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Last 20 Shows Help Haiti In case you missed it, there has been a terrible earthquake in Haiti. 1,000s of people are now homeless and many will die in the aftermath of the terrible disaster. Please help if you can.
Here are a couple of charities to start with if you can spare any help:
World Vision
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Intel Ad Trys to Make Earthquakes Funny – Major Social Media FailIntel's social media marketing efforts failed miserably today. Intel was running a pretty bad ad campaign about earthquakes for some unknown reason. The earthquake in Haiti happens and Sky News has been running the ad repeatedly in front of a clip about the Haiti earthquake.
A bad disaster, a bad ad - you have to ask Intel what were you thinking?
Here's the ad and a bit of the Sky News clip.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Help HaitiIn case you missed it, there has been a terrible earthquake in Haiti. 1,000s of people are now homeless and many will die in the aftermath of the terrible disaster. Please help if you can.
Here are a couple of charities to start with if you can spare any help:
World Vision
OxfamListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Can Social Media Make The World A Better Place?Today, I received a email from someone I've never met who is involved with involved with International Medical Corp that asked me to post about their project at the American Express Members Project.
I was impressed by their use of social media. It's good to see social media doing some good things for the world. She sent me a link to their social media news release that was chock full of ways to learn about the project.
In short the project goal is saving the lives of malnourished childr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ashton Kutcher Vs. CNN - The Twitter CompetitionAshton Kutcher and CNN seem to be in a race to 1,000,000 Twitter followers. Ashton brings everyone up to date with this video from his car via Qik.
Some memorable quotes from Ashton:
I found it astonishing that one person can have as big a voice as an entire media company on Twitter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
The Podcast Consumer in 2008Edison Media Research has released a new study the podcast consumer. The study has lots of interesting information that I think reinforces the importance of traditional media companies starting to think of subscribable media as an important new line of business.
Key findings from the study include:
Podcasting continues to grow quickly: Audio podcast listeners grew from 13% of Americans to 18% and video podcast consumption grew from 11% to 15%.
Podcasts enable more media consumption: ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Digital Podcast 49: Automating the Digital Supply ChainIn Digital Podcast 49, we interview Richard Cottrell, Chief Executive Officer of Accenture's newly formed Digital Media Services business about automating the digital supply chain. Richard describes Accenture's planned offerings and how acquisitions like Digiplug and Origin Digital play a role in building out the services.
Our interest in the story was triggered by the announcement of the Origin Digital acquisition. We interviewed Origin Digital’s CEO Darcy Lorincz last year at Digital ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Best Practice Review: Revision3Revision3 is a new media company that describes itself as a "TV network for the web". They publish technology related video shows such as Diggnation, TekZilla, popSiren and about a dozen other shows.
Revision3 states that their "expects professionally produced programming but wants it to be unexpected, edgy, smart and real." They also understand the importance of a multi-device content strategy, stating that their audience "wants to watch shows whenever they want, wherever they are, and o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Digital Podcast 51: Bringing Personalities to Life VirtuallyIn Digital Podcast 51, Andrew interviews Peter Hodge, CEO of Virsona, about Virsona’s new artificial intelligence technology that can bring any personality to life.
Imagine if anyone could have a personal conversation with Iron Man, the Michelin Man, or their great-great-great-great grandfather. Peter describes his new company and technology that is about to make these ‘holodeck’ scenarios a reality – at least the conversation part.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Digital Podcast 52: Everyone Can Be a StarIn Digital Podcast 52, Andrew interviews Jonathan Strietzel, Co-founder and Chief Creative Officer of Big Stage, whose breakthrough technology allows users to create and integrate life-like 3-D avatars of themselves into movies, videogames, commercials and other digital video content using just three digital face photos.
Imagine if you and your friends could star in a music video, famous movie clip, or commercial as realistically as if you were around for the shoot. Jonathan describes the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Can Social Media Make The World A Better Place?Today, I received a email from someone I've never met who is involved with involved with International Medical Corp that asked me to post about their project at the American Express Members Project.
