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         <title>John Battelle on Federated Media's CEO search </title>
         <description><![CDATA[From <a href="http://vator.tv/news/show/2009-07-06-john-battelle-on-federated-medias-ceo-search">Vator News</a>:
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         <title>Canada office says "Happy 4th" to the SF and NY crew</title>
         <description><![CDATA[And here's our friends up north wishing us all a happy 4th. And they got creative with the sparklers.

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         <title>NY and SF offices say "Happy Canada Day" to our friends up north</title>
         <description><![CDATA[A little-known FM fact is that we are an international organization. We have a few fine folks up in Canada doing important web ops work. So we all got together, dressed in red, to wish our friends up north a happy <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Day">Canada Day</a>!

<strong>FM San Francisco headquarters</strong>
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<strong>FM New York Office</strong>
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         <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 13:31:18 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Welcome, Melissa!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/Melissa Kent.png" width="150" height="160" alt="Melissa Kent.png" style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:5px;" />Melissa Kent joins Federated Media as an Account Executive in the New York office. Prior to joining FM, Melissa spent five years as a senior rep selling custom programs at Zagat Survey. As a Syracuse alum and a Jersey born Upper East Sider; Melissa loves trying new restaurants, reading, reality television and running with her dog Brooklyn. Melissa is a die-hard Yankees fan, and has been attempting to play golf for three summers. Welcome Melissa!</p>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:19:00 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Welcome, Emily!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px;"><img src="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/EGoligoski.jpg" width="162" height="170" alt="EGoligoski.jpg" style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:5px;" /></span>Emily Goligoski joins the San Francisco Federated Media office as Strategic Programs Manager. She previously worked as an interactive producer on HBO and PG&amp;E at Venables Bell &amp; Partners and most recently in Ogilvy PR's Digital Influence Group. A Northwestern grad, she enjoys volunteering, cycling and modern art. Welcome, Emily!</span></p>
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         <title>Welcome Anna!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><img src="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/Anna Eschenburg.jpg" width="175" height="160" alt="Anna Eschenburg.jpg" style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:5px;" />Prior to joining Federated Media as an Account Coordinator, Anna Eschenburg worked in a search marketing role at Coremetrics, an online analytics company. Originally from Seattle, Anna is a graduate of Santa Clara University and now resides in San Francisco. When she isn’t surfing the web she enjoys exploring San Francisco, going to concerts and is on a quest to finish 7x7’s List of 100 Things to Eat in San Francisco. Welcome to FM, Anna!</p>
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         <title>Announcing CinemaTweets. Vassup?!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Are you a movie buff? Then <a href="http://cinematweets.com/">CinemaTweets</a> is for you. Sponsored by the movie Bruno and the folks at Universal, CinemaTweets brings together the movie-related twittersphere in an easy-to-follow format. You can follow @BrunoVassup and get personally involved by tweeting to @cinematweets. Check it out and join the convo!

About <a href="http://cinematweets.com/about/">CinemaTweets</a>:
<blockquote>CinemaTweets, sponsored by Bruno and Universal Studios, taps in to what is hot and now in the world of movies. Be in-the-know about the latest releases, and chime in using Twitter. Let everyone know what you are watching!</blockquote>

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         <title>Video: John Battelle and Fred Wilson at CM Summit</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Here's more footage from the CM Summit. This is a great conversation between John Battelle and Fred Wilson. Full transcript is available at Fred Wilson's <a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2009/06/the-conversational-marketing-summit-interview.html">A VC</a>. They definitely think alike, but the matching outfits are purely coincidental. :)

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         <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:33:46 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>TGIFNF – Thank God It’s Friday Night Fights!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Are you a gamer? If so, head on over to Destructoid's <a href="http://fnf.destructoid.com/">Friday Night Fights</a> to join your brethren in a knock-down-drag-out tournament for bragging rights and gaming hardware.

<a href="http://fnf.destructoid.com/"><img alt="FNF.jpg" src="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/FNF.jpg" width="550"  class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;"/></a>

Intel, which powers the best hardware on the planet, and Destructoid, home to the most rabid gaming community on the Web, have come together to create <a href="http://fnf.destructoid.com/">Friday Night Fights</a>, an interactive online arena where gamers can go head-to-head in an all-out brawl for prizes and bragging rights.

Three 6-week Tournaments with multiple Gauntlets will soon commence with popular games like Left 4 Dead, Team Fortress 2, Quake Arena, and web-based games provided by Nitrome Limited.  Casual players can also get in the ring: Over 20 participation prizes will be awarded just for giving it your best. Best of all: There's no entry fee, so simply sharpen your wits and tighten your skills and get in the ring. It's going to be a hot summer, fall and holiday season!

What’s at stake? You’re precious ego, of course, but also $80,000 in Core i7 Extreme Processor-powered computers, games, and other prizes with top gear manufacture’s like CyberPower, Falcon Northwest, iBuyPower, Velocity Micro and more.
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         <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:00:32 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>CM Summit Videos Now Available</title>
         <description><![CDATA[You asked for them, now here they are. Check out some of the highlight videos from our CM Summit New York now available at the <a href="http://www.federatedmedia.net/events/cmsummit">CM Summit Homepage</a>. See below for John's opening remarks. Start about 6 minutes in to get to the good stuff.

