Is Mashable taking the same road as TechCrunch?

Late Sunday night after the third (but prettiest) day of SXSWi, after I escaped the madness of downtown Austin, I was going through my regular daily news. I checked LinkedIn Today (an awesome news source if you’re on LinkedIn a lot) and found an article by Reuters saying that CNN was going to buy Mashable for a reported 200 million bucks! Mashable is my absolute favorite news source for any and all things social media. I follow Pete Cashmore (the founder) and all of the Mashable Pages on

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#11 Harrison Painter on Social Media Importance - Part 1 | Social Media Roundup for March 11

Harrison Painter, from BLASTmedia, joins us this episode to chat about the importance of social media. Harrison is known as the "Love It" guy and his passion shows on his blog/podcast at http://coffeewithharrison.com

In this episode we talked about:

The Importance of Social Media
The Negativity on Social Media channels
What if social media never

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Hannah's Informational Helpful Kitchen

Hannah's Informational Helpful Kitchen: Check out this video submission for the Ben's Beginners Cooking Contest. Vote from 9:00am PST 2/27 - 11:59pm PST 3/11 to help them win $20,000 and more. Let's get kids cooking!

Learning from Starbucks on Pinterest

Pinterest is taking the world by storm. Most of us have seen the the massive influx of posts from our friends on Facebook “Sam Jones posted That’s funny and 138 others to Pinteret.” Because of this new Pinterest obsession, internet marketers have been trying to figure out how to jump in and use Pinterest to their advantage.


As an avid Pinner, I have seen a few marketers stand out over the others. Starbucks in particular. If you’re on Pinterest (i.e. any female in America right

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Introducing Jessica Martinez - The Social Media Queen of Texas!

Why, hello there! My name is Jessica Michelle Martinez and today is my first official day with Posse Social Media. There are not words to describe how excited I am to begin this social media journey. The first thing on my to do list is to introduce myself and let you all know a little bit about me.

I am an Austin, Texas native and returned here after attending Texas A&M University for four very long years. I am currently interning and completing my degree in Technology Management with

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#10 Olivier Blanchard on Social Media Goals - Part 5 | Social Media Roundup for March 4

Listen in to this final part of the interview Posse Social Media had with Olivier Blanchard, of Brand Builder Marketing, surrounding creating goals to overcome current obstacles in your business. Olivier has consulted with Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, and is an internationally recognized speaker and author of the book 'Social Media ROI'.

In this episode we talked about:

Why having a social media strategy may be wrong
Social Media is an opportunity engine
Why Comcast is

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Your Basic Short Hand Guide For Twitter

Recently I was at a local networking event and I was having a casual conversation with two of our current customers when the conversation switched to Twitter. Each was jokingly asking about the difference between a the @symbol and the #hashtag, when to use it when not to use it etc. Now we've covered these both in previous posts so I will not go over that again here. However, what was striking to me was the fact that a true the lack of knowledge still surrounds one of the most vital social

Twitter Short Hand Guide, Twitter,