The Clash of Social Media Titans: The Ultimate Winner Is You And Your Business!

As many of you know, and many including myself had been predicting, there’s now a rapidly brewing battle going on between the social media titans. According to the WSJ, Google has tweaked their search to favor those more active on their Google+ pages than other social networking site – Facebook, Twitter Call Out Google On Social Search Results.

Needless to say, the change has obviously pissed off the engineers working for Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. While many of the heavyweights and their users are having to work real hard, the ultimate winner is you, the awesome users – especially those of you actively using the Q&A feature on awesomize.me – most of your pages on awesomize.me are now popping up ahead of your Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter pages when searched for on Google.  Just Google yourself and check it out. The main reasons for this are, unlike Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, Read more of this post

Angelina Jolie Promotes Her New Film ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’ in Washington DC


Wearing her vintage dress from The Way We Wore, Angelina Jolie attend the “In the Land of Blood and Honey” premiere at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC yesterday.

And, of course Brad was also here in town to make sure Angela doesn’t see me :(

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Awesome Sunset and Sunrise Photos of Washington, DC

Photos by: Angela Pan, Jack Toomey, Kelly Romanski Baldassarri, Denis Chazelle, Havre de Grace, Geoff Chester, Candice Barnhart,India Franklin, Chris Scott, Carmen Andres, @maduswx, @galendc, and @modestproposal

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The Most Awesome People, Company, Product, Service, and Question Categories in December of 2011

Here are the most popular and awesome peoplecompany, productservice, and question categories searched and viewed on awesomize.me in the month of December 2011 on awesomize.me. You may click on each link to see the top people, companies, products, services, and questions awesomzied by the community for each category.

Top 5 Awesome People Categories in Dec of 2011:

1.  Social media
2.  Internet & Web
3.  Education
4.  Media: Online
5. Fashion

Top 5 Awesome Company Categories in Dec of 2011:

1. Social media
2. Internet & Web
3. Telecommunications
4. Travel & Tourism
5. PR & Marketing

Top 5 Awesome Product Categories in Dec of 2011:

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The First Awesomized of the Year 2012!

Here is the list of the first person,  company, product, service, and question of the year 2012 that were awesomized on awesomize.me! believe it or not At&t made it in the list :-)

First Person: Lynni Megginson

First Company: LivePerson

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80 Social Media And Content Marketing Predictions: 12 Scream of awesomize.me Business Model

Content marketing institute  just released a list of  interesting predictions by 80 different  social & digital media gurus with the focus on  the relationship between brand and content, the evolution of blogging, the future of Google’s influence, content marketing and distribution. Read more of this post

Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez in Washington DC [PHOTOS]

Justin Bieber was in Washington D.C. for performance for the Christmas at the White House. During his stay, he also visited kids in need in the Children’s National Medical Center.  Here are some photos… One of the photos shows he was really enjoying Selena Gomez ;-) Read more of this post

Branding: Search VS. Social? How About Search AND Social?

With the rapid emergence and adoption of social media as a marketing tool, today’s marketers have been spending a significant amount of their time leveraging social media channels with customer interaction, collaboration, and idea generation being the main incentives for them to jump on such the social media bandwagon.

Despite all that, search engines are still the king when it comes to online marketing for the following reasons: Read more of this post

Washington, D.C. kicks Ass! Not Quite Yet!

Although the three recent studies/charts below  shows our city as the richest, the best-educated, and  fastest growing than any other U.S. state at three times the national average, but as I’ve always been bitching, this is due to a large number of government milking type of businesses in DC Metro.

Once, I see more innovators in DC area, then I truly feel proud of these charts! Till then,  I hate to say it, but Washington DC is mainly the beneficiary of having more Federal employees and government contractors  than any other city in the  nation.  Read more of this post

DC Technology Business Innovation recommendations – Presentation Transcript

The pretty one is me, Jamey is the other one

A few month after Vincent Gray, our new mayor was elected last year,  one of the most awesome Washingtonian entrepreneurs, Jamey Harvey, founder of the DC based startup, Sponto and Marullus Williams, President and CEO of Limbic Systems, the DC based IT solution provider led a group of civic minded, entrepreneurial technologists and investors in a conversation about what we could do to make DC more awesome for Startups. The group included Peter Corbett, Jonathan Aberman, Doug Humphrey, Susan Banta, Julie Silard Kantor, Adam Rubinson, Wolf Ruzicka, Dutch Dunham and me, the awesomizer.

The mayor has declared this to be the technology startup month and he’s hosting a group of tech CEO’s soon to continue this conversation face-to-face.

Thanks to Jamey who put this slide together, here is the summary of what we did. Feel free to share it with those in your network. Read more of this post

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