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POPSNew Launch PR Blogger! Check out this post from our newest SA team member to start blogging and if you have time, drop her a comment to show the power of the community. I'm out to get everyone hooked on the Web and fully engaged:)
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POPSGoogle Helps GTalk Users Go Global As I was reading this TechCrunch post about Google's new translation service, I thought about my Skype account. Nearly 90% of my network on Skype is based internationally. So many people, like myself, seem to be using the Skype platform as an affordable means of communicating with people oversees. This kind of translation service would be a natural extension of its current offering. Imagine the implications for small business looking to expand to international markets. With a diverse workforce and client roster, the ability to have low cost communications and a low cost translation service could cut down the barrier to entry in the global marketplace.
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POPSEngage or Die From a great new magazine on social media. This new media marketing manifesto by author Brian Solis is sure to galvanize any fair weather web marketer
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POPSA New Star Clipper is Born- Follow her, Pop her clips...:) Meredith is one of my favorite new social media buddies. We work together and she is one of the most supportive members of the team championing social media engagement- I'm sure clipper AmandaGravel would completely agree. Giver her a little pop, comment... and welcome her to our Clipmarks community
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POPS"Hollywood Writers Strike: A Chance for Millions Online to Bloom"
This morning as I watched the morning news and learned that the strike will take place, I thought about this as an opportunity for online content producers. So it was great to see that Duncan Riley and the team at TechCrunch were already busy writing a post on exactly that story. As a media junkie, I like my rounded mix of traditional and non traditional channels but this strike just may (at least for now), encourage me to completely rely on online media for my daily dose of news, commentary and entertainment. For online content providers, this lucky break gives them an opportunity to serve up fresh content while major networks are forced to turn out reruns. This experience will illustrate how timely and nimble these new producers are. In any event, I do wish the best for the talented men and women who turn out my favorite content for the networks. How much do you follow traditional vs. online media and in wake of the strike, do you think your own media habits will change
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POPSMy Comment on the Web 2.0 Toolbar I noticed this new tool a little while about it and posted about it on my blog. It was really cool this morning to see a ping back from Web20toolbar.com and this shout out to my post. This is a cool new tool and I appreciated the time the Web 2.0 Toolbar team took to find and link to my post. It's impressive to see more thoughtful and engaged teams like the Clipmarks team who go beyond simply monitoring uber-blogs like TechCrunch and take the time to listen to the entire community discussing their work.
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POPSA Vision of Students Today- Pulled from Mitch Joel's Twist Image Blog
We are growing up and learning to communicate in a connected, information-rich and highly collaborative world; and we’re in the middle of an education system in flux; We’re multitaskers who walk to class listening to our iPods, checking our texts and email on our Sidekick, Blackberry or iPhone and talking with the friends we see along the way. Then we get to some classes and sit down for a two to four hour lecture with a professor who speaks to us rather than with us. No wonder so many students are surfing Facebook during class and finding it hard to focus on reading 200 pages of a text book for a class assignment. Luckily I go to a school that’s working hard to evolve. My school strongly encourages small class sizes and brings in enough professors who not only know my name but know my email address and something about my goals and interests. Class debate and discussion is a huge part of the curriculum and our lectures are integrated with work on the Web.
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POPSAdam Broitman on "Facebook Gets Googley/ Google Starts to Feed" Social Media maven, Adam Broitman serves up a great post on the developing relationship between Facebook and Google. Is there love in the air or are these two Internet darlings headed for bitter divorce? Broitman says, "My feeling is that we will begin to see a lot more rivalry between these two companies."