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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 y (Read More)
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David Spinks is a graduating senior in NY that is utilizing the power of social web communities to pursue a career in social media/marketing. He authors a blog at DavidSpinks.com.There is an almost overwhelming number of opti (Read More)
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Last month, we wrote about Coca-Cola’s Expedition 206 campaign, in which the company uses social media to pick three individuals to travel the world in 2010, who in turn visit all 206 markets where Coca-Cola has a presence. A (Read More)
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Since we launched Mashable’s 3rd Annual Open Web Awards this past October, you’ve cast over 349,000 votes for your favorite nominees. Over the past few weeks we’ve continued to track the leaders in each category, and now, wit (Read More)
USATODAY.com Travel - Top Stories:
More travelers are finding that social media outlets can be effective ways to get companies' attention - and responses.
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Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying. Special thanks to @Z_simpliflying for his contribution to this article.Twitter has a huge aviation communit (Read More)
USATODAY.com - Hotel Hotsheet:
One of the hotel industry's first social-media web sites - Hyatt Hotels' travel-tip sharing site, yattit.com - has gone dark. Hyatt shut down the site on Oct. 5, 19 months after its launch
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Bernard Moon is Managing Director of the Lunsford Group, which is a private holding company consisting of entities in technology, media, research & consulting, health care, and real estate. He blogs at Silicon Moon.There is a (Read More)
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Open Web Awards Nominations will remain open until 11:59 pm ET on Sunday, November 15th. Submit your nominations here.It’s been an interesting year for traditional and non-traditional media. The newspaper industry continued t (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Travel:
The great-great-great grandson of author Joel Chandler Harris has embraced social media Web sites and has brought The Wren's Nest back from the brink of failure in just three years. (Read More)
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Last week launched the social revolution for search. Microsoft’s Bing fired the first shot by announcing search deals with Twitter and Facebook and, at the Web 2.0 Summit, launching its Twitter integration. Google fired bac (Read More)
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Ambassador must be the word of the day. We just reported on Charmin’s quest to find bathroom ambassadors, Ford’s looking for Fusion ambassadors, and now Coca-Cola is looking for a few brand ambassadors themselves. The Coca-Co (Read More)
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Today is the third annual Blog Action Day, a yearly event in which thousands of blogs around the web pledge to write about a single global issue in an effort to focus global attention. Two years ago, the inaugural Blog Actio (Read More)
MSNBC.com: Travel:
Discount airlines have traditionally outflanked the big network carriers in customer service and low fares, and it appears they're extending their advantage to social media. (Read More)
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Jump to the full entry & travel map Putian, Fujian, ChinaIn the eyes of companies everywhere, social media is quickly becoming a clear online marketing leader. What was o (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Mobile apps that help drivers determine traffic patterns aren’t necessarily new but apps that combine crowdsourcing, voice-based traffic reports and entertainment are definitely worth a second look. Aha Mobile is launching a (Read More)
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Nokia Acquires Travel-focused Social Network Dopplr | Digital Media Wire http://ow.ly/rvkp good move Nokia congrats dopplr!. (Read More)
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We’ve crossed an important threshold in press, media, and brand relations. Big companies and brands now know that online voices and bloggers can be just as important, if not more so, than traditional journalists. As such, the (Read More)
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Interested in attending this year’s Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, NV from October 15-17? You’re in luck! As a media sponsor of the event, we’re giving away five “full access” 3-day tickets (an $895 value). To enter, let us k (Read More)