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Free flights to hit quota just an idea (Altoona Mirror) MARTINSBURG - The idea of offering free flights from the Altoona-Blair County Airport sounds too good to be true. At this point, it probably is. Free flights in December are only an idea and they may not be affordable for the airport, Manager Chuck Pillar said. Junk food ads hard to defend, inquiry told (ABC via Yahoo!7 News) The Australian Psychological Society has told a Senate inquiry there is almost no justification for continuing to allow junk food advertising to be directly aimed at children. Dear Facebook: Don't Forget the Marketers (Mashable) Alisa Leonard-Hansen is a Senior Social Media Analyst within the strategy group at iCrossing. She can also be found blogging at both the iCrossing Great Finds blog and her own blog, The Web is Social.com . With speculation around how you should monetize mostly a topic of conversation within the tech community, it always surprises me that a marketing perspective isn't thrown into the mix. ... Social Media for Hotels…What You Can Do in This Economy | TripAdvisor…The Best Thing since Peanuts | By: Neil Salerno (Hospitality Net) Just a few months ago, there were endless articles proclaiming that social media would revolutionize hotel marketing on the Internet. Well, that hasn't happened. The very thought of having the ability to communicate, one-on-one, with millions of consumers made many hotel marketers drool with anticipation. I'm sure this was met by equal excitement from the social media community; just think about ... The end of instant messaging (as we know it) (MSNBC) Those chat boxes once commonplace on a computer desktop amid documents, Web browsers, and spreadsheets are giving way to a new breed of user-friendly, real-time conversation tools that Internet companies hope will keep users engaged with their content - and the advertising that appears alongside it. Facebook app verification smells like open source (CNET) Social network's Application Verification Program seems to be following the model of foraging for dollars by implying that the community product isn't up to snuff. The end of instant messaging (as we know it) (KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches) Those pop-up chat boxes are giving way to a new raft of tools that help Web surfers communicate in real time. 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers (New York Press) "How come you guys are such haters?" someone asked us recently. Shocked and insulted, we shook our heads. Our biggest issue thus far-last September's Best of Manhattan issue-was a compendium of positivity. On any given week we're founts of compassion: lovers, not haters; uniters, not dividers. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Announces Grant Recipients for $18 Million Dollar Initiative to Prevent Intimate ... (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance) wide approach to build healthy relationships and prevent teen dating violence and abuse Comments, corrections, clarifications, and c*ckups (Crikey) ABC Learning ... The Howard Years ... the global financial crisis ...
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