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Barack Obama

CNN and Facebook Inauguration Coverage: A Mashup Made in Social Media Heaven

Kudos to CNN and Facebook for a tight integration and revolutionary live-media experience. They had the Y Generation / Millennials eating from their hand yesterday, and to anyone who knows how hard it is to tap into that market, this was a huge success on so many levels. Here’s a quick recap by the numbers and a dose of my subjective user-experience…

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Video: President Obama’s Inauguration Speech

If you weren’t glued to your TV or the CNN.com live feed to watch the Presidential Inauguration yesterday morning then you better have a damn good excuse. I’ll be writing about the genius CNN/Facebook co-branded marketing promotion later on today, but in the meantime here’s Obama’s inauguration speech… not because I think you missed it, but because its worth listening to again.

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Marketing to Millennials: A Lesson Learned from the Obama Campaign

In the spirit of Barack Obama’s Inauguration, I want to focus on the one group that helped push him into the White House, the Millennial generation. Millennials don’t pay much attention, if any, to marketing despite the fact (or perhaps because) theirs is the generation most marketed to in history, so how are you going to penetrate this hot group of “know-it-alls?”

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What Obama’s Proposed Tax Cuts Mean for Small Businesses

Here’s a welcome report for entrepreneurs this new year: President-elect Barack Obama’s massive stimulus plan is expected to include three key tax breaks for small-business owners…

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