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They always make me smile.

Just becuase everyone is doing something doesn’t make something right...I like this one: Why fit in when your were born to stand out ?

I just thought this was interesting... And, I enjoyed the layout of the quotes!  Hopefully, one more Beautiful Moment will come your way! 

This is probably my source of communication.  I'm glad it's not dead.  There are some benefits.

I've often said and posted pics on Facebook about my theory that email marketing is on the way out. My reasons are simply...social media messaging. 

This infographic shows how email marketing is taking a step up to a new level, comparable to the social media firehose. Content curation through tools like "Scoop.it" is how it is done. That makes sense. I just set up an RSS ezine on MailChimp. Is this Synchronicity or Cosmic Conscienceness? :)

My own blog http://crazydreamersdo.com took a nose-dive a few months ago when I was creeping around in my Cpanel and WHM and somehow over-wrote my entire site with another template. The last time I did a full back up was in February. EWWWUUU!  I won't mention the vendor but they rightfully stated they had to charge me to go reinstall the back up. At the time, I didn't have the money.

But, the story doesn't end there. I used Scoop.it since last fall (2012) and share it to multiple sites, including my Tumbler site. After about 1.5 months of stewing around about "what to do?", I decided to take the easy way out and import my Tumbler blog.

Now, in a few short weeks, my site is back online and it took on a whole new look, direction and I think it happened for a reason.

1. Starting with the words in my tag line "social media strategies, tools, tips and news" and then topics of my Scoop.it newsletters, I created my categories. Benefit: this gave a more defined direction that I had ever had before. It gave me a firm foundation from which to work.

2. A fantastic WordPress PlugIn let me make multiple changes to tag words and categories so that saved a great deal of time. Here is the info:

   a. Mass Edit Terms for Categories, Tags on Posts, Pages or Media; and Simple Tags for new or old posts Version 2.2 | By Amaury BALMER | Visit WordPress.org and search for the plugin.  

3. With installation of a more user friendly "simpler" theme. The theme I had been using was too much for me (three menu options, etc.) Perhaps if I had staff, it would be fine, but I don't.

4. I started using List.ly which has a plugin for WordPress as well. If you haven't used List.ly, try it - it's a great way to curate and easily post lists as blog posts, pages or on the sidebar. http://list.ly 

5. Currently, another plug-in has found it's way into my blog and I'm just trying it out. It is a multple RSS feed instrument that uses short codes. Here is the info:

   a. RSS Multi Importer, an all-in-one solution for importing & merging multiple feeds. Make blog posts or display on a page, excerpts w/ images, 8 templates, categorize and more. Version 2.64 | By Allen Weiss | Visit WordPress.org and search for the plugin.

With my experience in using Scoop.it, I not only revived my blog quickly and easily...the Scoop.its go directly through to my Dream Catcher Ezine as an RSS email! What could be better?

Whew! Long story short - using a curation tool like Scoop.it saved my proverbial skin. Thanks Scoop.it.

Warmly,

Susan Daniels

http://crazydreamersdo.com

All true, but SEO as it was practiced 10 years ago (even three years ago) is dead. Deader than a Armadillo at a Texas Monstor Truck convention.

Try packing in those keywords like it was 2003.

This is the post Panda / Penguin world baby, and it's time to wake up and taste the creative content.

What do you think good copywriting should look like in this new environment?

What do you look for when you read a piece of copy on the web?

Humour? Expert opinion? Actionable advice? Do you share infographics more than anything else? Video + copy?

Let us know.

Optimize and promote >  as it says, with great content, it depends on what you do with that content that matters.  Just ask internet marketing king Brendon Burchard, or look at his free videos (you make get hooked.)  SEO is not dead, however.  Would you agree?  ~  Deb

Do have a look, featuring Henry Jenkins etc.

Henry Jenkins comments

Technology creates the platform and people create the connections. QED

More trouble for Big Box Media.

Slacker blows away Pandora. Go ahead. Prove me wrong in the comments section below.

I’ve been listening to radio over the internet since, well, the internet began. Online music has come a long way since the days of downloading indie songs from a dial-up BBS or searching on gopher.  

“Today’s music listeners are consummate curators of their own music experience.”

Forget iTunes and downloading MP3s. I did that for years. No longer need to. I’ve got a 500 gigs of music I’ve bought and listed to over the years that just sits there unnoticed and unused by me these days.

• Much, much larger music library – like 40M vs Pandora’s 10M and iHeart’s … who knows.
• Too tight restrictions on number of skips or thumbs up/down per hour.  Pandora has 6 skips per hour per station limit, even on my paid version. 
• They both play directly on my Home Theatre A/V Receiver very nicely. I think Slacker sounds better.
• Pandora uses some algorithm to put together their stations based on your choice. Slacker’s stations are actually put together by people.
• Slacker has stations that music celebs put together. Listen to a station built by John Mayer himself.
• Via headphones (at least on my high quality Bose ‘phones) Slacker definitely sounds better than Pandora.
• On my computer with cheapie little speakers and sub, Slacker sounds much better than Pandora.

