Archive | 2009

Social Media Turbo Charges Serendipity

December 28, 2009 Written by Social Media

If you’re open to new ideas you’re going to find serendipity both online and offline, but if you’re really looking for that moment of Kismet the online world is where you need to be.

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Social Media Support Networks

Social Media Support Networks

December 20, 2009 Written by Social Media

Recently Jason Leong from Pocketsmith talked at TEDxDunedin about the many benefits of the Distillers family focus for start-ups – check the vid to see just how powerful it really is for the members of the Distiller. There’s no doubt about it, networks are important in business and life but from my experience they’re also [...]

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Is The Era of The Agent Over?

December 13, 2009 Written by Social Media

STA have also embraced the the social-web by offering the STA world traveller internship the only condition when applying is that you’re willing to blog,take pics and make videos to share online. Yes this is sponsored blogging, but it’s done with full disclosure, so if anything it shows that STA is rather savvy and have definitely embraced the social revolution.

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Help Us Evolve

December 7, 2009 Written by Social Media

iThnk.com is at a cross-road and we need your help deciding where to go! We’re at a point where we’re looking to grow, but in order to do that we need to know what you’re interested in seeing.   If you have any other suggestions please do comment below. Please share this quick survey with [...]

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iSnack2.0 & Co-creation = Fail!

November 29, 2009 Written by Social Media

If we contrast start of the process for what KRAFT have done with Threadless.com do we can see that there the two red circles are the key differences.

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Pocketsmith & Social Media

November 26, 2009 Written by Social Media

Pocketsmith is Dunedin start-up that really has it right when it comes to social media. Being a personal finance and forecasting application they could be dry, boring and rather stale but as you’ll here in the video they’re on-to-it, personable, engaging and strategically minded with their online social interactions.

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