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A continuation from yesterday’s conversation about storytelling.

“What did you mean by the life raft remark?”

“I meant that as society continues to transition from trust in institutions to trust in processes, stories can be the vehicle that helps a company through that transition.”

“So, stories would be more aligned with processes?”

“Absolutely.”

“Where would we start?”

“At the beginning.”

“Wise ass. I’m serious.”

“I’m sorry, couldn’t resist. I know that you are. There are a number of places that you can start. Just as there are a number of stories that you can tell. If it was your call, and not the boys down the big corporate corridor, which story would you tell?”

“I’m not sure. I’d like for us to tell our corporate story but you mentioned that there are a number of stories that we can tell. I guess that means brand stories as well huh?”

“Sure, brands are always a good platform for stories.”

“What are some of the others?”

“Well, there are employee stories, industry stories, customer stories, shareholder stories, event stories, corporate social responsibility stories, and more.”

“Yes, I’ve overheard you talking about some of those.”

“Listening in huh?”

“I hope you don’t mind.”

“Not at all. I’m flattered. Tell you what, why don’t try this exercise? Instead of thinking about the stories from your side of things, or the company’s side of things, why don’t you put yourself in your customer’s shoes and think about the kind of story you’d like hear, to be a part of? Next time we’re on the treadmills we can talk about that.”

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  Source: A Storied Career
  I was reading a blog entry by Corey Harlock directed at recruiters when this sentence stopped me dead in my tracks:

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• How Technology Has Changed Creativity in the Ad Business
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  Source: Direct Creative Blog
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• Social media advertising comes of age, gets regulated
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  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
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• Putting Marketing on "ROIDs" Part 2: Responsibility Marketing
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  Source: ReadWriteWeb
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  Source: Altitude Branding
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  Source: KevinMD.com
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  Source: Dumb Little Man – Tips for Life
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I have been getting into some of the most interesting discussions about stories and storytelling during my morning workouts at the gym lately. Some revolve around personal stories and some revolve around business and corporate stories. I thought that I’d start to write about some of them and see where we go and what happens with them.

This first one happened this morning as I was finishing up my workout on the aerobic deck. A friend who works for a pretty good sized corporation climbed on the stair climber next to me. On previous occasions, when we’ve both gotten on an aerobic machine at about the same time, we have had some good conversations about stories and storytelling in the corporate world. We exchanged pleasantries as he was getting going and as I was wiping down the machine I had beaten into submission (yeah, sure).

As I was saying goodbye and wishing him a good day, he blurted out “Storytelling just isn’t part of our DNA!”

Don’t you just love corporate speak? But I left that alone and asked, “Are you bragging? Complaining? Or, doing something altogether different?”

“Complaining I guess,” he said. “We wouldn’t know a good story if it jumped up and bit us in the ass.”

There’s a lot of that going around I thought but instead said, “That could very well be, but what does that have to do with your DNA?”

“We don’t know how to tell stories.”

“Of course you do. Everyone does. You do it all day long. It’s how we all make sense of our world.”

“I get that”, he said, “but from a corporate, company wide standpoint, we don’t know how. Or maybe it’s that we don’t know why we should.”

“Maybe you should because they make great life rafts when the corporate ship is sinking?”

“That’s not funny.”

“Wasn’t meant to be. Think about it a bit, take two aspirin and we’ll talk about it some more tomorrow morning.”

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• Story Takes Center Stage at Oscars
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  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: The Future Buzz
  This week, I’m in Las Vegas giving the opening presentation of MarTech at the LeadingRe Annual Conference and speaking on two other panels during the general sessions. They’ve prepared an exciting lineup…
• Mediagazer is to Media as Techmeme is to Tech (Gabe Rivera/Techmeme News)
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Techmeme
  Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News:
  Mediagazer is to Media as Techmeme is to Tech — Today were launching our first new news vertical in almost four years: Mediagazer, which will focus on the content production…
• Health Care of the Future
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  If ever a field needed a makeover, its medicine. Chaotic, expensive, inefficient, and often ineffective, health care is dying for innovation. Theres no shortage of clever ideas, but, as we will be discussing o…
• Business Insider’s Dirty SEO Tactics
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  One of my favorite sites that I read daily is Business Insider, a site which meshes together technology news with business and finance news, combining all of my favorite topics. On occasion we are …
• Apple's "iKey" Wants To Unlock All Doors
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Slashdot: Apple
  Pickens writes “The Telegraph reports that Apple is developing technology, already being nicknamed the ‘iKey,’ which will allow users to gain access to their office and unlock their car or front door with a sin…
• What Defines Social CRM?
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  I don’t think you can call a new solution “Social CRM” until you are connecting new social data sources to the sales data of your customers. CRM is about operationalization and efficiency. And ultim…
• Data Shows: Articles Published on the Weekend are Shared on Facebook More
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Dan Zarrella
  When I started posting my new series of Facebook data points, one of the most requested graphs was the days of the week (and times of day, which is coming soon) that are best to publish on to get lots of Facebo…
• What brands can do to take advantage of video chat – the new big thing – http://bit.ly/cy09pC (via…
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  What brands can do to take advantage of video chat – the new big thing – http://bit.ly/cy09pC (via @adage)
• 10 Newbie Twitter Mistakes Made By Businesses
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  Businesses jumping into social media often see Twitter as a “simple” part of the plan: set up an account and start tweeting. Sadly some even get stuck right after the set up part. Here are 10 mistakes…
• Database of Intentions Chart – Version 2, Updated for Commerce
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: John Battelle's Searchblog
  There are many, many signals in the Database of Intentions, as my readers have pointed out, but the one I feel compelled to add to the chart I created Friday is the Commerce signal. This signal emerged before s…
• Tumblr Hits Major Milestones, Plans to Start Generating Revenue
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Tumblr, one of the simplest blogging platforms around, is doing really well. Situated between WordPress, which requires a bit more effort to create and organize content, and Twitter, which requires almost no e…
• Style: Three Guidelines
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Written Wings
  The first chapter of Style talks about how similar writing and conversation are. I won’t bore you with the comparisons; they’re overly complicated to try to get a simple point across. Instead, I’ll skip t…
• The Five Marks of Authentic Leadership
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Michael Hyatt’s Blog
  Many people have written on what it means to be a leader. Almost everyone identifies influence as the primary characteristic. By definition, this means that leadership and position are two different things. You…
• The Future of Windows
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  In 1985, almost all PCs sat on desktops, the Internet was a Defense Department research project, and the cell phone revolution had barely gotten underway. It was also the year that Microsoft launched a DOS fron…
• You rock
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  This is deceptive.You don’t rock all the time. No one does. No one is a rock star, superstar, world-changing artist all the time. In fact, it’s a self-defeating goal. You can’t do it.No, but you might rock five…
• TEDxNYed: This is bullshit
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: BuzzMachine
  Here are my notes for my talk to the TEDxNYed gathering this past weekend. I used the opportunity of a TED event to question the TED format, especially in relation to education, where — as in media — we mus…
• Social Media Policies Superlist
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Interactive Insights Group
  Feel like it’s time for your company to put together some social media guidelines but not sure where to start?
  Want to see what other companies are doing in this area? Need some tips on wha…
• Make What you Offer Customers Stand out
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  In their minds and get word of mouth for your business.

  Trust is fragile. In a recent post about the intangible art of trust at American Express OPEN, Matthew May cited consumer behaviorist Ernest Dich…

• Facebook on the clock: Businesses grapple with social media use at work
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  The other potential land mine comes with using Facebook or other social media to screen potential hires. Looking up an applicant’s profile could be grounds …
• Evolving the Social Media Marketing Ecosystem
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: davefleet.com
  In January this year I put forward my thoughts on the social media marketing ecosystem in which we operate in 2010. It looked like this:

  While this relatively complex model is great to help sh…

• 6 Popular Ways to Waste Marketing Dollars
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: pat mcgraw: marketing optimization
  I was having coffee with a business owner last week and he asked me an interesting question – he asked to to share what I thought were the 3 most common mistakes made by businesses when it co…
• 10 Steps for Optimizing the Brand for Social Search
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Brian Solis
  Facebook recently overtook Yahoo as the second most visited site in the United States. And in doing so, Facebook along with other social networks set the stage for a confluence of social and search that fundam…
• Spin Citi
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Ad Contrarian
• The End of The Trust Agent?
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: {grow}
  It’s uncommon to see much written about individual personalities on the social web — in fact it’s taboo. However, it’s important to occasionally look at Chris Brogan as a living social media business…
• Self proclaimed social media gurus? The very idea of it
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  And clearly there must be a need for women to have their own social media organisation. Sexist phallocentric oppresssors like Heather Ann Snodgrass and …
• What if the iPad doesn't sell?
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  If Apple was in the business of making movies, the iPad would arguably
  be its biggest bet yet. So it’s fitting that Apple used Hollywood’s
  biggest night to let consumers know that the iPad will be ‘in theatres’…
• Five common SEO mistakes made by e-commerce sites
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Parts
  of the search engine optimisation work e-commerce sites undertake
  require a certain level of technical understanding which is where SEO
  consultants can shine. Other parts need some common sense and an eye…
• Lisa Cruz column: Social media offers many ways to market brand
  Published: March 8, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  If you haven’t heard or tried the latest social media geo-location platform for yourself, read on. The latest social media craze includes signing up on …
• Facebook Ads: “Keywords” Will Change to “Likes and Interests” This Week
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: All Facebook
  Facebook is making a small but profound change to Facebook Ads: “Keywords” will now be known as “Likes and Interests.” The change will be visible in the Facebook Ads interface starting the week of Marc…

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• 7 Great Tips for Marketing Your Business Using a Facebook Fan Page
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: StartupNation Blog
  Mashable.com recently announced that Facebook results will be integrated into real time search results on Google. This means that having a Facebook Fan page can become a huge opportunity for business owners…
• How to Create a KILLER Landing Page
  Published: February 17, 2010
  Source: StartupNation Blog
  Understanding how to build an effective landing page is extremely important. Most people send their visitors to their home pages, but this is usually not a good idea. Why?

