Curated Stories Mar. 18, 2010

Over the last few years LinkedIn has evolved to play a central role in professional networking and relationship building. I’ve come to find it very disappointing when I see a profile that loo…

Useful pattern framework for creating effective online communities – http://bit.ly/8Z7fPv (via @smashingmag)

The B2B Marketing series is supported by the MarketingProfs B2B Forum, where you’ll learn the ins-and-outs of social media as part of your overall B2B marketing mix. Register today!*Additional reporting by T…

More often than not, an entrepreneur with a great idea looking for funding will pitch his or her startup dozens, if not hundreds of times to potential investors. There is an endless amount of resources out ther…

In one of my first jobs, as a route salesman for Frito-Lay, I once sped my truck through a yellow light at a crowded intersection in Baltimore at rush hour. The district manager who was training me said, “You s…

Chasing viral video success can be a thankless task. The rewards are abundant, but chances of success are pretty low. In fact, according to a new study from Millward Brown, the success rate for viral campaigns…

In a recent post for ReadWriteWeb, Tim Trefren, founder of Mixpanel analytics service, writes that focusing on pageviews is no longer an effective business strategy.
If your business sells a product online, the…

Are you blogging but not sure why?

Not seeing business impact from creating blog posts?

Wondering how and why to blog for your company?

With a few quick yet critical fixes, yo…

My number one issue is childhood obesity. My mother has struggled with her weight for her entire adult life. She even experimented with lock and key on the refrigerator to prevent midnight raids for ice cream….

Twitterers mostly consume news, MySpace users want games and entertainment, Facebookers are into both news and community and Digg’s audience has a mixed bag of interests.This is all according to online adver…

If a new study is to be believed, Facebook’s popularity also rubs off on brands
Brandchannel.com, March 18, 2010 — The results of research on social media and brands by iModerate and Chadwick Martin Bailey…

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.There is no doubt that Twitter has been a runa…

I’m reading Seth Godin’s new book, “Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?” If you haven’t bought it yet, get it. I’m only on page 80 and have already found it unbelievably useful.

The concept of the…

Slash Lane / AppleInsider:
Apple exploring iPhone audio text message, walkie-talkie feature — Apple has been brainstorming a new capability that could allow iPhone users to transmit data — such as simp…

Every year, we come across dozens of new applications looking to capitalize on March Madness, when millions of basketball fans across the country try to predict the outcome of the heated 65-team NCAA tournament…

Social Media continues down a frenetic pace and can do an effective job in engaging people. …

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-…

Jason Alexander is known to TV audiences around the world, of course, as George Costanza on Seinfeld, a role which garnered him six Emmy and four Golden Globe nominations, an American Television Award and two A…

As I’m a Kindle owner who reads a lot of books, and who uses the the Kindle iPhone app while waiting in lines or when I need a screen with back-lighting (let’s say, when ones wife says, “can you turn o…

Should drug makers be required to disclose up-front all the potential harmful side effects of new medications within a single, 140-character Tweet? And what about guidance on how to set up a Faceb…

Penguin* was kind enough to send me a copy of Michael “Liar’s Poker” Lewis’s The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine yesterday, and I’ve just finished it, having stuffed it up my eyeballs as fast as I coul…

Yesterday I decided to take a day off from social media. I wanted to see what would happen. Would I show signs of withdrawal, be unable to focus as I frantically wondered what was happening out in the Twitte…

Richard Suttmeier submits: We need new heads for US Treasury, Federal Reserve and the FDIC, not Regulatory Reform. Below I review the important regulations that were created, and then ignored by our regulators….

That’s What Bea Said

Viv Magazine doesn’t want to be your typical static magazine, for that matter they don’t even want to be your typical dynamic online mag. Instead the company has decided to combine magazine stories with li…

Dutch web monitoring company WatchMouse has done a thorough analysis of uptime and performance of 14 major URL shortening services, with quite disheartening results.As it turns out, only two of these (goo.gl a…

It’s well known that the use of imaging scans, like CTs, MRIs and PET scans, have been growing at an alarming rate.
But a recent study provides some stark numbers.

