MC Hammer- Great post by Alan Underkofler of Square Martini Media back on August 2009.  Worth sharing!  Who would’ve thought MC Hammer is active on the social mediaspheres?!  I’m glad he is.  I’m now following him on twitter.com/mchammer.
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C-SPAN may not be the most riveting television, but it does provide a way of experiencing American politics without some O’Reilly or Olbermann telling you what to think. It’s the primary source, unmediated. So it’s great news that the network is making its entire archive—160,000 hours of video, dating back to 1987—available online in a searchable, user-friendly C-SPAN Video Library.
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Stats on social media platforms such as Twitter hitting 600 tweets per second and how Facebook grew to 400 million users are impressive, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? 

Jesse Thomas did exactly that through his State of the Internet video.

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I particularly like this article because it gives another perspective to the retweet button on Twitter.  What the heck is ‘retweet’ and why would I use it?  Read this article by Adam Sherk and find out how to make the most of retweets.

In working on my presentation for the Twitter Marketing Tactics session at SMX West next week I’ve been looking at the various types of share and retweet buttons used on news sites.

I’m partial to the Tweetmeme button, although displaying the number of tweets is a double-edged sword. It looks great when there are a lot of retweets; when there aren’t many it can weaken user perceptions of the content. Read More