  Not all your visitors are the same. I…

• 13 Steps to Building a Consumer Insights Factory
  Published: February 16, 2010
  Source: StartupNation Blog
  The more you understand about your consumers, the more effectively you will be able to provide them with products and services that delight them. This is better for them. It’s better for you. It’s a Win-Win…
• Tableau Public Brings Your Boring Data to Life [Downloads]
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Windows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where users can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates.The vid…
• Deliver a Better Presentation by Reminding Yourself It’s Not About You [Mind Hacks]
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  We all give presentations in our work and lives, whether it’s a one-on-one meeting with your boss or a lecture to a room full of people. Psychology Today offers a great guide to giving a successful presentation…
• Nice-looking infographic & useful stats on what people are buying online v in store -…
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  Nice-looking infographic useful stats on what people are buying online v in store – http://img.ly/ATS
• Comprehensive article explaining some design principles for social augmented experiences -…
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  Comprehensive article explaining some design principles for social augmented experiences – http://bit.ly/b6BLOk (via @uxmatters)
• The CMO’s Guide To The Social Landscape – Cheat Sheet – http://bit.ly/b1hX1a (via @shareables)
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  The CMO’s Guide To The Social Landscape – Cheat Sheet – http://bit.ly/b1hX1a (via @shareables)
• 6 Hilarious print ads
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Sure the print media might be in various degrees of decline but that hasn’t stop some hilarious ads being created. These six are the one’s that touched my funny bone the most out of a larger collection at…
• Apple’s New Stance On ‘Cookie Cutter’ Apps: Add More Features Or Perish
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” application…
• The Rise Of Transactional Advertising
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  This guest post is authored by Alex Rampell, the founder and CEO of TrialPay. This is a follow on to an earlier article “The End Of Brand Advertising,” where Rampell argues that the collision of online and…
• 5 Ways to Use Twitter to Avoid a Backchannel Disaster
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Cliff Atkinson is author of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (New Riders, 2009).What do you do when you’re giving a presentation, and notic…
• The New Court of Public Opinion
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Altitude Branding
  There’s an interesting characteristic of the online world that makes things sticky sometimes.
  We can get opinions from anywhere.
  The ubiquity of information means that not only can we comment or opine on any…
• Candid Camera: Watch What You Say In Public
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  A couple weeks ago I went down to Miami for Future of Web Apps (FOWA). It was a great event and I highly recommend it to web developers and entrepreneurs. I did a keynote talk and the next day I did a three and…
• 8 Great Spotify Hints, Tips and Tricks
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  We’ve already brought you a how-to guide to get started with Spotify (read that first if you don’t know what it is), but now we’re delving a little deeper into the music streaming software with a look at…
• Gartenberg: Android’s significant fragmentation could destroy Google’s platform ambitions
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: MacDailyNews
  If Google fails to address the fragmentation issue immediately, it will find that Android suffers the same fate as Linux on the desktop…

• How to Use Editorial Calendars for Your Blog
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Business Blogging – How to Build A Better Blog
  One of the challenges for business bloggers that I constantly hear about is the never-ending need for fresh, relevant and timely content ideas to keep one’s audience engaged. I’ve covered this in depth over the…
• Be direct, emphatic and don’t equivocate
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Writelife
  I’m reading Seth Godin’s most recent book, Linchpin, and I was thinking today about how he writes. In this book, his style is a bit different than in the past, though if you’ve read some of his other book…
• Health Reform Could Harm Medicaid Patients
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Health Care Blog
  By EDWARD MILLER, MD Dr. Miller is the Dean and CEO of The Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million mo…
• Last Helicopter Out of Saigon!
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Health Care Blog
  By JEFF GOLDSMITH In popular psychiatry, a classic passive aggressive gambit is “malicious compliance”- intentionally inflicting harm on someone by strictly following a directive, even though the person kno…
• Jack Nicholson’s Raccoon Relief
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Jack Nicholson made his friends urinate in his garden.
  The Oscar-winning actor was showing a group of male pals around his Hollywood Hills home when he asked them to make sure they relieve themselves outside,…
• A Writer’s Misadventures in Writing
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: All articles at Blogcritics
  A writer grapples with the ups and downs of her craft.

• My Love for Blogging
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  Blogging is such an opportunity. I’m sad to see people abandoning the chance to express, to connect, to build relationships. For me, the love of blogging (and what it means to me) is why I’ve been in the ga…
• The Private Nature of Public Relations
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  To do public relations well you need to have a critical mind — to develop compelling content. You need to be able to see fresh angles and points of view in a company, product, or service story so that be…
• The Evolving Concept of Retirement
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Roger Nusbaum submits: Friday I mentioned an article on Seeking Alpha where some of the comments seemed to be taking to heart some of the same things I’ve been writing about in terms of how the concept of retir…
• SeaWorld uses social media to react quickly to a major crisis
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  I contend that is in large part due to its social media efforts. Minutes after the traumatic drowning death of Dawn Brancheau, the story quickly spread …
• Posting problems | Social Web sites create issues for employers, employees
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  This brave new world is raising a host of concerns for employers, who want to tap into the power of social media to connect with customers and clients, …
• Create a policy for social media
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  Question: I am concerned about potential problems for my business from use by my employees of social media such as Facebook and My-Space. What should I do? …
• CHARTS OF THE WEEK: Google Chrome Is Eating Microsoft’s Lunch (GOOG, MSFT)
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Click here to view all the Charts as a slideshow →
  Or pick individually:

  Fact-Checking And Copy-Editing Don’t Happen As Much On The Web
  Google Chrome Is Eating Microsoft’s Lunch
  Googlers Still Vastly Ou…

• How Colleges Are Buying Respect
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: BusinessWeek.com –
  For-profit education companies are scooping up small schools to gain accreditation—and the financial aid dollars that come with it
• Underemployed Not Hopeful
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Michael Panzner submits: As with Friday’s unemployment report, Gallup’s most recent Daily Tracking Poll finds that nearly one-fifth of the population is (still) underemployed: Complete Story »
• There’s a war on – pull the ads!
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  A study published by two academics from Oregon State University and Eastern Washington University (via Science Daily) found that when people watch ‘graphic’ and ‘intense’ war news on TV, they a…
• Losing Andrew Carnegie
  Published: March 7, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  Carnegie apparently said, Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors……Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better facto…
• It’s Time For Microsoft To Turn Itself Upside-Down
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  There was recently a little skirmish on the web regarding the question of whether or not Microsoft has stopped innovating — whether the internal corporate culture there has thwarted new ideas, and so on. Wel…
• Why I no longer do Free in my business
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  I was in a conversation the other day with Miles Austin and he said the following quote: “Inform for free, how to for a fee.” Chris Brogan recently wrote a post on price points, and essentially poin…
• Social Capital is not the same as Whuffie
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: emergent by design
  I recently read a post by Brian Solis titled Social Capital: The Currency of the Social Economy, which served as the catalyst for one of the most entertaining Twitter conversations I’ve had so far. I person…
• Elizabeth Warren Talks to Charlie Rose About Regulatory Reform
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Prieur du Plessis submits: Charlie Rose sits down with Elizabeth Warren, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy and commercial law. In the wake of t…
• Part 2: Why It Took Me 28 Years to Write My “Latest” Novel
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: storyfix.com
  Click HERE to read Part 1 of this article, wherein I explain why writing this novel scared the hell out of me. Maybe even literally.
  The Story Behind Whisper of the Seventh Thunder
  Consider this for a moment. …
• 5 valuable design tips to increase your sites user experience – #UX – http://bit.ly/diRi9R (via…
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  5 valuable design tips to increase your sites user experience – #UX – http://bit.ly/diRi9R (via @jophillips)
• Some response guidelines when dealing with an influential rogue community member -…
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  Some response guidelines when dealing with an influential rogue community member – http://bit.ly/c8RPqJ (via @martinreed)
• 23 categorized tools that every e-comm site should check out – http://bit.ly/c5YTa7 (via…
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  23 categorized tools that every e-comm site should check out – http://bit.ly/c5YTa7 (via @smashingmag)
• How To: Run Windows in OS X, the Right Way [How To]
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  If you’re anxious about switching from a PC to a Mac, consider this: There are a multitude of ways you can virtualize Windows within OS X, and they all work uniquely well. Here’s how to choose the right one.The…
• New York Isn’t Silicon Valley. That’s Why They Like It.
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: NYT > Technology
  A decade after the dot-com bust, the Internet economy in New York is springing back to life.
• Andreessen’s Advice To Old Media: “Burn The Boats”
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unkn…
• Economics old school hip hop battle schools you, is clever
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Via Consumerist comes this entertaining financial market forces joint (“Fear the Boom and Bust”) where John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek battle over contrasting economic practices.
  Pretty well done and i…
• Enderle: Google is ‘exposed,’ lacks Apple’s deep patent portfolio (with video)
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: MacDailyNews
  Rob Enderle, president of The Enderle “Group,” talks with Bloomberg’s Julie Hyman and Mark Crumpton…

