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Twitter Vote Report: An analysis

Twitter Vote Report: An analysis My colleague Ryan Jerz and I conducted a study after the 2008, which looked at the Twitter Vote Report. Read it here: http://twurl.nl/7edve8

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The Alternative Press story is told

The Alternative Press story is told

This month’s subscriber edition of Alternative Press Magazine is a photograph taken by Bob Conrad. Here’s the background story by the fine folks at...

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New Video: Firefighting sheep

The sheep are back grazing cheatgrass in the hills of Carson City, Nevada. Ann Bollinger from Carson City Parks and Open Space discusses the grazing project and how targeted grazing can be used to help manage invasive weeds and protect homes from wildfires. This is an example of government communications that takes advantage of social media opportunities, in this case,...

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Video: NAMM 2008

Bob took a trip to Anaheim his last weekend to blog live from the Winter 2008 NAMM Show. Namm is essentially the world’s largest music-manufacturers showcase. I spent most of the time in the drum hall (I’m a drummer), interviewed some of the independent drum manufacturers, got to meet one of my drumming idols, Steve Smith, and spent three days documenting the event with still...

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Client gets featured on Sacramento NPR

Client gets featured on Sacramento NPR

Our long-time friend and client, Sam Edwards (Eureka Productions), was recenly featured on Capital Public Radio discussing his new book, Watching the Sixties Go By on Greenwhich Village Time. Listen...

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Thanks Freakonomics and the New York Times

This site has been receiving some nice attention lately. The culprit is the brainiac over at Freakonomics blog on the New York Times Web site, who linked to an article we wrote more than a year ago about a researcher who studied beauty as a motivator for donating. The story received some nice media attention locally, when Bob was working at the University of Nevada, and 20/20 did a piece on...

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