August 2009
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Martha Stewart has collected a treasure trove video archive u can own w/everything you’ll need to plan your wedding http://is.gd/2EcyF
RT @rikin311 @pearsonified Interesting tip from quite a few bit.ly users: Put a (+) sign after ANY bit.ly URL to view its stats.
Beautiful piece in the NYT about how Ted K chose to make peace with his end. I can only hope for this when it’s my time. http://is.gd/2BC5H
RT @Foodimentary I Love it! August 27 is National Pots de Creme day! Rich, thick, chocolate in a cup….yum! Recipe: www.potsdecreme.com
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Moving Piece in NYT on Ted Kennedy's Final Days →
My dear friend Tony pointed me to this NYTimes article on Ted Kennedy. As Tony said, it’s a deeply moving piece—kudos to the writer, Mark Leibovich. For me, it was an inspiring read about how one can ‘be’ in the end. We’ll all have that one day—our own end.
Recent Thompson Reuters article: Top 100 socially engaged companies, all 100 listed, and with online links to them. http://is.gd/2AFTb
Sharpie is going all out with their marketing efforts for new stainless steel pen. Running video ads in NYCity cabs! http://is.gd/2AIUz
If, like me, you are obsessed with all things home furnishings, you will love the inspiring tumblr micro-blog sweethomestyle.tumblr.com/
RT @Wordination @gradontripp Perry Belcher made enough money to do everything but hire a copy editor. http://twitpic.com/ferit [priceless]
Oh Em Geeee. Hobbit House: http://www.simondale.net/house/index.htm
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TOP 100 BRANDS ENGAGED in SOCIAL MEDIA →
The recent Thompson Reuters article, but with all 100 listed, and with links to them online.
NEW.FAVE.THING. http://start.io is a customizable start page engine. You can take it with you, computer to computer, home & at work. LOVE!
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Start.io OMG Love This →
A customizable start page engine. Introduced in the spring of 2009, I can’t believe this didn’t exist before then because it’s such a no-brainer. Start.io is a customizable homepage. It holds all of your most used links so you can get to them quickly from wherever you are—meaning, it’s a moveable feast: use it at home, use it at work. Sold.
#MarthaStewart Living asked #Ning to help them build the ‘Dreamers Into Doers’ area of their community site http://ow.ly/l7Gu
Wow. You learn something new everyday! I never knew such a thing as Standup Paddling existed! http://www.seapaddlenyc.org/
#SEAPaddleNYC Amazing sigjt to see you all standing up and paddling down the Hudson River from our perch inside Starrett-Lehigh bldg
Great picture of the standup paddlers here http://img401.yfrog.com/i/fg4t.jpg/ thanks @evilempire
RT @parneetg nice find! @majesse check this out - digital b-cards. http://twtbizcard.com/
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MediaPost: Martha Stewart teams up with Ning →
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia—the company I work—asked Ning to help them build the ‘Dreamers Into Doers’ area of the community site on marthastewart.com.
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Sentiment Analysis →
“Social media used to be this cute project for 25-year-old consultants,” said Margaret Francis, vice president for product at Scout Labs in San Francisco. Now, she said, top executives “are recognizing it as an incredibly rich vein of market intelligence.”
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How does the internet see you? (well, your name) →
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Hema - Dutch Department Store →
Let’s see. Does viral media work? Indeed, it does: ten minutes ago, I’d never heard of this store, HEMA, in the Netherlands. I got this via an email from a friend, and the site is not even in English. It’s getting passed around via emails and posts like this one. Just click on the title here which is a link—the page will do its thing.
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Say it...say it...
Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. ~ Joseph Campbell
All right Aussie peeps, Microsoft’s “10 Grand is Buried Here” promo: http://ow.ly/krSr Find this promo and its web usage intriguing.
Evidence of the New World we live in: ‘YouTube is Doomed’ http://ow.ly/krF2 “Advert. cannot solve the problem…not in its current form”.
Tumblr is blogs+twitter. Loving!
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Still digesting @michelletripp ‘s post http://ow.ly/k6Xk “All it takes is one human, thinking exponentially.”
“I think creativity can solve anything.” Very cool post, Thanks Jim for this: RT @smashadv Art & Copy http://bit.ly/zmOvQ
Curious how the new Yahoo SoMe metric/analytic will compare to what’s out there. Their visuals are the best: http://yahoo.knowyourmojo.com/
[Thx 2 @michelletripp for tripping me out on this!]. Exponential Times does mean [per Intel] ‘Tomorrow is a strange and exciting place.’
“Because of technology, it no longer requires a corporation to launch … ubiquitous innovations. Silos and vertical structures are out.”
re @michelletripp ‘s post: “Someone creating value individually with broad imapact. Someone taking small actions with big results.”
Congrats @sockington on your #1millionfollowers. Now maybe Twitter will confirm your account! Huzzah Socks Army: #VerifiedAccount campaign!
RT this hilarity @jacobshare MORONIC: One Reason Not to Friend Your Boss on Facebook http://su.pr/43gfI6 The wages of social media sins!
On my way into work at the Starrett-Lehigh office building in NY, FIOS has opened a pop-shop. I love the tagline on the freebie baseball cap
The FIOS tagline on the bb cap? ‘Bringers of Awesome’.
“Tomorrow is a strange and exciting place”
– Intel ad banners
“Bringers of Awesome”
– FIOS baseball cap in their POP-UP shop on East 26th Street 11/12 Aves, NYC
Today is so yesterday. http://is.gd/2e1N3
I am liking the #copywriting in the Intel banners/web ads: “Tomorrow is a strange and amazing place.” and, “Today is so yesterday.”
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“Everything changes, nothing remains without change.”
– Buddha
No problem, it’s what we are all here to do. Each one teach one, and pay it forward.
Just set-up a stream on FB for The BrandForward Blog from @michelletripp http://is.gd/2cmLn btw all: NetworkedBlogs thing on FB is cool.
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NYTimes -- Cool Quiz re: Taxonomies →
Which one is the bird: chunchuíkit or máuts? Take this quiz to see how well you can identify bird names in the Huambisa language of Peru. [I got 10 of 10…must have a pretty well developed area of the temporal lobe…]
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Taxonomies →
New York Times article about the ordering and naming of life, taxonomy. What I found most interesting was the bit about how they hypothesize that the temporal lobe might be a specific part of the brain that is devoted to the ‘doing of taxonomy’.