• Waiting for Dr. Godot
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: The Health Care Blog
  By MICHAEL TURPIN If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it is for free.” – PJ O’Rourke On the eve of sweeping health reform legislation, it is hard not to notice the glowing skyline in Wash…
• Replicators, Innovators, and Bill Gates
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  My last post triggered some interesting debates in the blogosphere about whether entrepreneurs were a product of nature or could be nurtured. It’s not black or white. People are a product of their upbringing…
• Why Paying For Code Doesn't Mean You Own It
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: Slashdot
  Barence writes “Why do people think they own code just because they’ve paid for it? PC Pro’s Kevin Partner says many of his clients believe that by paying for the work to be done, they take ownership of it. But…
• Content Management Tips for Personal Branding
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  Content management doesn’t sound very exciting, but content management is not an option if you want to build your personal brand as a high-visibility subject area expert.
  The following tips will help you crea…
• Looking Deeper Into the Employment Abyss
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Steven Hansen submits:In early February, I would have bet that the number of people employed in America would have been positive for the first time since the beginning of the Great Recession. Following the tre…
• 7 Tips to Keep Your Family On-Board for Your Blogging Journey
  Published: March 6, 2010
  Source: ProBlogger Blog Tips
  A guest post by Dustin Riechmann of Engaged Marriage.
  My life is pretty typical for a 30-year old family man these days. I do my best to maintain a hectic schedule and the demands that come with balancing a w…
• Roger Ebert goes freemium with The Ebert Club
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  For those of you paying attention to Oprah (or Twitter) this week, Roger Ebert was on the show to debut his new speaking voice. A series of cancer surgeries have taken his voice, but that hasn’t stopped the st…
• How Interesting Are You? Your Twitter Stream Might Know.
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: louisgray.com
  Do you drink too much? Do you have what it takes to be a movie critic? Are you the Foursquare mayor of your own office? A new service, in its infancy, has emerged to find out the answers to those questions and…
• Spiritual Enlightenment: How To Host Religious Services Through Twitter
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  A discussion within the SocialTimes team stemming from recent news that Buddhist religious leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, was tweeting on Twitter led to the question of whether the microblogging s…
• Murdoch’s NY Post Continues To Source Articles From Bloggers With No Credit
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Rupert Murdoch and his minions at News Corp. have been going around banging the drum that Google and others are “stealing” from News Corp. newspapers by linking to their stories and sending them traffic. But a…
• 10 Tips to Sit Back, Pedal Fast & Enjoy the Ride!
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: SocialMediaBlog.com
  As a small biz owner and entrepreneur there is always too much too do and not enough time to do it. With BIG dreams, BIG ideas, BIG hopes and little budget, resource and stretched time… the BIG and LITTL…
• The Myth Of Originality…
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Nina Paley alerts us to a neat writeup (with illustrations) that she did, discussing the concept of originality, and why it’s so often misconstrued. First, things that many people think are “original” usually…
• Gain a Job, Lose Two Jobs: Do Tech Companies Wield Too Much Power?
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  I’m a big fan of maxims and technology. It should be no surprise, then, that Melvin Kranzbergs six laws of technology really speak to me. Perhaps my favorite is, “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it n…
• A Guide to Small Business Marketing
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Moreover Technologies – Small business news – 30 of 6802 returned
  By Vangie Beal Looking for affordable ways to get the word out on your small business ecommerce site? Check out the marketing tools and strategies compiled over at Webopedia.com. When it comes to small business…
• Google Buys DocVerse: People as Important as the Technology
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  The news that Google is buying DocVerse is now official.

  The reasons why Google bought this small company can be learned by taking a look at the people who started this small company out of Seattle.

  Shan Sinh…

• Having trouble selling your client on #socialmedia marketing? Some insightful reports to reference:…
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: The Jordan Rules (@thejordanrules)
  Having trouble selling your client on #socialmedia marketing? Some insightful reports to reference: http://bit.ly/b1paLW (via @hubspot)

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• The dark side of good work in social media
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  So last week I wrote about how I was bummed about the possibility that it was time to part with one of my favorite clients. You will be pleased to know that in an 11th hour brainstorm I came up wi…
• The Grip on Consumer Credit Finally Loosens
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Ockham Research submits: In an encouraging sign for the US economy, consumer credit availability actually expanded in January. Economists had expected consumer credit to contract yet again by $4.5 billion, but…
• TwitCasting Lets You Stream Live Video And Tweet Simultaneously From Your iPhone
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Late last year, Ustream and qik launched iPhone applications that let you stream videos from the iPhone to the web and allow others to watch them as they’re being recorded. And now there is an iPhone app cal…
• Real-time search
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Scripting News
  Kara Swisher reports on a study that shows people are ignoring “real time” search results. This matches with my experience.
  The reason? It’s impossible to convey much information in 140 characters. So when a s…
• Google’s App Store for Business to Launch Next Week
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Google is set to launch an app store for business next week, Mashable has learned from sources close to the company. It will be focused around creating software for Google Apps and could launch as soon as Tue…
• Socialnomics: It’s a People Driven Economy, Stupid with Erik Qualman
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: SocialMediaBlog.com
  It’s not pornography anymore.
  Where porn sadly once claimed the top spot as the favorite activity on the internet, it has now been replaced by social media. That’s right; people are tweeting, befriending, s…
• What’s the Best Way to Create a Home Inventory? [Ask Lifehacker]
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Dear Lifehacker,
  In light of all the natural disasters wreaking havoc across the globe, I’ve realized I should take a home inventory to document everything I own for insurance purposes. What’s the best way to d…
• The Database of Intentions Is Far Larger Than I Thought
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: John Battelle's Searchblog
  Way back in November of 2003, when I was a much younger man and the world had yet to fall head over heels in love with Google, I wrote a post called The Database of Intentions. It was an attempt to explain a on…
• “Dumb and Dangerous”
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  Good piece by Slate’s Farhad Manjoo on why Apple’s patent suit against HTC just isn’t a good idea for anyone involved.
  Manjoo mentions another patent squabble I’d forgotten about: Creative’s case agai…
• New York Times Rolls Out New ‘Real Estate’ iPhone App
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  The New York Times launched a new, free iPhone app catered to apartment hunters.
  The “New York Times Real Estate” app, released March 2, allows users to search for listings and refine results; view detaile…
• Altimeter Report: The 18 Use Cases of Social CRM, The New Rules of Relationship Management
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Web Strategy by Jeremiah
  18 Use Cases That Show Business How To Finally Put Customers First
  Social and CRM: How Companies Will Manage Their Social Relationships
  Over the last six months, I’ve been working closely with Ray Wang who is…
• Customers Ignite a New Era of CRM
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Brian Solis
  What follows is the unedited version of my latest post at AllThingsDigital…
  The Altimeter Group today released a new report on Social CRM and while analysts release reports all the time, this is different. T…
• Top 10 features that Apple stole from Windows
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: MacDailyNews
  “Windows 7 and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard each contain features that originated…

