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As the new decade beckons, I can’t help but wonder whether speed vs. production values will emerge as the crucial consideration for businesses and brands as they create and distribute new content for the social web.
Tac Anderson says as much in the audio clip I’ve embedded at the top of this post [Note: this is [...]

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I spent a couple of days in Toronto last week at the 2009 mesh conference last week. Here are five thoughts still dancing in my head from the trip:
1) Toronto’s mayor is a Twitter fiend
The fact that David Miller (@MayorMiller on Twitter) knew how to snap and post a Twitpic — with proper hashtag and [...]

Like most of the other 10,000-plus attendees, I had a blast at the South by Southwest Conference this year. Lots of good conversations. Lots of walking (the weird layout of the Austin Convention Center made sure of that). Lots of people with iPhones. And yes, lots of parties.
My focus at the conference was finding good [...]

At the Community 2.0 Conference in Las Vegas last month, I joined forces with Jim Storer and Aaron Strout from Mzinga (disclosure: my employer, Monster, is a Mzinga client) in recording and producing a series of podcast conversations with some of the event’s presenters and attendees.
I wanted to share some of the details behind our [...]

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Last Friday morning, I sat down for a conversation at a local Starbucks with Aaron Strout, VP of social media at Mzinga and one of the five men whose consulting time is up for grabs in the “buy yourself a social media guru” charity auction that Bay Area business communicator Jennifer Leggio has organized.
Aaron and [...]