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David Finch

David Finch

Social media is a bridge that gives you access to people, stories, and companies that at one time you didn’t have access to. It facilitates conversations that previously came by invitation only. It tears down walls and allows you to see and participate “behind the curtain.”

This whole thought of the “What Social Media Can Do for You,” has really been at the forefront of my thinking and conversation this week. Watching and listening through multiple social media channels of the ground conversations taking place around the Iranian elections has been extremely interesting, as it was during the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

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Outing The Ad Business – Holy Fark! Part 3

January 31, 2008

Episode 3 of our Holy Fark! series with Fark.com founder and author Drew Curtis turns the focus on traditional media. Curtis says newspapers and television news aren’t in trouble, as many industry watchers say, they’re just used to larger profits. He then takes us through an explanation of why the Internet is outing the advertising [...]

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Holy Fark! Part 2: Drew Curtis On Fark, The Book

January 30, 2008

In the second of our sit down interviews with Drew Curtis, founder of Fark.com and author of “It’s Not News, It’s Fark,” we learn about media patterns, that Drew’s mom uses IM and is terrified of shingles, Groundhog Day is dumb and proof that the media only cares about New York City lies in the [...]

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The Tipping Point Is Toast, But Watts Didn’t Burn It

January 29, 2008

Clive Thompson’s Fast Company story about Duncan Watts and his stance that books like Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and The Influentials by Ed Keller and Jon Berry are basically bunk – that influencers play only a minor part in trend setting and producing the viral effect so many brands and marketers are in search [...]

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