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		<title>Five Reasons Companies Should Not Block Access to Social Networks (plus one more)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I like how this story in Advertising Age starts:
&#8220;Last week, a client told me that they don&#8217;t allow employees to access YouTube at work. &#8220;Do your employees carry cellphones?&#8221; I asked. The answer was yes, of course. Well then, most of them already have access to YouTube &#8211; right in their pockets.&#8221;
Very true. And so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2010/03/10/five-reasons-companies-should-not-block-access-to-social-networks-plus-one-more/</link>
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		<title>Apple&#8217;s iPad and media 2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What struck me when I came across this list at ReadWriteWeb.com, iPad Arrives April 3rd: 8 Apps We Can&#8217;t Wait to Try, is that many of the apps that they are talking about are media related (the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and others). There are some games there, but the expectation and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2010/03/05/apples-ipad-and-media-2-0/</link>
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		<title>How not to use social media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think this explains itself: Israeli Raid Canceled After Facebook Leak from The Lede Blog on NYTimes.com. What is encouraging is that the military in countries like the U.S. see the value in social media and don&#8217;t ban it outright. 


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		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2010/03/05/how-not-to-use-social-media/</link>
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		<title>Spot and King and Whiskers are now on Twitter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, not yet, but come fall 2019, they could be, according to this post on Mashable.com that says that:
&#8220;Mattel is about to launch a toy that will brighten the lives of some dog lovers &#8230; It’s called Puppy Tweet, and it gives your dog the ability to send Twitter updates about what he or she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2010/02/24/spot-and-king-and-whiskers-are-now-on-twitter/</link>
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		<title>How to identify and deal with negative feedback in social media</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that people and organizations have been blogging, setting up Facebook groups, and participating in social media generally, they have had an opportunity to gather feedback. And some of that has been and will be negative. Alot of that feedback is valuable and worthwhile responding to. Other feedback (e.g. from trolls) is not worth your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2010/02/22/how-to-identify-and-deal-with-negative-feedback-in-social-media/</link>
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		<title>useful social media tools for small businesses or organizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This article, What are the most useful social media tools for small business? &#8211; Trends in the Living Networks, has a great list of a range of online tools you can use as a small business to communicate, connect, organize and run your small business. Many of them you may already be familiar with, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2009/10/28/useful-social-media-tools-for-small-businesses-or-organizations/</link>
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		<title>A textbook example of how to crowdsource, provided by guardian.co.uk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nieman Journalism Lab has provided a great example of how to crowdsource, courtesy of the Guardian.&#160; 
The Guardian&#8217;s had a big problem, they were going to get scooped by a competitor while having to deal with too much data to process in too little time. Solution? Crowdsourcing. 
So what did they do?
&#8220;&#8230;.wait for the associated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2009/10/09/a-textbook-example-of-how-to-crowdsource-provided-by-guardiancouk/</link>
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		<title>Did you know? Or, how the world is rapidly changing digitally&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;can be seen in this video here:
[youtube="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn1brUCqEjE"]
Lots of fascinating statistics, linked with a theme, presented well. One of the reasons for the powerful changes that digital technology is bringing on like the juggernaut that it is.
Thanks to thetrendwatch.com for this.


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		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2009/10/03/did-you-know-or-how-the-world-is-rapidly-changing-digitally/</link>
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		<title>Why Kraft is charging for it&#8217;s iPhone App</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a good interview with the Director of Innovation at Kraft on why they are charging 99 cents for their app when they could just give it away. Anyone developing and marketing an iPhone App should check this out in Advertising Age.


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		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2009/10/02/why-kraft-is-charging-for-its-iphone-app/</link>
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		<title>Using social media tools to recruit people</title>
		<description><![CDATA[National Resource Canada &#8211; part of the Government of Canada is recruiting in 2009. Here&#8217;s part of their pitch to new recruits:
&#8220;At Natural Resources Canada, we don&#8217;t just think outside the box. We work outside the box. 
As well as pens, paper and computers, the tools of the trade might include a pick, or a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.theorangechair.com/blog/2009/10/01/using-social-media-tools-to-recruit-people/</link>
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