According to a recent CDC report, “MRI, C…

Despite the proverbial “the customer is always right,” the relationship between the customer and the company has long been organized for the benefit of the latter. But the ability for companies to completely co…

Fwix, a startup that offers a stream of local news that’s updated in real-time, has landed a deal with The New York Times Company to use Fwix’s hyper-local news wire across The New York Times Company’s…

It will probably come as no surprise that the pre-dominant activity on SlideShare, according to the company’s CEO Rashmi Sinha, who I spoke with recently about the launch of their new branded cha…

If you’re familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the title of this post will ring a bell.
I first began to formulate this framework as a model for understanding how ReTweets work (If you’re interested…

We are all time poor. We skim RSS feeds rather than reading blogs. We prowl Twitter in search of answers rather than searching on our own (much to Google’s chagrin). And we look for simple answers to complex…

I am working on a project at the moment which has influence at the very centre of its strategy. But as soon as we mention the word “influence” it brings a whole hierarchy of associations along for the ride….

Yesterday, I stumbled across an incredibly simple but brilliant video about the end of publishing. It was produced by the marketing staff at Dorling Kindersley, a division of Penguin Group, for a recent sales c…

If you had any doubt the extent to which Facebook, Twitter, and (one or two) other social services have taken over people’s lives, stats like these should put them to rest.
These charts are from a recent study…

Every year, I look forward to Michelle Hinson

and Don Wrights paper on the use of social media among PR professionals. For the past five years theyve surveyed PR professionals – members of IPRA, PRSA, IPR…

My clients at ExactTarget yesterday published a terrific, free executive briefing called Letter to the C-Suite: Getting Serious About Social Media. It includes a dozen letters written to C-level executives (in…

Would you buy a newspaper?

When word got out that the Montreal Gazette was being put up for sale along with the entire Canwest newspaper family, I immediately asked one of my business partners over at Twist Im…

So when you hear the words social and media, it’s important to remember the pathway that creates an emotional connection from the brand to consumer. …

Translation: Reading this blog makes us don native costumes and dance with exuberance
Do you have an “in-the-moment marketing strategy?”
If you don’t, you could be missing one of the biggest opportunities…

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[click on image to enlarge]And is that good for your branding efforts? Getting typecast is an interesting problem in business, especially when you’re looking to grow in new directions. In the beginning, you’r…

The federal estate tax expired at the end of 2009. What does it mean for you?

While Apple offers a driver to read NTFS volumes, by default it will not write to them. To overcome this, there are several third-party NTFS drivers available, but in Snow Leopard you can also set Apple’s built…

The Web has hit a point where tracking pageviews is useless for startups.

There was a time when all you needed to succeed on the Internet were lots and lots of eyeballs, and the best way of measuring those eye…

Every generation thinks that they are the first. The first to feel this way or that, the first to make this or that revelation, the first to do and make things that we find later have been done and made since…

Did you know you could lose insurance benefits from putting photos online? Or that a Tweet can put you in jail? Or that the FBI might be friending you on Facebook? Or that even brand-new…

Lon S. Cohen is a freelance writer and is @obilon on Twitter. He’s also the Director of Communications at @ALSofGNY.From felons on Facebook to tips through Twitter, social media is being used more and more b…

Brace yourself. Before the month is out, they will be knocking at your door, insisting that Apple’s iPad…

Media industry ad revenue declined 12% year-over-year to $125.3 billion in 2009, according to a report issued by Kantar Media, the WPP-owned research firm formerly known as TNS.
The only major gro…

One of the most interesting applications of Data/Text Mining and Information Extraction is Politics. I started collecting information from various blogs, websites and forums and applying Information E…

“Reciprocal following” is when you follow the people who follow you on Twitter. Sounds harmless, even nice. But don’t be fooled. Many problems are caused by this practise. Reciprocal following shoul…