Whew! A lot going on today!
- Does Collaboration Impact Business Performance?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Social Media GlobetrotterRecently I highlighted and reviewed a report by Frost Sullivan which talked about the impact of collaboration on overall business performance. The report was created a few years ago and was thus slightly dat…
- Top 5 Ways to Make Your Site More Fun
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Mashable!Gabe Zichermann is the author of the books “Game-Based Marketing” (Wiley, now available) and “Funware in Action” (Manning, Q3/2010). He is also the CEO of professional mobile social networking startup…
- The Story Behind Facebook Threatening To Sue Developer Into Oblivion For Highlighting Useful Facebook Data
Published: April 7, 2010Source: TechdirtFacebook’s lawyers have been getting pretty nasty lately. We recently covered the company’s threats against the creator of a useful Greasemonkey script, and now a developer named Pete Warden has shared the sor…
- Five Reasons Why the HP Slate Doesn’t Beat the iPad
Published: April 7, 2010Source: TechnologizerThe Microsoft following media has been tripping over itself this week, seemingly discounting the iPad as too bulky, too clunky, too simple. Some have even pointed to HP’s Slate as the superior device. Lucky f…
- Will Columbia-Trained, Code-Savvy Journalists Bridge the Media/Tech Divide?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: EpicenterPhoto of Columbia University at night courtesy of Flickr/Gustavo Faraon
Columbia University will soon begin offering a combined engineering and journalism degree, a unique program the Ivy League institution hop… - Tweeting 101: A Twitter Cheat Sheet
Published: April 7, 2010Source: WebWorkerDailyI put together the following “Twitter Cheat Sheet” for a client, and thought it might be also helpful for others who are still struggling with how to get started with Twitter. It provides some gentle guidel…
- Even Steve Jobs Would Want the Joule iPad Stand [Ipad]
Published: April 7, 2010Source: GizmodoI’m glad someone actually took the time to design a simple stand that not only matches the iPad’s industrial design but makes it look even better. The Joule’s…
- How to Improve Employee Retention
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Inc.comIn a down economy, employees have fewer opportunities to take a job at another company, but entrepreneurs would be remiss to take their fingers off the pulse of company morale simply because employees have fewe…
- The iPad is Steve Jobs’ final victory over the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak. (Tim Wu/Slate)
Published: April 7, 2010Source: TechmemeTim Wu / Slate:
The iPad is Steve Jobs’ final victory over the company’s co-founder Steve Wozniak. — In 2006, professor Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School predicted that over the next decade there… - James Taylor & Carole King "intimate" arena shows
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Boing BoingI admit it. Hell, I’m proud of it. I have a thing for the best singer/songwriters to come out of the 1960s and 1970s — Dylan, Baez, Leonard Cohen, Cat Stevens, and of course James Taylor and Carole King…
- How ‘Newsful’ is Your Content?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Social Media TodayAnd, are the days of the ‘inverted pyramid release’ over? In the world of user-led media, one form of content is always coveted by the recipient more than most. Surprisingly, it’s not somethin…
- How Cloud Computing Can Help A Small Business Get Out of the Recession
Published: April 7, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebCloud computing creates enough disruptions for small businesses that it seems almost folly when we hear some of the stories we do.
We heard one story about an IT department that said that the company could no…
- Yahoo Publishes A Style Guide For The Internet
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderYahoo! is publishing its own stylebook for the Internet.
“The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing, And Creating Content For The Digital World” will hit stores on July 6, 2010 at $21… - Who Uses Facebook Apps? Is The Platform Dying?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: All Facebook“Who uses Facebook apps?” was a question posed to me over the weekend while out for a night on the town in Chicago. Unfortunately, this has become an increasingly common question among many of my friends….
- Online Advertising Revenues Reach Record Quarterly High
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Mashable!The end of 2009 showed a record high in online ad spending – $6.3 billion for Q4. This is the largest amount ever spent on online advertising in a single quarter, according to the Internet Advertising Bureau…
- 10 Major Rebranding Disasters And What You Should Learn From Them
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderA brand identity, name, and logo is a company’s public face. So you’d think companies would be really careful in figuring out how to revamp that image.
