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November 2010 Blog Posts (10)

Top Social Networks on Music.

Given my love for music and the interest I have in the music industry, last night I looked into some of the leading music social networking communities to find out what's on in "Social Music". Here is a list...any other suggestions?

MySpace is supposed to be a transformation from ?a place for friends? to ?a social entertainment destination". It will focus on engaging a ?Generation Y? audience with the entertainment and…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 30, 2010 at 4:33pm — No Comments

How to Feed Your Blog?

As a blogger, you know that sometimes the hardest thing to do is come up with content for your blog and if you regularly do that you may know that finding ideas for your blog can often take a long time and sometimes lead to you not blogging at all. So I think it might be useful to share with you a list of ways to find content for your blog. Here they are.

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 29, 2010 at 12:23pm — No Comments

The Conversation Framework

If you work in marketing, public relations, advertising, crm, product development or any discipline that?s shaped and directed by customers, you should know that monitoring and participating in online conversations is critical in competing for the future. Here I found a new graphic that helps define online conversations between the…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 27, 2010 at 4:27pm — No Comments

The Rise of Social Commerce

Tweet and ReTweet, Like, Share and Check-in, QR codes, Augmented reality and RFID...These are the key words that underline the rise of Social Consumer and a new era of Social Commerce. From online to offline to online again, social consumers are checking into businesses, fusing online and offline communities and influencing behavior and decisions. These increasingly important acts of social exchanges are gaining in value and delivering benefits for both sides.…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 27, 2010 at 1:11pm — No Comments

A Deep Dive Into The Web 2010.

You're in the middle of a pitch meeting, struggling to persuade your potential client about the effectiveness of the digital strategy you came up with for his brand. He feels quite positive about your elevator speech but still not totally confident. He wants you to reassure him with some data and number and to answer his questions about "the State of the Web 2010".

I found this useful presentation released by Morgan Stanley at the…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 22, 2010 at 3:53pm — No Comments

How to Use Social Media in 2010.

This infographic released by Flowtown shows us how marketers are utilizing social media in 2010. The report focuses on how long brands and businesses have been involved in social media, how much time they invest each week and what they are getting out of social, it also touches on where businesses think they…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 18, 2010 at 1:14pm — No Comments

RockMelt, Your Social Life in a Window.

Are you sick and tired to pack your browser with a cascade of tabs just to update your Facebook status, tweet what you're doing tonight, post a video on Youtube, etc, etc?

RockMelt is the solution. It is a revolutionary web browser that aims to become "The Social Browser? by integrating your online accounts directly into your web browser?s interface. Briefly, it allows you to search, share, and chat with friends and colleagues, all in the same…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 15, 2010 at 8:27pm — No Comments

Tips&Tools: Forget about Power Point!

Hi guys! Last night I was thinking about how to make my portfolio a bit more appealing and less boring than a conventional PowerPoint or KeyNote presentation when I bumped into a super cool web-based presentation software called Prezi. It get rid of the traditional slide format in favor of a storyboard format where the presenter can zoom in and out of the ?big picture? to deliver key presentation points through swift…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 15, 2010 at 2:01pm — No Comments

Terrifically Funny and Contagious!

Guys, this is seriously one of the most funny video I've ever seen in my life...It's ridiculous, trust me you can't stop laughing, I swear!

But apart from that the weird funny kid in the video got much more views on YouTube than the President Obama winning speech. It makes me think about the power that playfulness have in engaging people and make a video, a product, a brand or simply an idea contagious and viral. It's true this is just a joke but it bloody…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 13, 2010 at 3:20am — No Comments

"The Fastest-Growing and Most Popular Interactive Campaign in History".

We all know about the Old Spice social media campaign. It started with a Super Bowl commercial and then moved into viral videos on YouTube and, finally, a fun response campaign on…

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Added by Pasquale Quarta on November 13, 2010 at 1:15am — No Comments