Christopher Cristwell sat down in not much else but what appears to be his green Starbucks barista apron and began a 2 minute 55 second, 85 line rant against all the irritations a Starbucks service employee might encounter during a busy counter shift. It begins innocently enough: “Welcome to Starbucks my name is Chris I’ll
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Facebook  is renowned for serving its users with new features, totally unannounced. We are often left wondering whether Facebook is implying that their real target market is very discovery-savvy internet socialites, or rather those always up for the new challenge of finding new features on their Facebook. It’s always a cat and mouse game on
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Yesterday, Weidong “Jim” Zhang wrote a guest blog (over 300 views in less than 24 hours) for FastPivot which featured a list of the most popular Americans on the trendy Chinese social media site, Weibo. In this blog, we’ll take a look at how those Americans who are so popular in China compare on Twitter:
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By Guest Blogger, Weidong “Jim” Zhang Who are the most popular Weibo users from the U.S.A.? Which American has the most Chinese followers? Below is a list of of the 10 most popular American Weibo Users, as of 9/16/2011, with some of my own commentary added as well: 1) Tom Cruise : http://weibo.com/officialtomcruise Even with
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Last February, guest blogger, Weidong “Jim” Zhang wrote this very popular article for the FastPivot blog: U.S. Businesses Need Face On These Top 5 Chinese Social Media Places. It seems George Bush’s brother and others like him were listening, based on this recent PaidContent.org article: George Bush’s Brother is ‘Tweeting’ in Chinese on Weibo. Well,
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Social media managers are becoming easier prey to burnout, as the barrage of rapacious social signals spur the pupils into R.E.M.ing across an assortment of social platform commands dozens of times a minute. Fighting becomes futile when there are too many requests to dodge: How many times can you be asked to join social circles,
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Just humming “M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E”  stirs magic into the air–who wouldn’t want the Disney sparkle bestowed on their brand. But have you ever wondered how the world’s greatest merchandisers of creativity do it?! To break the news gently: Peter Pan, Tinkerbell, Mama Odie, Jack Sparrow, Donald Duck, Pluto, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, The Incredibles, and all the
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Dictionary.com states that “Deliberately irrational statements are sometimes used in Zen to jar persons into realizing the limits of the common uses of the intellect. One well-known example is, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” From Mello Yello’s Facebook posts (last five posted below), one cannot help but wonder whether they’ve created some
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We all know we’re supposed to brush three times a day, without forgetting to floss! Brushing is good for more than teeth–no we’re not trying to talk you into doing your tongue too–we’re talking about Twitter, and how to to clean the cling away. You can “follow” all sorts of distracting Twitter germs; like the
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Custom Facebook Fan Pages have become the standard for businesses, universities, NGOs, government organizations, etc. However, there is often some question as to what constitutes a “custom Facebook Fan Page.” Can’t anyone create a custom Facebook Fan Page by just setting up a Page and adding a unique url address to it? The answer is
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