December 2008

Closing 2008 With Thanks

December 31, 2008

With about eight hours remaining in 2008 (in my part of the world, anyway), I’d like to devote my 517th blog post of the year to you. There are somewhere between 75 to 100 million blogs in the world and I’m grateful that you’ve taken the time to read mine along with the rest. Thank [...]

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How New Tools Help Reach New Audiences

December 30, 2008

Do you remember March 2007 when Maxim Magazine arrived in Israel for a five-day photo shoot of former Israel Army soldiers clad in bikinis? In the words of Arye Mekel, former Consul General of Israel in New York, the country asked the magazine to do the shoot as a means of enhancing their public image. [...]

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How The Museum of Modern Art is Online

December 28, 2008

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City has over 101,000 Facebook fans on two official pages: 55,787 here and 45,925 here. Two nearly-identical pages notwithstanding (wouldn’t life be easier with one?), the content includes information on hours, directions, current exhibitions, upcoming events, pictures, videos, and more. It’s fair to say the central focus [...]

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My Top 12 Blog Posts from 2008

December 27, 2008

Today being Saturday, this is my final roundup of 2008. With inspiration from many people writing year-end blog summaries, such as Elysa, and in further proof to support the claim that blogs will survive into 2009, I’d like to share with you my top 12 blog posts of the year. It was a difficult decision, [...]

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Status Update War: You Decide the Winner

December 27, 2008

Sparked by Adriel Hampton who suggests numerous ways to promote online content, I started thinking about status updates. You know what a status update is, right? It’s really no different than your response when your mother asked about your day at school. “It was fine, Mom!” “Fine? What does that mean?” And you dished. In [...]

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Tagth.is: Tag Your Twitter Links to Delicious or Ma.gnolia

December 25, 2008

During a series of tweets with digital strategist Warren Sukernek (@warrenss) earlier today, he asked about tagging Twitter messages to Delicious. This got me thinking and googling–and led me to Tagth.is, a month-old service enabling anyone with a Twitter account to automatically tag web links to their Delicious or Magnolia social bookmarking accounts. It’s a [...]

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Why I Donate to Wikipedia

December 24, 2008

Everyone is writing about Christmas, Santa Claus, and tidings today. Not me. I want to focus this blog post on Wikipedia, the recipient of too many links from my blog over the past 19 months. I ask you to join me–and donate. My request does not come lightly. People are asking for money left and [...]

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8 Free eBooks on Twitter

December 24, 2008

Approximately 24 hours ago, internet marketing firm HubSpot released its first State of the Twittersphere report for the fourth quarter of 2008, analyzing assorted growth rates, following/follower ratios, and geographic data. Among the results, we now know about 7,500 people join the Twitter ranks every day; 35% of Twitter users have 10 or less followers; [...]

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