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This morning, Telstra announced the 25 reviewers in it’s HTC Social Review competition. I feel pretty lucky to be one of them. I’m in there with 24 other people who I’m pretty confident will give these devices a solid workout and provide great feedback. While we’re all obviously technically adept, somewhat geeky and active on [...]

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trib’s big TED Adventure

February 3, 2009

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I’m attending TED@PalmSprings for the next few days. I believe it will be quite the adventure – inspiring, exciting, mind-blowing. I’ve already had the privilege of running into a few interesting people, purely by chance and the power of Twitter. Having Dinner with Chel, Bristol, Matt and Andy was a great deal of serendipitous fun. [...]

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Engage them

January 27, 2009

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Clever look at the new age of marketing by European agency Scholz & Friends While it does talk about engagement and a conversation, it doesn’t mention the principles behind success in all of this. Openness, honesty, clarity, respect for the (former) audience – those in Cluetrain.

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This week’s discoveries. Click through and enjoy. The Phenomenon of Retweeting: A Deep Analysis | Pistachio A long, hard look at the phenomenon of the retweet. Good stuff! Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tags: twitter, community FT.com / UK – The new corporate firefighters FT looks at the arrival of the senior social media [...]

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A lot to live up to

January 22, 2009

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It’s both humbling and a little terrifying that I’ve been ranked so highly in the Australian Marketing Pioneer Blogs list. The company I’m in is a group I highly respect and being included both makes me feel I have a lot of expectation to live up to and that I need to try harder. In [...]

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Apropos of absolutely nothing, this needs to be shared. It’s very funny. Enjoy. Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo. You should really click through and read both the explanation and the comments. They’re worth it.

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The title says it all. You can read Renai LeMay’s article here.

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acidlabs on Facebook

January 13, 2009

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It’s arguably a touch silly, but acidlabs now has its own page on Facebook. If you’ve got something to say to us (hopefully nice, but we accept brickbats as well as bouquets) or like what we do, drop by and leave a message on the Wall or become a fan.

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This week’s discoveries. Click through and enjoy. Social Media Is Not a Plug-In | Marketing Profs Daily Fix Blog Failing to treat social media inclusion in marketing or other activities in a holistic way is risky. Amber Naslund explains why the “just add it on approach” is full of FAIL. Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ [...]

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This week’s discoveries. Click through and enjoy. Survey: Automated “Direct Messages” | Pistachio Laura Fitton looks at some survey results around automated DMing on Twitter. Interesting and it validates my (totally unscientific) gut feel that they are bad. Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Tags: twitter, marketing, branding 24 ways: Contract Killer I think that [...]

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