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What you can learn from Mister Splashy Pants

Buzz Marketing for Technology

On December 10, 2007, Mister Splashy Pants was announced the winner of the competition. The lesson to be learned from Mister Splashy Pants is: Crowdsourcing works but only if you let go and are open to the results. And then of course there was Mister Splashy Pants. Tweet This! Share this on Facebook. Share this on Linkedin.

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Content Marketing with Stories: Better than Facts

Writing on the Web

More importantly, if you’re trying to influence people to buy into your ideas and ultimately your business, there is evidence that stories work better than facts. It’s easy to share client experiences and stories about the work you do. Good stories are what make a blog interesting and fun to read. Well, shorter, for sure.

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Content Marketing Tips: Get Your Stories Straight

Writing on the Web

I’m re-reading a great book by Jim Loehr, The Power of Story: Rewrite Your Destiny in Business and in Life (Free Press, 2007). You can’t write good stories that inspire without working on the stories you tell yourself, about your work, about your business. They may or may not take us where we ultimately want to go.

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Email Dashboard: Information Overload Research Group news wrapup

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Beth Kanter suggests that we "Turn Off the Damn Email Software and Get Some Work Done (Or go for a walk)!" Tony Wright worries that "the increasingly personalized infoporn delivered to us through a broadening array of channels (like RSS, alerts, Twitter, Digg, Email, IM, Social Networks and more) is a looming disaster.

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here are some random thoughts from a collection of these experiences and feedback from conference speeches: 1) Features are NOT user experiences: Warning…if you ask someone about desired user experience and they say wiki or forum, you have work to do. Lots of diverse versions of this. Go join that! Great, now can you sustain it?

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Best of 2007: Cool Online Tools

WebMarketCentral

File conversion tools Still running Office 2003, but need to convert the new XML-based formats from Office 2007 so you can read and work with them? Here's a list of interesting and useful tools to help you convert files, find content, promote your blog, and add content to your website, among other activities.

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The information processing view of humanity

Buzz Marketing for Technology

The trip was centered on speaking, client work, and meetings to prepare for the Future of Media Summit 2008. We are now deluged with essentially infinite information, and we need to sort through it all, synthesize it, and work out what action to take as a result. Share this: Digg this | Reddit | StumbleUpon | Del.icio.us |.

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