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The victory of US President –elect Barack Obama was ground-breaking in more ways than one. Finally, after more than 200 years of history, the United States of America elected Obama as their first African-American president last November 4, 2008. Campaigning under the slogan “Change We Must Believe In”, Obama in reality brought change on his [...]
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It’s The Customer, Stupid! – Viral Marketing and Engaging Your Community
October 2nd, 2008 
Jonas (Photo by Scott Ableman) One of the best things that can happen to you as a company or organization is viral marketing from your community. This can take in the form of video clips, images, e-books, Flash games, or even email messages. Bear in mind that when this happens, it’s usually initiated by your community [...]
Building Communities – Barack Obama and Politics 2.0
September 17th, 2008 Jonas (Photo by Telstar Logistics) I recently read Time Magazine’s June 16 article by Karen Tumulty about how Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama won the nomination (overcoming a front runner) and changing American Politics forever. The author shared how Obama put together by far the best political operation of either party by building a “rare, frictionless [...]
Prep up your blog NOW
August 21st, 2008 Jonas After the launch of Social Median, the opening up of Yahoo! Buzz and the spread of micro-blogging with Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Pownce, not to mention new ones like Utterz, Rejaw, and a lot more, NOW is the best time to redo, redesign, and relaunch your blog. Social media provides us with the tools to communicate [...]
The Wisdom of the Crowds or the Opinions of the Few?
July 22nd, 2008 Jonas Photo by decadentyouphotography In a re-posted article by David Saad entitled “The Opinions of the Few”, he proposes very convincingly how participation inequality blinds the wisdom of crowds and creates the opinions of the few. The wisdom of crowds theory as advanced by the New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki contends that the collective opinions of [...]