• Are Brands Static? Are Static Brands Storied? Are Storied Brands Static?
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  I’m still feeling curmudgeonly about the concept of personal branding, and when I read skeptical views about personal branding like one called “I am Not a Brand. I am Me,” by Gareth Jones, my curmudgeonli…
• 4 Steps to a More User-Friendly Website
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Daily SEO Tip
  *The following guest post is by Amber Singleton Riviere*
  Web design can be challenging. For me, the challenge is in not making things too complex and in keeping things simple and clean, which makes the site…
• Media Curation Is Now Consumer-Generated
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  There’s a new world order emerging around media and publishing. Producing original content is simply too expensive to sustain alone for all but the largest media companies. New models are essential — and emer…
• How Companies are Using Social Media to Make Better Decisions
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Mat Fogarty is the Founder and CEO of Crowdcast, a leading provider of collective intelligence and prediction market solutions. You can read more of Mat’s posts on the Crowdcast blog or follow @crowdca…
• SuperTweet: Moving Beyond 140 Characters
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  What’s the best way to leverage the most information out of 140 characters? Should you get to learning Mandarin so each character can be a word? Or start forming German-style pseudo-word hashtags to get the poi…
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Ansel Adams
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: mental_floss Blog
  You probably know Ansel Adams as the man who helped promote the National Park Services’ beauty through his magnificent photographs. Here are five things you might not know about the celebrated photographer….
• Google Swallows Up Email iPhone App reMail, Open-Sources It
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  The source code for reMail, the email app for the iPhone recently acquired by Google, is now open source and available on Google Code.
  reMail downloads all of your email to your iPhone, and provides a powerful…
• A decade of frustration ahead?
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Wikinomics
  It’s been a fascinating week. I’ve been in Washington DC since Saturday, primarily attending the annual conference and international symposium held by the Consortium for School Networking, which goes by the…
• An Example Of What Is Killing Newspapers
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Social Media Explorer
  Sunday’s Courier-Journal, Louisville’s daily newspaper, is one of the few tactile media publications I still read. I get the paper every day delivered in my RSS feeds, but Sunday mornings w…
• Ominous Signs in the Real Estate Market: Buyers Beware and Be Warned
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  Michael David White submits:We have just in the last year had the largest annual fall in real estate prices, hit the highest number of delinquent mortgages measured, witnessed a record 918,000 homes taken in fo…
• The 5 Elements of Hard Work
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Altitude Branding
  In the wake of this post on working hard or just working lots, I had a few chats with people that basically asked “so, what is work that matters?” In other words, what does true hard work look like?
  This,…
• Suite Arrival Ships Toiletries Ahead to Your Destination [Travel]
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  If you like to travel light but have a well stocked toiletries bag upon arriving at your destination, Suite Arrival makes it easy to ship your bathroom favorites ahead.Suite Arrivals business model is based on…
• Use Mixero to Reduce Twitter Noise
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: TwiTip
  If you follow a lot of people on Twitter, you have probably already faced an information overload problem. When choosing who to follow, you would probably read their recent tweets and decide if the person is in…
• Tripit is a service worth paying for
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
  Long time readers of this blog know that I try to avoid writing about business transactions — the hirings, firings, buyings, sellings, fundings and closings of or in companies related to the topics I write ab…
• Use Newspaper for Sparkling Windows on the Cheap [Cleaning]
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  If youve heard of people using newspaper to clean windows but youve never tried it—possibly for lack of faith in the cleaning ability of smudge-prone news print—check out this before and after photo and gui…
• 9 Tips for Creating More Small Business Blogging Ideas
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: ProBlogger Blog Tips
  A Guest Post by Mark Hayward.

  What the hell am I supposed to write about, I own a {insert your small business here}?
  Really, who cares about your flower shop, bike shop, auto parts store, or coffee house?
  Answ…

• An extensive write-up about Zoho CRM on financial-planning.com
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Zoho Blogs
  It is always great to know that your service is sort after, used,
  reviewed and recommended by other users, businesses and people. And
  when we came across the detailed write-up and recommendation to ‘Take a
  look…
• Apple Is A Product Placement Machine: Managed To Get In 41% Of The Most Popular Movies (AAPL)
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Apple managed to get its products placed into 41% of the movies that enjoyed at least one weekend atop the box office, Abe Sauer at The Awl reports in a great piece about Apple’s product placement success.
  Rea…
• How Passion Powers Everything
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  I’m in Bogota, Colombia, visiting with Zemoga, run by DJ Edgerton and Alejandro Gomez, and over 100 talented men and women. I’m here partly because DJ wants to work with me in the future, but that’s pro…
• Social-media marketing and race
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: SmartBlog On Social Media
  During the 2006 Idaho governor’s race, there was a lesser-known candidate named Dan Adamson who was looking for a way to drum up interest in his campaign. He announced that he was going to tr…
• Busting through the Twitter noise to find a signal
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: {grow}
  This is a very scientific-looking chart to make this blog look serious and data-driven. In reality, it is completely meaningless. Well keep that our little secret though. Nobody reads these captions any way.

  L…

• Eyes don't lie: consumers cold to real-time results so far
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  If you listen to the tech set, you might think that real-time is one of
  the most important areas search engines should be focusing on. The
  search engines themselves do too.

  Google, Bing and Yahoo have all do…

• 5 Ways to Weave LinkedIn Into Your Marketing Mix
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Online Marketing Blog
  From Facebook to Twitter to You Tube, there’s no limit to the number of social networking sites that can be leveraged to interact with customers and prospects, and build positive brand awareness.
  LinkedIn, ho…
• Be a Joiner
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  I remember having this conversation frequently over the years.

  People would come up to me and ask me what was my secret to knowing (seemingly) everyone. They noticed that every place I went — networking ev…

• 8 Marketing Twitter Chats to Check Out
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  A Twitter chat is a scheduled “group chat” on a specific topic, where Twitter users interact and engage with one another at a certain time by adding a trackable hashtag to the end of all their tweets. Twitt…
• Top Reasons I Follow Back on Twitter
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Inbound Marketing Strategies
  Let’s face it, the Twitterverse is made up of individuals and brands. While the branded Twitter accounts are staffed by people, the persona of each Twitter account is either an individual or a company or a br…
• Credibility: Yours to Loose
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Conversion Rate Optimization & Marketing Blog | FutureNow, Inc
  Show of hands: How many people noticed the typo in the title? My guess is that those who did were ready to jump all over my mistake. It was done intentionally to help prove my point: Visitors notice typos….
• Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details (update: video!)
  Published: March 5, 2010
  Source: Engadget
  We’ve been dying to know more about Microsoft’s Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered, we just learned so…
• Social media domination: Republicans rule Twitter
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  Among congressmen, Republicans far outnumber Democrats on social media site Twitter, according to a recent study. More Republicans use the social media site …
• Rethinking Print as Part of the Content Strategy: Fortune, APA Proving Print is Not Dead
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Junta42 Content Marketing blog
  I just took three flights to get to Slovenia.

  On each flight and in all the waiting areas, I saw people holding, reading and engaging in print magazines.

  Then, I spent the day listening to the state…

• Big Developer News: Mac Dev Program reduced to $99
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Filed under: Apple

  After a many-hours outage, the Apple developer site is back — and the changes are profound, at least on the Mac end of things.

  On the iPhone side, users are required to update their profi…

• Normalized Employment: The Real Employment Story
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  John Lounsbury submits:In the previous three articles in this series (click here for part 2) the definitions of recession and depression have been discussed based on the NBER (National Bureau of Economic Analys…
• Why Android Will Triumph Over iPhone
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Michael's Minute
  Google’s Android will quickly overtake Apple’s iPhone market share. It may seem like an outlandish prediction, but we’ve seen this movie before and we know how it ends.
• Why Modern Workplaces Don’t Work
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Over on The Big Think, 37Signals co-founder Jason Fried has posted an interesting short video about how the modern workplace is designed to provide constant interruptions (phone calls, meetings, colleagues drop…
• Paper Rater Analyzes and Improves Your Writing [Writing]
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  If you like to write but lack confidence in your skills, Paper Rater is a a free, web-based service that analyzes your writing and offers feedback on your grammar, spelling, and more.Paper Rater couldnt be easi…
• Follow the Hippie: Leadership Lessons Through Dance
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  When Sigma Partners’ Richard Dale posted a video of a random dancing guy to his Venture Cyclist blog I was skeptical. I’d seen the original video sans narration and dismissed it as a strange sociological phenom…

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Things That Are NOT Stories
Kathy Hansen has some things to say about this issue. As story seems to take hold more and more, this is beginning to loom large.

A Model For Business Storytelling
Pam Hoelzle does a great job with business storytelling in this post.

Are Brands Static? Are Static Brands Storied? Are Storied Brands Static?
Kathy Hansen, at her curmudgeonly best, talks about story and brands.

Business-Storytelling Model May Inspire Additional Applications
Kathy Hansen [have you figured out she's my hero yet? ] relates Pam Hoelzle’s model to storytelling and job search.

A Recipe for Good Crowdsourced Storytelling
This is from Jay Golden’s blog on story, strategy and action.

Are We Becoming Our Own Puppetmasters?
This is from Venessa Miemis, one of my favorite futurists.

Thinking Like a Storyteller
A nice video from Cindy Chastain on how interactive designers can use story.

Digital Storytelling Teacher Guide
This is a great storytelling tool for teachers. From Microsoft no less! Kudos to them.

Digital Storytelling at Duckrabbit Multimedia

Olympic Athlete Stories
Some nice stories of Olympians at the recently concluded event.

Falk T. Puschmann’s MySpace Blog |
A look at story from a script writer for audio dramas.

Largest Storytelling Machine, the Media, can Create Engaged Citizenry
Can the world’s largest storytelling machine, the mass media, cultivate an informed and involved citizenry?

