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At the start of this years Football season NBC showed a live game on NBC.com where I watched. It was a great experience. You could see a number of cameras on and around the field while the teams were warming up (no sound) and then during the game switch to the live “broadcast” view of [...]

My friend Mike Singleton just coined a new phrase which I like which happens after you meet someone for the first time, or correspond with them online.  It represents the full monty of online connections that can occur.  These usually happen in fast succession resulting in an avalanche of connection options coming from one person [...]

We now live in an age where you can be super connected to people you do not see or speak to everyday. This has been made possible by the ubiquity of social networks, and mass adoption. Everyone is not online, nor on a social network – but we are getting there. For those of us [...]

Google introduced the idea of Social Search back in October 2009, but I just recently started seeing instances of it in the wild.  I think this is a social version of backrub and only the beginning. The way it is shown is at the bottom of search results: Results from people in your social circle [...]

I believe that copy and paste is the best Social Media (or cut and paste) tool that is available today. The simple act of a few key strokes can generate more views\actions\clicks that just about any other method or distribution strategy. (I knew someone had come to this realization before me and with a quick [...]

I love watching brands talk to each other on Twitter. Recent Tweet from Boxee and the reply tweet soon after from Pandora When brands show they are communicating out in the open everybody wins. Now people know that although this may not happen tomorrow, it is hopefully in the works.

Guest post by Josh Whitford of Unconventional Marketing Image by luc legay via Flickr As the social media scene unfolds there is now more opportunity than ever to join a variety of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, WordPress and so on. The problem now more than anything is having the ability to manage [...]