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Category Archives: I heard it on a podcast
AP proves: Lawyers are not long-term business strategists
Associated Press (AP) has send DMCA notices to The Drudge Retort for quoting too much from one if it’s articles and then linking to one of it’s paying customer’s website (more at Techdirt). This, of course, interferes with …
Using Social Media to Market Music
My colleague at Heavybag Media, Jackie Peters has a post about the great opportunities record labels have in using social media as a marketing strategy. The challenges they are facing: they must switch from selling music in physical …
How Open Source and Social Media are going to Eat SEOs’ Lunches
(Sphinn this)
Search engines react to behavior of its users and site owners. Search engines measures these behaviors to deliver value to each, but ultimately to serve the search engines’ best interests. At first, search engines used what they …
How I discovered most of the books I have read for the past year and a half
I started reading blogs and listening to podcasts around February 2005. I started blogging myself around August 2005. I started buying books like crazy about a year and a couple months after that, starting in 2006. …
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Beth Noveck’s Patent Reform Proposal will be put to work
I remember hearing Beth Noveck’s talk on IT Conversations from Accelerating Change 2005 Conference (originally featured on ITC in June 2006) thinking that her ideas for a peer-reviewed patent system for the U.S. would be great, but that it …
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Business plans do not matter as much as connections to key people
This is what I keep telling my business partners as I go to meetups, Barcamps, and geek dinners by myself. Phil Leigh interviews Dr. Benson Honig, entrepreneurship professor at Wilfrid Laurier University for Podtech.net. Social entrepreneurship is an …
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Brian Oberkirch’s conversation with Jeremiah Owyang
Check out this conversation with my two favorite guys in the social media space, Brian Oberkirch and Jeremiah Owyang. They bring up all of the great points about using social media in a corporate setting. Jeremiah is …
Seth Godin on Podtech.net
I read Small is the New Big by Seth Godin a couple months ago. It is a great read. Here, Seth talks with Jennifer Jones with Podtech, Via Jeremiah’s blog.
Danny Sullivan’s Keynote at SES Chicago
Danny explains (with passion that only Danny can express) what search marketing and contextual ads are. Got to the post at Daily Search Cast here or listen in the Odeo player below. (Photo courtesy of Matt McGee …
Getting Real with SOA and the Corporate Culture Barriers to Enterprise 2.0
I try to listen to as many Podtech.net episodes as I can, since there is some great advice for entrepreneurs, start-ups, VCs, and enterprise software deployment. John Furrier and the team are really in a great position in …
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