Sean Wood

Web entrepreneur into creating successful business ideas for the social web. 

The CMO’s Guide to the Social Landscape

The CMO’s Guide to the Social Landscape (PDF; 455 KB)

2010 is the year CMOs will heavily invest in social media. Here’s a guide to help you understand how to best leverage major social media sites.

This chart from CMO.com includes Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, YouTube, digg, StumbleUpon, reddit, del.icio.us, Yahoo! Buzz.

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How to Start A Band

Me and my brother Ryan...

"You pick up your guitar, you rip a few people`s tunes off, you swap them around a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and then, and it sells."

Noel Gallagher

Filed under  //   music   quote  

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How-to write a decent Mission Statement

or "Why Bad Mission Statements happen to Good People"

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[video] Guy Walks Across America in 2 minutes

Stop motion video from New York to San Francisco. Here's a Google Map of his walk: http://bit.ly/brNULW

Filed under  //   america   video  

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[video] "How we Decide" #TED

Here is an interesting presentation from the TED Global conference about "How we Decide." Sheena Iyenga talks about her work in different areas of the world in regards to "Choice".

She makes a funny soda joke about how Coke is clearly better than Pepsi at around 10 minutes...

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"Spaghetti Harvest" Fake British News Story (1957)

So it turns out that people had a sense of humor 50 years ago.  Here's a classic news reel shown at this year's TED Global conference.

On April 1, 1957 the British television programme Panorama broadcast a three-minute segment about a bumper spaghetti harvest in southern Switzerland... The segment concluded with the assurance that, For those who love this dish, theres nothing like real, home-grown spaghetti.


BBC - Spaghetti Harvest - 1st April 1957

Filed under  //   comedy   ted  

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[film] Web 3.0

A documentary about how the semantic web will tame the wild, wild web. 

"Does the world make sense? Or do we make sense of the world?"

- Clay Shirky

Web 3.0 from Kate Ray on Vimeo.

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Infographic: U.S. Mood based on data from Twitter

This project from Northeastern University and Harvard University shows the daily happiness across the U.S.  Using the information from over 300 million tweets, this animated cartogram map shows the national mood variations based on time and geography.

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/twittermood/

Filed under  //   happiness   infographic   twitter  

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New Wonder Drug! #TED

This is an amazing scientific discovery...

 

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TED Global: Tuesday

TED Global

Wow - TED really kicked in today!  My brain is bursting open with new ideas and ways to improve.  Be sure to check out CNN's story about TED Global: "Is the world ready for good news?" http://edition.cnn.com/2010/OPINION/07/13/ted.good.news/index.html

Here is the list of TED Talks from today:

  • Joseph Nye
  • Sheryl WuDunn
  • Naif Al-Mutawa
  • Nic Marks
  • Patrick Chappatte
  • Matt Ridley
  • Steven Johnson
  • Chris Wild
  • Peter Molyneux
  • Annie Lennox
  • Diplomat
  • Women's rights advocate
  • Creator, The 99
  • Happiness researcher
  • Editorial cartoonist
  • Rational optimist
  • Writer
  • Retronaut
  • Game changer
  • Activist, singer-songwriter
  • I'll be posting tweets here: @SeanWood and here: @FreeworldMedia
    Snapshots will be posted here http://www.flickr.com/photos/freeworldmedia/

     

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