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Firstly, if you’re in new media, social media, new marketing, publicity, or public relations, you need to subscribe to the Inside PR podcast. Secondly, before you continue embarrassing yourself professionally by using all the words you have been using incorrectly, you need to read through the Inside PRoper English archives. Seriously. You’re embarrassing yourself. The rest of this post is non-essential.

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I just received the below email in my Facebook Inbox because I am a member of the ooVoo Facebook Group. Well, I have been sitting on some cool news that I assume I can share now since it has been released into the wilderness. Lots of cool stuff: My ooVoo Day, a version of ooVoo for the Mac, and the ability to chat up some of the coolest new media, social media, new PR, new marketing, and rock star bloggers anywhere!

If you haven’t had a chance to try out ooVoo yet, there’s a great opportunity coming up in the week or so: My ooVoo Day With…You can download the software - including the MAC VERSION!!! - and sign up for a slot where you can talk to some other ooVooers in the blogosphere about a variety of topics at: http://www.myoovooday.com

If you don’t have a webcam yet, don’t worry - you can still participate on calls as an audio-only caller. You’ll still be able to see and hear the others and add your own voice to the mix. Just pick a good looking avatar to display. ;-)

That’s it. Get over to www.myoovooday.com to check out the details and do your thing.

Now back to your regularly scheduled email…

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I have always wanted to have a clean list of the Power 150 top 500 marketing blogs all in one place and I have finally found one thanks to NovaVizia.com (how Global) On this particular list, I show up ranked at 206 for Because The Medium is the Message and 327 for Marketing Conversation. Via NovaVizia.com
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The November 8th edition of The Economist has an article that asks us “Will Facebook, MySpace and other social networking sites transform advertising?”

In truth, the article is poorly written. It asks the wrong question, it’s lazily researched, and it provides little actual theory or empirical evidence to justify the premise they are trying to suppose. Perhaps the reason for this is that The Economist is a general news publication – one that I respect – and that the article was intended for a mainstream readership that’s likely mostly interested in reading about general trends and not deeper analysis. But nevertheless…

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Flugpo, an SNS that’s a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll — and one of our favorite clients, just launched its new blog, Flugpo.com, a blog on your favorite classifieds site!

Creating a corporate blog as a place to both inform your user base as well as to promote your brand is essential. Why? Well, because blogs are more textually-rich and topically-focused than social networks. Why? Well, because Social Networks are not about their own brand, they’re an agnostic platform dedicated to the glory of the users.

Flugpo.com has been too selfless and its nice to see them launch a blog that is all about them. Luckily, it is also all about us at AHLLC, too, because they blogged about us, Marketing Conversation Gives Rave Reviews!, in response to the article that Kevin Donlan wrote for us, Flugpo Brings Community to the Social Network.