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		<title>Google Social Search</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/10/27/google-social-search/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just like contextual advertising, Google Social Search makes your search experience contextual to you and your friends.  Cool. I’m not immediately seeing the business application of this and I’m not excited about seeing what my friends have written on a subject.  I have many friends that write blogs.  I aggregate them on my Google Home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Obama&#8217;s Assination Poll&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/10/02/facebooks-obamas-assination-poll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked what I thought about the affect that Facebook&#8217;s &#8220;Obama Assassination Poll&#8221; would have on Facebook&#8217;s advertisers.  Here&#8217;s how I responded&#8230; Facebook is right to try to monetize everything.  Google has built a more than $20b business around Internet advertising.  Polls are a necessity and very popular.  (My ex-fiancé’s father Bill Gaskill [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Flattering Twitter Or Stomping MySpace</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/09/12/facebook-flattering-twitter-or-stomping-myspace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Facebook Annouce today another cadre of new features and  benefits, Facebook Lite &#38; @Tagging.  No Facebook Lite isn&#8217;t design as another new social network fad weight loss program, it&#8217;s a streamlined version of Facebook that loads faster.  Facebook&#8217;s new @tagging isn&#8217;t just flattering Twitter by imitating them, their adding some proven secret sauce. I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monopoly City Streets &#8211; A Hit New Board Game Or Will Players Be Bored?</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/09/11/monopoly-city-streets-a-hit-new-board-game-or-will-players-be-bored/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read a recent article on the PC World web site, &#8220;Monopoly City Streets&#8217; Online Game: Will Buying Park Place Be Any Easier?&#8221; where Hasbro has taken Google Maps and combined it with their highly successful traditional board game Monopoly.  Here are some thoughts. First off, this is a great idea!  Of course, Monopoly and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twit or Tweet</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/08/23/twit-or-tweet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The June 15th cover of Time Magazine showed us all an iPhone with a Twitter Tweet from journalist Steven B. Johnson that read, &#8220;Twitter is changing the way we live-and showing us the future of innovation.&#8221;  But what does the future hold in store for us, business, and Twitter?  My guess is that unless some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>While Control May Be An Illusion, Chaos Is Real</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/08/20/while-control-may-be-an-illusion-chaos-is-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:48:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I speak with a government agency or often with larger, Fortune 500 corporation I hear “Oh, we don’t allow social media in or organization&#8230;”  Ah, yeah&#8230; I was working as a nuclear engineer at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state when email first hit the scene and we were told ‘We will never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media eBook Downloads</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/08/17/social-media-ebook-downloads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 20:48:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Extreme Digital Marketing &#8211; Social Media eBook download area of my web site.  I have provided these eBooks to you for free so that you may better understand the power of social media, its tactics, tools, and strategies. Feel free to distribute them to anyone who could benefit from them and please [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Social Media Bible &#8211; Ten Commandments</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/03/18/the-social-media-bible-ten-commandments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:30:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As coauthor of the Social Media Bible, I was asked &#8220;What are the Ten Commandments&#8221; of Social Media?&#8221;  So here they are! Thou Shalt Blog (like crazy). Thou Shalt Create Profiles (everywhere). Thou Shalt Upload Photos (lots of them). Thou Shalt Upload Videos (all you can). Thou Shalt Podcast (often). Thou Shalt Set Alerts (immediately). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“The Five Ps of Social Media Implementation&#8221; But Not FRED Figglehorn</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/03/18/lon-safko-discusses-%e2%80%9cthe-ps-of-social-media-implementation-but-not-like-fred-figglehorn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is Lon&#8217;s  parody on the YouTube sensation; Fred Figglehorn.  Fred is a 14 year old pretending to be an 8 year old with anger management problems.  Fred creates his 3 minute improv videos with his voice pitched high. When I interviewed George Strompolos, the Content Partnerships Manager For YouTube, he said that he couldn’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Five P’s Of Social Media Implementation</title>
		<link>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/03/18/the-five-p%e2%80%99s-of-social-media-implementation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lonsafko.com/2009/03/18/the-five-p%e2%80%99s-of-social-media-implementation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 21:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lon Safko</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a transcript of the audio and video posts on YoutTube and here at The Social Media Bible web site of my Five P&#8217;s Of Social Media Implementation.  I hope it is helpful! Hello, my name is Lon Safko, co-author of The Social Media Bible, published by John Wiley &#38; Sons, the most comprehensive [...]]]></description>
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