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The following are some of the recent stories and articles written about crayon. If you are interested in speaking with us, please contact Greg Verdino at greg at crayonville dot com.

ADWEEK: Silence is Golden – Why talking back is not always a brand’s best bet (5.04)

In this new “enlightened” era of joining the conversation, it appears that the ship has set sail once and for all on the debate as to whether or not brands should participate in online conversations.

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Top Rank Online Marketing Blog: 25 Must Read Social Media Marketing Tips (4.27)

The benefit from a firm grasp of social media for companies is impossible to ignore. Whether you work in marketing, advertising, public relations or interactive, there are distinct competitive advantages for both individuals and businesses from a better understanding of the social web.

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NPR: YouTube turning on to TV shows (4.09)

YouTube, the video-sharing Web site owned by Google, has launched a new section called “Shows.” You can watch hundreds of movies and thousands of TV episodes for free. But before you get to Hillbilly Jed Clampett, you’ll have to sit through a commercial for Cabot cheese.

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ABCNews: Domino’s Employee Video Taints Food and Brand (4.09)

When videos of employees violating a host of public health laws hit the Internet and went viral, Domino’s Pizza knew it was facing a public relations crisis capable of damaging its well-known and well-regarded brand in a matter of days.

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ADWEEK: Journey to Success – In today’s digital landscape, a Web site is just a means to an end (4.09)

Here’s a question I’ve been thinking a lot about: What kind of future do Web sites have? In the current environment, most brands still struggle to understand the basics of digital. Do you think the majority of brands value their online storefront on a par with their physical stores? Fat chance.

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Tweeting with tweople: Twitter spawns new vocabulary (4.09)

The microblogging service has spawned a vocabulary all its own, with words such as tweople (Twitter-speak for people), twirting (flirting) and tweeps (friends) showing up in tweets (posts, which must be under 140 characters).

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The Denver Egoist – The Agency That’s Not An Agency (4.09)

We love the crayon website because they embrace what they sell. The home page features the crayon lifestream. Anything and everything that’s happening in the the crayon team’s world. Tweets, photos, videos, blog posts. It’s all streamed in real time from each of the crayonista’s feeds. It’s an agency that’s not an agency, and a site that’s not a site, from a place that’s well…not in any one place.

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Quigley, Havens & Verdino get social – podcast (3.09)

Yesterday, Jane Quigley and I spent some time chatting with John C. Havens about everything from mobile social software and charitable causes to SXSW coolness. That conversation aired live on Blog Talk Radio, courtesy of PepsiCo, and you can listen to it on-demand whenever you have the time.

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Work Styles of the Virtual Age (6.08)

The new Spring 2008 issue of ECIFFO explores the “next workscape,” looking at some of the ways companies are embracing new technologies to change the way their employees get business done, and it features an interview with Greg Verdino of crayon. Verdino talks to ECIFFO about crayon and how they use a variety of new technologies to operate as a virtual company.

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WSJ - Marketers Seek a Banner-Blindness Cure (6.07)

Pity the poor banner ad. Cutting-edge just a few years ago, this pioneer of Web advertising is now scorned as hopelessly out-of-date, a neglected stepchild in an era of Web video, widgets, mash-ups and social networking.

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Brands Tap Web Elite for Advertorial 2.0 (1.09)

Among the hundreds of journalists at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week there are five people producing reams of copy, photos and video about the show, new product demos and press conferences. Unlike the reporters, though, they are popular bloggers in Las Vegas courtesy of Panasonic.

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Postcards from Second Life: Crayon’s Virtual Branding Event (6.07)

Yesterday, a few of us gathered around my computer and watched as my avatar made his way through SL to the Crayonville Amphitheater- virtual home to new marketing firm Crayon which was hosting a panel on Marketing in Virtual Worlds.

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