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Social Media and the Pickens Plan Virtual March

We have been writing a lot of self promotional blog posts about our work on the Pickens Plan web program lately.  I am going to write one more and then I promise to move on to other topics.  🙂

The last three days, the Pickens Plan has been holding a virtual march on Washington in support of the elements of the Plan. ...

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Hospitals and the Social Web

While doing some research for a talk I gave a few weeks ago, I came across a fantastic blog called “Found in the Cache” that examines how hospitals are using the social web.  The blog’s author, Ed Bennett, is tracking which hospitals maintain their are own blogs and have launched presences on Twitter,...

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Is A Picture Worth 140 Characters?

<Cross posted from our ImpactWatch Blog>

Editors Note: Hannah installed the Firefox plugin Power Twitter in order to get photos and videos to appear in her Twitter stream.  For those of you that want to see what it looks like, see this screengrab.

Yesterday I was walking through Mexico City and I snapped a photo of a tanning salon....

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The Jon Stewart Show Explains Twitter

Below is a great segment from the Jon Stewart show on Twitter.  In the clip he gently mocks the trend of politicians and media types jumping on the new media bandwagon in a search for relevance.  Found on Venture Beat.

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Why is Team Obama Opting Out of Twitter?

Last week the Politico released a controversial list of the most influential Twitter users in the Washington, DC area.  The article spread around the Internet, as is typical of these types of articles, with the the LA Times and David Almacy responding with their own lists.  All three lists are interesting,...

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