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14 May 13

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10 May 13

Twitter Vines Get Shared 4x More Than Online Video

“Branded Vines are shared four times as often as branded Internet videos. What’s more, Unruly found that five Vines are shared every second on Twitter—so the non-advertising world apparently digs the six-second videos, too.”

5 May 13

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26 April 13

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George Jones - Bartender Blues

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23 April 13

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The Rise of the Digital CMO

“What do these digital CMOs do differently? They experiment aggressively. They hire smart digital natives — and empower them. They partner with great agencies. They have the humility to admit what they don’t know, the courage to toss out the old playbook, and the confidence to allow digital metrics to illuminate the results.”

17 April 13

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Union Metrics: How to measure conversation volume on Tumblr

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5 essential & easy social media metrics you should be measuring right now: volume

This new series, presenting five social metrics you should be measuring on Tumblr, is based on a post by Union Metrics Co-Founder Jenn Deering Davis which originally appeared on the KISSmetrics Blog on April…

10 April 13

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Google Fiber: Thank You, Austin (by googlefiberofficial)

5 April 13

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“ Anyone with a Tumblr, Twitter or YouTube account is practicing journalism in its most authentic form,” she said. “The model of the American newspaper is that news flows from the center to the periphery, not just from the elites to the masses.

— Terry Tang of The New York Times delivers 2013 Hosokawa Journalism Lecture (via unionmetrics)

4 April 13

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2 April 13

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“ Startups are run by people who do what’s necessary at the time it’s needed. A lot of time that’s unglamorous work. A lot of times that’s not heroic work. Is that heroic? Is that standing on a stage in a black turtleneck, in front of 20,000 people talking about the future of phones? No. But that’s how companies are built. That person who did that for the iPhone launch at Apple, we don’t know who he is. All we know is that Steve Jobs came up with the iPhone. But he didn’t ship it. The person who bought the donuts did.

— Jason Goldman, The Silent Partner (via rickwebb)

Themed by Hunson. Originally by Josh