So Diigo was down for maintenance this week and so my automatic Random Thoughts post didn’t get posted so I thought I’d do a little manual cut-n-paste to share with you some of the things that caught my interest this week.

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A Closer Look at HP’s Community Core Team - Marketing Impressions

My most recent Marketing Impressions blog where I talk about how HP manages 60+ blogs with the Community Council

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more from www.communities.hp.com

KyleLacy.com » Blog Archive » The Philosophical Comparison Between Marketing and Social Media

Kyle talks about the simultaneous shift of social media and marketing from push to pull. He also makes the comparison that the pull goes both ways. Customers don’t want marketing pushed on them they want to pull it to them. So instead of pushing your marketing create marketing that pulls your customers in.

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» Arrington missed the boat, Kel Kelly sets it straight - Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC Marketing Conversation - New Marketing and Social Media by Abraham Harrison LLC

Here’s a thought provoking post about PR in the world of blogs. I think Mike’s advice is right, for the kind of startups he wants to deal with. For the rest of the free world I agree with Jonathan.

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more from marketingconversation.com

Web 2.0 needs time to grow - WhatPC?

Analyst Gartner highlighted 27 technologies in its 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies while McKinsey’s Building the Web 2.0 Enterprise examined the adoption of tools such as wikis, blogs, social networks and mash-ups.

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more from www.whatpc.co.uk

Wikipedia founder aims to break Google stranglehold - Yahoo! News

wikia search aims to be a platform for search. should be interesting

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Wikia Search - A New Way to Search

The alpha release of Wikia Search

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more from re.search.wikia.com

Why Brands Are Unsuccessful in Twitter

Are you thinking about getting your brand in Twitter? Read this first. I think that this is a good starting point. I do think there are exceptions.

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more from www.web-strategist.com

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