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View Article  "Build loyalty & increased engagement through ongoing conversation and brand experience."
Courtesy: WhatTheFuckIsMySocialMediaStrategy 

(via Reddit)
View Article  Five Pop Topics Round Up
Recurring feature alert!  I've done this before where I do five quick hits on my five most common topics on this blog and why not, let's do it again.

Here's a few quick hits on my most popular topics...

Hockey
Uhm, it's July 28.  This does not bode well for this aspect of the Pop Topics recurring feature.  Luckily the Reddit hockey sub-reddit has lots of posts to keep a fan interested.  Here's one on "The Ten Ugliest Hockey Players of All-Time" and I'm proud to say I picked #1 before clicking the link!

Libraryland
"Libraries get a mall make-over" highlights a trend for locating public libraries in malls and I've gotta say, RPL has been on this trend for fifteen years when we first put a library in a local mall.  (Er, that date may not be exactly right.  I wasn't around then...)  Plus we're doing the co-locating thing all over the place - we've got one branch from the same era in a city facility that also has an indoor pool, we've just broken ground on a re-located branch that will become part of an inner-city community centre and another will be part of a shared facility that has a wide range of community organizations in it including public health, police, schools and more.   

Pace Cuteness
Let's see...this wasn't Pace directly but we thought it was funny when he came home with some art from daycare labeled "Paste" by a casual worker they had in that day.  We knew "Pace" was a fairly unique name but never expected it to be mis-heard like that!  This probably doesn't count as "cute" either but when we were heading out of town last weekend, Pace immediately recognized McDonald's, thought Superstore was Wal-Mart and today, saw a Domino's logo on top of a car and happily exclaimed, "Pizza delivery car."  His brand awareness probably provides way too much insight into the crap we do as consumers! 

Politics
I love this take-down of the Tea Baggers.  They don't get mad at some of the most outrageous acts in the history of their nation but try to offer people the ability to go to a doctor when they need to and look out!

Random Link(s) Somehow Relating to Popular Social Media Site
"What did it take you a surprisingly long time in life to figure out you were doing wrong?" and "Five Minute Lesson" - both from AskMetafilter seem somewhat related to me.
View Article  Google Lit Trips
Google Lit Trips is a pretty cool site where users can submit their own mash-ups combining Google Earth files with the places visited in famous novels.  Although it's aimed mostly at teachers looking to teach literature in a different way, this site can be enjoyed by any book lovers.

(via MetaFilter)
View Article  Friday Fun Link - Best of Bookstore Bingo: 13 Most Ridiculous Things Overheard in Bookstores (July 23, 2010)
Bookstore Bingo is apparently a new trend on Twitter where people post some of the silliest things they overhear at bookstores (and libraries?)  HuffPost has collected some of the best ones.
View Article  List of Social Networking Sites
How many do you belong to

A quick count indicates I'm probably on about twenty of them and maybe active on ten of those or so. 

There are probably some gaps - I'd call YouTube a social networking site and MetaFilter too.  Any site that allows you to create a profile and connect with other people on the same site fulfills a couple of the main criteria for "socialness" in my opinion which both of those sites do.

View Article  Update: Michael Geist Doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" on Friday
A few weeks back, I posted that Michael Geist was doing an "Ask Me Anything" thread on Reddit.  Here's a link to the actual questions that were asked and his answers
View Article  Friday Fun Link - Apple's Eight Steps to Beat Microsoft & Google
View Article  Michael Geist Doing a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" on Friday
Geist did the closing keynote at the recent CLA (I taped it with my iPhone but haven't decided whether to post it or not - copyright and all that, you know! ) and he's always got interesting things to say.  So having him come to Reddit for one of of their patented "Ask Me Anything" threads should be a good one! 
View Article  Top 40 Sites to Learn New Skills
I suspect there's probably also an Internet site dedicated to teaching people how to make lists of other sites as a way to generate Google AdSense revenue.
View Article  Betty White on SNL and Six Other Victories of the Internet That Influenced Pop Culture
Former Golden Girl and definitely not-the-typical Saturday Night Live host, Betty White actually *was* the host of last night's show, mainly because of an Internet campaign that started on Facebook.  Here's an article that details some other examples of Internet campaigns affecting pop culture
My web site dedicated to four great Canadian singer-songwriters (but currently only featuring guitar tab for two of them - Fred Eaglesmith and Hawksley Workman.)

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