Sadly, a good number of recent rebranding attempts seemed… - How to Ask for a Reference Letter
Published: April 7, 2010Source: The ConversationIn the 2009 film “Up in the Air,” Natalie Keener decides she can no longer stomach being part of a corporate firing squad and quits her firm. Her mentor, played by George Clooney, behaves as the magnanimous gen…
- What is content, then?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: BuzzMachineIn the discussion about the iPad, much has been made of its nature as a content consumption — versus creation — device. I lament its limitations as a tool of creation. Howard Owens, speaking for many, tells…
- Lessons From Yelp’s Ordeal: Retaining Customer Trust is Key
Published: April 7, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebHere at ReadWriteStart, we’ve mentioned the importance of credibility as an entrepreneur when meeting with venture capitalists and potential investors, but it is also important to carry that credibility forward…
- Top Cringe-Inducing Social Media Cliches
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Social Media TodayYeah–you know what I’m talking about. Those phrases you hear over and over again. The ones that make you curl your toes, and not in a good way. The ones that you can’t help turning to the person n…
- Beyond Multitasking: Our Wishlist for iPhone 4.0
Published: April 7, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebJust a few days after the launch of the iPad, Apple plans to reveal more details about the next version of the iPhone operating system tomorrow. As with any Apple product, rumors about the new iPhone OS, which…
- Internet Openness In Grave Danger With Net Neutrality Ruling
Published: April 7, 2010Source: About Freelance WritingYesterday the Washington DC Court of Appeals imposed limits on the FCC’s ability to regulate the internet.
What’s up is the media corporations who bring us internet connections desire to earn even more mo… - Want to Insert Ads Into Your iPad-Enabled, HTML5 Videos? There’s a Service for That
Published: April 7, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebmDialog, a four-year-old Canadian-based video platform company, is announcing the launch of their new Apple-focused service, an “HTML5 adaptive video streaming service with dynamic ad-insertion.” In a nutshell:…
- What Are the Overlaps Between CRO and SEO?
Published: April 7, 2010FutureNow is not a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firm. I am not an SEO practitioner. So why blog about it? Because there still seems to be misunderstanding out there in the online marketing world about…
- How can brands enhance their online reputations?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: SmartBlog On Social MediaCraig Newmark (best known for his eponymous list) puts a fine point on one of the great truths of social media in the lead story of today’s SmartBrief on Social Media, arguing that “power a…
- iPad as a one-to-one presenter
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Scripting NewsThere were a huge number of comments on yesterday’s iPad piece, including a lot that said “You don’t get it” or “You’re too old to get it” or “It wasn’t designed for you” or “It wasn’t designed for what you do….
- Social Media Strategy: Are You Marketing or Communicating?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Social Media TodayCongratulations! You’ve taken that first step toward taking your brand into the digital space by bringing a social media team on board.
Now, who are the first people these folks should meet with? The… - The 5 Most Underused Personal Branding & Networking Tools
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Social Media TodayPersonal branding and networking is more than just racking up the connections. The value of connections is more than just a number in your community. But many people do not maximize the value of the…
- Dangerous UI elements and the ejector seat analogy
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Signal vs. NoiseThe Opposite of Fitts’ Law [via Berserk’s comment at the spiky button post] asks:
“What should we do with UI elements we don’t want users to click on? Like, say, the ‘delete all my work’ button?�…
- OneForty Unveils Twitter Toolkits: Get App Advice From Guy Kawasaki, Steve Rubel & More
Published: April 7, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebOne of the best ways to find out who to follow on Twitter is to find someone you really find interesting, look at who they follow, and go from there. Taking that same idea, Twitter app store OneForty, which we…
- Put Your Content Copies Under Control
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Search Engine JournalWe are all being copied. The moment any new article gets published, it is being republished on some crappy blog (more often than not, without any credit). There’s not much we can do about that.
