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Feeding the Starving in Haiti: A Message that Needs to be Viral

Gregg Fraley, Author of Jack's Notebook

Volunteers, mostly from Iowa where the charity is based, packaged up 4 million meals last year. Tags: Inspirational Politics & Government @MftH charity Gregg Fraley Haiti Haitian earthquake crisis Iowa Mark Aeilts Meals from the Heartland starvation. In fact, [.].

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Cathryn Sloan and Why Social Media Experts Have Such Low Self-Esteem

Duct Tape Marketing

Last week a recent University of Iowa grad and, to this point, unknown journalist named Cathryn Sloan penned an article for the nextgen Journal titled Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25. The piece went viral because social media forty somethings disagreed violently with her point. 598 comments at this writing).

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

www.foliomag.com

Curalate allows us to see how the content we pin to our boards is performing, as well as the content people are organically pinning from our sites, and more importantly how viral those actions are, since it’s reported that 80 percent of Pinterest activity comes from repins.” Erin Hoskins, Senior Marketing Director, New Media, Meredit h.

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Audience Segmentation: Where Do You Start?

ConversionXL

How much does someone change when they move from Wisconsin to Iowa? It’s why Chubbies includes their belief statements on their site: And why Holstee ’s corporate manifesto went viral: Actually, it’s why most things go viral within certain segments: "I don't use a mouse in Excel."

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Why Ello Really Matters

Duct Tape Marketing

I do think the frontier feel of Ello, like many other startup networks, has great appeal for pioneers, but in order to make it you’ve eventually got to appeal to the people of Iowa. This is not a slam to my Iowa readers, it’s a nod to your ability to pick presidents!).

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Where is the best place to find a rockstar developer to bring it to life?

www.quora.com

I do find this recent blog post by Eugene Wallingford, a computer science professor at the University of Northern Iowa to be worth reading as well. Brian Wetjen These comments sum up most of your real-world considerations. It's titled: I Just Need a Programmer [link] llingf/. Avdi Grimm , Been doing web development in Ruby on.

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Twitter Link Roundup #154 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Can enterprise SaaS products be viral? Google backs Iowa wind farm, has put close to $1B into clean power – [link]. How To Hire Hackers: A Realistic Guide For Startups | OnStartups – [link]. Asking Questions beats Giving Advice | The Intercom Blog – [link]. – [link]. Venice hit by floods – in pictures | [link].