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Susan Payton is the Managing Partner of Egg Marketing & Public Relations, an internet marketing firm. She blogs at The Marketing Eggspert Blog, and teaches marketing courses at Marketing EggSchool. Follow her on Twitter @eggmarketing.We’re a week away from Black Friday and just a few years ago, if you wanted to find the be (Read More)
Mashable!:
The Open Web Awards: Social Media Edition, our annual contest highlighting the very best the web has to offer, is entering its final round. The 70,000+ nominees have been narrowed down to just 5 finalists per category, and you have from now until December 15th to pick the winners.By popular demand, here is the full list of (Read More)
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Part of the joy of following Bill Simmons on Twitter is the feeling that he doesn’t hold back—that, plus not only he can be snarky as all get out when the occasion demands, his tweets, snarky or not, are usually spot on. (He has one of the highest “repeat out loud” ratings in (Read More)
Huffington Post:
As USA Basketball's spokesperson and primary media contact, it's safe to assume that Craig Miller receives a ton of phone calls and email inquiries that can quickly and easily fill up an eight-hour workday. Add that to the mix of coordinating all press conferences, overseeing all press releases, producing USA Basketball's w (Read More)
paidContent.org:
No sale yet for Nielsen Business Media (NBM) but most of it is about two weeks away from being acquired by a consortium led by James Finkelstein’s News Communications, paidContent has learned from multiple sources. We have also learned that Lachlan Murdoch—yes, that Lachlan Mu (Read More)
Huffington Post:
CHICAGO — Sun-Times Media Group, which was recently sold out of bankruptcy to an investor group, said Friday it named John Barron to the newly created group publisher position and as senior vice president of news and editorial operations.The owner of the Chicago Sun-Times and dozens of suburban publications said Friday that (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
RALEIGH, N.C. � The U.S. Army said Friday it would open Sarah Palin's appearance on Fort Bragg to media, a reversal from earlier in the week when the military wanted the event closed out of fears it would prompt political grandstanding against President Barack Obama.The attempt to ban media at the event scheduled for Monday (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Looking for a change of scenery? There are several new opportunities posted on the Silicon Alley Insider job board. Recent listings include positions at The Huffington Post, AdBuyer.com, TechWeb, and more:Account Executive, The Huffington PostProduct Manager of Search, SynacorPHP Developer, TechWebManager, Account Operati (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Twilight is upon us! From the frenzy surrounding the release of the second movie in the smalltown-teen-vampire-romance series, you'd think someone had opened a vein. The books in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series — Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn — have sold over 85 million copies — a rare home run these day (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
The media mogul teared up Friday morning as officially announced that she was ending her syndicated talk show in 2011.Winfrey is leaving Chicago to apparently focus on her cable channel OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network.Read the rest of this story »See Also:Oprah Winfrey Ending Talk Show As She Launches Cable NetworkGrading Sa (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Magazine advertising has plunged off a a cliff, as this chart from the Awl demonstrates.See also: The Awl's newspaper ad decline chart.Join the conversation about this story »See Also:22 Magazines Are Actually Kicking Butt In 2009The Business Insider Will Be Bought By Huge Media Company For More Than Fortune Magazine -- The (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
The good people over at the National Republican Campaign Committee have a favorite punctuation mark, called the ellipsis. And they enjoy using it, mainly to make strategic truncations in a piece of text to make it look as if it says something completely different from its author's original intent. For example, the NRCC co (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
As the founder of Weblogs Inc., Jason Calacanis is, in many ways, the cofounder of the new AOL, which will be built around the company's network of 80 blogs and content sites.So when we asked the Mahalo CEO for his take on AOL's future, we thought he'd toss a helpful quote our way. We got much more.Read the rest of this sto (Read More)
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Last year, Peter Norback was looking for a way to do a service for his community. "Just before the election, Barack Obama was talking about community service. I had thought about that for years," said the 67-year-old resident of Tucson, Ariz. "But I couldn't get involved with those meetings that didn't do anything, it was j (Read More)
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Max BlumenthalProgressive Book Club/Media Matters for America reviewIn August 2008, when then-senator and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said the media had held her under a "sharper microscope" because she was a woman, Sarah Palin rose to condemn her, accusing Clinton of a "perceived whine" that would harm other fem (Read More)