This post is a… - iPad Keynote: A Better Mistress Than Wife
Published: April 7, 2010Source: TheAppleBlogI don’t give a ton of presentations, but I’m something of a presentation junky — one of my favorite web sites is Presentation Zen, where the author gives lessons on design theory. Therefore, I’ve been l…
- When The Process Becomes The Story: On Open Source & Creativity
Published: April 7, 2010Source: BBH LabsPosted by Zach Blank, Creative Technologist, BBH New York
We are so consumed by the communities that Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare (and our local knitting website) foster that we often forget to take a step bac… - How Can SMB Owners Learn Social Media?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaWe joke about how many ‘social media experts’ are out there these days and that they’re multiplying like rabbits. And, to be honest, …
- The Best Place to Invest Your Marketing Dollar
Published: April 7, 2010The Best Place to Invest Your Marketing DollarThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
Budgets for marketing are always tight, but these last few years, well, they’ve been stretched beyond tight.
So, how do you… - Find the latest WordPress hack
Published: April 7, 2010Both Marketing Over Coffee and my blog are getting nailed with this hack described by Chris Pearson.
Here’s the solution for tackling it, for the moment, until the attack adapts. Log into your MySQL database… - Apple’s Suggestions for Fixing iPad Wi-Fi Issues [Wi-Fi]
Published: April 7, 2010Source: LifehackerSome folks aren’t having quite the honeymoon with their barely-smudged iPad as others, because they’re finding Wi-Fi connections buggy and unreliable. Apple su…
- Maintaining Your Garden of Trust
Published: April 7, 2010Source: emergent by designThis morning I was getting some seeds started for my garden, and I was reminded of a tweet from a few weeks ago where I said something to the effect of ‘customer service is now more like gardening and less l…
- Q&A with a Story Guru: George Dutch: The Best Stories Will Save Us from the Consequences of Our Worst Behaviors
Published: April 7, 2010Source: A Storied CareerSee a photo of George, his bio, Part 1 of this QA, and Part 2.
QA with George Dutch, Question 3:
Q: The storytelling movement seems to be growing explosively. Why now? What is it about this moment in huma…
- The iPad’s first ‘killer app’
Published: April 7, 2010
- Do SEO Fast Before You Do It Best
Published: April 7, 2010Source: (EMP) E-Marketing PerformanceI generally implement my optimization campaigns in two phases. The first phase is a quick run through to get as many of the site pages “search engine friendly” as possible. The second is a much more thoroug…
- The Secret Handshake
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Conversation AgentI hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked
and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. [Oscar Wilde]The secret handshake can be something really powerful and bi… - Book Publishers Need To Create More Conversations
Published: April 7, 2010Source: The Future BuzzThe following is a guest post from Christopher Ming Ryan. Christopher is a video producer, writer, director and a principal at Wheelhouse Communications. You can follow him on twitter at @chrismingryan…
- A Prediction: Twitter to Predict the Future
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Brian SolisTrending topics reveal much more than the objects that captivate the hearts, minds, and keyboards of Twitter users around the world. Twitter’s trends is a cultural mirror that reflects the state of attention…
- Ignore Foursquare at Your Peril – An Analysis of Potential
Published: April 7, 2010Are you too dismissive of Foursquare (as well as Gowalla and the other geo-location apps)?I’m starting to hear a lot of smart people scoff at these services, primarily along these lines “Why do I care where…
- Make Visitors Comfortable…They’ll Stick Around
Published: April 7, 2010Source: (EMP) E-Marketing PerformanceYou’re paying for all those visitors who click through to your website. So….
What determines if your PPC visitors stay and engage with it?
Well, if there’s one thing we know about humans, its that they… - Metrics to Measure Your Personal Brand
Published: April 7, 2010How well branded are you? One way to find out is to use metrics – something you can measure against.
