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Chris Brogan is a well-known name in the social media world through his prolific blogging and speaking, his involvement with organizations like Izea and now with the book he has co-authored, “Trust Agents.” On the eve of the launch of “Trust Agents”, blogger Leah Jones questioned Brogan’s trustworthiness after he accepted a consulting assignment from Sony, a client with which he first made contact at the…

Content summary: FIR Interview with Jeremiah Owyang posted; FIR Interview with Chris Brogan coming; the idea of doing an FIR Conference certainly has captured some imaginations; Dan York reports on SXSW panels, Twitter outages and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: Twitter and YouTube central to a climate change propaganda battle between the Camp for Climate…

Jeremiah Owyang stunned the social media world recently when he announced he would be leaving his job as a senior analyst at Forrester Research. For Immediate Release is pleased to offer this interview with Jeremiah in which he announces his new position as a full partner at Altimeter Group.

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Thanks to Jeremiah Owyang, we have a vision for an FIR Conference

More than once, Jeremiah has insisted he’d pay to attend an FIR conference that included Shel and Neville as speakers, along with correspondents like Dan York, Michael Netzley, Eric Schwartzman, Sallie Goetsch and David Phillips (and, who knows, maybe even Lee Hopkins)—depending on availability—along with FIR’s listeners, notably many of those who have…

Content summary: FIR Live #16 posted; Would you attend an FIR conference? Take the poll; Michael Netzley reports from Singapore with mobile stats from across SE Asia; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits: E-book on social media and recruitment law, Reverb PR hires interns to post fake reviews for at least one client, Pew survey says web…

Content Summary: A wide-ranging discussion on email marketing, beginning with commentary about Emailing in the Dark: What European Email Marketers Don???t Understand about Deliverability, a survey by email marketing firm Return Path published last month.

The panel discussion included commentary and opinion on effective email marketing techniques, addressing customer perceptions of spam, suggestions and advice on email marketing, and more.

Discussion participants…