NewRedBook – The Nick Garner Blog

I had been meaning to read the slideshare on how social Media affected the Obama Campaign.
Things that struck me about the Obama campaign….the lack of spend on social and how they used evangelists so well to get engagement with so many young people. (See below for the numbers)
So this leads me into my next point [...]

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The rot begins: Miley Cyrus the young actress/singer had 2 million followers on Twitter – BEFORE SHE TURNED OFF HER ACCOUNT.
Miley gives a very coherent explanation on why she had to say adios to the microblogging craze.

So with this one out , who will be next? and importantly will the flattened twitter graph pick up [...]

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This is so true:

Shame there is so much ’snake oil’ at the moment, because there are good bits in social and once you understand the core of social i.e. relationships and shared experience, then it all makes sense. If you don’t understand what I’m talking about then this Youtube video will enlighten you: (This [...]

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I was at a gathering of Twitter’ites orbiting around Jeff Pulver a substantial investor in Twitter and had the pleasure of briefly meeting Sarah Blow the person responsible for community on Tweetmeme.com.
They say:
TweetMeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which links are popular. TweetMeme categorises these links [...]

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I had previously blogged about a video on social, but since this was also very cool, I thought I’d add it for your viewing pleasure:

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For your social media pleasure:
Case Study: The Barack Obama Strategy
View more OpenOffice presentations from Socialmedia8 Amsterdam.

and another 10 great ‘decks’ on social

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