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One Bad Egg Spoils the PR Bunch

Some bloggers are difficult to pitch. I hear stories about how some bloggers won’t write about a product or service unless someone they’ve already met in person, or have a relationship of some sort through social media, suggests it to them. If you’re new or relatively unknown, good luck getting their attention.
I’m not that hard [...]

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10 Social Media Women That Deserve a Vanity Fair Article

Earlier this week, Vanity Fair put out an article featuring 6 women they deemed “America’s Tweethearts”. Each of these women has garnered a significant audience through Twitter and other social media tools… but the main point the article seemed to stress was that these women were physically attractive (in addition to painting them as more [...]

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New Media for Old Stuff: 7 Social Media-Minded Museums

In terms of non-profit organizations, museums operate in another world. Instead of walks and other peer-to-peer fundraising efforts, museums rely on memberships and individual ticket purchases to stay afloat. In an effort to educate, build awareness and engage with that public that they so heartily rely on, more and more museums are turning to social [...]

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Support #Geeks4Good and Win

The Society for Geek Advancement and the Summer of Social Good charity fund (SM4SC is proud to be a partner in the Summer of Social Good) are proud to announce Global Geek Week, including a week-long YouTube video competition.
Submit your geek inspired video to the Global Geek Week YouTube Group for the chance to win [...]

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Gordon Brown’s Global Society at TEDGlobal

Over four days, the recent TEDGlobal conference in Oxford, England “explored and made visible the Substance of Things Not Seen.”
At the end of the first day, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown discussed how images — from Kim PhĂșc during the Vietnam War to Neda Agha-Soltan during the recent Iranian protests — unlock our collective conscience [...]

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