Last week, I accidentally cracked the eInk display of my beloved Sony Reader PRS-505 and I am crushed. While I am devoted, if the repair cost of swapping/replacing the screen is much more than USD $99 I will abandon the Sony Reader platform for the $299 Amazon Kindle, which has Internet access and WhisperNet access. So, I am selfishly writing this post, hoping that Sony’s social media team might be willing and able to help me out. While they do have a replacement program for $90, it does not include screen breakages. I am very sad as I was halfway through reading Journal of a Novel, a lovely book by John Steinbeck, recommended to me by Minh Le and purchased for money on the Sony Reader online book store. I hope Sony is generous, at the end of the day — to me and to everyone.

 

I asked our new Abraham Harrison summer intern, Liza Peiffer, to read The Twitter Book closely and thoroughly and to write a blog post for Marketing Conversation both for you readers and for my team of 25 — most of whom have not yet read the book.  So, please enjoy Liza’s work and let me know what you think — do you like Learn “how you can tap that power” with the ‘Twitter Book’?

 

Dabitch is one of my favorite people in the business and so I am devoted to AdLand.tv. Åsk Wäppling does amazing work and I wanted to push out her lovely list of advertising blogs from her recent post A quick surf around the worlds advertising blogs:

Digital PR rockstars, Kevin Dugan and Richard Laermer, are increasing their Bad Pitch Blog efforts and having a tele-seminar for anyone who needs to improve their approach to media  relations — and by default social media.

On Tuesday between 7pm and 10PM I will be talking to the kind folks and members of E.Factor at 37 W. 26th St.  NY, NY 10010.  Sorry for the late notice but I have the time now!  If you’re in NYC and want to learn how to do all of your own new media and digital ONLINE PR — The E.Factor Presents – Do It Yourself PR. (via Chris Abraham)

Where is social media going? Everyone has their opinions, but no one really knows. Still, it sure is fun to predict.  I took some time to talk to Chris Abraham, your favorite Marketing Conversation blogger,  about some of what he sees in his crystal ball for social media.

But before you can reach the future, I suppose you begin with the past and present.

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I just read a puff piece on LinkedIn about how every website NEEDS (his emphasis not mine) online video.  It was put out by a guy who, amazingly, is a partner at a company that makes online videos.  The title of the piece was 3 Reasons Every Website NEEDS Custom Marketing Video Today! Of course it had to have an

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