Judging Sprout
So the social media population just keep growing in 2008. Just announced today, Mashable has offered a limited number of invitations to sample Sprout’s beta site. I was one of the lucky few to snatch them up and it took a little bit to figure out what it was, but after a little bit, I [...]
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Web marketing for tourists 2.0
So I was asked one day to speak to a group of graduate students from George Washington University about how we at the Washington, DC Convention & Tourism Corp. (WCTC) use our website to reach out to potential/future visitors and also to talk about Web 2.0 and its applications on tourism. I remember being asked [...]
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Technology helping veterans
In a really cool story, CNN has an article that talks about how the US Army is taking advantage of the advancements in technology to help make life easier for the returning soldiers who unfortunately were wounded in combat overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua Bleill tragically lost both his legs in [...]
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Getting paid to be social
So an article posted on Simply-Communicate.com talks about how a company in England is promoting the use of social media by its employees while the common trend is to shy away from it. What’s intriguing about this is that the company, BT, is asking its young graduates that they hire to spearhead this campaign. And [...]
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