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Super Original Thinking is Required to Topple Facebook

Sword and the Script

What is certain is that whatever remaining sentiment of organic appeal is left – the ability for content to move around the web on the merit of its very idea – is eroding in favor of the highest bidder. Virality, or appearance of virality, can be fabricated for a price. Rethinking How Advertising is Bought and Sold. Can’t work.

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How to Spy on Your Competition & Steal Their Secrets

Cision

It’s a big web world and growing at an exponential pace. In the past (I am talking pre-web), it was hard to know unless you asked your customers, poached a competitor’s employee or searched through their garbage bins. A laptop, the web, and a search engine and you have the starter tools to begin this spying caper.

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Old Journalism’s Demise.Good News For Us!

Bad Pitch Blog

While most recognized that Web properties are two-way streets, venerable newspapers and ages-old magazines kept thinking they ruled our worlds. It''s like a business of celebrities—it appears only the companies with the best ratings are granted real estate! I think: "Why is every story about Apple or Google or Microsoft?"

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How to Spy on Your Competition and Steal Their Secrets

Beyond PR

It’s a big web world and growing at an exponential pace. In the past (I am talking pre-web), it was hard to know unless you asked your customers, poached a competitor’s employee or searched through their garbage bins. Today, it is so much easier and it’s a lot more transparent with the advent of search engines and a social web.

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Social Media Marketing for Complete Beginners

ReimaginePR

It’s called the cover photo, and most brands fail to fully optimize this real estate. Everyone wants to produce viral content that gets shared all over the web. While no one knows the full recipe to going viral, one of the ingredients is definitely creating valuable content. Produce share-worthy content.

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

Also includes mobile gaming, social media, and the web. Those who do not often choose not to own them - either because they do not consume TV media or because they prefer web streaming - rather than for economic reasons, though there are certainly those homes who do not have them purely due to poverty (20).

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