Curated Stories Mar. 12, 2010

Photo credit: Karen Wickre via Danny Sullivan
The following was cross-posted on the new Edelman Digital web site.
Another month, another visit to Silicon Valley – my home away from home – and, with it,…

The Small Business Web, a loosely affiliated group of web app providers that cater to small businesses, today launched a handy directory that not only lets you know which companies belong to the group and what…

ClickZ is running an article today about Yelp’s current legal troubles. I’m quoted in the article (at the end) and I come across as a staunch defender of Yelp.
While I do admire the loyalty they’ve built…

Simon Singh: This is goodbye. Being sued for libel is not only ruinously expensive, writes Simon Singh, it takes over your whole life. Which is why this will be his last column. Previously.

In my experience of over two decades of coaching executives in their public speaking, I rarely run across one who has both the time and the inclination to do what it takes to deliver a great speech. Most of the…

While corporations are still trying to figure out the long term marketing benefits of social media, the security issues faced are a right now a problem. …

Ladies! It’s time to speak out about our frustrating online shopping experiences. How many times do you arrive at a clothing web site looking for a fabulous pair of jeans or a pair of yoga pants that really fi…

For major publishers, covering real-time and local information is increasingly a struggle. As budgets and bureaus shrink, publications are competing with never ending updates from social media and young upstart…

Whether it’s LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook, 85% of financial services professionals under the age of 50 are using social media, …

We do a decent amount of social media coverage here at Ars, but not everything that happens with …

With so many websites, blogs and books available on how to use twitter effectively, I’ve yet to see anyone dedicate an article, post or page on “How to Fight on Twitter“. And there’s a perfectly good…

On Wednesday, we told you about the history of four civic organizations. But as we all know, there are plenty more groups doing great work. Here are the stories of four more civic organizations you’ve surel…

While getting a big check from Uncle Sam feels pretty cool, it also means that you’re probably withholding too much from your paycheck each month. Kiplinger’s…

Chris Allison is a social media strategist at NeboWeb, where he helps clients make the most of the social web. You can follow him on Twitter as the voice behind @Neboweb.As social media marketing becomes more…

Smart post on designing for conversion – valuable framework – http://bit.ly/bftsMO (via @carsonified)

As PaidContent’s David Kaplan observes, at the top of the New York Times, it was a very good year.
(In the newsroom? Not so much.)
Read the rest of this story »See Also:Staffers To New York Times: Innovate F…

In case you havent seen these yet, here are the most recent articles from The Measurement Standard, the newsletter I publish. And if youd like a no-charge monthly subscription, just click here to sign up.Measur…

Note: This post was originally published on OPEN Forum. It is republished here with permission.
By now you’ve probably read or heard of stories of employees getting fired or tweeting their way out of a job of…

Make it stop!! The constant, incessant drip, drip, drip is driving me mad.
First, I need to come clean and admit I have a problem. I like to learn and thanks to content marketing I have turne…

I recently came across a plug-in for Gmail called Rapportive which I think is a great step in the right direction for Social CRM. In the past, when I send or receive emails from people, I have often wished th…

The more facts you give someone, the better armed they are to make a decision – like when you ask a customer to be featured in a case study or success story.
Typically, a sales or account manager asks the…

Lucie Morillon / Reporters Without Borders:
Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0 — The fight for free access to information is being played out to an ever greater extent on the Internet. The emerging general tre…

When Stevie Wonder first sang “I just called to say I love you,” no one wondered whether he would have been better off tweeting his message instead of picking up the phone. Not so today.

