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Laura Fitton

Pistachio in Motion, SHIFTing Into Place

February 12, 2009

I’m long overdue announcing some of this, so I’ll roll it all out at once… (and then jam over to @bostontwestival, organized by @justinmwhitaker and part of @Amanda Rose’s PHENOMENAL global Twestival movement. (Check it out NOW!) 20,000 Twitterers are gathering over a 24 hour period around the globe. The aim? raise $1 MILLION for [...]

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Musicians’ Guide to Rocking Twitter

February 6, 2009

@DaveJMatthews and Tim Reynolds Image via Wikipedia Publicist extraordinaire Ariel Hyatt (CyberPR) and I sat down last fall to talk Twitter for Musicians. I distilled  what I said in that interview into this quick-start guide for musicians wanting to make a splash using Twitter. Also see Ariel’s excellent Musician’s Twitter Road Map, here. UPDATE: I [...]

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Twitter: Watching You Watch the Super Bowl Ads

February 2, 2009

When millions of us are riveted by a common experience, Twitter lights up. Sure enough, though I’m sitting on a bus bound for New York City, I know the Doritos and Audi ads were good, the Bud Light ads were iffy and that Hulu just rocked the house. Also, in a suprising turn for the [...]

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Musing on Management by Microsharing

January 30, 2009

This was just a series of tweets. I could embellish on this sketch, but I prefer not to. Consider it a “use case” metaphor for enterprise microsharing… You lead a large tribe that’s encamped over a wide area. Each morning from the hill you check that each dwelling has a stream of cooking fire smoke. [...]

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Wither A New Media Economy?

January 25, 2009

My “media economy” Twitter rant before patchy SMS delivery: Though advertising’s effectiveness and “ROI” was always massively less measurable than social media’s it enjoys incumbent advantage/inertia The whole economic basis of media has been advertising and television. Entities that alternately make us insecure and pacify/numb us. Can media now find a new engine that is, [...]

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Memecycling?

January 24, 2009

Hueco Tanks Image via Wikipedia Is it cheating to play “meme tag” by recycling an old post? I’m responding to my friend JP’s tag with a re-run of an “8 things about me” post I did last spring. At the end, I tag YOU to continue the meme. The instructions, then… (a) republish these rules [...]

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A Birthday Wish

January 21, 2009

What’s my birthday wish? That you’ll tell your friends how EASILY they can be part of @Wellwishes. Read how this started: “What can $2 do?” We’re saving children’s lives by bringing clean, safe drinking water to villages in need through Charity: Water. Hundreds got involved and we’re building wells for 3 villages. But just $2800 [...]

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Twitter: A Submarine in the Ocean of the Web

January 21, 2009

Warm thanks to my friend JP Rangaswami for this post. When I saw him muse about how his use of Twitter has changed over time, I asked if he would write a guest friend post, sharing what he meant. He was gracious enough to share and to insist on calling it a friend post. It [...]

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Serve.

January 19, 2009

Image via Wikipedia Today is a national Day of Service to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Whether or not you can serve in your community all day, don’t let today pass in apathy. These are times to step up. To activate. To believe in the motivating power of a good idea spoken out loud [...]

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Twitter is My Village, Revisited

January 16, 2009

I thought this originally ran on January 16, 2008, but it was the 10th. Either way, it’s been a year since this ran and a lot has changed. Shel Israel is hard at work on what promises to be a great Twitter for Business book, Twitterville. The Frozen Pea Fund raised more than $30,000 to [...]

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