Curated Stories Feb. 25, 2010

and you have, because they’re automatically posting the same content across different social media networks. Piping feeds from one network to another is a …

Some corporations will attempt to maximize the business value of each
individual worker, stripping out all the extraneous human factors. Chinese walls will be erected to keep the outside from the inside, the pe…

In the last post, we talked about a visualization tool that would allow us to tag ourselves and each other, and how that could be helpful for locating talent and sparking innovation. There have been great comm…

Yes, the Web is big. So big, in fact, that a new study finds that most Web sites are never visited at all.

People are busy and increasingly pulled in many directions: working, raising a family, maintaining a home, pursuing personal ambitions, and socializing with friends are all conflicting interests vying for an in…

If you fully realize the value of social media, then you’re constantly trying to parse, scrub, clean and otherwise organize your Twitter account. It’s a never-ending battle and often a steep, uphill one at that…

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.So your business is on Facebook, a…

I’m not sure if you know the back story of why I decided to launch social media monitoring tool Trackur.
After completing Radically Transparent, I felt like there was a huge void between thos…

The following series is pulled from a presentation I gave to a group of beauty bloggers hosted by L’Oreal in New York. Most of the presentation is geared toward how to make a blog more search engine and user-…

Return on Investment (ROI) is one of the most discussed and agonized-over topics in social business today. However, much of the discussion around social media ROI has been simply confused, confusing or misgui…

Exercise does the body good, but it’s not always a good idea. Some aches and pains can make working out a definite no-no. Knowing when to work out or when to wait it out can be perplexing. The key is to be able…

LONDON (AP) — Nike will continue to support Tiger Woods even though the world’s best player has taken an indefinite leave from golf to deal with personal issues.

We posted yesterday about WordPress.com founder Matt Mullenweg and his view that cloud computing is marketing speak.

The conversation followed a significant WordPress.com outage. In our research looking into…

ReadItLater, the company behind the web browser add-ons and mobile applications that let busy web surfers mark articles for later reading, has just released a new service that will make it easier for you to fin…

Meredith, the magazine publisher, is taking on functions of ad agencies, as the Wall Street Journal describes in detail today. It’s a smart move by Meredith and it’s inevitable as we shift from selling scar…

Webtrends, a company that offers marketers detailed web analytics, has rolled out new measurement capabilities for Facebook, including the ability to view Facebook data alongside data for other channels.Tools…

Forget Monster, CareerBuilder, or Craigslist. In this super-competitive job market, employers have to go beyond just posting on job boards to make sure they’re reaching top candidates.
Read the rest of this st…

Recently I wrote about how the Fortune 100 in the USA were using Twitter so this recent study just released reveals some interesting trends for the Global Fortune 100 largest companies and their use of Socia…

Bleak times ahead for email according to Gartner, which is predicting
that social networks will claim a growing share of communication among
business users.Seems plausible enough, though any reports of the deat…

Yesterday I was speaking to Mike Martin, president of Practice Support Resources, Inc, in Independence, Missouri. He was just back from a trip evaluating specialty practices for sale to hospitals. He tell…

By ROB LAMBERTS I am writing this as a representative of the examination room – one who sits facing patients, dealing with our healthcare delivery system on a daily basis. I am writing this as one who will bear…

In this 28-minute presentation, Jesse Schell talks about the psychological and economic aspects of Facebook games and what that means for the future of gaming and living. If you make products or software that o…

The question for today’s post comes from Meg Geddes aka NetMeg. She wants to know more about setting up caching on WordPress.
Ok, let’s get the big question out of the way. What is caching and why do you w…

I have to get something off my chest. I’m going to try not to sound too ranty, and I really do want to know what you think (especially if you don’t agree).
We live in a culture of Free. Free is not bad. But…

The majority of marketers are experimenting with social media, and plan to do more of it. Even if they don’t really understand what they’re doing, how to reconcile strategy with tactics…or how to measure ROI…

This is important to note as it exemplifies the difference of Search versus Social Media. In Social Media, we get people talking about what they think and …

I’ve seen a couple of surveys recently which suggest that showing the prices for a competing e-commerce site is something that consumers want, and that can be beneficial for etailers.
It seems counter-intuiti…

Guest post from Susan Baier, a 20-year marketing strategy veteran with an MBA in Entrepreneurship. Her company Audience Audit provides strategic marketing support and audience segmentation research that helps o…