Recently, in my W…

One of the series of posts that we’re building here at ProBlogger is all about what to do in the first week of your new blog. We’re assuming you’ve already got your domain, chosen your blog platform and h…

Embedded here, a little teaser video for The Story of Bottled Water, created by the same people behind “The Story of Stuff” (Wikipedia). Looks neat. Im a big fan of tap water. I spend a fair amount of time in…

One of the best articles I’ve read – analysis of future UI’s – http://bit.ly/cYBV9D (via @uxmag)

For this, our next in the Kitchen Table Talks series, I’m going to emphasize a point I was trying to make about business cards: namely, we shouldn’t just hand them out willy nilly. We do it because we’re…

I stumbled on a great typo last night. “Staff in the lobby were wondering around…”Wandering around is an aimless waste of time.Wondering around, though, that sounds useful.Wondering why this product is the wa…

How many of you knew me in 2008? In 2007? Far fewer of you than today, I’m sure. There’s a lot of good stuff on this blog – and on your blog – that you’ve undoubtedly missed if you’re a relatively n…

Facebook has opened up registration for its F8, it’s developer conference in April. Tickets for professionals are $325. Students get in for $50.
There expected to be two big announcements at the conference.

Fa…

Microsoft launched a site dubbed the MSN Video Player in the U.K. Thursday that aims to be something of a U.K. version of Hulu, featuring TV shows like Peep Show, League of Gentlemen and Doctor Who. It’s p…

With the upcoming launch of Apple’s iPad, publishers have been rushing to debut new digital designs for their publications. But one thing has been overlooked: many of these changes could be beneficial to PCs.
T…

Here’s a definition:
A thought leader is a futurist or person who is recognized for innovative ideas and demonstrates the confidence to promote or share those ideas as actionable distilled insights.

For me t…

One of the biggest concerns executives voice about social media is the lack of control. The idea that anyone can comment, share or disagree with you makes people uncomfortable. Of course the fact that you k…

I participated in an amazing social media webinar today from MENG. The expert roundtable included members of the newly formed MENG Social Media Council (Mack Collier, Paul Dunay, Beth Harte, Drew McLellan,…

I’m hoping by now the “selling is bad” phase of the social media mantra is passe and we can all freely embrace our inner capitalist. Right?
Earlier this week I wrote about a growing trend toward sponso…

The growing popularity of Twitter has lead thousands of businesses to launch profiles, and there is no surer way for a company to be seen as ‘not getting it’ as to not be tweeting.
In March the UK’s Dai…

Perhaps the most difficult aspects of Social Media to embrace are the changes in our behavior and overall philosophy it necessitates in order to earn relevance and ultimately prominence in consumer hearts, min…

How to Boost Your Customer Referrals in 7 Simple StepsThis content from: Duct Tape Marketing
This post is a special Make a Referral Week guest post featuring education on the subject of referrals and word of mo…

At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. Bu…

A step-by-step guide to making a smart choice between the Wi-Fi-only and 3G versions of the tablet from Apple.

AP – Twitter can now let the world automatically know your whereabouts as well as your thoughts and activities.

We flatter ourselves by imagining that we live in an age of endless invention and innovation. We don’t. By almost any reasonable measure the inventions of the last few decades pale against the great invention…

From Romenesko: “NPR blogger uses all of Tribune CEO’s banned words in one sentence”

He lent a helping hand to a legendary incarcerated pedestrian lone gunman (the perpetrator who over in a neighboring state,…

Google late Wednesday rolled out an alternate take on Google Reader that superficially makes things simpler but is also ideally suited to tablets. Google Reader Play switches from Reader’s usual plain list vie…

This week geo-crazy mavens were pleased to hear of location-based updates to Facebook, the launch of Foursquare analytics and of course yesterday’s news of Gowalla’s comment and picture functionality.

So far…

In this weeks QA, Frank explains exactly how the pros put so much spin on the ball.

Since Linchpin was published six weeks ago, I’ve gotten some terrific email. Most of it is about individuals who used the ideas in the book to instigate a process of self-reinvention or validation. Some of the…

It seems like in the past few months Google has relentlessly released new applications, some of which perhaps could have used some more baking in the oven before they were unleashed on the general public. To so…

Knowing that you’re getting a federal tax refund is awesome, but the wait for it to land in your bank account or mailbox can be maddening. Finance blog Get Ric…

When Jane Sellers moved to California in 1943 her sixteen year-old school pal, Hugh Hefner, began writing to her. Their friendship and correspondence endured for sixty years.

Im in Austin where we just announced a partnership with the Dachis Group at their Social Business Summit. Lee Bryant is talking about how to build more efficient and effective organizations. What follows is a…