Greg Verdino is a futurist, marketer, writer and speaker currently working as VP/Strategy & Solutions at Powered, a full service social media agency. He is currently hard at work on his first business book, microMARKETING, to be published by McGraw-Hill in 2010.
When he procrastinates by surfing the web or manages to step away from the computer and get outside for a few minutes, some of what he finds ends up here.
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Sweethearts might be the original micro-messager, doling out lovey-dovey phrases short enough to fit on one of their pastel-colored, chalky-tasting candy hearts. This year, the company adds "Tweet Me" to their repertoire of little love notes.
It's nice to see that even a company that has been around for a century and a half can find inspiration in, erm, @gremanda.
@danzarella's research into the science of Twitter reveals the most retweetable words and phrases -- and proves that we're just as boring and desperate as we think we are... ;-)
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David Armano – http://twitter.com/armano John Bell – http://twitter.com/jbell99 Bonin Bough – http://twitter.com/boughb Chris Brogan – http://twitter.com/chrisbrogan Sam Decker – http://twitter.com/samdecker Todd Defren – http://twitter.com/TDefren Jason Falls – http://twitter.com/jasonfalls MC Hammer – http://twitter.com/Mchammer Kathleen Hessert – http://twitter.com/kathleenhessert Shel Israel – http://twitter.com/shelisrael Dave Kerpen – http://twitter.com/davekerpen Peter Kim – http://twitter.com/peterkim Charlene Li – http://twitter.com/charleneli Scott Monty - http://twitter.com/scottmonty Jeremiah Owyang – http://www.twitter.com/jowyang Darren Rowse – http://twitter.com/problogger Robert Scoble – http://twitter.com/Scobleizer Andy Sernovitz – http://www.twitter.com/sernovitz Brian Solis – http://twitter.com/briansolis Greg Verdino – http://twitter.com/gregverdino
California agency Ink Foundry names 20 twitterati who are real deal when it comes to social media. Somehow, I made the list.
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It's not Twitter, it's the anti-twitter (or an "homage to Twitter" if you'd rather look at it that way.) Woofer is a macroblogging service that mimics Twitter's spare interface but asks users to post messages that adhere to a 1,400-character minimum.
Funny parody from Join the Company (http://www.jointhecompany.com).
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It's often useful to look at web-scale technologies at a human-scale level. This infographic picks apart Twitter membership and activity based on how the numbers would play out in a sample size of 100 people. Interesting, useful data (and visualization) that really helps put things into perspective.
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From Mental Floss, @lenkendall looks at eight different ways Twitter users employ the @ symbol in their tweets.
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Interesting chart from Burson-Marsteller Paris shows the new flow for breaking news: consumer eye witnesses break the news on Twitter, the news filters to mainstream digital channels before being picked up by television and eventually print.
Any of us who spend lots of time thinking about social media already understand this inuitively because we see it happening all around us, and this is actually a concept that I've been exploring as I'm writing my book. So it's great to see it visualized.
Hat tip to http://adamstewart.posterous.com for finding this.
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