Duane Elgin Calling on Humanity to Create a New Story
We might just need one of those…

Having Ideas Versus Having a Vision
Interesting reading not directly related to storytelling.

Creative Writing 101 from Kurt Vonnegut
Lou Hoffman shares some storytelling wisdom from one of the masters. Cord at Capstrat is a Vonn fan too.

iStoryWriter
This is a pretty cool iPhone storytelling app.

What’s Your Brand Story? Moleskine Endures Through Storytelling
How Moleskine tells their story.

Made to Stick: Jared, The Power of Story
Dan Heath, co-author of Switch and Made to Stick, (and he teaches right here in my backyard) talks about story.

Storytelling as connective tissue
Beautiful post.

Never neglect the power of telling a story
A journalistic lesson in narration, description and exposition.

Quantum Narrative
Mike Bonifer’s thoughts on Quantum and Newtonian Narratives. He was kind enough to correct my earlier descriptor in an email post. (He should have called me an idiot but he was too polite for that! Thank you Mike.) He went on in the email to further explain, “Quantum and Newtonian Narratives relate to one another, but they are not competitive with one another in a traditional Darwinian sense. The competition is all in our heads, and in the way that we express ourselves in the world. We think we CHOOSE one narrative, or one form of narrative, over the other, when in fact that choice is simply artifice. It is the recognition that both exist, and how we observe, interpret and participate in their interaction with one another, that makes us truly productive in the world.”

Story Yourself
He talks about Michael Margolis and Believe Me.

Six Words on The Green Life at SMITH Magazine
Stories in 6 words.

Stories of Unique Qualifications for the Targeted Job
A bit more on cover letter stories from Kathy Hansen.

The Art of Business Storytelling
Kelsey Ruger is just awesome!

The Journey System: Belief
Some interesting thoughts on belief and the Storytelling System.

Utah Storytelling Guild
Every state should have one!

Welcome, Transformative Narratives Blog
Kathy Hansen introduces us to Yvette Hyater-Adams.

The Emerging Intentions of Transformative Narratives
Yvette Hyater-Adams talks with us about those Transformative Narratives.

What’s It All About, Al G?
A PR guy talks about story.

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• Local Marketing with Hyperlocal Blog and News Aggregators
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Search Engine Journal
  Last year I did a short post on building links via local blogs. Looking back at that post I think it is quite limited. Those resources are so much more than just link building tools.
  Learning to find and build…
• Boomers Slowly Joining the Mobile Web
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  New statistics about baby boomers’ usage of the mobile web are here, and the news, sadly, is not surprising. This generation of users (ages 45 and older) has been slow to adopt mobile Internet technology. Howev…
• Content That Works: The two kinds of online content that matter most to business customers
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
  [Second in a series.]
  Business people do lots of things on the internet other than read or watch or listen to content. So when I say that only two kinds of content matter to them, I don’t mean web-based appli…
• SpreadsheetLIVE Beta Enters the Web Office Fray
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Spreadsheets are especially useful for geographically dispersed project teams looking to centralize project data like issues tracking, requirements gathering, action items, scheduling and other data capture tas…
• How to Give Yourself a First-Class Online Business Education
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Copyblogger
  When I first had the insane brilliant idea to start a business and get out of the alleged safety of the corporate world, I started by reading everything I could find.
  I wish I could remember where the thread s…
• One More Time — Don't Hoard Information
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  As it turns out, Europeans got a bit of a head start having their defective Toyotas fixed. Yoshimi Inaba, head of the company’s North American operations, admitted to a congressional committee last week that in…
• Exiting A Conversation Gracefully
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  Last week, my husband Eric was caught in the crosshairs of an overzealous museum curator eager to impart his encyclopedic knowledge about twentieth-century model trains. For what seemed like an eternity, Eric f…
• Using Twitter Search for Business
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  I spend a lot of time in Twitter search. I do it for several purposes. One is for my client partners. For instance, if I’m thinking of ways to do things for MolsonCoors, I might start up searches on various b…
• Teens Can Give College An Overnight Trial Run
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Better Health
  If your teen is seriously considering a college, I now highly recommend setting up an overnight visit with the admissions department. Here is our experience: while on this college visit my daughter spent the n…
• Dear John Makinson and Penguin, please don’t “reinvent” books
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Filed under: iPad”Reading literature makes you a more well-rounded individual.” That’s what an author told me once. Notice he didn’t say “watching literature.”

  paidContent:UK has an article on a presentation P…

• Earliest "Writing" On 60,000-Year-Old Eggshells
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Slashdot: Science
  New Scientist reports on research published in PNAS (abstract here) about what may be the earliest writing yet discovered, on eggshells dated to 60,000 years ago. “Since 1999, Pierre-Jean Texier of the Universi…
• Things That Are NOT Stories
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: A Storied Career
  Recently, some of my favorite story practitioners have been registering protests over manifestations of “story” that they consider to be too loosely characterized or defined.

  I’ve written a number of ti…

• Feature Overload: How Competitive Analysis Can Hurt You
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  An early-stage company wants to convince investors that its product is better than those of all its competitors — so they create a competitive analysis.
  This is a standard process. And Steve Blank, serial entr…
• Fortune 500 Companies: Celebrity Endorsers of B2B
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Stories That Sell » Blog
  If you sell consumer products like skincare, sunglasses or video games, a celebrity endorsement can be a powerful thing.
  In the B2B world, you can still tap a famous individual – but it’s not necessarily w…
• The Wrong Lessons From Toyota's Recalls — And the Truth
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  Now that Toyota is on the ropes, people are lining up to get their punches in. Analysis and advice are coming from people who’ve probably never visited the company, let alone have deep expertise in the Toyota P…
• Eight Things Your Employees Want From You
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  I often have to remind the dedicated, smart CEOs I work with that leading takes time and energy. Directing the feelings, attitudes, actions, and behaviors of a team is a big task. Often, I also hear the secrets…
• 10 Critical Skills of Highly Successful 21st Century Leaders
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
  Adding Unique Value to Earn a Living

  We have the wisdom of teachers all around us. They say that when we’re ready to learn the teacher will appear … We can find those teachers in our family, in our frie…

• How John Chambers Learned to Collaborate at Cisco
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  In 2001, as the dot.com boom turned to bust, CEO John Chambers of Cisco saw a massive $460 billion of Ciscos overall stock market value evaporate before his eyes. Game over? Not really. At that moment, Chamber…
• Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Cambridge UK startup Rapportive has released a Firefox and Chrome extension that will replace the ads in your Gmail with photos, biographic data and social media links, including a live display of recent Tweets…
• Send Email and SMS Messages Using Voice Commands With Vlingo for iPhone
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Since Vlingo first introduced its voice control app for the BlackBerry more than a year and a half ago, smartphones and voice-to-speech technology have evolved quite a bit. Today, the company has launched a pr…
• My Twitter Quantity Experiment
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  I follow some very successful Twitter users and noticed they tweeted a lot, which inspired me to try the experiment I’ll outline in this post.

