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This Week in Digital – 5/29/2013

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A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.<br>
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Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.    <br>
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If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I'd encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in <a href="http://plus.google.com/+ScottMonty"><strong>Google+</strong></a>. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the <strong><a href="http://flip.it/IfN4O">This Week in Social Media Magazine</a></strong>.    <br>
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Mary Meeker’s Internet Trends 2013 edition, more bidding efforts from Yahoo, Twitter gets into the CRM business, how brands are getting social media wrong, giving employees the tools they need to be productive and more - it's This Week in Social Media.<br>
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This Week in Digital – 5/29/2013

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry. Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current even...

When Word of Mouth Fails

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Sometimes, word of mouth doesn't work.<br>
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As much as personal testimony, first-person persuasion and even hands-on demonstration of products can be more effective than any advertising, there come times when others are impervious to such efforts.<br>
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And that's above and beyond the usual array of television, radio, email, print, direct, search and other marketing swirling around in the background, doing their best to reinforce the brand and drive awareness.<br>
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Sometimes, people are just too set in their ways to ever try something new. Perhaps they are comfortable in what they know (or in what they think they know) and they can't begin to comprehend or believe that a competing brand has made great strides in quality or performance.<br>
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When Word of Mouth Fails

Sometimes, word of mouth doesn't work. As much as personal testimony, first-person persuasion and even hands-on demonstration of pro...

This Week in Digital – 5/22/2013

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A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.   <br>
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Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.   <br>
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If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I'd encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in <a href="http://plus.google.com/+ScottMonty"><strong>Google+</strong></a>. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the <strong><a href="http://flip.it/IfN4O">This Week in Social Media Magazine</a></strong>.<br>
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Yahoo gets with the program, Google makes some major overhauls, Nutella goes nuts on a fan, teens know how to use privacy settings (and Twitter!), why we can't embrace the truth about online video and more - it's This Week in Social Media.<br>
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This Week in Digital – 5/22/2013

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry. Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current ev...

This Week in Digital – 5/15/2013

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A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.   <br>
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Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.   <br>
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If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I'd encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in <a href="http://plus.google.com/+ScottMonty"><strong>Google+</strong></a>. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the <strong><a href="http://flip.it/IfN4O">This Week in Social Media Magazine</a></strong>.    <br>
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Global platform growth, the expanding role of video, social network acquisition rumors, data plays by two of the majors, chefs behaving badly and more - it's This Week in Social Media.<br>
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This Week in Digital – 5/15/2013

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry. Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current ev...

This Week in Digital – 5/8/2013

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A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.<br>
<br>
Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep our wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.<br>
If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I'd encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in <a href="http://plus.google.com/+ScottMonty"><strong>Google+</strong></a>. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in the <strong><a href="http://flip.it/IfN4O">This Week in Social Media Magazine</a></strong>.<br>
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Video, mobile, content marketing secrets, Facebook statistics, brands playing with fire via controversial co-creators and more, it's This Week in Social Media...<br>
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This Week in Digital – 5/8/2013

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry. Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current event...

Must-Not-See TV

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It wasn't all that long ago that we viewed TV by appointment. NBC's "Must-See TV" lineup of Thursday nights included legendary shows like <i>The Cosby Show</i>, <i>Seinfeld</i> and <i>Cheers</i>, among others, and audiences turned out in droves to see them.<br>
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Things are drastically different now, as you know. Beyond DVRs and on-demand viewing, we now have online options that include Netflix, Hulu and others, and cable providers like Xfinity, DirecTV and Dish Networks, not to mention specialty apps like HBO Go. We not only have a wide variety in when we view our shows, but <i>where</i> we watch them as well.<br>
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At the same time, we have an unrivaled number of programs and channels from which to choose. A television viewer's dream, right? On the surface, it would seem so. But a funny thing happened on the way to the remote...<br>
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Must-Not-See TV

It wasn't all that long ago that we viewed TV by appointment. NBC's "Must-See TV" lineup of Thursday nights included le...

This Week in Digital – 5/1/2013

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A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry.<br>
<br>
Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current events and trends in the worlds of technology, social media, mobile, communications and marketing in order to keep the wider team up to date on changes, newsworthy items and content that might be useful in their jobs. These are those links.<br>
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If you have additional links, sources or ideas that might be helpful, I'd encourage you to add some via a comment below or tag me in <a href="http://plus.google.com/+ScottMonty" style="color: #562900; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Google+</strong></a>. And if you’re on Flipboard, you can get these links in my new <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://flip.it/IfN4O" style="color: #562900; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">This Week in Social Media Magazine</a></strong>.</div>
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This week, I've expanded the sections a bit to include a section on content and content marketing. While it gets plenty of play as a buzzword, there's actually much more to this area of the industry, and I thought it deserved its own section.</div>
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This Week in Digital – 5/1/2013

A roundup of relevant links affecting our industry. Each week, I compose a newsletter that includes a series of links about current eve...

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