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AUGUST 31, 2010

The increasing prevalence of social media is creating a lock step increase in uni-directional social media chest thumping. August 31st, 2010 |Written By: Jay Baer | View Comments Tweet Mitch Joel , whose blog and work I greatly admire, wrote a very interesting blog post recently that bemoaned the lack of conversation in social media.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

MySpace last week declared what amounts to a post-modern armistice, announcing that they will integrate status updates with Facebook (and Twitter). MySpace used to be Janet, and now it’s LaToya – at best. Coincidental timing too, as Yahoo ! gave up their search engine duties in U.S. and Canada to Microsoft’s Bing last week.

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JUNE 11, 2010

We’ve worked on this a lot, and since the book is about 1/3 written (here’s a picture of Amber when all the ideas for the outline have been wrung out of her), we need to lock it down soon. Turns out, I’m totally non-musical, so that guitar thing is going to be tough. Your first assignment is to help us settle on a title.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode? Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites.

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AUGUST 3, 2010

But, for all its foibles and fairytales, its growth and groan-inducing missteps, Facebook and its leadership have known for a long time that websites are yesterday’s technology – they are just now getting around to twisting the knife. Do You “Like&# Me in Attack Mode? Facebook is waging a three-pronged war on websites.

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AUGUST 4, 2010

Because you’re not on the other end of the phone. If you listened in, you’d be just as angry about that as you are about negative tweets. The public and immediate nature of getting slammed via social is what stings. Ultimately, this will make for stronger companies. And the Ford trucks have the pee on Chevy sticker.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

There is More Than One SXSW As the conference continues to grow (interactive registrations up 40% over 2009, to more than 15,000 total), attendee segmentation follows apace. But, I absorbed many smaller lessons that will help guide my thinking about the conference, technology, and social business in the coming months.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Many large companies see social media great for B2C, but the B2B companies find it hard to think that it can fit for them as well. Many large companies see social media great for B2C, but the B2B companies find it hard to think that it can fit for them as well. And that’s the problem. They're not comfortable with it; 2.

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