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Why Successful Branding Still Happens Offline

Curated By Cendrine Marrouat

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News For brands, online social networks are far from the Holy Grail of marketing. The research is clear that for brands that want to be social and generate conversation, a more powerful force is real world, face-to-face conversation. See on blogs.wsj.com Related Reading: Beyond Buzz: The Next [...]

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TechCrunch | Refer.ly Lets Regular Folks Earn Affiliate Revenue For Recommending Products They Love

Curated By Cendrine Marrouat

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News Danielle Morrill’s been thinking about this idea for at least three years. I know this because it was almost all she could talk for an hour straight at a dinner party several years ago. See on techcrunch.com Related Reading: The Super Affiliate Marketing System- How To [...]

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13 Ways to Create a Cringeworthy Social Media Presence

Curated By Cendrine Marrouat

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News This week, a new free social media tool called Klouchebag hit the web. If you haven’t played around with it already, it’s a tool that tells you how … uh … annoying you are on Twitter. Yeah, we’ll just go with “annoying” for the sake of [...]

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Here’s Why Google and Facebook Might Completely Disappear in the Next 5 Years – Forbes

Curated By Cendrine Marrouat

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News Web 1.0 companies never got social. Web 2.0 companies will never get mobile. Mobile companies will never get what’s coming next. (An interesting article from Forbes!) See on www.forbes.com Related Reading: Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 ApplicationsWant to tap the power behind search rankings, [...]

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Review: 8thBridge launches Graphite as the next wave of social commerce (Includes interview)

Curated By Cendrine Marrouat

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News 8thBridge wants to make possible for customers to shop where they socialize and socialize where they shop. The Minneapolis-based company looks to reshape ecommerce around people. See on digitaljournal.com Related Reading: Constant Marketing Machine 101 : Generate A Small Second Income with this Down and Dirty [...]

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Guest post: The 4 economic reasons to rebrand your business

Curated By Cendrine Marrouat

See on Scoop.it – Social Media Tips and News How much can your company benefit from a timely rebranding and revitalization?   When considering this question, one must keep in mind that rebranding does not necessarily address the wants and needs of the company directly, but rather speaks to the wants and needs of that [...]

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People and Ideas To Watch From The 2012 CES Held In Las Vegas

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Kent Speakman & Ward Chandler attended CES in Las Vegas this January 2012. The goal of the trip is to ensure ENGAGEIA keeps on top of innovation in the digital space. Speakman & Chandler were part of the live “What’s Trending” Broadcast with Shira Lazar from CES presented by VIZIO. The [...]

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Google takedowns around the world: lèse-majesté yes, police brutality no

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards For the last two years, Google has released comprehensive reports twice a year on the frequency of takedown requests and government data requests received in countries around the world. The latest data, released on Tuesday, focuses on the first half of 2011. The statistics show that the United States continues to [...]

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Attention Shoppers: Coupons.com Grabs $30M in Funding From Greylock

Curated By Tom George

Via Scoop.it – internetbillboards Among the hot and hyped Web 2.0 scene, not many would pick out 13-year-old digital promotions site, Coupons.com. But, on the heels of a recent $200 million funding — which valued the quiet Mountain View, Calif., company at $1 billion — and a surging online discounting market, it has nabbed another [...]

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GroupMe Brings Group Messaging Boom to Brands

Curated By Tom George

Fresh off a successful feature release and marketing binge at SXSW, group messaging startup GroupMe is revealing part of its plan for working with brands, and with it, some hints as to how the well-funded company might make money in the future. GroupMe Featured Groups, which debut Monday, give brands an opportunity to both create [...]

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Microsoft and Google Find Common Ground in open Networking

Curated By Tom George

Arch-rivals Microsoft and Google occasionally find themselves on the same side, and another example presented itself this week with the creation of the Open Networking Foundation. Along with Facebook, Verizon, Yahoo, Deutsche Telekom, and a dozen other companies, Microsoft and Google are aiming to promote “a new approach to networking called Software-Defined Networking,” with the [...]

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