Manufacturer Nokia was perhaps the first brand to realize the astonishing new scale of technology inherent in mobile.

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Rock on, Lou for it IS completely unthinkable for a large company or brand or any brand for that matter to not realize the magnitude of being the voice of their brand in the Twittersphere.

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If we remember that brands are belief systems (created by a system of belief that includes creation story, creed, icons, rituals, a special lexicon, nonbelievers, and leader), then we realize why the Super Bowl has become a brand with a community of millions who surround the biggest event in American sports history.

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And do you realize just how much of an impact this is having on your personal brand?

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Perhaps marketers realize that more and more consumers are mostly interested in cost and are forgoing brand loyalty?

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However, what these brand-obsessed parents, foreign or domestic, still do not realize is that the curtain has been pulled back from the mystique of high-priced higher education.

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As she bounds through the grass with the Great Danes and the Bernese Mountain Dogs, I believe that there was never a dog so popular and well adjusted as mine (and yet realize at the same time that this is the height of my own particular brand of insanity).

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Just as brand marketers have figured out that they can engender loyalty with quality content, candidates and campaigns should realize they can educate voters in large numbers by getting their constituents to engage with valuable, interesting and persuasive content.

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