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    Happy Social Media Day, everyone! Celebrate by giving us your input. Tell us: Which are your favorite social brands? Which brands do you Like on Facebook and which brands do you Follow on Twitter? If I may, I’ll share with you guys trends that I pay attention to in the social media world. [...]

To our friends in Seattle:  We invite you to come hear US Community Manager Josh Barnes speak at an upcoming event sponsored by the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) and American Photographic Artists (APA).  Josh will be part of a panel sharing tips and case studies for an discusion entitled “Making Social Media Work [...]

Vegas, baby! Zooppa is heading to Las Vegas to present at WOMMA’s “Next and Best Practices” Summit, November 17th through 19th – and we want YOU to join us! We’ve teamed up with WOMMA for a contest to promote the event and the grand prize for the best graphic print or video submission is a [...]

I read this interesting post at Sparxoo and thought I would share it with the Zooppa community. I’m always looking for ways to promote myself, and social media can be awesome. These tips may help YOU promote yourself! -Kirk Using LinkedIn & Twitter to Build a Digital Reputation by Sparxoo, a digital marketing and branding [...]

Greetings Zooppa Community! We just wanted to clarify something about the MP Gear contest that opened up on Zooppa last night. Initially, the brief called for video and print ads. Actually, the contest is for Video and Banner ads. We apologize to any one who was planning to submit a print ad to the competition. [...]

While not precisely about user-generated advertising, this video of NYU professor Clay Shirky’s recent talk at TED@state is essential viewing for anyone interested (as we assume you all are) in how the social media boom is changing the world. Titled “How cellphones, Twitter, Facebook can make history,” Shirky’s talk addresses, “… how Facebook, Twitter and [...]

Hyperbole aside, we thought you might be interested in this article by Gavin O’Malley of Mediapost. The article is a summary of a fascinating new study by social media research consultancy Trendstream and research firm Lightspeed. Summarizing the summary, the report shows that as many people are watching online video as watch any of the [...]

On the off chance any of you are looking for some reading material, here’s a couple of interesting articles about social media and marketing. In the first, Anna Maria Virzi of ClickZ considers the phenomenon of controlled spontaneity in viral marketing. The second concerns the release of the International Advertising Bureau’s list of best practices [...]

We’re happy to announce Earth Class Mail 2: The Step-By-Step Animation Award. In this competition we’re inviting all you Zooppers to submit your best ANIMATED instructional videos for Earth Class Mail. Put simply, Earth Class Mail’s online postal mail service is the future of paper mail. It’s so futuristic, in fact, that Earth Class needs [...]

Our congratulations to the winners in our competition with Earth Class Mail: The top prize went to Grenar for the video “Where the ??? is Bruno?”, holygabriel’s video “Forget Snail Mail, Use Earth Class Mail!” came in second, and “Earth Class Ivan” by StolenCarrots came in third. Thanks to all the Zooppers who submitted videos [...]