May 2012
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Excerpt - How To Build Client Relationships...
Photo By Timo Kuusela
This is an excerpt of an article I wrote for the Pomegranate Digital Agency Blog:
Everything’s a commercial. Everything’s a pitch. The wallpaper of reality has become an endless mixed-media collage of advertisements…
It’s tough to stand out against the lurid backdrop of digital video, blinking neon lights, saccharine marketing jingles, slick websites and print ads...
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Musing on GM, Facebook, Promoted Posts and the...
This is an excerpt of an article I recently wrote for the Pomegranate Digital Agency Blog:
..the most effective advertisements in digital are now being disguised as content. Facebook is even joining in…expect to see more of this trend in the coming months and years.
Why? Because…
Modern consumers still love to buy — but they hate being sold.
Consumers are forced to endure...
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The Truth About Location-Based Social Apps and How...
An excerpt of some writing I did about the Friendthem app:
Now that the location-based capabilities of modern smartphones have been put to work powering digital platforms of all types — it’s no surprise that location-based social apps are popping up all over the map.
In the U.S., smartphones are in every hand. People are checking in, doing price research, writing restaurant reviews,...
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StringFly Photographer Fights Animal Neglect with...
This is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the StringFly Blog:
When our editors noticed one of our longtime StringFly photo contributors, Helen Bailey from Luxor Egypt, uploading images of unhappy looking exotic animals, we knew we had to reach out and get the full story.
Photography. Passion. Activism. Volunteering. Individuals selflessly helping to make the world a better place. The tale...
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4 Time-Saving Blogging Ideas
An excerpt from a post I recently wrote for Pomegranate:
From Fortune 500s to small neighborhood restaurants, businesses of all stripes and sizes are successfully using frequently updated blogs to increase brand awareness, attract new business, disseminate important announcements and forge deeper bonds with clients.
If you happen to be the individual responsible for authoring fresh blog...
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Can Big Data Make Mobile Ads More Relevant?
An excerpt from my recent post on the Pomegranate Blog:
As internet browsing habits have changed over the past few years, digital advertising solutions have struggled to keep pace.
These days we all jump from home and workplace desktops, to iPhone and Android smartphones - and then into meetings with our tablet computers…the screens keep changing, but we stay the same.
This creates...
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Citizen Journalism Guest Article on The Daily...
An excerpt from my recent guest article “So, you’re still using the phrase citizen journalism?” on The Daily Crowdsource:
Tempers flare as new-media types envisioning democratized media coverage butt heads with old-school journalists repeatedly reminding the world, “Well, you wouldn’t hire a citizen surgeon…would you?”
Read the full article at The...
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Google’s Knowledge Graph -- Stupid-Proofing Search
Have you ever watched a less-technologically-savvy member of the human race attempt to search Google for a specific snippet of information? It’s enough to drive you crazy. You can’t stop yourself — you’re emotionally and situationally forced to correct their digital semantics. You blurt out the missing keywords they need to type into the search box. You start verbally...
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3 Smart Startups Participating in the Evolution of...
The following is an excerpt from an article I wrote for the Pomegranate Digital Agency blog:
Chime.In, VYou and Friendthem are working to improve the ways we relate and communicate. Human minds, in collaboration with digital technology, continue to devise creative ways for people to meet, build relationships and communicate with each other. The implications of these connections are gargantuan....
April 2012
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Avoiding Social Media Mediocrity - Broadcasting vs...
The following is an excerpt from a social media marketing article I wrote for the Pomegranate Digital Agency Blog:
Facebook. Twitter. Pinterest. Google+. Tumblr. Instagram. Unfettered access to these social media platforms populated by hundreds of millions of users opens up promotional, branding and relationship-building opportunities for your brand that were unimaginable five years ago. ...
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An Inbound Marketing blog I wrote for Pom8...
“Let’s face it, the internet altered the world. It liberated us — turning us from powerless and passive consumers of one way scheduled broadcasting into independent thinkers with the free will to choose what we want to see — when we want to see it. This is precisely why inbound marketing has become all the rage. Instead of engaging in the brute-force push to expose blatant...
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StringFly in the Philippines...
“The Lenten Procession projected sorrow, sadness and repentance. To complement the emotions, i decided to shoot from a lower perspective…”
Read the rest of my interview with StringFly photographer, Neil Norman Littaua — and see more of his photos at StringFly Live!
