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Month August 2007

Facebook Group Gets Cadbury to Bring a Popular Candy Bar Back

Taste of Victory: Online Outcry Revives a Chocolate Bar – New York Times Another example of the power of Facebook. Cadbury Schweppes (UK) has agreed to bring back it’s Wispa candy bar in October. 14,000 people (93 Groups) joined “Bring Back Wispa” Facebook groups and other online petitions. (Via NYTimes.com.)

The Next Email – Twitter – Jaiku – Pownce

The Next Email – Twitter – Jaiku – Pownce Robert Scoble is the most prolific and influencial blogger in the Tech space today. From his time as the “Microsoft Blogger”, Robert has shared interviews on new tech advances, processes and people. He’s also a HUGE proponent of Facebook and uses it extensively as a means [...]

The End of Email?

Sharing with and messaging those non-Facebook (are there any left?) just got easier. Facebook now allows you to send messages to both your Facebook and Non-Facebook People(NFP) and save the NFP email addresses to your “friend selector”. Of course, once these NFP get a taste of La Facebook, they will be sucked in like the [...]

Twitter Blog: Searching Twitter

Twitter Blog: Searching Twitter One of the frustrating things about Twitter is finding people – especially people you know are using the service. Tonight Twitter launched a new “People Search” feature. I’m sure that this is just the first of new features pending (In the last few days I’ve seen a lot of lists detailing [...]

Social Media White Paper – “Tracking the Influence” (Factiva of Dow Jones)

Social Media White Paper – “Tracking the Influence” (Factiva of Dow Jones) Jeremiah Owyang has graciously shared a white paper he co-wrote with Mike Toll of Factiva of Dow Jones. It discusses Social Media Measurement and anyone who has an interest in launching a social media program should read it. Also – read the post [...]

Newsweek Article on Facebook

Facebook Grows Up: Can It Stay Relevant? interesting article through the perspective of Newsweek (and it’s demographic) of Facebook and The Social Graph. (Via MSNBC.)

Brian Solis (PR 2.0)in PRWeek

PRWeek Interviews PR Pros on the Ascendancy of Facebook I love the initial proposition: “Facebook should first be viewed as a personal reputation management system. It really is, in its most simplistic sense, an online hub for your personal brand for you as individual or person within a company.” I’ve much more aware of “personal [...]

Facebook Spawns Ad Networks

Facebook Spawns Ad Networks I’m excited about all the new social networking ad network possibilities, and this article talks about a couple of the initial candidates. I was especially excited to see Videoegg – earlier this year I worked with someone from the company on a local political campaign – and was really impressed during [...]

From Mashable: Yappd is a Visual Twitter Clone

Yappd is a Visual Twitter Clone : “Yappd is a new micro-blogging tool with an emphasis on the visual” Now I’m a huge Twitter fan and user, and have a lot of respect for the team behind it. I’m also a Pownce and (lesser so) Jaiku. So I was very interested in this story on [...]

Website Magazine : Social Media: From the Drawing Board to the Board Room

Website Magazine : Social Media: From the Drawing Board to the Board Room This is a great introduction on how to get starting analyzing new media (and selling it as a value proposition to senior management). Jeremiah writes about social media from a consultant’s point of view – whether on his blog, this article, his [...]