“Slacker has artists come and play in their own studio. Where’s iHeart and Pandora’s studio? That tells me they care about their listeners enough to pay attention to what I want a station to do.”

• Slacker has contests.
• Slacker creates stations like “Cocktail Madness” for fans of Mad Men.
• Pandora says it’s got a 192 Kbps bit rate, but I’m an audiophile and doesn’t seem to sound any better that Slacker. In fact, Slacker sounds better to me.  
• Slacker’s new User Experience is well thought out, and makes sense. Easy to find exactly what you want with the fewest clicks.
• Slacker customer support rocks. They are responsive when you have a question or problem. Their ticketing system is easy to use and works well.
• Slacker has a station called “Favorites Mashup Station” that plays all my faves and adds a few more suggestions here and there.
• Pandora has no on-demand. Slacker is pretty much all on-demand – like radio in the year 2013 should be.
• Mobile app has a high bit rate setting if you need it. I haven’t needed it.
• One each station, Slacker lets me dial in the fine tune settings by age, related artists, favorites, and popularity. Not even sure what Pandora can do, but it’s probably not that super-fine tuning.
• On Slacker I can listen to songs, albums and playlists whenever I want.
• And the BIG ONE: Slacker lets me find an album and play just the album. You can’t do that on Pandora.
• And a BIGGER ONE: Slacker lets me find an artist I like, and play only songs from that artist. A Single Artist Station. Good luck trying to do that on Pandora.

I have premium paid accounts for Slacker and Pandora. The only reason I bought Pandora was to compare it to Slacker. I’ll drop that after my subscription runs out.

I stopped using iHeart radio, since it kept bothering me to pay for their service without giving me any idea of what I would get for my money. They started to play so many commercials I got sick of their pushiness to make me pay. Plus, its run by Clear Channel - the radio equivalent of “Wal-Mart meets the NYTimes.”

If you are a big box music mentality, then go for Pandora an limit you music listening experience. If you want a service that focuses on the music listener, get Slacker Radio.

© Marty Koenig

Crowdfundenergy

For your listening pleasure, an alternative to Pandora.

You must to know this!

Shoes, Socks, what's next? I'm guessing jeans. 

Reed Hastings vision on future of television. A huge iPad for television.

Great interview. The future of TV is for sure internet-centric. This has huge implications for advertising models. 

Great roundup of crowdfunding tools. Great step by step process tips here.

Really good post and they nailed it with all the good resources & tools for crowdfunding or anything to build your media, thanks James for rescooping How is Vancouver?   

Based on my Prezi-viewing experiences, I have to agree. This easily sets the bar where Prezi presentations are concerned.

Content discovery on mobile devices is a particular challenge. How do you use the limited real estate to best effect?

Tagmotion's Windows Explorer (or Mac Finder)-type interface is one way to present the maximum number of items in the minimum space.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK06QJKbd3o 

ScoopIT !

Infographics are fast becoming the way to share details and analytics that move way beyond the standard pie charts used by many businesses in terms of "telling the story".

Here's another good example that highlights the importance of social media for content creators and how the smartphone platforms must be considered when creating content. It's not just a smartphone anymore, it's become the canvas!

Erfarte en lignede historie i Sør Afrika - Soweto - sammen med Arts & Business for noen år siden - vektlagt hvordan de unge musikerne ga tilbake til sitt samfunn den mulighet de fikk gjennom musikken.

Terje

Interesting stuff. I'd need to meet some more of the TV people these guys are meeting :)

Plenty of detail here

  New  information  about  Crowdfunding .

This advice is spot on. Startups: PAY ATTENTION to this. I have seen them all too, and my advice is exactly what's written here. 

I think it's cool that Lori Ruff beat out Gary Vaynerchuck, Chris Voss, and Mike O'Neil.

Sharp perspective on entrepreneurship from a 19 year old. If all entrepreneurs had this fresh yet oddly wise view, more startups would have some success.

When the initial focus is on creating the absolutely best user experience possible, and not letting monitization get in the way or simplicity and ease of use, you have a winner.

The problem is, most angel investors (at least the seasoned ones) will not be able to look past NOT having a business model/financial projections. The enlightened few will get it. LIke the enlightened few entrepreneurs will get matched up with them.

I expect this approach to take years to take hold. I suppose twitter and facebook started this way.  

What are the predictions for 2013? I would say we are on an exponential curve for the next few years. 

Résultat d'une enquête sur l'industrie mondiale naissante du #crowdfunding #sociofinancement

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I would have liked to see Pinterest compared also because I believe people directly shop from posted images shared there