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My interview with a StringFlyer from Orihuela,...
“My photos came from the general procession held in Orihuela, a city where the Easter parades are now recognised as an International Tourist Attraction. Thousands of tourists come to the city in Alicante province to watch and take part in the various events that unfold the story. Many of the sculptured figures on show date from the 17th and 18th century and a number were created by the...
March 2012
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Ever wonder what it's like to wait in line for an...
“It is incredibly fascinating how technological innovation can push the adrenaline of the masses to such high peaks. I can’t refrain myself thinking of all of those faces aligned one after another, street after street, curling around buildings and entire blocks…”
See my entire feature of Silvia Saponaro’s work at StringFly Live!
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StringFlyer documents Apple iPad Launch Lines in...
““In the afternoon, I decided to hop on and off the subway to observe the line forming in front of the three Apple locations in NYC - Soho, Chelsea and 5th Ave @ Central Park…”
See the rest of her images, and the rest of my quick talk with her at StringFly Live!
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Russian Election Fraud Protest - StringFly...
“I’m not trying to take pictures of famous people — I’m trying to use photography to convey the atmosphere as it was being seen by ordinary people in the crowd, to give outsiders a genuine sense of the actual experience of being on the scene…”
Read my entire interview with the photographer at StringFly Live!
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Holi Redux - A Featured Photography Set from...
As soon as we saw these Holi photos by StringFly photographer, Ashok Saravanan — we knew we had to give them their moment in the sun…
See the full set at my StringFly Live Blog!
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Amazing! A 4 Year Old Street Photographer in...
“When it comes to photography, Marziya shoots without hesitation. People and surroundings don’t intimidate her at all…she shoots clinically…”
See more of this incredible story at my StringFly Live blog!
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Russian Election Results Protest - StringFly
“I was unhappy with the way this protest ended. Violence at the end of a peaceful protest can turn many middle-class demonstrators away from future actions. This is what the government wants. When protests end like this, it is a clear failure for the opposition — and a win for the government…”
Read the rest of my feature at the StringFly Live Blog!
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OneNews is now called StringFly
What does that mean? Learn more at my StringFly Live Blog!
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StringFly Photographer Captures the Final Journey...
A quick feature I put together…see it at my new StringFly Live blog!
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The Red Sox People of JetBlue Park - Spring...
“The end result is, likely, closer to what people from the outside imagine when they dream Spring Training dreams of traveling to steamy Southwest Florida to see the Red Sox play before Boston has thoroughly thawed for the year…”
See the entire feature at the SWFL Barometer!
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Crowdsourced Citizen Journalism of the Week -...
A quick piece I put together showcasing a few of our RockStar uploaders at OneNews this week.
See the entire post at my OneNews Blog.
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Hundreds in Barcelona Protest Outside the Mobile...
“We are living in a delicate time — and concerns are shared by people of all ages —because of an uncertain future…”
Read the entire interview in my OneNews Blog
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Gods on 10th Street - The Hoyu Folk Culture...
“That parade feeling of being part of a macro culture that transcends differences in beliefs and skin color is what I appreciate the most. For a couple of hours we were nothing else, but human beings…”
Read the entire interview at my OneNews Blog
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BKV workers Demonstrate for Collective Bargaining...
“I have been a tram driver here for 6 years. The working conditions are getting worse every day, putting us in dangerous situations with outdated equipment…but, just a few weeks ago, the bosses at BKV distributed millions in bonuses among themselves…”
Read the entire interview at my OneNews Blog
February 2012
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OneNews Citizen Journalism Video Depicts...
Come and read my feature on how cutting edge crowdsourcing technology is helping deliver the videos and photos of brave citizen journalists to wider audiences…
See the entire article on my OneNews Blog.
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Whitney Houston's Funeral Through the Faces of Her...
“Being together, exchanging comments, sharing a table and meal, elbow to elbow with strangers — these were all great ways to commemorate Whitney’s life…”
Read the rest of my interview at the OneNewsLive blog!
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The Nav-a-Gator Grill and Trop Rock at Desoto...
“The music continues, the scent of gator and conch fritters waft on the humid breeze, the crowd begins passing a communal bottle of Sangria, and someone throws a rubber chicken in your direction…”
Read the rest of my feature (with lots more photos) at the SWFL Barometer!
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