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Reader’s Question: What Makes a Blog Post Go Viral?

Paul Shapiro — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:20:47 +0000

I received the following email from a reader in response to my previous post, Jonah Peretti, Founder of BuzzFeed—What Makes Something Go Viral?: Hi Paul, Stumbled on your blog via google. Pretty cool stuff you write about! I have a quick question about your article about stuff going viral! Have you found anything about how […]

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Jonah Peretti, Founder of BuzzFeed—What Makes Something Go Viral?

Paul Shapiro — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 01:33:00 +0000

Jonah Peretti is the founder of BuzzFeed and a co-founder of The Huffington Post. He does an excellent job in the video above (a part of an interview series produced by mediabistroTV) discussing viral content, what it is, and what it is exactly that makes something go viral. First, distinguish between what viral content is […]

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Viral Effect of Greg Smith’s Goldman Sachs Resignation Letter

Paul Shapiro — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:55:18 +0000

Goldman Sachs executive Greg Smith publicly resigned from his position at the company last week with a blistering diatribe published as a New York Times Op-Ed piece. The piece quickly went viral as it was posted across the various social networks. Goldman Sachs, being one of the world’s largest and most recognized investment-banking firms, was […]

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Kony 2012: Invisible Children Gone Viral

Paul Shapiro — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 20:22:05 +0000

On February 20th, 2012 the charitable organization Invisible Children launched a campaign with the release of a 30-minute Internet video on Vimeo entitled “Kony 2012”. The video was released to gain awareness of the many crimes committed by Joseph Kony, the leader of an international (although the video focuses primarily on Uganda) guerilla group by […]

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