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links for 2008-03-04

by Lee Hopkins on March 4, 2008 · 0 comments

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Rather than listening to its critics, president of company threatens blogger with libel lawsuit Some people DESERVE to be shot in the backside! Hat tip to Trevor Cook (tags: blogging pr trevorcook) Tweet

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links for 2008-02-27

by Lee Hopkins on February 27, 2008 · 0 comments

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Shel Israel is ruining my reputation. « Kara Soluri A funny video from Kara Soluri about why she keeps Shel Israel’s book in a brown paper wrapper (tags: karasoluri shelisrael nakedconversations video book) Mum’s the word on Rudd talkfest | The Australian Rudd shoots himself in the foot again. Good to see that pollies still [...]

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Free love is just a mouse click away

by Lee Hopkins on February 26, 2008 · 0 comments

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We’re all for a bit of free love here at BetterComms Towers. Who wouldn’t be? So it was with great delight that we devoured the latest Trend Briefing from our friends at trendwatching.com. In this month’s Briefing you can boggle your mind at a world seemingly gone mad — businesses giving away stuff for free. [...]

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Courtesy of a stumble by cin1977 I came across curiology.com. In an of itself an interesting collection of pop art-ish paintings, some of which have already sold. What chilled me was this one: Anyone else feel a shiver run down their spine? Not exactly something I’d want to hang on my living room wall, but [...]

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links for 2008-02-23

by Lee Hopkins on February 23, 2008 · 0 comments

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YouTube – Malaria No More In Madagascar courtesy of my IllumAlliance colleague Jacques Macaire comes a wonderfully uplifting video of how goodness is still being done in the world. A child dies of malaria every 30 secs in Africa – so much still to do. (tags: illumalliance macaire madagascar video youtube charity disease good) Novelties: [...]

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links for 2008-02-22

by Lee Hopkins on February 22, 2008 · 0 comments

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FamilyBuilder receives $1.5M funding Family tree software; must check out as I am about to try to put my family history together (yes, Lollipops too!) (tags: history familytree software) Tweet

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Seth’s advice to real estate agents: quit now

by Lee Hopkins on February 22, 2008 · 2 comments

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Seth lays out the argument for micro-segmenting your audience and dominating it. It’s advice that works as well for real estate agents as it does for any other service business (and product business, in fact).

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New tools part one: aide rss

by Lee Hopkins on February 22, 2008 · 4 comments

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Courtesy of a tweet from Mack Collier comes word of aide rss, a number-crunching site that allows you to check your own blogs and see which posts are the most popular. No, that’s not its main purpose, but that is what immediately sprang to mind when I visited it. Bear in mind that the site [...]

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7 tips for real-world businesses in SL

by Lee Hopkins on February 21, 2008 · 2 comments

in marketing,second life

Courtesy of Greg Verdino of crayon comes news of a white paper (pdf) from Elastic Collision, a virtual worlds agency, on building business equity in Second Life.

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links for 2008-02-20

by Lee Hopkins on February 20, 2008 · 2 comments

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Exclusive: The Biggest Star Wars Collection in the Galaxy Someone with WAAAAAY too much time and money on their hands! Hat tip Steve Rubel (tags: starwars toys geek) mental_floss Blog » Pictures From Our Readers: Ill-Advised Business Names some really stupid names of businesses, captured in all their pristine photographic glory (tags: business funny photos) [...]

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