This has been some year. From Obama to Twitter, from banking to the auto ball-outs – it’s time for the best of columns. Mine is a little more focused this year.
During one of the final episodes of the animated Nickelodeon series “Avatar: The Last Airbender,” two former adversaries shared a “guy” moment: “My first girlfriend [...]

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A riddle: I help people make buying decisions; when I’m good I keep them engaged on your web site; when they like me they come back often and when they don’t they keep away from you for years. Everyone believes that they do a great job with me and in bad times, my people are [...]

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“This is only a test. For the next 60 seconds this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. This is only a test.” Until the early 1990s, you heard this test weekly from every broadcaster in the United States. It was followed by a tone, and a closing announcement to assure you [...]

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The Pew Internet and American Life Project predicts that mobile devices will become the “primary device for online access” by 2020. While this supports my earlier posts, their results says voice-recognition, artificial and virtual reality will become more embedded in everyday life – and go mobile. We have come a long way from those old [...]

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While nearly all teens enjoy video games, so do more than half of all adults, according to a report by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The study finds age is the biggest factor in playing video games. That said, over1 in 3 adults play games on cell phones.

Younger adults are significantly more likely than [...]

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Social media use is skyrocketing. Between nearly 75% of the U.S. population uses social media web sites. But even with all those hundreds of millions of people, social media can still fail to meet expectations. What you can’t do, though, is ignore all those people who are actively influencing others.
Read Wayne’s article at MediaBullseye.com.

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Sometimes, people you know just do amazing things. Rebecca Corliss sings her heart out about the horrible life of an outbound marketer, joined by the team from Hubspot in Boston. Rock on @repcor and @hubspot !
This will be played at a lot of new media companies. Within the first 12 hours, Twitter and other social [...]

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