Another powerful use of social media and Twitter. LeapFish has teamed up
with the Make-a-Wish Foundation to empower Twitter users with the ability to
grant an ill child’s dream to go to Disneyland. A Tweet-A-Cause that
just hit the wires and is beginning to climb through the Twitosphere.
Jacob, who is four years of age, has a rare and life-threatening disease that
has affected him since birth. He has one big wish in life — to go to
Disneyland with his family. LeapFish is donating 5 cents per Tweet to the
Make-A-Wish Foundation until $10,000 has been raised and Jacob and his family
can go to Disneyland.
Social media is powerful and this is another great utilization of Twitter to
bring awareness and momentum to a very good cause.
The charity campaign will run from Nove... (more)
The Web has evolved. It used to be a place where people came to just search
for simple information. Now it’s a place where people come to also share
information. Information today that is multi-media and more complex.
Information today that is real-time and social – recommended by people
who know, and people you know. I refer to this new place as “The Living
Web” and recently our te... (more)
Its hard to imagine that its been almost 25 years since my parents secretly
smuggled many of our family members out of Iran due to brutal religious
persecution. Persecution that is unfortunately picking up once again in
todays time.
A reader asked me to provide more info about this portion of my background
and so I offered this short post.
The 1979 revolution of Iran put in place a the... (more)
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If you don’t understand why the Real Time Web is huge, you will soon.
Thanks to micro-blogging sites like Twitter, a constant stream of
human-posted content has infiltrated the Web. This growing infiltration has
created a bottoms up approach to content creation that via the progressive
support of rapidly developing applications has and will continue to empower
every in... (more)
Reply.com lifts Beta off its locally-targeted online marketing platform as it
posts enhanced features and significant profits. In the face of a
struggling economy, Reply.com has posted over 50 percent revenue growth in
the Automotive and Real Estate categories and significant profits over the
last several quarters.
Since its founding in 2001, Reply! has been a leader in pioneering locall... (more)