalo founder Jason Calacanis.READ»

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Should You Go to BlogWorld? An Interview with Rick Calvert

Every year stars from the social media universe (blogging, podcasting, online video, etc.) get together in Vegas for Blogworld. But is it right for you?READ»

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For Effective Advocacy, Select "E" for "All of the Above"

My colleague Steve Rubel neatly lays out the challenge facing communicators today: with today's fractured and diffuse media, "life is nothing but a stream, and ad pages and feature placements become scarcer (and arguably captivate ...READ»

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How to Captivate and Hold Attention in the Age of the Stream

Imagine for a moment that you're standing on an overpass high above a busy L.A. freeway like the 405 or the 5. It doesn't really matter which. Pick one. In a span of a few minutes literally thousands of cars will speed buy. Some will ...READ»

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Register for TWTRCON 09: 20% Discount, Year Subscription to Fast Company

TWTRCON SF 09--Hotel Nikko, San Francisco, May 31, 2009--is the first conference entirely focused on Twitter as a business platform: how to use Twitter to reach and engage customers, influence opinions and activate ...READ»

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Robert Scoble's 10 Favorite Tech Experts on FriendFeed

Fast Company tech guru Robert Scoble shares his ten favorite tech experts to follow on FriendFeed. From Michael Arrington, founder of TechCrunch, to Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester Research, these are the experts to watch. READ»

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Blog World 2008

It's fall again and while summer's valiantly trying to extend its tenure, pretty soon our shadows will get longer and our days shorter. For bloggers though, while posts about drinking outside, losing iPhones on the beach, and walks ...READ»

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Mediabistro Circus: Conversations on Technology and the Changing Face of Media

Next week, on May 20th and 21st, Mediabistro.com will hold its first conference – Mediabistro Circus. "Most conferences are dry and boring. That's why we're calling ours a circus," says mediabistro.com founder ...READ»

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The COMcast ic forecast -- chance of storms

  . . . with possible improvement if COMmunication improves Jay Deragon's post Can Comcast Reverse the Storm suggests that Comcast has the opportunity to be a leading brand that leverages the tools of the web for improvement ...READ»

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The COMcastic forecast -- chance of storms

. . . with possible improvement if COMmunication improves Jay Deragon's post Can Comcast Reverse the Storm suggests that Comcast has the opportunity to be a leading brand that leverages the tools of the web for ...READ»

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Updating Your Way to Higher Status

Do you ever get the feeling that you're writing graffiti in cyberspace? I get this disconnected feeling when I post a status update on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. There's certainly an art to writing a one sentence blurb ...READ»

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Updating Your Way to Higher Status

Do you ever get the feeling that you're writing graffiti in cyberspace? I get this disconnected feeling when I post a status update on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. There's certainly an art to writing a one sentence blurb ...READ»

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Blogging Up

Self-proclaimed "blogologist" Alex Halavais on how to career-blog without it coming back to haunt you.READ»

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Careers: Personal Branding Wunderkind

In honor of summer casualness, here's a diz dat list -- a bit of diz, a bit of dat. For those on linkedin, check out this article which tells you how to use the business networking site more effectively. And for those not yet on ...READ»

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All Blogs Are Not Created Equal

Although there are currently an estimated 56 million regularly updated blogs, not all blogs are created equal. A new survey released by PR firm Edelman and the blog search engine Technorati revealed which blogs are the most ...READ»

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Another 10tag for Technorati: 10dreams

Now that Steve Rubel and Jeff Jarvis have started something, I think it might be fun to play along and start a couple of Top 10 tags of our own for Technorati. It really demonstrates to me the power of social networks when I see ...READ»

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Advice from a Small Business Wannabe

I turned 36 years old this year. And for the previous 16 years, I had been pursuing a career as a full-time artist, first as a photographer and then as a writer. And I ended up self-publishing most of my books, and scheduling my own ...READ»