There has been a very small but vocal backlash against one aspect of Twitter Lists: What if I don’t want to be on your list? What can I do about it? I have seen a few tweets propose that question. The only solution I have seen so far is to block the person who...
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By Lon S. Cohen “You’d think that if anyone can afford to pay artists and designers it would be a company that is making millions of dollars.” – Illustrator, Joe Ciardiello in an interview with the New York Times about Google’s offer to artists to use their work for free “exposure”. This still gets...
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Saying that a brand can Twitter is a pretty broad statement but what does that mean? Just as I learned in the advertising classes I sat in during college (my degree is in Advertising Art & Design) there are many ways to position your advertising in the public. Your message can be as diverse...
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In other news, Dell computers revealed that it is seeking out a typewriter company to take over. According to this Mashable.com report, Bloomberg has purchased BusinessWeek for a sum of money that is somewhere between $2 million to $5 million. That’s right M-I-L-L-I-O-N D-O-L-L-A-R-S. As in the joke from the Austin Powers movies. Did...
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Small businesses thinking about getting into Social Media or who may have already embraced this new media space on the web but are not seeing the results they expect can learn a thing or two from some basic principles of fishing. By Lon S. Cohen I just hate fishing. That’s what I used to...
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