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I Buy Dead Magazines (the art of the intro …)

Both Sides of the Table

It starts in a crowded room at a conference or networking event. One person who doesn’t waste this opportunity is Sam Jones of Formation Media. I buy dead magazines.” I buy dead magazines. I run a company called Formation Media. We set up Formation Media to bring that experience to the Internet. And smiled.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

Tech Zulu Event

Then we took a giant leap with social media integration. Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest.

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Zite | Your Personalized Magazine

Tech Zulu Event

Then we took a giant leap with social media integration. Zite, which was acquired by CNN in late 2011, is a personalized magazine to help clean up all that content overload we deal with on the web when trying to catch up on the days current events and instead delivers content based on your personal interest.

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The Convergence of Social Media & Traditional Radio

Eric Greenspan

What I mean by this is we do radio better by building it around the web, social media and traditional marketing strategies alongside, behind and wrapped around our radio shows. But there’s more…on this show, we control the content and we have built the social media right into the program. Tell no one!

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

Both Sides of the Table

Around this time B2C eCommerce had been dominating the media but the wheels were starting to come off. They got us invited to the Fortune CEO conference in Paris held at Versailles. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today). million … yes that was seed in 1999!)

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. And you need somebody who is committed to keeping up your presence in blogs, social media and other online forums. You need somebody who really understands your company, its customers and its competitors.

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Its BlogWorld Time! Los Angeles Get Ready!

Tech Zulu Event

BlogWorld and New Media Expo 2011 comes to Los Angeles and its finally here. Also, if you happen not to be able to attend BlogWorld and New Media Expo this year TechZulu has you covered. With Lisa as CEO, the company has grown from an idea for a grassroots conference into a diversified media company.