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Social media and how humans work - take 2 [Carman Pirie’s Blog]

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Yesterday’s post sparked some interesting comments from Rob Paterson and Mark Dykeman.

In referring to my comparison of a Facebook social graph to the Halifax Farmers’ Market, Mark said:

The resemblance between the…

Are you still paid to interrupt? [Carman Pirie’s Blog]

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Hat tip: Brij Singh

On March 18th, Ad Age’s Digital Marketing conference in NYC gets underway. That afternoon, one conference session will be dedicated to digital screens. The session description on their site…

Inside PR Podcast [Carman Pirie’s Blog]

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Last week’s meetup in Toronto featured a live taping of the Inside PR podcast - good fun, that. A great discussion was had by all regarding ‘who owns the social media space?’. All in all, I found the folks there to be…

Social media and the anti-broadcast [Carman Pirie’s Blog]

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As a marketer, I guess the trouble with broadcast media is that it isn’t quite as broad as it used to be. 3000 channels rather than 300 or 30 (heh. or 3 as I seem to recall from my early childhood). 200 satellite r…

Marketing and PR in a social media world [Carman Pirie’s Blog]

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Source: Henry Jenkins

I’ve been using this slide a bit in some of my recent presentations. I find it is a helpful way to get the discussion going about marketing (pulling people together and giving them something to…