  For several weeks, I tweeted the same type of content I always h…

• Show Off Your Social Media Connections With MashedIn
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  As the world becomes more and more engrained in social media networks, it can be a little confusing keeping track of who you’re connected …
• What do analysts actually do?
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Groundswell
  As you think about the debate about Forresters blogging policy, Id like to share a little more about how the opinions you read from Forrester analysts come about. With 15 years experience in this business, I kn…
• Google adds free cloud “backup” to Apps, feature that reduces risk of data loss (Sam Diaz/Between the Lines)
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Techmeme
  Sam Diaz / Between the Lines:
  Google adds free cloud “backup” to Apps, feature that reduces risk of data loss — Google, in its continued quest to lure enterprise customers to switch to the cloud-base…
• How to Harness the Power of Referrals
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Inc.com
  In an effort to jump start small businesses – and remind them of the power of a single referral – marketing expert John Jantsch is launching Make a Referral Week 2010 March 8 through 12.
  The goal of the eve…
• 5 LinkedIn Groups to Boost Your Social Media Savvy
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  We’ve done the legwork, and below are five groups for anyone interested in the goings on of the social media niche. The discussions posted in these groups …
• The legend of Lutz
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Business news and Fortune 500 – FORTUNE Magazine
  The announcement that Bob Lutz will retire from General Motors on May 1 at the age of 78 brings down the curtain on one of the most remarkable careers in the history of the auto industry. Lutz held top executiv…
• Ballmer Explains the Cloud, In 5 Easy Steps [Microsoft]
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  In his first time speaking at University of Washington—the giant Microsoft-endowed school in the companys backyard—Steve Ballmer explained “the cloud.”
  First, there was a goofy video showing how stoned mos…
• Ballmer on the Cloud: Throw Out All the World’s Software?
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: GigaOM
  Kicking things off with the proclamation “We’re betting the company on it,” Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer discussed his vision of cloud computing at the University of Washington this morning. He described a…
• Use Hairspray to Remove Ink from Fabric in a Pinch [MacGyver Tip]
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Next time an out-of-control pen wreaks havoc on your clothes or furniture and you don’t have a spot remover on hand, try a little hairspray. Reader Shelley says it worked wonders after her two-year old used her…
• New SuperTweet* Paves the Way for Social Network Monetization – Open Toolkit …
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  Traditional forms of advertising applied to social media annoy users who log in to communicate with friends and don’t want to be inundated with extra noise. …
• HOW TO: Get Started With Spotify
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Spotify is a free, legal, cloud-based streaming music service delivered via desktop software with a nice social twist. A Swedish start-up with offices in London, it launched back in 2008 in Europe and now boas…
• Don’t Overreact to Your Social Media Mistakes
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  I recently wrote about Alex Payne, a developer for Twitter, who posted a tweet that caused a lot of contention among the Twitter developer community. Think Before You Tweet: The Do Not Tweet List.
  …
• Filtering the Social Web With ShareThis
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  I don’t think there’s much of a downside to giving your readers tools at their fingertips to easily share your content with their contacts. From the early days of “share this with a friend” buttons, to…
• PR for Startups
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Moreover Technologies – Entrepreneur news – 30 of 4509 returned
  From Tony Wright dot com My startup (RescueTime) has enjoyed some pretty ridiculously good PR (online, print, and video). It’s not a surprise that the most common questions that we get from other founders…
• Use Twitter to Collect Micro-Feedback
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  “Ugh,” you may sigh to yourself when you receive a colleague’s request to fill out a 360-degree feedback instrument with 150 items. Of course you’re lucky if you only get one; you may get a half dozen requests…
• How Long Do You Give the Desktop?
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  One of the big subjects of debate on the Interwebs this morning is a big, existential technological question: Are phones on the cusp of replacing PCs?
  Don Dodge (presently of Google, formerly of Microsoft) thin…
• Social media in 1 hour a day
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  One of the topics people ask me frequently about is social media; specifically, they ask me for how to make the best use of their time. …
• 3 Crisis Survival Lessons for the Social Media Age
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices…
• Huffington Post Blasts Past 40 Million Monthly Unique Visitors
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  According to the Huffington Post’s Google Analytics numbers, the news site gathered 40 million unique visitors in February, Peter Kafka at MediaMemo reports.
  While Comscore estimates are more conservative at 26…
• 5 Things I Have Learned As a Generation Y Business Owner
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  Almost three years. THREE YEARS!
  It has almost been three years since my company drove a stake into the ground in Indianapolis and Oklahoma City. It is funny to look back on the process and change the business…
• Two New Surveys Validate Companies Adoption of Social Media
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  Senior marketers are putting their money where our conversation has been — on integrating social with their activities.The Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG) 3rd Annual Marketing Trends Study* and T…
• 3 Ways to Find Tweets Around Any Domain
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  I have once shared a few ways to check Twitter comments about any page but what if we need to keep an eye on all Tweets around some domain?
  All the three tools listed here have three things in common:
  (1) They…
• World’s Most Admired Companies
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Business and financial news – CNNMoney.com
  Which companies have the best reputations? Apple tops the list for the third year in a row. See who else made the top 50 this year.
• Seven reasons Chrome isn’t my default browser
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Macworld
  Chrome is a great Web browser, but it has enough weaknesses that Lex Friedman put Safari back in his Dock instead.

• How Penguin will reinvent books with Apple’s revolutionary iPad (with video)
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: MacDailyNews
  As the race to be be ebook format of choice hots up, Penguin is making some bold, experimental bets…

• Virtual colonoscopy and the message President Obama sent
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: KevinMD.com
  President Obama had a well-publicized routine health exam last week.
  One of the more controversial issues was the virtual colonoscopy he received. It’s been well covered here that virtual colonoscopy doesn�…
• 12 Reasons Why Your Small Business Isn’t Getting Leads from LinkedIn
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Moreover Technologies – Small business news – 30 of 7611 returned
  0 comments | 44 reads I am amazed by how many small businesses do not utilize social media to the maximum. Âlong_spaceThink about it: social media, like the internet two decades ago, allows any business to com…
• Open buying and open selling
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Seth's Blog
  If I can sell you something without a sales call or expensive ad campaign, I can sell it cheaper.If you want to buy a business development relationship but you’re not willing to negotiate, do contracts and inve…
• Men lie more in online dating – except about their weight
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: The Register
  He: ‘I’m rich, thinking of marriage’ She: ‘I’m not fat’
  Help is at hand for those who make use of – or perhaps help to run – online dating services. A new study has revealed who is most likely to tell lies abou…
• Steve Jobs: A Man Aggrieved (AAPL)
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  From Fortune: Two thirds of the way through a 3,000-word essay on This Apple-HTC Patent Thing, Daring Fireball’s John Gruber quotes a tweet by John Siracusa that gets to the heart of the matter:
  To me, the Appl…
• Avoiding the Social Media Pigeonhole
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Altitude Branding
  Listen here: You don’t want to be a social media expert, okay? You really don’t.
  Social media is limited in focus and lifespan.
  It’s *one* line of application in an otherwise vast business landscape that…
• Is Content King? Then Distribution Is Crown Prince
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  In the next decade, we will see significant changes to the way that content is created, monetized and experienced. During the next few years, existing media players will begin to increasingly face the realities…
• How to Match 10 Key Success Metrics to Your Blogging Strategy
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
  If you’re blogging for business, rather than blogging about your cat, baby, fashion addiction, or crush on Taylor Swift, you need to set some success metrics.Without a statistical measure of your blogging pro…
• Will this lead to true integration or flawed conclusions?
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: KDPaine's PR Measurement Blog
  This announcement that Omniture will work with Facebook to incorporate their ad results data into Omnitures system is certainly a big step forward in integrating the results of ones marketing efforts in todays…
• Don’t be afraid of talking about Corporate Social Responsibility
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Tom Murphy – Murphy's Law
  Partly in response to my post about the growing importance of appropriate communications on a company’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) efforts, the Textifying blog over at Arizona State University (sor…
• Do websites even matter any more?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: {grow}
  Studies show that web page views have been dropping precipitously as folks park themselves on the social web. There have even been a flurry of blog posts from Jason Falls, Jay Baer and Debbie Weil debating w…
• Bummer For Marketers: We Gotta Do Something.
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: The Ad Contrarian
• SEO-friendly affiliate links might not be so friendly
  Published: March 4, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Every now and then someone blogs a clever way to turn affiliate links into SEO friendly links and the post always gets some attention. In my experience, though, you might not want to do this.The reason for want…
• More referrals from social media than from search?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  There’s a startling assumption buried as a throwaway comment on this post from TechCrunch onGoogle Buzz’s recent arrival. Apparently, links shared on social networks have been growing to the extent …
• If you blog unauthorized “Daily Show” or “Colbert” clips, Viacom will sue your ass
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  News broke yesterday that Comedy Central would no longer allow popular video site Hulu to present episodes of “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report.” The Hollywood Reporter asked Viacom if the network inten…
• Social Media List: Quirky Marketing, Promoting Your Business and Celebrations
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Liz Strauss at Successful Blog
  A Weekly Series by Teresa Morrow
  I’m Teresa Morrow, Founder of Key Business Partners, LLC and I work with authors and writers by managing their online promotion. As part of my job I read a lot of books (and I…
• The end game for Apple and the entertainment industry
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  I just read one of the most succinct and spot on explanations of the back room dealings that are going on when it comes to the motives behind Apple’s move to the cloud. There is one caveat here – I don�…
• Why you need calls to action in your blog posts
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Christopher S. Penn's Awaken Your Superhero
  If you’ve been reading this blog for any period of time, you’ve likely noticed these lovely buttons on the right:

  You may also have noticed that there’s a deeply redundant piece at the bottom of every bl…

• Beauty Supply Stores Need Blogs Too
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Business Blogging – How to Build A Better Blog
  Today I was interviewed for an article in a trade magazine for beauty supply store owners. Last year the same writer interviewed me for a similar story that was published in Pool and Spa News for owners of pool…
• Is The Commerce Department Really Ready To Regulate The Internet?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Larry Strickling, the head of the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (a division of the Department of Commerce), gave a speech last week where he outlined, in broad strokes, a vision for “Intern…
• Funny Or Die Presidential Reunion Unites SNL Stars for Web Hit [VIDEO]
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Comedy site Funny Or Die has brought together current and former stars of Saturday Night Live (plus Jim Carrey) to create a skit called “Presidential Reunion” that has racked up more than one million views…
• Apple’s Lawsuit Against HTC: Bad for Consumers?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Technologizer
  Apple’s lawsuit against Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC is meant to prevent smartphones that resemble the iPhone from competing in the U.S. market, limiting consumer choice, but protecting Apple’s incent…
• We Made Group-Forming Ridiculously Easy
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Social Media Today
  Ridiculously easy group-forming matters because the desire to be part of a group that shares, cooperates, or acts in concert is a basic human instinct that has always been constrained by transaction c…
• Google: Desktops Will Be Irrelevant in Three Years’ Time
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Speaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy said that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more import…
• Adobe On Its Way To Being A Role Model For Interactive Marketers
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals

  Posted by Shar VanBoskirk
  I just had a one on one with Adobe CMO, Ann Lewnes, a power house of interactive marketing energy for the combined Adobe/Omniture companies.
  In her words, Adobes goal is to b…

• MacBook Pro running low on RAM? Change energy settings
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: MacFixIt
  If you have one of the newer “Unibody” MacBook Pro systems, you may run into problems where the system seems to run out of available RAM more than expected, especially when running programs that can reserve lar…
• Google Index to Go Real Time
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Google is developing a system that will enable web publishers of any size to automatically submit new content to Google for indexing within seconds of that content being published. Search industry analyst Dann…
• Finding a maker: A true story
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Boing Boing
  Dale Dougherty, publisher and editor of MAKE wrote a nice little account of accidentally meeting a maker in his neighborhood.