The metrics below don’t necessarily measure how effective your personal brand is (go to… - We can’t let technology kill our ability to truly communicate
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Macsimum NewsPosted by Dennis SellersWe’ve got our Macs, iPhones, iPods and, now, our iPads. That’s all well and good, but we still have to be careful or we lose our ability to communicate. Admittedly, that sounds like…
- Secrets of the biggest selling launch ever
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Seth's BlogApple reports that on the first day they sold more than $150,000,000 worth of iPads. I can’t think of a product or movie or any other launch that has ever come close to generating that much direct revenue.Are t…
- Enterprise Social Strategy Begins With Discovery
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Social Media TodayStarting a strategic social media plan can be overwhelming to a mid-to-large sized company. There are a few big questions that often cause organizational paralysis…the most daunting of which is “whe…
- PayPal’s iPhone App Hits 1 Million Downloads In Under 3 Weeks
Published: April 7, 2010Source: TechCrunchEcommerce giant eBay has been reaching big milestones with its mobile apps, and apparently PayPal, its electronic payments subsidiary, is striking a chord with mobile users around the globe as well.
The compa… - The Twitter Platform’s Inflection Point
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderI was emailing with a friend of mine yesterday who is a 30 year veteran of silicon valley. He’d written a post that was quite positive about the iPad. I sent him my post which wasn’t so positive. We had a good…
- Eating eggs for breakfast cuts calorie consumpti …
Published: April 7, 2010Eating eggs for breakfast everyday can reduce hunger and decreases calorie consumption at lunch and throughout the day, according to a new study. The study found that men who consumed an egg-based breakfast ate…
- Calacanis: Here’s My 48-Point iPad Review
Published: April 6, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderThis post is reprinted from ipad-answers.com and Jason Calacaniss email list. You can sign up for the latter here .
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Steve Jobs is a genius and we are all idiots.
That’s the conclusion I’ve come t… - Jeff Jarvis Is Returning His iPad
Published: April 6, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderJeff Jarvis, who woke up after sleeping with his iPad and decided he had made a big mistake, is returning it. So are two of his friends.
Our office iPad is still popular, but mostly because people havent had… - A Business User’s Toolbox for the iPad
Published: April 6, 2010Source: Newsome.OrgThis is Part 1 of a continuing series.
As I noted on iPaday, one of the things I am focusing on is the best and most efficient way to insert my iPad into my work flow. As a full fledged member of the rat rac… - Twitter Introduces Gizzard Distributed Datastore Framework
Published: April 6, 2010Source: ReadWriteWeb“Many modern web sites need fast access to an amount of information so large that it cannot be efficiently stored on a single computer,” Nick Kallen wrote on Twitter’s blog. “A good way to deal with this proble…
- How small businesses can use LinkedIn
Published: April 6, 2010Source: How to Change the WorldMy buddies at LinkedIn help me create a list of ten ways to use the service if you’re a small business person. Read about them here. There is also a great collection of LinkedIn tips and tricks at Linkedin.a…
- The Blog’s the Thing
Published: April 6, 2010Source: MetaFilterFamily of four maintains a book review blog as hobby A New York Times story of family spending time together via blogging their book reviews. So far, 600 followers and media credentials for the 2010 BookExpo Am…
- Screw You, Benioff
Published: April 6, 2010Source: TechCrunchIt’s late Tuesday evening and the TechCrunch office is mostly deserted. I was finishing off a few things and preparing for tomorrow when Steve Gillmor, my friend, mentor and the founding editor of TechCrunchI…
- Foursquare – I Wish It Was Better For Me…
Published: April 6, 2010Source: John Battelle's SearchblogI’ve been using Foursquare for a few months now, and I’m impressed with the service on many levels. But I have to be frank – the most impressive thing about it – at least in this test group of one – is what it…
- Kaze: What To Do with Tiger?