We’ve seen a flood of expert opinion, statistics, and posts about the rise of social media and the demise of traditional …

I’ve written before about overcoming setbacks to your personal brand, but that piece specifically focused on your brand’s name. What about when your personal brand takes a hit in the workplace or in some wa…

It’s not just digital PR that needs a tune up in measurement, marketing does, too. Especially at budget time. Northwestern University professor (emeritus-in-service) of integrated marketing Don E. Schultz just…

If you have spent any time around social marketing you probably know that SEO and social media go hand and hand. (Well you have at least heard about it, right?) So, how do you turn your Twitter account into a s…

*This is a guest post by Christopher Holland*
I recently signed up to a few business and SEO forums and was amazed at what people still recommend.
As there are so many people offering outdated or wrong tips…

AdMob, the mobile advertising network currently being acquired by Google, this morning featured the latest results of its monthly analysis of consumer usage and attitudes across the Android, iPhone and webOS ap…

Adam Baker, blogger at Man vs. Debt, canceled all his credit cards 15 months ago. His credit score dropped just 10 points, but he learned a lot about that score, and what financial reviewers are looking for, by…

In the event you noticed things have been a tad quiet of late, I have been preparing for and participating in a two-day social media retreat with Thomas Power of Ecademy and Bob Barker of Alterian in Menlo Park…

MIssed this when it came out a week or so ago, but it’s worth posting about after the fact a bit. The Small Business Success Index reports that social media adoption among small businesses has doubled from 12…

Editor’s note: This guest post is written by Marc Benioff, chairman and CEO of salesforce.com. In it, he explains why enterprise software should take its cues from Facebook and become more social.
I quit my…

A few days ago, I noted that Seesmic Web had perfected the management of Twitter contacts. I was wrong. A new service has been brought to my attention that is much, much better. Actually, it’s a must-use.
Whi…

Gmail Labs, the experimental Gmail playground in which every Google engineer can write a Gmail feature, sometimes retires features that aren’t used very much, and graduates commonly used features, turning th…

Is ‘checking in’ at places using location-based mobile apps like Foursquare and Brightkite resulting in us enjoying life a little less? Is there such a thing as too much data for a fun activity such as running?…

I have spent the last three days at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in New York. This conference is designed to address the issues related to publishing and technology. This was my seco…

Rachel Donadio / New York Times:
Larger Threat Is Seen in Google Case — ROME — Three Google executives were convicted of violating Italian privacy laws on Wednesday, the first case to hold the company…

A well known rule of thumb in business is the so-called Pareto principle (or the 80/20 rule) that 20% of participants will account for 80% of the activity. Metrics firm Nielsen decided to test …

Ernesto Perez-Carrillo III, one of three family members who run EPC Cigars, decided to use the Internet and social media for marketing the business. …

For the last few weeks there’s been all this talk about some site called PleaseRobMe that uses Twitter’s API to post the Tweets of people (mainly using location “check-in” service Foursquare) announcing that th…

This is a guest post by Mike Rohde. We hired Mike to illustrate original art for REWORK. Each one of the 90 essays in REWORK is accompanied by an illustration that captures the key message of the essay. We aske…

How well do you know your web site visitors? What makes them tick? What makes them abandon your shopping cart or simply leave your site, never to return? What if you could read their minds and fix your site bas…

While companies are starting to adopt Social Media for online marketing campaigns, and even letting employees participate, the question of ROI (Return on Investment) arises, along with doubts about …

Earlier today, conversation tracking site UberVu launched Compare. The service allows you type your name and a competitor’s name into search boxes to produce information on your competing brand conversations on…

Inspiring this blog post is Augie Ray of social media and Forrester fame, who tweeted this gem today:

The latest numbers show most people give Twitter a 10-tweet tryout and give up. Augie wanted …

Google has announced that it has added a new content source to its real-time search feature: Facebook Pages.Google launched real-time search in December, providing a real-time feed of information from Yahoo An…

Online retailers have made a lot of progress in the past year, increasing conversions, sales and customer satisfaction rates in the 2009 holiday season. But that doesn’t mean that consumers are happy with the o…

I read an interesting article on information age a few days ago which references some new Gartner predictions around Social CRM. According to the article:
“Over 80% of growth in enterprise use of social net…

Looking to integrate your analytical data and tracking across your site, blog and now even your Facebook Fanpages? It appears that the UK’s WebDigi Dev team has figured out a pretty easy way to use Google Ana…