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Does Danger Lurk in the Language of Social Media?

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From this execrable marketing trend arises the term you ask me about: ‘branding.’”. There is, I suspect, a troubling nub of validity in Weingarten’s reaction to it that should sound a note of caution for all of us new-media enthusiasts. Will the social media revolution be co-opted? I don’t think so.

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Time to Surf the Wave of the Personal Brand

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Mathew Ingram’s recounting today of blogger Nate Silver’s leap from the New York Times into the welcoming arms of ESPN underscores a trend B2B journalists and editors ignore at their peril. For the moment at least, editorial personal brands are growing more powerful primarily—or most obviously—in big media.

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Personal vs. Corporate: Six New-Media Principles, No. 3

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But in the social media world, they have an increasingly personal and direct connection to their readers. But the reality is that social media, and the social Web in general, have created a shift from the institutional news brand to journalists’ personal brands.

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“Content Is Power”: Q & A with Mark W. Schaefer

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As I familiarized myself with B2B marketing blogs, though, I realized that while these goals may never fully align, in the social-media era they are coming closer together. For me, no one better epitomizes this trend than Mark Schaefer. What’s the most important message you have for people regarding social media?

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The Decline of the Single Editorial Voice

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Though that’s a small thing in itself, says ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick , it’s a reflection of a huge shift in media. After citing other examples of how social media allows individual voices to flourish outside of traditional mass-media outlets, Kirkpatrick writes that.

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The Yin and Yang of Content Economics

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It has the look of two trends hurtling toward a head-on collision. Sooner or later, one of these trends is bound to falter–but which will it be? We may not like it, but behind this trend is the force of economic law. Try writing for Demand Media and you will quickly learn the harsh economics of content oversupply.”.

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Why Publishers Need Early Adopters, Annoying or Not

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Alley herself, after all, stands out among young B2B journalists for being well ahead of her peers in adopting the tools and ethos of social media. A little early adoption might have gone a long way towards slowing, if not reversing, that depressing trend. I’m not sure she means it.