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Six Apart invites you to attend an insightful social media event on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 at 6 pm GMT entitled The Marketing Benefits of Social Media.  Join us for an engaging online discussion between Lauren Kozak, Social Media Manager for Britney Spears and Chief Evangelist Anil Dash, as they discuss their experience managing social media for larger than life brands.  This online event is designed to address such questions as:- Why do I need to incorporate social media into my marketing strategy?- What role does advertising play in social media or -...

Impressive personal blog powered by Movable Type is Martenminkema.nl.The site is a great example of how you can totally alter the design and style of a website using MT's templating system.Along with classic thumbnail generation feature and some lightbox effects, you'll see also load of custom navigational content depending of the page context.You'll have to understand Dutch to appreciate fully the author's writings, radio and TV program-maker.Website has been built with the help of Mat Wijn and Ilja Hehenkamp....

If you don't know it already, pay a visit to Solar Aid, an independent charity aimed at helping the poorest communities in developing countries access solar power.They've built a nice website using MTOS 4.1 and enable readers to follow up on each project through dedicated blogs.Solar Aid was funded in 2006 and is a nice example at how charity can combine efficiently entrepreneurialism and innovation with the values of the charity sector.Check it out and don't hesitate to support them the best way you can....

We've just launched a new application for Movable Type : Motion.This free MT social application, in Beta for now, has the following key features :Rich microbloggingPost texts, links, videos, pictures in a simple clickAction streamsCollect and share actions from dozen of services (Flickr, Youtube, Twitter, Digg...)Easy sign in for commenters (OpenID, Google Connect, Facebook connect...)Half a billion web users can now comment your contents without any additional registrationEnhanced profiles for your membersAny registered member of your site can show their actions from across the webTo learn more on MT Motion...

Le Web '08, Europe's largest conference dedicated to the web industry, is fast approaching. Now in its fourth year, the event will feature such esteemed speakers as Paulo Coelho (award-winning author of The Alchemist), Nikesh Arora (Google UK), Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Chris deWolfe (MySpace), Dave Morin (Facebook), Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn) and many other luminaries hailing from the Internet industry and beyond.As a founding partner of Le Web, Six Apart is offering a discounted rate on tickets until 20 November. Standard rates range from €1,495 to €1,794; our special reduced price...

Six Apart and vpod.tv have teamed up to offer a simple but powerful online publication platform with built-in video streaming as an effective all-in-one solution for quality online broadcast. Thanks to a new plugin, users can upload and publish video content in a few clicks from within the Movable Type interface. Additionally, videos uploaded in this way can be kept completely private, setting it apart from other free video upload services.For more information on the Movable Type vpod.tv plugin, download the full press release here....

This week, President-elect Barack Obama made history. Regardless of one's political orientation, nobody can deny that his campaign was the best-executed, modern operation seen in recent years. Exit polls indicate that Obama accessed large numbers of young, first-time voters -- and his deployment of Web2.0 tools (including an iPhone application, a Facebook page, and of course, his Movable Type blog) was obviously a winning strategy.Incidentally, President George W. Bush also used Movable Type during his successful campaign for the US Presidency.To stay on top of the latest developments in...

Clotilde Dusoulier, the gastronome behind the wildly popular food blog Chocolate & Zucchini, will be at W.H. Smith on in Paris on 18 November to meet fans and sign copies of her latest book, Clotilde's Edible Adventures In Paris. Clotilde has been posting recipes, restaurant reviews and tantalizing photos of her creations on the Movable Type blog for years and we couldn't be more excited about her success. In the author's own words, Clotilde's Edible Adventures In Paris is "a book on Paris restaurants and food shops, in which I...

At TypePad, we've been working on a lot of applications that work across platforms like  TypePad AntiSpam, Blog It for Facebook and Blog It for iPhone. Now we're introducing Blog Link, an free application that - you guessed it - links your blog to the popular professional networking site, LinkedIn. Blog Link is a free, easy-to-use application that displays a feed of your latest blog posts on your profile, so you can share your thoughts across your LinkedIn network. Of course, the application works in both directions; that is, you...

"When you don't know where else to invest, you invest in yourself."Six Apart CEO Chris Alden was interviewed by Portfolio.com's Tech Observer on how the economic crisis will affect the blogging industry....