Hyperink is turning blogs into books #bigfan

I love what Hyperink is doing. They’ll take someone’s blog and put it together into a book. At first take you might think that’s insane, but having read several books that were a compilation of a writer’s blog posts, I love the idea. Plus I submitted my blog for consideration, so we’ll see what happens…

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Facebook’s tenets

I’m a big “tenets” guy. All the teams that report to me at Engauge are required to have three core tenets that define their team’s mission and their goals for the year. A friend recently shared with me Facebook’s core tenets. I’m not sure exactly how official these are, but they seem to make sense…

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This is a tiny peek at the future

This is the future. I’ve been waiting for this for five years. We will become the media and Refer.ly is a tiny peek at what that will look like. Here’s a snippet from an article I was interviewed for back in 2010: “Advertisers aren’t really giving incentives to Facebook users — and they should,” Hilimire…

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What will Facebook buy next?

Engauge’s own social leader, @teresacaro, gives her thoughts in yesterday’s USA Today: Instagram signifies a change in direction from Facebook’s previous strategy of buying, at bargain-basement prices, small-staffed companies that are on the “downslide” with smart founders, says Teresa Caro, vice president of social marketing at Engauge, a digital-marketing agency. After getting location-based service Gowalla…

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