I was impressed by their use of social media. It's good to see social media doing some good things for the world. She sent me a link to their social media news release that was chock full of ways to learn about the project.
In short the project goal is saving the lives of malnourished childr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ashton Kutcher Vs. CNN – The Twitter CompetitionAshton Kutcher and CNN seem to be in a race to 1,000,000 Twitter followers. Ashton brings everyone up to date with this video from his car via Qik.
Some memorable quotes from Ashton:
I found it astonishing that one person can have as big a voice as an entire media company on Twitter.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ten Takeaways from LA Games Conference
The LA Games Conference, held in Hollywood, was a great event. I had 10 key takeaways from the show. If you want to learn more, click through to see the video.
The strong financial performance of the game industry continues despite the bad economy
The rise of free to play - see FreeRealms.com as an example
The power of virtual currency, goods, commerce to monetize play and turn communities into economies (Got to wonder when will Facebook and Myspace figure this out?)
Apple doubled ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
7 Steps for Surviving The Bankruptcy of the Impression EconomyThis week another newspaper group filed for bankruptcy. Freedom Communications, which runs the Orange County Register and a collection of 100 more newspapers across the country, joined Tribune Co. (operators of the other big local paper - The LA Times) and 4 other newspapers in bankruptcy court.
The problem is declining advertising revenue. The auto industry, one of the biggest buyers of newspaper ads, is in the tank. Craigslist et al have devastated the classified monopolies that prov ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Want to Be a Talk Show Host?I have just had the privilege of getting a copy of Talk Show Tips which provides 72 Secrets to being a great talk show host. The author is Susan Bratton, host of the #1 social media podcast Dishymix and CEO of Personal Life Media. Susan produces 40 different podcasts from TheDivaCast to Buddhist Geeks to Inside Out Weight Loss, so she knows a lot about hosting talk shows.
Susan has launched Talk Show Tips: 72 Secret 'Master Host' Techniques as a training system for anyone who hosts a podca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Top 4 Takeaways from Blogworld Expo – #BWE09The last two days, I attended BlogWorld Expo, held in Las Vegas. The show covered a wide range of topics interesting to bloggers and podcasters, including topics for bloggers who want to turn their new media efforts into commercial successes, newbies wanting to get started and companies trying to develop strategies and processes for working with social media. I focused my time on the tracks relating to turning your blog or podcast into a commercial success.
From those tracks, I came away ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
The $816 CPM Story – #BWE09At the BlogWorld Expo, Jason Van Orden talked about achieving an effective $816 CPM for his downloads, as compared to the average podcaster getting $15-40 CPM. He got my attention.
Here's the quick video version of how he did it. The longer post summarizes the rest of his presentation about how to grow your audience on the web. He has some excellent advice, which may be one of the reasons he has been able to realize such a return on his efforts.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
The US Army Gets Social – #BWE09One of the more interesting booths on the BlogWorld show floor was the US Army booth. You might be asking what's the Army doing at a blog conference. Well, the US Army seems to get it. They need young men and women to join them and help protect our country, and they know that these young people are spending their time on the social web.
So how is the US Army dealing with the messy, distributed, un-controllable social web? Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Podcasts Everywhere – #bwe09At BlogWorld Expo, Leo Laporte announced in his keynote some exciting news. You can now get his podcasts on your TV using a Roku box, all thanks to a new service from Mediafly which aims to put podcasts onto every device you have. No more subscribing in iTunes messiness, just find the show and press the play button.
Brent Mitchell, MediaFly's Chief Technology Officer, explains how the system works in this video interview from BlogWorld Expo.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ning Launches Virtual Goods – #DH09At Digital Hollywood, I caught up with Julie Supan, VP of Marketing for Ning. Ning, a site that lets you set up your own custom social network, has just announced the launch of a virtual gifts platform that allows users to buy and sell virtual goods using Ning's virtual currency.
I thought it was an exciting announcement as I have written a lot about how to make social networking profitable by turning communities into economies. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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