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Really interesting piece from Michael Kimmel on the semantic and emotional implications of saying "No Homo" after men engage in homoerotic behaviour rather than using "That's so gay" to PREVENT homoerotic behaviour. Nice analysis. - Kate Trgovac

Polyphonic, new venture from Nettwerk, positions musicians as partners w/ the label. Label takes a %; musician retains the IP rights and exerts more control over decisions. - Kate Trgovac

Hauntingly beautiful song from the same artist who did the theme to the Plants vs Zombies video game. Amazing range! - Kate Trgovac from Blip.fm

Nice summary of a recent incident where a blogger wrote about an "incident" with the TSA - and how the TSA blogger handled. Speaks to the importance for corporations to have some kind of established social media channel for responding to incidents like this as well as the importance of SM monitoring. Does your company have a social media channel where they could respond? - Kate Trgovac

Good overview from Techcrunch on Zynga, Playfish and Playdom and their place in the social games world. Good stats. Mild commentary on their lead-generation revenue model. - Kate Trgovac

Every product needs a content plan! And April Dunford tells you how to do it. Great walkthrough of a number of different content vehicles. - Kate Trgovac

Great piece by Shel Holz on a way to attempt to conform to the US's FTC disclosure guidelines particularly vis a vis Twitter. In Canada, we're not bound by them, but this post discusses a convenient shorthand to use when you only have 140 characters. - Kate Trgovac

Some good tips - for even just having a solid FB fan page. Article notes the importance of paying attention to Bing which is interesting. First I've seen on the importance of Bing. - Kate Trgovac

Get the real time scoop on what people are doing on social media. Good for presentations where you want to WOW people with what's happening out there. I like that he includes $$ spent on virtual goods. Via @brainpicker on Twitter - Kate Trgovac

Ranging from Wild West to Victoriana, Avant Garde to Calligraphy - some very cool vintage fonts. - Kate Trgovac

Article that offers evidence that users don't mind scrolling plus some cases when users WON'T scroll. Some good examples - plus piece is being updated w/ notes from the comments. - Kate Trgovac

Lovely! Typographer and illustrator Jessica Hische creates a decorative drop cap letter to use in your blog posts. Found via @RobCottingham - Kate Trgovac

Some good tips - esp note about photo. Easy checklist for people just getting started w/ fan pages. - Kate Trgovac

People who do stuff like this are what makes the internet awesome. A smart photoshop template for making your Twitter background. Nice. - Kate Trgovac

This is a very smart idea for political/legislative advocacy - communicating in the subject of an email the legislation you're commenting on, your position and your geographic locale so that the legislator knows you have a vested interest. This is geared towards US politics but could be easily adapted. - Kate Trgovac

If you're a blogger in the US, the FTC requires you to disclose your relationships or face fines up to $11,000. The Social Media Business Council (formerly the Blog Council) has a great best practices toolkit for disclosure - both for bloggers and companies working with bloggers. [My own disclosure - I have clients who are members of the SMBC and who contributed to the development of these guidelines.] - Kate Trgovac

From the post ... Mobile is so close to the customer (in her pocket!) that it’s pretty powerful if you do it right. It’s also dangerous to your brand if you do it wrong, especially since consumers are very aware that they pay for mobile phone and data services. So rather than just be a cheerleader, I’ll put down some advice here based on successful marketing campaigns. - Kate Trgovac

Where I found a decent Plants vs Zombies walkthrough. - Kate Trgovac

Really amazing site/mashup of Canadian politicos who are twittering as well as what the community is saying about them! - Kate Trgovac

A really great write up on the recent parent blogger/tweeter dust-up with Nestle. - Kate Trgovac

It really is amazing what people are doing with the Twitter platform. File sharing, raising money, lobbying for healthcare, finding a job. - Kate Trgovac

Great list from Bryan Eisenberg - includes tools as basic as a site spellchecker to usability and interface tools. - Kate Trgovac

Surprised that people aren't more aware of how to mark their profiles as private. - Kate Trgovac

This seems like a pretty big deal. Anything that removes coding barriers from people who want to make their sites, their personal media outlets more connected is a big deal. - Kate Trgovac

Love these. LOVE these! - Kate Trgovac

Great story about new authors who promote themselves. Good lessons to be learned here - both marketing and responsibility for success. Inspiring!! - Kate Trgovac

Solid write-up of tools, primarily for a mac-person (but not exclusively) on improving your blogging. I particularly like the inclusion of a number of video tutorials for the software that is referred to. h/t Tris Hussey - Kate Trgovac

Some good observations about what is hot, from an international (aka non-US) perspective. Interesting to me (and disappointing) is that Canada wasn't top of mind, but the UK. Which makes sense - they are beating us, hands-down, at interesting shops and great ecomm implementations online. Sigh. - Kate Trgovac

I started messing around with Foursquare since they finally added a Canadian city (yay, Vancouver) to the list. We have a number of clients who are local businesses - and while being online & engaged in socmed is important, driving people into their physical location with very real rewards is also important. Foursquare has a lot to offer local businesses. - Kate Trgovac

Great example of a university using a QR code in their game-day basketball and football programs. Ensures that a program isn't bound by the physical number of pages. Maybe a little a gimicky, but won't always be the case. Like it. - Kate Trgovac