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April Highlights

Thanks again you for your continued readership of our social media newsletter. This month's edition features several industry news articles on Oprah's impact on Twitter, how Domino's handled its YouTube crisis, and what Web 2.0 execs are doing in Iraq. I'd also like to encourage all of you to tune into Socializing Media, a new BlogTalkRadio series that I'm involved in along with a small group of marketers, authors, industry pundits and entrepreneurs.

The show's goal is to bring insight to marketers eager to make sense of the noisy, often confusing discussions surrounding social media. It will feature lively debate on industry hot topics, upcoming trends and timely examples of both best and worst practices to provide a holistic view of social media. Socializing Media airs the second and fourth Thursday of every month at 9 am Pacific Time/12 pm Eastern Time. I hope you can join us!
 

Sincerely,
 
Blake Cahill,
SVP of Marketing
Visible Technologies
@bcahill on Twitter

Oprah effect: 43% jump in Twitter traffic

USA Today

Oprah Winfrey's effect on book sales when she supports a new title is legendary. She may have even contributed to the election of the nation's first black president with her endorsement of Barack Obama. So what happened in Twitterland after Winfrey started Tweeting, and used her TV show as a platform to announce her online Twitter presence?

According to market tracker Hitwise, traffic to Twitter went up 43% in a before and after survey of the Oprah Effect.


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Domino's Discovers Social Media

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Domino's Pizza learned a hard lesson. There is a big difference between how the emerging social media are used for marketing and how they work in a serious crisis situation. Other companies would be wise to pay attention.

If there were any question that damaging blog posts, tweets, and viral videos have changed the ground rules and raised the stakes for crisis communication and brand protection, those doubts were laid to rest forever the instant a prank video depicting two Domino's employees defacing pizza and sandwiches was uploaded to YouTube. Corporate America was put on notice.


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Web 2.0 Execs in Iraq Tweet Hope

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Silicon Valley luminaries on a State Department-sponsored trip to Iraq are already making observations and floating ideas through Twitter and blog posts about how to bring the war-battered country up to web 2.0 speed.

How bad is it? Almost no one in Iraq has internet at home thanks to years of censorship under Saddam Hussein's rule - making cellphones the platform for engaging the public in the occupied country.


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