The following is a post from a friend of mine in Florida. It is with regard to the iPhone 5. As I have just recently bought a new 4s and declined signing up with my provider, and did not follow up in the following 30 days with Apple for the extended warranty, this might be of note to those of
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On the weekend, my daughter suggested that if she got over 10,000 likes, would I quit smoking. I was not sure that she could get this number as she did not mention where she was going to post it. So thanks to the power of social connectivity, I guess I have to at least give it a try. My daughter
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Sounds like that Newfoundland and Labrador government’s social media advisory train is off the track. First, opposition Gerry Rogers member was kicked out of the house because she would not apologize to Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Kathy Dunderdale for someone else’s Facebook posts on the group Kathy Dunderdale must GO!!!. Rogers says she was added to the group without her
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In South Africa, business practices in the advertising industry have clients create briefs for the agency. I say this as at first I was not sure what the process being described was. The following is from their post on Vemo. I found it to be not only interesting, but a great creative solution to spur business solutions. Think of RFPs
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Now that the dust has settled from the coronation of Justin Trudeau as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, it will be interesting if the Trudeau team can capitalize on the interest surrounding the new leader that is buzzing on social media. Like anyone ‘new’ they tend to steal the spotlight from others for a period of
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This following article first appeared in Mobile Marketer. I wanted to share it with you. It really sums up how important social is, how important mobile is – but most of all how these content and delivery platforms work together in a really tight symbiotic relationship today and going forward. SAN FRANCISCO – An eMarketer executive at the ad:tech San
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How is it that some are still not understanding the value of social media to their bottom line. Could it be that these companies are afraid to engage customers or have to face consumer comments?Perhaps this more traditional explanation of how important it is to be involved might help – if not directly then as an acedote to help those
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The following article outtakes from Leanne Italie of The Associated Press. While some may still be in the dark as to what the red and pink equal sign is, the article covers that aspect, however it is a bit trite in a sense that it questions the power of social media and sees people using this as a social moniker
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The Dove beauty brand is well known for pushing the envelope to show people as people and not models. This time they went too far though. They created what amounts to a Trojan and possibly illegal file in the form of a Photoshop actions file. Once downloaded the user expected it to create a glow effect but instead it reverted
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Facebook to me is a richer experience on the desktop than on the mobile device. I can share, comment better and more in the browser than the app. Instead of adding more function to the app, Facebook announced today that Inspired by mobile: Now the best parts of Facebook for mobile are on the web, too. Basically it comes down
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