Curated Stories Feb. 3, 2010

I attended my twelfth World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this past week. In previous years, there were exuberant “dot-com” savants (1999), self-assured US diplomats just before the invasion of Iraq (2003…

How many of your customers use social media today? What do they use and how do they use it? If you were to start actively participating in social media, what would your customers expect from you?
And does a…

A hangover has never felt so good. Yesterday at this exact time, I was the unemployed writer of a blog on my journey through unemployment. I had one follower, a friend who was just being nice, and a handful of…

Want to know what it takes to start, and develop, a successful career path in the realm of social media? I recently had the pleasure of talking with 17 …

“Now that democracy is truly for sale, Murray Hill Incorporated is offering top dollar.”

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In the marketing world there are several ways that people refer to new media marketing. There are phrases such as:
Inbound marketing
Internet marketing
Web marketing
Social media marketing
Online marketing…

The World Economic Forum has wrapped up and the small town of Davos is being returned to the skiers. I’ve developed my top ten themes from the five-day event. I’ll post five today and five tomorrow.
1. The…

The term ‘engagement‘ is popping up all over the place.
Using social media channels as a broadcast medium won’t get the result you’re after. Engagement is the key to success.
According to the Alteri…

If there’s any one thing that can be said about SEO with certainty, it’s that it manages to cause a lot of confusion.
For example, it seems like many people’s idea of SEO was formed 10 years ago, and has…

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I never joined Twitter to Tweet with celebrities and even now, two years after joining, it’s a small part of why I love Twitter so much. However, after Justin Timberlake (@jtimberla…

A report by Manpower employer services found that only 29% of companies in the Americas have a “formal policy regarding employee use of social networking sites.” The number is lower in other regions — 25%…

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At the recent Niche Affiliate Marketing System event, I had the honor of sharing the stage with the amazing Willie Crawford, a legend in the Internet Marketing world. We did an informal presentation about how…

Yesterday, Dave McClure got the tech blogosphere talking, once again, about the debate between free products, largely built on advertising, and subscription models with consistent recurring revenues. His post,…

Tom Brown submits: After I described President Obama’s financial regulatory reform proposals as “asinine” here last week, readers squawked that I wasn’t being constructive. “So is your only mission ra…

Brad DeLong submits:
12/08 Baseline: What the Obama Administration forecast in late 2008 the unemployment rate would be if Bush Administration fiscal policy were retained and the ARRA were not passed.12/08 B…

As businesses move at a rapid pace to integrate social media as part of their overall corporate strategy to engage, build brand awareness and drive thought leadership, unfortunately, security has ta…

Years ago, when I was still in college, I was a summer intern for a non-profit organization. I had competed against scores of candidates and won a spot on a prestigious sales team. It paid $65.00 a week. I was…

10,000 years ago, civilization forked. Farming was invented and the way many people spent their time was changed forever.Clearly, farming is a very different activity from hunting. Farmers spend time sweating t…

2009 was a banner year for Salesforce.com. The enterprise cloud computing company made significant enhancements to its product lineup, reported overall strong earnings, and even launched their own take on real…

If you’ve been following the blogging and social media scene over the last five or more years, you know that there’s one heated debate that keeps on showing up: the debate about comments on blogs. Should bl…

Presentation sharing site SlideShare today adds a new Channels service to its professional content sharing arsenal, allowing businesses and brands to create custom microsites within the community. With Channels…

On the heels of last week’s iPad announcement, I had the good fortune yesterday of asking Chris Anderson via telephone what he thinks will happen to print magazines (and publishing in general) as we move fur…