Show #427 - March 03, 2009

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Content summary

Shel's on his own; vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; FIR community support for Bryan Person; CDs still available to first-time commenters; Hive interview set for Tuesday; Neville contributes to the intro; Michael Netzley's Asia Report; Media Monitoring Minute; News that Fits: Skittles web site goes 100% social, personal branding in the age of Google, Forrester says "sponsored conversations" are fine, social media best practices group forms on a wiki; listener comments including a FriendFeed room roundup; the music; and more.

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Contributions and Comments from these Listeners

Michael Netzley
Bernie Goldbach
Richard Gatarski
Alice Marshall

Links

http://www.adweek.com/aw/content_display/news/agency/e3i615140fc749e47980d2952272cdba284
http://venturebeat.com/2009/03/01/skittles-tweet-the-rainbow-or-racial-slurs/
http://www.socialcustomer.com/2009/03/skittles-social-media-experiment.html
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/02/personal-branding-in-the-age-of-google.html
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/03/02/how-to-make-sponsored-conversations-work/
http://www.micropersuasion.com/2009/03/paying-bloggers.html
http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell/2009/03/by-josh-bernoff.html
http://andylark.blogs.com/andylark/2009/02/social-media-best-practices.html
http://m2bp.pbwiki.com/
http://www.mediabestpractices.com/
http://media2.0workgroup.org/
http://www.twitter.com/ryantubridy
http://www.flickr.com/photos/topgold/3321794017
http://www.flickr.com/photos/irisheyes/8773308/
http://bambuser.com/v/72192 (Richard Gatarski's skicast)
http://bloggy.se/
http://www.twixdagen.se/
http://twixdagen.se/blogg/?p=44
http://technoflak.blogspot.com/2009/03/use-and-abuse-of-email-marketing.html
http://www.myspace.com/everbluemusic

Contributors to show notes for this show (add your name here)

• Shel Holtz