Associated Press once was the RSS Feed of news distribution. Newspapers, already affected by plunging profits and now retrenching for recession, have been canceling their AP service contracts in droves due to AP’s high pricing structure: October 16: Tribune Companies October 17: Columbus Dispatch September 26: Minneapolis St Paul Star Tribune September 2: Spokane Spokesman [...]
This will happen soon in the mainstream media…
The real estate industry has been the most pragmatic in applying social media constructs – blogging and social networking – in order to develop lead generation systems for its professional practitioners. Real estate’s Active Rain continues to be the most active participatory social network devoted to a vertical. Its success spawned the recent introductions of [...]
Patrick Kitano is founding Principal of Brand into Media, a unique strategy group working with corporations and organizations to develop social and media-based strategies that engage hyperlocal communities.
I'm the author of Media Transparent, and contributor to Street Fight, Social Media Today, Daily Deal Media, The Customer Collective, and Quora.
I speak on the future of social commerce at conferences associated with social media, local advertising and real estate.
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