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I’m suppose to be getting ready for a business trip that starts next week in Seattle and will wrap-up the start of the following week in LA. It’s going to be a fantastic trip and I’m excited to hear the challenges facing the companies I’ll meet. In preparation for the trip, I’m running [...]

Collectors of all things Gates take note: Bill’s 1990 Lexus is being sold on eBay! Don’t miss your change to own a piece of history. Fully documented. Pocket protector not included. Operators standing by…

BREAKING NEWS
Sources have informed me that Gary Stein, a Jupiter Research senior analyst for online advertising and marketing is leaving the company to join BuzzMetrics.
Gary is perhaps the most widely quoted analyst by various media sources for word-of-mouth marketing stories and will be speaking at the upcoming Word of Mouth Marketing Summit on January 19, [...]

Suzanne Vranica and Brian Steinberg’s piece Ads Reach for ‘Reality’ on Wednesday, December 21st, 2005 in MarketPlace page B1 is a summary of 10 best and worse ads in 2005 with observations about new trends in emerging marketing maneuvers in 2005. Word of mouth marketing and viral marketing were mentioned in [...]

Typepad a personal publishing platform is down again. If you try to post comments or anything, here’s the message you’ll get:
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Here are few sites posting opinions both good and bad about the launch BoldMouth.com. Links were pulled from Technorati.com and include:
Todd Tweedy Launches BoldMouth.com by Shel Israel at Naked Conversations
Modeling Word of Mouth Marketing by The Trend Junkie
New Media Report
New Word of Mouth Firm Slams Buzz - by Steve Hall of Adrants
Buzz Marketing War? [...]

WOMMA published a podcast I gave on the realities of effective word of mouth marketing today.

BOLDMOUTH LAUNCHES
SEEKS END TO BUZZ MARKETING PRACTICES
Charlottesville, VA (Dec. 12, 2005) BoldMouth today announced the launch of a new marketing firm – http://www.boldmouth.com — specializing in building word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) relationships for brands as well as providing product launch services online. The firm will be lead by interactive marketing veteran Todd Tweedy.
BoldMouth’s [...]

The secret sauce is out on how to model word of mouth. Thanks go to the team over at Converging Media for the Flickr posting:

Stowe Boyd over at Get Real just posted a piece about Deli.icio.us being acquired by Yahoo — see below.
The real kicker for me was the partnership announcement with the Yahoo Search Team. Very interesting stuff and since tags are the new currency of reputation online, it will be exciting to watch as [...]