Alexa Answers

Episode 280: Co-hosts BL Ochman and David Erickson discuss Amazon’s crowdsourcing of responses to Alexa users’ questions; Google’s Recover Together website of resources for addicts; Twitter’s new arrangeable photos feature; Google’s ‘original reporting’ algorithm designed to give more visibility to primary source, trustworthy journalism; WordPress’ purchase of Tumblr; the Zooniverse crowdsourcing network supporting science experiments; an example of a great follow-up PR pitch; the Attorneys General investigating Google; Ledo Pizza’s ill-advised 9/11 tweet; …and much, much more.

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Uh Oh Spaghettios! BIG Pearl Harbor Day Tweet BrouHaHa

Join B.L. Ochman, Albert Maruggi and David Erickson for The Beyond Social Media Show # 28, our live 1/2-hour Hangout on Air on Tuesday, Dec. 10 at 2 PM EST when we’ll discuss Spaghettio’s clueless Pearl harbor Day Tweet brouhaha. That’s the day the brand learned that what goes online, stays online. The Tweet spread…

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