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Lady Gaga: A Social Media Phenomena

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Love her or hate her, Lady Gaga has the world’s attention – online and off. The 24-year-old New Yorker has quickly set phenomenal music and social media records since the release of her debut album in August of 2008.

In just two years Gaga has…

Sold more than 50 million albums and 40 million singles
Been nominated for [...]

Posted on August 25, 2010 at 2:59 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Old Spice: Raising the Bar

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I know it’s been over 24 hours since the Old Spice campaign ended, so in the digital world that makes it ancient history, but I still want to write about how genius the team was that created it.
In case you missed it Wednesday, the Old Spice man, Isaiah Mustafa, filmed dozens of short personalized YouTube video responses [...]

Posted on July 16, 2010 at 9:48 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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2 Helpful Things to Know About Hootsuite 5

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Woke up this morning to a new and improved Hootsuite 5! I’ve been playing with it all day and love the new features. Although I had trouble with a few things at first – I think I have it all figured out now. Noticed a lot of others having the same issues, so save yourself [...]

Posted on June 24, 2010 at 7:29 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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How to Geo-target Facebook Posts

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I’ve talked to a lot of people who run Facebook pages lately that are unaware of the geo-target feature for posts, so I thought I’d explain it for those who don’t know.
When you publish a post from your fan page all of your fans can see it, but if you want to post about a [...]

Posted on June 22, 2010 at 5:55 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Foursquare, and Fan It, and Betty White! Oh, NBC!

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I wrote a post recently about another meaningless achievement game called Miso – best described as the love child of Foursquare and Hulu. Well it looks like NBC is taking the concept a bit further with their new points-based network loyalty program Fan It.
According to Mashable:
Fan It is a social media platform with myNBC (NBC’s online community for fans), Facebook, Twitter, MySpace [...]

Posted on May 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Four Big Hootsuite Updates You Should Know About

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Hootsuite has been on a roll in the past few weeks making their site more friendly to marketers and heavy tweeters with tons of new features like: team collaboration tools, Hootsuite University, an additional URL shortener and a bunch of updates to their iPhone app like: translation, Facebook integration and geo-location data.
1. iPhone Updates (Version 1.1.1, $2.99):

Translation: Now [...]

Posted on May 3, 2010 at 2:43 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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2009 Social Networking Trends You Should Know

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This month comScore, Inc. released their 2009 U.S. Digital Year in Review report “examining trends in U.S. Internet usage, search activity, e-commerce, online video consumption, online advertising and mobile.”
This 16-page report dives into all areas of digital marketing, but I pulled out some of the more prevailing social networking stats and trends to keep in mind [...]

Posted on February 24, 2010 at 8:37 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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Will Facebook Become a Mobile Juggernaut?

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There’s no question mobile is moving toward becoming the Mecca of the Internet. And as smartphone technology and data plans get better, cheaper, faster, cooler and more necessary – people will continue to switch from their old school call/text-only devices to phones that allow them to do much more.
According to MSNBC, “One report by comScore [...]

Posted on February 19, 2010 at 3:47 pm by Kathlene · Permalink · View Comments
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