January 24th Community Manager Appreciation Day slideshow from Edelman Digital
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The Unapologetic Geek Google's Marissa Meyer on Marketplace
I had meant to post this earlier , Marissa Meyer vice president of consumer products at Google, was on Marketplace on NPR on January 7th 2010.
If you need any nudging to listen to her below here is her opening : geek isn't a word you often hear referring to women. But, I am a geek -- not only am I a computer scientist by training, but I love to code, on Linux, on web servers, in C++, javascrip…
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Swami's weekly Book list : Content Rules , Open Source & other interesting Books
From the Economist Book review : The Comingled Code : Open Source and Economic Development By Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman. At least theoretically, open source could also resolve the main dilemma that bedevils innovation policy. On the one hand, most inventors need incentives to keep inventing. On the other, the social value of an invention is maximised if anyone—not just those willing to pay …
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Search + Mobile = Purchase (Maybe) From Media Post
Laurie Sullivan wrote this article for Mediapost.com and I thought this paragraph was interesting "Baynote recently released the Baynote Holiday Online Shopping Experience Survey, which analyzes 500 U.S. online holiday shoppers during the month of December. The study provides a look at consumer satisfaction with their digital experience across several areas including mobile and social. It tur…
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Experian Warns Smartphone Users to Smarten Up
This is from across the pond and I would say you should start precautions and have a locked phone with a password. Thier research found : Nearly two thirds (65%) of smartphone users send and store e-mails on their phones - even if these include sensitive information such as receipts and credit card details from shopping online.
More than half (53%) of smartphone users access social networking sit…
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Swami's weekly Book list : Social Marketing to the Business Customer and other interesting books
Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation . The article in today's Washington Post by Clarence B Jones adviser, lawyer and speech writer of Martin Luther King explains how the words " I have a dream" were impromptu. I was impressed by the preparation that Martin Luther King went through for his public speeches. The book will definitely be a good read and a…
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Communities of Practice: Conversations To Collaboration by Stephen Dale
I am sharing this from Slideshare which is a great social network for sharing Presentations and documents. I came across this while doing some research and Stephen Dale has made this a very comprehensive and detailed presentation on communities. No wonder this presentation has more than 20k views and over 168 others have embedded this presentation on their blogs/ websites. Communities of Practice:…
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First Ever National GiveCamp Delivers Technical Wishlist Projects for Over 120 Non-Profits
The first ever National GiveCamp, sponsored by Microsoft takes place this weekend in 14 locations coast-to-coast More than 1,000 volunteer developers, designers and IT Professionals, will code for charity delivering custom software, new applications and web sites for over 120 charities. Without the donated efforts from the National GiveCamp event, these charities, which would typically not be abl…
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iPhone Trumps Android in QR Code Scanning Battle
"According to a recent analysis by JumpScan, the leading social QR service, Apple’s iPhone outpaced Google’s Android by nearly three to one. The trend is based on a recent sampling of 5,000 scans from mobile devices. Blackberry came in a distant third, generating approximately 3% of the overall scans. “One of the reasons,” speculates JumpScan co-founder Mike McKearin, “could be that iPhone us…
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Marshall Kirkpatrick’s Corporate Social Strategist Analysis
Marshall Kirkpatrick co-editor of ReadWriteWeb posted a interesting analysis on a list of Corporate Social Strategists created by Jeremiah Owyang on his personal blog : http://marshallk.com/corporate-social-strategists-on-twitter-resources-charts You learn a lot about how data can be researched and manipulated and here a list of a few but you should head over there and read it http://goo.gl/O27ee M…
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Aprile Parella features on BlogTalk Radio Karen Krymski ‘s Women PowerUP January 11th 4 p.m
Sometimes your best critics become your best friends. I met Aprile Parella at Social Plus earlier this year when she did me a favor and asked me very good and open questions about Network Solutions after my talk there on Social Media Marketing and since then we have become good friends. She was a speaker at Affcon 2010 in Miami Dec 2010 where we met again.I am thrilled that Aprile will be appeari…
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Swami's weekly Book list :Open Leadership by Charlene Li and other books news week
In my New Year Resolution is a desire to read more books this year. I am a firm believer that you keep learning through out your life and books are a great way to learn. Swami's weekly Book list : Open Leadership Charlene Li (Hardcover - May 24, 2010)
I have a review below and the Amazon reviews of Open Leadership have some good view points
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Amy Chua (Hardcover …
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My Cooliris Holiday Story
In 2010 I have done my share of conferences and I always look for SWAG to take back to the kids. Beach balls are a hot favorite and then this summer while on a visit to the Rocky Gap State Park in Maryland the beach ball ( Swag from Cooliris ) floated away from the Beach" and floated across the lake to end up at the dam. The next day when we went for a trek across the lake we took this pictu…
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Smartphones were on everyone’s gift lists this year, What did you get?
Wirefly ( http://www.wirefly.com ), the Internet retailer of cell phones and cell phone plans, today released its annual list of its Top Ten Best Selling Cell Phones during the 2010 holiday shopping season Wirefly’s Top 10 Best Selling Cell Phones for the 2010 Holiday Season (Black Friday thru Christmas Eve)* 1. HTC EVO™ 4G (Sprint) 2. DROID Incredible by HTC (Verizon Wireless) 3. Samsung Cap…
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