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The fundamental difference between marketing and community

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 7:19 pm
Posted In: Analysis and Opinion, Around the Web, Entrepreneur, Social Media

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David Spinks is the CEO of CMX Media and host of CMX Summit, the premier resource and event for the community industry. He also writes at WhatSpinksThinks. This post originally appeared on the CMXHub. Community Manager is a title that continues to be slapped on a lot of roles. Some of them make more sense than others. Marketing makes little sense. I love marketing. I’ve done it. It’s valuable, it’s important and when done right it can be really powerful for your business. But it is not community. Why do companies insist on calling employees Community Managers when they’re working completely on marketing?…

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Wimbledon ‘near-live’ highlights will be broadcast globally across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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Back in September last year, we brought you news on London-based startup Grabyo launching a video clip-sharing service in cahoots with BSkyB, which was later used to broadcast snippets of Champions League football action. In a nutshell, Grabyo’s technology makes it easier for companies to grab (hence its name) and edit clips from their own videos, to share across any social channel in real-time. The result should look a little something like this: Video: If you’re going there @djokerNole, you need to buy a ticket! http://t.co/RhGoMb7gQW — TennisTV (@TennisTV) May 17, 2014 Now, as we near the start of a…

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Wimbledon ‘near-live’ highlights will be broadcast globally across Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and YouTube

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:58 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, UK

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Back in September last year, we brought you news on London-based startup Grabyo launching a video clip-sharing service in cahoots with BSkyB, which was later used to broadcast snippets of Champions League football action. In a nutshell, Grabyo’s technology makes it easier for companies to grab (hence its name) and edit clips from their own videos, to share across any social channel in real-time. The result should look a little something like this: Video: If you’re going there @djokerNole, you need to buy a ticket! http://t.co/RhGoMb7gQW — TennisTV (@TennisTV) May 17, 2014 Now, as we near the start of a…

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EU will reportedly launch an investigation into Apple’s Irish tax arrangement

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:45 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider

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Apple is reportedly again coming under fire in the European Union about how it uses the Irish county of Cork to allegedly avoid paying taxes, according to an RTE report. According to RTE, the Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia will make an announcement about the investigation tomorrow. A Committee spokesperson declined to comment to Reuters about the RTE report. Apple was previously investigated in the United States about its use of technicalities in the Irish and US tax code. A Senate investigation found that Apple had paid no corporate income tax on billions of dollars of income over the past four years. Irish tax law only recognizes businesses that…

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Firefox 30 arrives with sidebars button, GStreamer 1.0 support, and quickshare in context menu on Android

Jun10
by on June 10, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Design & Dev, Insider, Mobile

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Mozilla today officially launched Firefox 30 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Additions include a button for direct access to sidebars (social, bookmark, and history), support for GStreamer 1.0, and new quickshare buttons in the context menu on Android. Firefox 30 has been released over on Firefox.com and all existing users should be able to upgrade to it automatically. As always, the Android version is trickling out slowly on Google Play. In terms of new features, this is a relatively minor release, especially when compared to the major revamp that came as part of Firefox 29. Mozilla has been mainly…

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