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Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought - Onion Talks - Ep. 6

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The world's most successful companies know that social media is a powerful marketing tool, and Cameron Hughes knows how to make social marketing even more effective: by never injecting an ounce of effort into it.

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Feb 07, 2022 · codeulike on What Was the Ted Talk?
This one is a masterpiece:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY

To survive in the new internet economy, you need to come up with a new service or product that people will want. Not likely, right?

Using your brain to think of an idea, and your skills to implement it: Thats the old model.

This reminds me of the Onion Talks episode, "Using Social Media To Cover For Lack Of Original Thought"[0].

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY

If you haven't seen them, make sure to check out The Onion's TED parodies - Onion Talks:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4NL9i-Fu15hhYGB-d0hmS...

They may be the funniest thing The Onion has ever done.

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Edit: of particular interest to the HN crowd would be their takedown of the "Idea Guy":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q

and the "Social Media Consultant":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK62I-4cuSY

Dec 08, 2012 · freshhawk on All the TED Talks
I think the social media Onion talk (http://youtu.be/CK62I-4cuSY) is the most relevant to HN (and my favourite).

You are definitely not the only one who's BS detector was going off. I find that TED has about the same number of good talks per year as it used to. And about 10 times more talks per year than it used to. That's not even counting the cesspool that TEDx has become.

Nov 22, 2012 · 1 points, 0 comments · submitted by CrazedGeek
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