The New Standard in Online Poker

If you haven’t noticed a trend by now, I’m sort of disappointed that the online poker industry has failed to really embrace the social media world. Much like AOL in the late 1990’s many online poker rooms are very inward focused. The internet outside of the software client doesn’t seem to exist. Sure, some poker …

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The Value of Free

I was just reading Kim Lund’s excellent post Why PokerRoom.com was five years ahead of its time and I couldn’t help pick up on one of the points he made about social media (which PokerRoom.com was trying to do years ago). Kim says: The reason I believe we were quite successful in this area with …

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Why Social Media is a Fail for Most Online Poker Sites

sme_bw2010_jay_baer_v1 from Michael A. Stelzner on Vimeo. I was watching this video and couldn’t help but think about all of the mistakes online poker companies make when approaching social media. Especially the part about just setting up a Facebook page and ticking that off on your list of things to do to become a social …

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