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Custom Facebook Fan Pages - Set Yourself (Brand) Apart

Over 400 million people now use Facebook to talk jive, play on the Farm'ville', exchangeCustom Facebook Fan Page Design photos, and catch up with old buddies, but things have changed. Today's Facebook has evolved into a credible source for marketing, and branding. Take for example this site that offers North Carolina Beach Weddings. Beautiful web site, but they took things to whole new level, they had a custom Facebook fan page developed. As you see in this screen-shot, they ...
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Video Contest! Local Red Cross Launches YouTube Contest, You In?

We need your help! Our local American Red Cross chapter, "Cape Fear" is launching a YouTube Video contest! Are you creative? Got a video camera, iPhone, Flip? Interested in helping a hurricane disaster area? Well hey, we live in "hurricane alley" and have teamed up with our local chapter in helping launch not only a new "social media" campaign, but this cool video contest.  

Some partial rules are:

  • Focus on disaster volunteers for the ARC Cap...
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How Social Media & Kevin DeSoto Helped Ling & Lee

Who is Kevin DeSoto? Well, he is fast becoming a true example of  how to use social media to make a difference. Kevin used Twitter, FaceBook, and several other outlets to rally support for the 2 American journalist imprisoned in Korea.  Here are a few things he did, as well as the ABC news coverage he recieved as a result.

 
Kevin Made video, "Facebooked" & "Tweeted" petitions & articles at least 3 times a day, connected wit...

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Short DEMO of Google Wave & It's Cool Features

Take a look at this brief, but sweet video of the features of Google Voice.  Tell us what you think of Google Voice, do you like it?

 

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Blog Talk Radio - Carlos Bertonatti Live!

Will You Tune In?

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Pepsi Displays Twitter Address on "Pepsi Raw"

Yet another genius use of marketing on Twitter.  Pepsi "Raw" in the UK has plastered their twitter address @PepsiRaw on the outside of the can, and is asking those indulging in the beverage to go their twitter address, and leave a 140 character comment about the drink! Love it!  More on this story here.

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Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media – Traditional Marketing…Gone!

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Google To Advertise Google Chrome Browser On TV?

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Google Trends Provides Embed Widget For Your Site

Yesterday there was an announcement on Google's blog introducing their new embeddable Google Trends gadget to track your favorite trends, right on your own website.
Special Thanks to
Will Lang of Port City Color Copy for telling me about this so quickly, he knows I like this stuff!  We have also made a permanent link in our top navigation for you to visit as often as you'd like to try out different keywords you would like to trend.

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What is The Definition of Social Media ROI? - “Risk of Inaction"