UPDATE: Stats from Mike on Social Media Fundrasing

In this post, Happy Earth Day – Social Media Style, I gave an electronic round of applause to Mike Boudreaux for his great use of social media to raise money for the MS150.  
He has sent me a breakdown of his success:
55 % of $1600 raised via Social Networking
- 15% Twitter
- 29% Facebook
- 12% LinkedIN
Congrats again!

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Screw Virtual Happy Hour!

Thanks to my superstar intern, Blake Sunshine (yes, she has the coolest name EVER), I’ve re-energized my focus on Facebook.
One thing I’ve struggled with is the 1010101 random applications poking me, super poking me, biting me,  or my personal favorite – hitting me in the face with a snowball. It’s bad enough that I toil [...]

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Look, Mom…I’m on YouTube!

Check out this video of the 2008 Forrester Groundswell Award winners (including yours truly) sharing their expertise on how to use social technologies to accomplish business goals. Try to ignore my passionate hand gestures. 
Note on Dec 17th: Unfortunately, Forrester took down the YouTube video.  You can find it on Facebook here.

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Oodles and Oodles of Classifieds on Facebook

Will Oodle be the death of Craigslist?
Today, Facebook announced that Oodle has been chosen to power its Marketplace, an online classifieds application introduced in 2007 to help users find items or roommates.
“Turning the development and management of Marketplace over to an innovator in online classifieds will give users more advanced ways to create and share [...]

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Twine – Wicked Smart Online Content Collection Service

This week, I learned a lot about interactive marketing, innovation and “how to keep ahead of tomorrow’s customer” at the Forrester Consumer Forum in Dallas, TX; however, one of the highlights of my trip was experimenting with Twine, a semantic Web application.
Thanks to my new bud, Jonas Lamis, I decided to put aside my Google [...]

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