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You Don’t Want My Lifestream

October 5, 2009 – 12:08 am

You probably don’t want to see photos of me kissing Caitlin on the Buzz Bin, a professional blog. 
by Geoff Livingston
Lifestreaming’s back (last blogged about on the Buzz Bin in 2007)! From Steve Rubel’s lifestream-only decision to Jane Quigley’s recent BlogPotomac interview, which pointed-out that mobile lifestreaming technology Posterous has become red hot, lifestreams are the [...]

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The New Buzz Bin

September 30, 2009 – 10:10 am

Livingston Communications was folded into CRT/tanaka six months ago. Since then, we have been driving social media across the line, from implementation to internal best practices and training. Now it’s time to become more public with our learnings and evolve the Buzz Bin from a one man show to blog representing CRT/tanaka’s best thought leadership [...]

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The (Social Media) Natives Are Getting Restless

August 20, 2009 – 3:00 am

Guest post by Richie Escovedo
“____________ is dead.”
Go ahead and fill in that blank with the usual suspects; blogging, Twitter, PR, marketing, FriendFeed, the press release, the media, etc.
Admit it, you’ve probably seen, read, or possibly wrote something that fits the above standard claim. It gets repeated, rebroadcast, refuted, and recycled. And that’s ok. That’s how [...]

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People Make Revolutions Happen

June 21, 2009 – 10:17 pm

One of the most bizarre aspects of the Iran protests has been the claim of Netizens that it’s a Twitter revolution.  Certainly, our conversational medium has made great strides in the rapid spread of information. In fact, the use of social media has been a critical tool in the spread of ideas, not only amongst [...]

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The Case for Community Managers

May 25, 2009 – 8:15 pm

“It might not be intuitively clear to non-participants that a company representative’s consistent high-quality engagement in community is necessary to reap the benefits of community, but for community managers, the relationships they are building make it very clear. Those relationships would go cold without consistent engagement.”
I really enjoyed the ReadWriteWeb Guide to Community Management. [...]

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Nice Guys Finish Last Online

May 10, 2009 – 7:11 am

Copyblogger Brian Clark Presents at SOBCon
One of the more controversial sessions at SOBCon was the nice guys finish last [online] conversation, inspired by Brian Clark’s discussion of classic positioning theory. The point: It’s better to be hated and known for a strong minority opinion than to be liked. One gets you discussed, read and [...]

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Newspapers Are Like Department Stores

May 5, 2009 – 11:41 pm

There’s much crying about the fall of the major metropolitan newspaper, a process hastened by the severe economic recession. There are many reasons cited, from the rise of new media to poor change management. Yet one can see a similar pattern in recent history, when another mass market product — the department store — also [...]

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Our 1000th Buzz Bin Blog Post

February 27, 2009 – 12:01 am
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