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On Thursday night June 4, 2009 I participated in a panel discussion on Social Media and the Social Web presented by Nemo Design and Group Y at the Nemo offices in Portland, Oregon. The panel was titled Who Killed Social Media? Reputation, Community Management, and the Future of Branding and included four other industry professionals: [...]

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Got this tweet today from Circe Wallace at @CirceSnow. It appears that she is not exactly happy with something someone else tweeted for her suggesting she was exhausted after snowboarding at Jackson Hole with T-Rice. I don’t know who was tweeting for Circe if those weren’t her “own words,” but it is something to think [...]

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I’ve worked in media long enough to know that a business’ best customers are often the easiest to extract money from, but in a time when tracking ROI is so simple I would think that customers who are easily retained should get the best deals. Because, quite literally, they cost less. Unfortunately, that idea has [...]

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To those who follow the world of the web and technology, there is no bigger name in blogging than Michael Arrington. His blog, TechCrunch is an hourly must read for anyone paying attention to the new world of technology. But running a successful blog requires an odd kind of commitment that many people don’t understand. [...]

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Maybe this whole living without cable TV isn’t such a good idea after all. CNN and CSPAN’s “live” coverage stalls out. Luckily, there is iTunes Radio. It is streaming perfectly. [Link: CNN.com and CSPAN]

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An SOL | Snowboarding Online graphics retrospective in one image thanks to Sichon Design. Damn, we had some fun back in those dawning days of the Internet revolution, didn’t we?

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The late 90s wasn’t so long ago. . . [Link: Boingboing]

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It just ain’t the holidays if Time Inc. isn’t laying people off. But this year it looks like they’re pulling out all the stops. Ann Moore sent out a memorandum on Tuesday outlining how Time Inc. would be cutting six percent of their employees (600 people) and that the layoffs would begin in about two [...]

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Looks like Cosmogirl’s print version is being added to the magazine deadpool, according to a blog post on Portfolio.com. Hearst Magazines has made a strategic decision to consolidate its teen publishing activities into Seventeen, the largest-selling monthly teen magazine on newsstands. Effective with the December issue, CosmoGirl will cease as a print magazine, remaining online [...]

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This action sports industry has always been a quick-changing, new kid on the up world that you don’t really notice when you’re the new kid on the up. So that’s why it’s always good to see some of the old guard getting a little love from the next wave. Snowboard photographer Dano Pendygrasse was just [...]

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