Paul Gillin

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ComScore Data Illustrates But Also Obfuscates

Paul Gillin

That’s pretty lame, considering that YouTube has had its own social networking layer for years and that the previous social layer on top of Gmail – Google Buzz – went nowhere. The low number for Twitter is so misleading that it should be asterisked. Also, only about 20% of Twitter activity actually occurs on Twitter.com.

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Social Marketing Wisdom from the Insurance Industry – Really

Paul Gillin

Gregg Weiss ( @greggweiss ) of New York Life says the company’s social media content strategy is driven by constantly asking, “What can we do that isn’t about life insurance?” The goal was to get people talking about financial stability and have a chance to win the popular board game; Hosted a Twitter chat about Halloween safety.

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My Favorite Productivity Apps – Multimedia & Web

Paul Gillin

I use a lot of video in presentations, and have always gotten good performance from the free Foxreal YouTube FLV Downloader. It works with a lot more sites than just YouTube and cleanly downloads Flash video. You can even create collages like the one I use for my Twitter page background. Tweetdeck for Twitter is one.

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Facebook Can Work for B2B Marketers, But You Gotta Know the Rules

Paul Gillin

In a survey of marketers conducted by BtoB magazine last year , Facebook was ranked last in usefulness among the top five social networks, trailing blogs, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter, in that order. It uses apps for Twitter, YouTube, Flickr and Foursquare to pull its content from other social networks into Facebook.

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When Bad News is Good

Paul Gillin

Twitter is recording about 10 tweets per minute mentioning the author’s name. YouTube views are over 1 million. Critics Ignore Content of Book about Jesus, Attack Author for Being a Muslim. As of this moment, his book is the top seller on Amazon. Scores of articles have appeared in mainstream media.

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Weinberger Wisdom

Paul Gillin

Media isn’t content. The most popular stuff on YouTube is about humans screwing up. Newspapers traditionally provided a curated mix of content reflecting a professionally derived combination of what we wanted to know and what we needed to know. Media is frequently mis-characterized as publishing. We are the media.

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Five Lessons From the Web 2.0 Summit

Paul Gillin

and Twitter. Johnson proposed an idea he called “Web redundancy:” Every digital content asset should have a corresponding linkable version. and Twitter. Johnson proposed an idea he called “Web redundancy:” Every digital content asset should have a corresponding linkable version. I had a chance to attend the recent Web 2.0

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