Published: April 7, 2010Source: 3:17 a.m.Here’s an assignment for you story tellers on the eve of the Masters. Suppose Tiger Woods weren’t real? Suppose you’d made him up? He’s now a fictional Tiger and you’re spinning the tale. What would y…
- How to turn your iPhone 3GS into a wireless iPad camera (and more) for 99-cents
Published: April 6, 2010Source: MacDailyNewsThe iPad doesn’t have a built-in camera, but you can give it something better…
- Another great iPad app: iTeleport
Published: April 6, 2010Source: The Apple CoreMany people are quick to point out the iPad’s flaws: it doesn’t play Flash, it lacks multithreaded apps, an accessible file system, yadda. The thing is, your desktop computer can do all of these perfectly…
- Retailers jump on social media bandwagon with Facebook, Twitter
Published: April 6, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaExperts disagree about whether social media sites are there to build community or to sell products. By Amy Martinez Lynaia Pulido works on Linnea Frary at …
- 10 common online reputation mistakes
Published: April 7, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogIn today’s internet-enabled world, your ‘reputation’ is arguably more important than it has ever been in the past. Increasingly, information about you and your business will find its way online, and what people…
- How online newsrooms and Social Media Releases can play an important role in …
Published: April 6, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaAttendance at this Bulldog Reporter’s PR University webinar costs just $299 per dial-in site. Participants in the 90-minute conference will be able to pose …
- Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million (Nicholas Carlson/Silicon Alley Insider)
Published: April 6, 2010Source: TechmemeNicholas Carlson / Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million — Yahoos MA deal-makers are deciding right now whether or not to buy super-hot location-based startup Foursq… - A Hidden Value of Social Conversations: Recognize the Suck
Published: April 6, 2010Source: Social Media TodayThis isn’t a post about how, as @MegFowler puts it “If you make a crappy product and treat your customers badly, all the “connecting” and ‘conversation’ in the world won’t save you”. We have lot…
- Gladwell on Facebook. Staying power possible?
Published: April 6, 2010Source: Social Media TodayThere are many reasons why I like Malcolm Gladwell (even though I don’t subscribe to his philosophy on social influence). Here’s the latest reason why’s worth listening to. Gladwell…
- How to Fix the iPad’s Wi-Fi Issues [Apple]
Published: April 6, 2010Source: GizmodoWhile we didn’t experience any troubles when we tested the iPad’s Wi-Fi, some owners are having difficulties connecting and reconnecting to wireless networks….
- HP Slate: Why It’s Hot — and Not
(PC World)Published: April 6, 2010PC World – With leaked specs and a new official video, the HP slate device is coming into focus. That means we can start mercilessly picking apart the things we like and don’t like about it. Ah, tech punditry…. - Hands-On With Honda’s U3-X, The Amazing People Mover
Published: April 6, 2010Source: TechCrunchStep aside Segway, because this is amazing. This U3-X is a tiny unicycle-like people mover designed for folks with debilitating injuries or problems walking. You sit on it, put your feet on a pair of pedals, an…
- Knowledge as a way of being, not an accumulation of facts!
Published: April 6, 2010Source: Library clipsIn the lunch area the other day my attention was pulled by the words Knowledge is being.
These words are printed on the cover of the latest issue of a magazine called Swinburne (issue 9 March 2010), here’s t… - Martha Stewart 3.0: The Evolution of MarthaStewart.com
Published: April 6, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebThree years ago we reviewed Martha Stewart’s women’s lifestyle website, marthastewart.com. At that time, April 2007, the site had just undergone a web 2.0 facelift. Martha Stewart 2.0 included more videos, blo…
- *Is the Desktop Becoming Legacy?*
Published: April 6, 2010Source: OSNewsA few years ago I wrote on OSNews several articles (1,2) about workstations. After three years I had to stop, because there were no workstations left on the market, they became legacy and were not sold any more…
- Call it Six Degrees of Social Media
Published: April 6, 2010Source: SocialMediaBlog.comFollowing up on the idea of using your social media platforms as a springboard for doing something that is greater than yourself, (see blog: Who Inherits Your Facebook Fans and Your Twitter Followers?) is this…
- Social Media—Where to Begin?!
Published: April 6, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaHere is what I would do if I was brought into a dealership or dealer group as an internet director and was tasked with getting a social media strategy off …
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Thanks for the link… looks like I’m in great company. With more homework to do
You’re most welcome. I normally put links to your posts on writing out in the Twitter stream but this one kind of transcended the “writing” category.
Great list of tips and informative article link. Thanks for sharing.