  I noticed a blueprint of some sort on his clipboard. “Are you doing some kind of…

• The Must Have Attribute of Start Up Employees
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Moreover Technologies – Entrepreneur news – 30 of 4509 returned
  Image via Wikipedia Judgment. Common Sense. Simple Good Judgment is the critical component of any hire into a start up. Give me your Art History, Criminal Justice and Fitness Management majors if they h…
• Top Ten Ways To Fix Google Buzz
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Google Buzz was pushed out the door too early and force-fed to users by placing it in Gmail. The launch has been marked by both privacy and usability issues. But the team at Google behind it, led by Bradley…
• Is It Ever O.K. to Snoop on Your Spouse’s E-Mail?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: NYT > Technology
  Nick Bilton of the Bits blog tackles Internet etiquette, including the ethics of going through the e-mail and text messages of a spouse if you suspect of infidelity.
• The Social Media Craze: Maybe Not For Your Business
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  In what seems like the blink of an eye, the social media world has exploded into one of the most popular and accessible vehicles for brand visibility today. …
• $50,000 for Social Entrepreneurs
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Inc.com
  The top Web apps for business growth. It takes a lot to run a small business — but what do you do when there’s too many tasks and not enough help? Tech entrepreneur and blogger Neil Patel has put together a li…
• How to Prepare for Conversion and Optimization
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  The best way to reduce bounce rates and design a path of least resistance for members and customers is to offer something they want. While others prioritize member acquisition in order to build an early product…
• Mobile Social Networking Usage Soars [STATS]
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  Digital measurement firm comScore released a study today highlighting the rise in social media access via mobile phones and offering some comparison metrics for some of the biggest social networks and their us…
• Toyota's Crisis: Prism Into How Social Media Has Radicalized Public Relations
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  My PR background explains why, when it comes to marketing and social media, it’s the public relations ramifications, not the advertising ones, that interest …
• The myth of knowledge objects : the gap between knowing and acting
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Library clips
  My last couple of posts have been about how important context is in KM. Without connecting to people, conversing and re-contextualising we are not really doing KM. In my mind knowledge doesn’t come in packets…

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• Is Microsoft Buying Twitter?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Fool.com Headlines
  Mr. Softy may be taking a hard look at Twitter. Is now the time to buy?
• NY Times’ Sulzberger Explains Philosophy Behind Charging for Articles
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Epicenter
  New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. plans to start charging readers for access to more than an as-yet-undetermined number of articles per month on NYTimes.com starting next year.
  At the Financial T…
• Case Study: J.Crew shows what print catalogs can add to the online shopping experience
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Impressive advances in e-commerce websites — and consumer web proficiency — have changed the business of online shopping. But while retailers may have started to downplay the importance of catalogs a few ye…
• Run Your Own Free Proxy Through the Google App Engine [Proxy]
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Finding a good proxy is difficult. You either have to run it yourself from your home computer or web server, or you’re left scavenging about for free proxies online. Instead, you can run one for free through th…
• Microsoft To Double Down on HTML5 with Internet Explorer 9
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: OSNews
  “With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. But we should expect…
• The Future of Blogging
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  A recent Pew survey revealed that the popularity of blogging among teens and young adults has declined dramatically from 28 percent to 14 percent from 2006 to 2009. While this wasn’t an exhaustive scientific…
• My Top iPhone Apps for Social Media Marketing
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Online Marketing Blog
  It’s a little ironic that I’m writing this post about iPhone apps using WordPress on a Motorola Droid (Devour actually), but it allows me a chance to experience how hard it is to blog, using a tiny tiny t…
• BookRenter Opens Up Textbook Rentals To Campus Bookstores And Other Partners
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: TechCrunch
  Anyone who has bought a textbook, whether during college or graduate school, understands how expensive they can be. College textbook rental startup BookRenter is trying to make the process of buying textbooks…
• How Many Enterprise Workers Will Work in the Mobile Cloud? Try 130 Million
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Juniper Research has come out with more analysis that shows just how big the mobile enterprise market will be for cloud computing.

  According to Juniper, the advent of collaboration tools will mean that 130 mil…

• Getting the Most Out of Twitter
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: NYT > Technology
  Even the most prolific users say Twitter has become more useful as a way to tap in to the discussions of the day than to broadcast their own thoughts.
• How Sony Lost Its Way [We Miss Sony]
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Gizmodo
  More than anything, Sony’s lost its spirit, spending too much time telling us it’s the greatest electronics company in the world and not nearly enough showing us.Proprietary Formats
  Sony’s last huge format hit…
• Toyota turns to the real-time web to help revive its reputation
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  After recalling 8.5 million cars and sending its CEO around the world to apologize, automaker Toyota is in crisis mode. But the company is hoping that a few tweets will help repair some of the damage to its bra…
• 7 Insanely Useful Ways To Search Twitter For Marketing
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Note: This article was originally published on OPEN Forum.
  Read the rest of this story »See Also:Is Your Target Audience On Twitter, Facebook, Or LinkedIn?The 6 People You’ll Meet On TwitterThe 10 Social Med…
• Microsoft releases free ebook for the K-12 teacher buyer persona
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Web Ink Now
  Im a huge believer in buyer persona based marketing: When you create information on the Web to help solve the problems of your buyer personas (rather than just prattling on about your products and services)….
• Is mobile really *that* big a deal?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: The Forrester Blog For Interactive Marketing Professionals
  **Correction: Actually, we forecast that direct mail will be at about $67 billion by 2012. So to my comment below, the astronomical forecast of mobile at $20 billion would be closer to a third, not a half of…
• 10 Things Your Hospital Won’t Tell You (10 Things)
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: SmartMoney.com
  Health care sure isn’t what it used to be. Here’s what you need to know.

• Socialtext, Groups and the Context of the Social Web
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Socialtext is one of the smarter companies we cover in the enterprise space. The people there have an intellectual bent. Co-Founder Ross Mayfield is a thought leader and one of the original pioneers of the soci…
• FTC Finally Forces FreeCreditReport.com To Be Honest In Its Advertising
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  It’s been many years since we first wrote about the scammy services set up by the major credit reporting agencies to pretend to give you your federally guaranteed free credit report. The worst of the bunch has…
• Run a Total Background Check on Yourself with Free Online Tools [Privacy]
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Consumer-advocate blog Consumerist is always looking to help you keep tabs on Big Brother and any of your personal information He’s tracking. Toward that end, their comprehensive list of online background-check…
• New Facebook scam targets would-be iPad users
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Macworld
  A new scam targeting Facebook users keen to try out Apple’s new iPad aims to get your mobile phone details.

• Pick the Best Parking Space by Focusing on a Quick Exit [Parking]
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  Most of us tend to focus on getting a spot as close as possible to the door of a store to save time, but focusing on leaving the store can help you pick a better spot.Photo by alex92287.
  Over at the productivit…
• Outrank Your Competition By Taking One More Step
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Michael Gray – Graywolf's SEO Blog
  I love competition. I compete against just about anyone, at just about anything. For the last few years, competitive webmastering has been my focus. I like to start a site in a small to medium sized niche,…
• The Magazines That Other Magazines Think Are Doing An Awesome Job Online
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Silicon Alley Insider
  Which magazines do other magazine editors think have a head start in the transition to digital?
  A number of titles were recently recognized by the American Society of Magazine Editors for everything from the u…
• Hotel Social Media Dashboard Solution Includes Custom Twitter Client
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  Service could revolutionize how hospitality industry engages with online review and social media sites such as Twitter, Expedia, Facebook and TripAdvisor. …
• What's Your Brand Story? – Moleskine Endures through Storytelling
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Junta42 Content Marketing blog
  My content marketing friends, Igor Savic and Primoz Inkret from Poslovni Mediji (Business Media) in Slovenia, were nice enough to give me a branded Moleskine notebook on my arrival to their beautiful coun…
• Beyond Twitter Search: Semantic Analysis of the Real-Time Web
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  Many of you probably never heard of the Ellerdale project until this week, when Twitter announced it was one of the company’s new partners in receiving the “firehose” of Twitter data, a full feed stream of twee…
• Headquarters: A Basecamp iPhone app "for people who get things done"
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: 37signals Product Blog
  Headquarters is an iPhone app that bills itself as the Basecamp app for people who get things done. Dashboard, to-do lists, and comments are all included. Plus you can manage multiple accounts and merge them in…
• 7 Essential Online HR Resources for Your Small Business
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Mashable!
  This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.As a business owner, you know your…
• What is Apple up to?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Scripting News
  This is a continuation of the Big Change in the Tech World thread, February 25.
  We may look back at these as the Good Old Days before the tech guys clamped down and closed off all the loopholes that allowed us…
• Being A Director of Community: One Year Later
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Altitude Branding
  Last year, I wrote a post about being a director of community. It was a bit of a drilldown on what a job like mine entails, some of my functional areas of responsibility, and a bit about the time commitments th…
• From Collaboration to Business Value?
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Richard Veryard on Architecture
  #AIIM @noelrath @jmancini77 via @dhinchcliffe @skemsley .

