Curated Stories Feb. 10, 2010

While it’s true that sometimes nothing beats the atmosphere and personal attention of dinner at a fine restaurant, it can also set you back $100 or more. Try re-creating the experience at home for less than hal…

If you’ve ever tried to use Twitter Search, you know that it’s got some pretty serious problems. First, the site only lets you search back through a couple weeks of tweets. Even worse, the service doesn’…

There’s a debate raging about the value — or criminality — of what could be called the ‘aggregation economy’.
Mark Cuban, whose media and sports interests all revolve around content creation, has come out swi…

On Tuesday, President Obama strode into the White House Briefing Room, surprising the reporters there. He had just held the first of a new string of meetings — a bipartisan gathering involving congressional l…

Trader Mark submits:A nice find by Calculated Risk on the NIFB Small Business report. Long time readers of FMMF will be struck by some of the quotes from the group; they could literally have been ripped from t…

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The research studies, expert opinions and post-mortems are rolling in. For some, the Super Bowl is the biggest game of the year. For others, it’s the biggest (and certainly the most expensive) television advert…

Curb Your Enthusiasm was one of the highlights of the last decade, as far as the TV is concerned. One single episode contains more belly laughs than a whole year’s worth of comedy programming on BBC3.
And w…

Nearly every business has a website and we all know that Google (and to a much lesser extent Yahoo!, Bing and other search engines) help people find products and services they want. The challenge is to make su…

I’ve been in the social media space now for quite a few years and I meet with at least 5 companies each week who have understood the importance of utilizing social media for their businesses but are still afr…

What if I told you that it was possible to use a magic machine at home that could make anything…and that maybe you could use it to conjure up “things” to sell as part of your job?

Maybe you’d think I w…

Social media is changing the way top-down companies are run, affecting recruiting, communications, research and development, and even how things are made. But have you considered how social networking is enabli…

On the web, the battle rages on every time a example of paid content or expertise comes on the scene.
I’m not talking about sponsored posts or tweets – that’s a different argument that we’ll have to hav…

Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Follow him on Twitter for more social media insights.Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 and h…

Facebook and AOL announced last night a partnership that will integrate a user’s Facebook friends into their AOL Instant Messager. The announcement came on a day when Google announced its new attempt at captur…

Continuing my series on digital marketing strategy development problems, today we tackle issue #4: executing the bad ideas of others.
The problem, as stated in the original post:
4. Placating executives by…

Most of the links in this post are to the people I have learned the most from over the past three years. Please click on their links and check them out. They offer a great deal to this space, and I am forever i…

A few weeks ago, I presented the dilemma of blogger Jared (Moon Over Martinborough), who recently began podcasts and was concerned that his oral delivery didn’t sound sufficiently “campfire-story”-esque….

A couple of days ago Ad Age published an article entitled “In the age of friending, consumers trust their friends less.” The main finding that they presented, in the sub-title, was “Edelman study shows th…

Left: Pepsi launched a bold social marketing play, find out what went well –and what opportunities were missed.
Greetings, fellow strategists, In my latest column for the Forbes CMO Network (you can read all…

In the era of the real-time Web, information travels at a greater velocity than the infrastructure of mainstream media can support as it exists today. As events materialize, the access to social publishing and…

We’ve looked at many ways in which giving importance to social interaction and integration of online and off line leads to better engagement with customers — new and existing. Social is also inspiring many t…

Aren’t social media and email more alike than they are different? Both seek to keep your brand top-of-mind with customers and prospects, communicating in a relevant, timely way that ideally is measurable and…

Facebook is the world’s largest social network. It recently passed the
400m registered user mark and is now the a top five web property
according to comScore.But Facebook is fast becoming more than just the wor…

Zoe Miller, 14, likes J.D. Salingers quot;The Catcher in the Ryequot; so much that her copy is dog-eared from multiple readings. And she wishes her parents had spelled her name Zooey instead of Zoe,…

What are the sociodemographic characteristics of the communities in which retail clinics are located? The answer may not be what you’d expect. Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine

This ought to stir the pot up a little: This Ignored Demographic Shows What You Can Learn When You Look Beyond Social-Media Elites While most in the social media bubble would have you believe that Tw…

In the last few months several startups have asked me how to approach corporate blogging. Judging by the frequency of requests, Gartner was right in suggesting that corporate blogging is rising up the “slope of…

I, along with many others, constantly rave about Windows Live Writer. It is probably my favorite current application. I could easily give another sermon about it.
But not tonight. Rather, I’m going to t…

While end users are eager to try out Google Buzz for themselves, many of the Web’s largest social properties have expressed a certain amount of fear, uncertainty and doubt about the search giant’s move into the…

The team at Slate have taken the Google Super Bowl ad and inserted a dose of Tiger Woods for our enjoyment.

I only know about first impressions of Google Buzz because once I saw what it did to my Gmail inbox, which is a mission-critical app for me, my mission became How do I turn this off?
This came after I learned t…

For my first few years out of college I worked as a salesman in the publishing industry. I didn’t have anyone reporting to me. It was just me, a telephone, and an order pad. I didn’t even have a computer….

How much is a good idea worth? According to Derek Sivers, not much:

It’s so funny when I hear people being so protective of ideas. (People who want me to sign an NDA to tell me the simplest idea.) To me, ide…

As a big Beatles fan, I sure wish I was there 46 years ago when the Fab Four appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time. Since we haven’t quite worked out that whole time travel thing yet, I’ll…