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         <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:10:35 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>BMW Campaign "Best" in Facebook Marketing</title>
         <description><![CDATA[One of our favorite campaigns from the last year - <a href="http://www.federatedmedia.net/ourwork/bmw/">BMW's 1 Series Facebook campaign</a> - got the nod from Inside Facebook's recently published <a href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/15/introducing-inside-facebooks-best-worst-facebook-marketing-2009-report/">Best & Worst Facebook Marketing 2009 Report</a>. 

The campaign scored an "Excellent" across categories like Content, Interaction, Design, and etc. Thanks for kind words, Inside Facebook. The report is available for purchase <a href="http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/06/15/introducing-inside-facebooks-best-worst-facebook-marketing-2009-report/">here</a>. Give it a read. It's very informative as to what the most innovative brands are doing in social networking. 

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         <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:19:36 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Welcome, Kim!</title>
         <description><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><img src="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/Klitzius.jpg" width="136" height="125" alt="Klitzius.jpg" style="margin-right:5px; margin-bottom:5px;" /><span style="font-size: medium;">Kim Litzius comes to Federated Media with 5 years of advertising/marketing experience, most recently from Targetbase, a direct marketing agency. A Northern California native, she graduated from UC Davis with degrees in Communications and American Studies and loves living in San Francisco. In her time away from FM, she can be found brunching with friends, reading, traveling and exploring the city on her new bike. Kim joins FM as the Receptionist in our San Francisco office. Welcome Kim!</span></span></span></p>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:53:57 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>IAB Course Today - Taught by Neil Chase, VP at FM</title>
         <description><![CDATA[We're proud members of the IAB here at FM for many reasons, not least of which is their dedication to industry education. Today, our own Neil Chase is teaching a course on "Marketing with Social Media and Networks." Pete Spande taught <a href="http://blog.federatedmedia.net/archives/2009/03/iab-course-to-b.php">the last IAB course</a> back in March. If you're able to make it over to Hotel Nikko at 1:30, I'm sure you can still<a href="http://www.iab.net/events_training/summer09#marketing_with_social_media_and_networks"> register to attend</a>. 

From <a href="http://www.iab.net/events_training/summer09#marketing_with_social_media_and_networks">IAB</a>:

<blockquote>June 16 - Marketing with Social Media and Networks - Taught by experts from Federated Media
Social media and social networking applications are two of the fastest growing segments of the internet. This class will provide an overview of the major players in the space and successful strategies for leveraging these online communities for marketing purposes. Specifically, it will address:

    * Definition of social media and social networking
    * Ways to advertise on these popular properties
    * Custom apps for social networking sites
    * Other marketing approaches to social media
    * What doesn’t work — experiments that have gone awry

This class is intended for anyone working to understand the breadth of digital marketing opportunities available today through social media. Marketers, agency professionals and publishers will all benefit through learning the fundamentals of this channel in order to take the first steps towards executing and delivering social campaigns.</blockquote>]]></description>
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         <title>Top 5 Media Industry Roast Videos</title>
         <description><![CDATA[I've been watching these ingenious parody videos stack up for a while now. No matter what place you occupy in the media and advertising ecosystem (brand side, sales side, agency side, vendor, social media "guru," or other), there's something below for you. Do note, though, that some of this is most definitely NSFW...

<strong>Roasting the Latest Social Media Toy: "Twouble with Twitters"</strong>

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<strong>Digging into Media Sales: "The Truth in Ad Sales"</strong>

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<strong>Lampooning the Brand Folks: "Truth in Advertising"</strong>

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<strong>Tough Love for the Media Industry: "Mad Avenue Blues"</strong>

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<strong>Some Client Love: "The Vendor Client relationship - In Real World Situations"</strong>

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         <title>Interactive Advertising Responsible for $300 Billion of Economic Activity</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The IAB issued an extensive report yesterday entitled <a href="http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press_release_archive/press_release/pr-061009-value">Economic Value of the Advertising-Supported Internet Ecosystem</a>. It's a long piece (69 pages) so you may not want to read through the entire thing, but it's worth reading through the executive summary at the very least. It really gives you a sense of perspective on how far we've all come, and all we've accomplished, in the last 10-15 years. Makes you stop and think about the upheaval that is the internet. 

From the <a href="http://www.iab.net/about_the_iab/recent_press_releases/press_release_archive/press_release/pr-061009-value">IAB</a>:

<blockquote>In two decades the Internet has become central to social and economic life and is, today, a mature and integral element of the U. S. national economy. It is not only vital infrastructure, it is a spur to 
entrepreneurship and social change.  It has changed the way firms find customers, customers find 
information, and people manage social relationships. It contributes significant value to the U.S. 
economy by creating and maintaining jobs, facilitating the rapid flow of information, and generally 
enabling the growth and prosperity of businesses. The Internet is not just a resource for large 
corporations: it has created unprecedented opportunities for growth among small businesses and 
individual entrepreneurs.  </blockquote>]]></description>
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