  Dion and Sandy retweeted a list of 8 Ways to Make Sure That Collaboration Adds Business Value on John Mancini’s blog, possibly authored by Noel Rath of…

• 10 Ways To Improve Your Social Media Karma
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Social Media School
  NOTE: This post was originally published on the AMEX Open Forum website, where I write a weekly piece on marketing advice for small business owners.
  Whether you believe in karma or not, using soc…
• Once Again: People Want To Share The News
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Techdirt
  Lots of folks have been sending in the “news” about news consumption from a new Pew study. A lot of the attention being paid to the study focuses on how more people are using the internet for news than newspap…
• Social Media – turning into a failure it didn’t need to
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: The Inquisitr
  Human nature is a fascinating thing to watch and yet when it comes to Social Media there seems to be a total lack of understanding about human nature. As much as the Web 2.0 proponents want to desperately …
• Data Shows that Facebook is Better for Video Marketing Than Twitter
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Dan Zarrella
  Continuing my series of Facebook sharing data (if you’re curious about my methodology, read the first post), I looked at articles that had the word “video” in their titles.

  It turns out that those storie…

• Why Authors, Agents, and Publishers Should Embrace Google Book Search
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Michael Hyatt’s Blog
  Since Google introduced its Book Search program, we have been fielding questions from authors and agents. They are concerned that Google has scanned their books and the results are showing up in Google search….
• Worlds Without Maps
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: chrisbrogan.com
  Why is social media of interest to businesses right now? The answer is simple: it’s what the people are doing. Who benefits the most from connecting with people via these channels? Companies who adapt to the…
• Introduction: Content that Works: A series of hand-crafted posts about how businesses should use content that isn’t crap
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com
  This post is the beginning of a series of posts about content.
  As it is the beginning, I thought I’d start with a complex and indiscernible examination of the nature and meaning of content, maybe somethin…
• Give and Grow Rich: The Power of Focused Generosity
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Copyblogger
  There are two kinds of people on the Internet: the greedy and the generous.
  The greedy want you to pay for everything. Every link is an affiliate link. Every recommendation has a profit motive. The really good…
• Effective Blog Design Part 1
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Search Engine Journal
  Blogs have almost become as ubiquitous as the internet itsself. With powerful CMS tools like Wordpress and Blogger it’s never been easier to start a blog. In past articles I’ve spoken about the need to hi…
• Five Ways to Heal American Capitalism
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: The Conversation
  Three things have to happen in concert to heal the ailing American democratic capitalist system:Senior executives have to be helped out of a conflicted state in which they know they are living inauthentic busin…
• 4 Ways to Really Make Your Internal Links Work Hard For You
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Daily SEO Tip
  *The following is the guest post by Duncan*
  External hyperlinks are great for SEO, but it’s the internal variety that you can manipulate to your heart’s content and optimise for search engines. Given this l…
• Washington Post Offers Subscription Model App for iPhone
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: ReadWriteWeb
  In the continuing effort to stop the bleeding, newspapers continue to try new ways to recover some losses and stop giving away all of their content for free. As online advertising has not proven sufficient to f…
• The Problem With Social Media
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Am I the only one struggling with a consistent and coherent definition for the term “social media?” What is social media, who came up with the term, and who defines it now?

  In my quest to better understand…

• Socialtext 4.0 Adds Groups, Channels
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebWorkerDaily
  Socialtext, the enterprise social network, collaborative workspace and microblogging tool (see our previous coverage) today announced the launch of Socialtext 4.0. The major updates in this release are centered…
• How To Organize People In Real Time: Groundcrew
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Better Health
  Jay Parkinson has recently found a nice service that is in beta version now. It’s called Groundcrew and lets you organize people in real time by combining the power of Google Maps with your online communities…
• How-To: Setup an Airport Extreme in Bridge Mode
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: TheAppleBlog
  When our community went live for ATT U-Verse, we jumped right on the opportunity to get a service with advanced voice, data and TV on the same line. Unfortunately, we found out that U-Verse requires you use t…
• Blogging For Dummies – An Opportunity For Personal Branding
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Jeffbullas's Blog
  This blog has been inspired by Jan who contacted me through Twitter saying, “Would I think about doing an article on “Blogging For Dummies”.
  Jan has just started a blog and she said in her first post on…
• Optimizing the Content Distribution Network
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Social Media Blog by Michael Brito
  This may seem obvious to some but I come across many brands (big and small) who have yet to optimize their content distribution network. A content distribution network is sometimes referred to as the “hub and…
• How to use Twitter to crowd-source creativity
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: {grow}
  I have a “virtual” company. Well, it’s a real company, but I don’t have a building and employees and all that traditional stuff. I work with a posse of freelancers who might be spread out all over the…
• Q&A: How will e-mail, social media marketing merge?
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  It’s probably the right move: ExactTarget decided it would be better off buying an enterprise-focused Twitter startup instead of building a social media …
• 6 Critical Services Agencies Must Provide to Stay Relevant in Social Media
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media Consulting
  Is there a future for agencies in a social media world?
  Yesterday, I gave a presentation in Tempe, AZ to Agencyside, a conference of advertising and PR agency owners. I emphasized that to remain relevant, agenc…
• Meet 5 Entrepreneurs Who Run Circles Around Social Media Gurus
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Conversation Agent
  “If you don’t understand business and the whole idea of economics and ecology, and sociology, you cannot be an entrepreneur.” [quote adapted from Hartmut Esslinger interview about design]You should pay attentio…
• Why the social-media aggregator has croaked
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  It had nothing to do with who was behind them, but rather the core concepts; the average Web user simply doesn’t use enough social-media services to have …
• Social Capital: The Currency of the Social Economy
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Brian Solis
  The convention for creating financial opportunities is evolving and changing the way we seed prospects, promote our expertise and prowess, and connect with those who can help us learn and advance through the f…
• Brand-Yourself.com Launches Platform to Manage Your Personal Brand Online
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
  As the Wednesday columnist for Personal Branding Blog, I’m excited to announce my team and I just officially launched Brand-Yourself.com, a new platform that demystifies the process of building your personal…
• Omniture, Facebook Expand Social Media Marketing Partnership
  Published: March 3, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  … Facebook ad campaign metrics alongside other media channels and increase their ad spend on the social network using tools they’re already familiar with. …
• What the Numbers on Your Credit Card Mean [The More You Know]
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Lifehacker
  The string of numbers on you credit card houses a batch of information. For instance, the first number tells you what kind of card it is—4 for Visa, 5 for MasterCard, and so on. Visa cards are always 16 digit…
• No Microsoft, General Taxation Is Not the Answer to Malware
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: GigaOM
  Microsoft Vice President for Trustworthy Computing Scott Charney today at the RSA conference in San Francisco proposed an Internet usage tax to fight malware infections and the effects of botnets. But do users…
• The App Everyone is Talking About: A Guide to Marketing an iPhone App
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: MacMegasite
  New York, NY – Yes, there’s money to be made in the App Store and everyone wants in on the action. More than 40 million iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 1 billion apps through Apple’s…
• Carol Bartz on Yahoo: It's all about data
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blog
  Yahoo is celebrating its 15th birthday this week, and a lot has changed since 1995. The company once known for its search business has ceded control of that area to Microsoft in a deal that is still waiting for…
• Which Marriages Last 10 Years?
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: WebMD Health
  Being young, being childless, and, for women, not living with two parents at age 14 all predict lower odds of a marriage surviving 10 years, the CDC reports.
• Virgin America Drops Flash From Web Site
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: Daring Fireball
  The Register:

  Start-up airline Virgin America has decided HTML is “good enough”
  for animating online content on its brand-new website, which went
  live Monday, dumping Flash. […] Virgin picked HTML…

• Survey Findings: Marketing Executives Squeezed to Please
  Published: March 2, 2010
  Source: WebGuild RSS for Social Media
  Regarding companies’ presence on social media sites, large companies are more likely to have a presence on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and MySpace while …

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