- More on iBookstore pricing
Published: March 24, 2010Filed under: iPadApp Advice has posted a first-hand look at the iBookstore, complete with some pricing specifics. Alexander Vaughn received a preview of the app (he doesn’t explain where or how) and walked away…
- Google’s New “Search Funnels” Belies What Google Really Knows…
Published: March 24, 2010Source: John Battelle's SearchblogGoogle today introduced a “Search Funnels” feature for its AdWords clients, a feature that will help serious advertisers tune their AdWords campaigns for increased conversion and profitability. For a very good…
- How To Ace Your Next Presentation
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderAs the common pop culture factoid goes, most individuals would rather choose death over presenting in front of an audience.
And yet, the ability to give a great presentation is a powerful tool in business, and… - Health Reform and the Anger of the Silent Majority
Published: March 24, 2010Source: medinnovationblogRichard Nixon coined the term “silent majority” in 1969. He was referring to the majority of people who do not agree with government policies but do not express their opinion. Today, if you believe public…
- iPad Demo: Penguin Books
Published: March 24, 2010Source: RyanSpoon.comApple’s iPad arrives in ten days. It represents a new form of web consumption and, hopefully, a new form of content, digital media and reading. While the Kindle is able to deliver simple, elegant reading of b…
- Huffington Post’s Investigations Editor Larry Roberts Quits Arianna
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderThe Huffington Post has a way of squandering its own victories over the establishment press, and it’s happened again: Larry Roberts, the investigations editor triumphantly lured from the Washington Post, has re…
- Kurt Vonnegut at the Blackboard
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Daring FireballSpeaking of good writers on writing. (Thanks to DF reader Shajith Chacko.)
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- 4 Simple Steps to Setting Up a Social Media Department
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Social Media TodayLately, there has been a flurry of discussions and questions on scaling social media so here’s my take on a key question that seems to be on many minds.
Question: How do I set up a social med…
- How Texting is Changing Philanthropy
Published: March 24, 2010Source: The ConversationWithin philanthropy circles, one of the major subtexts of the earthquake in Haiti was the phenomenal success of text-message fundraising appeals. Nonprofits are abuzz about it. The Red Cross alone raised more t…
- How Pixar Creates Great Films and Balances Art, Tech and Success
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Mashable!Here at The Economist Innovation Conference in Berkeley, California, hundreds of thought leaders have gathered to discuss the process, politics and economics of innovation.How do you create an innovative techn…
- What is the story?
Published: March 24, 2010Source: WritelifeI don’t mind saying I’m confused when CBC headlines a story ‘NB Power deal cancelled.’ They say in their opening paragraph, “The proposed deal to sell NB Power’s generation assets to Hydro-Québec f…
- Future of God debate
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Boing BoingThis week, ABC News’s Nightline hosted a debate titled “Does God Have a Future?” Deepak “How To Know God” Chopra, Jean “A Passion for the Possible” Houston, Sam “The End Of Faith” Harris, and Michael “Skeptic”…
- Five tips for developing a sensible comments policy
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogFor many online publishers, user-generated content is often created
through commenting systems that allow users to engage in discussion
around a publisher’s content. In many cases, these user-generated
comme… - Avinash Kaushik: When you're buying keywords, don't forget the long tail
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogAttendees at marketing conferences are often looking for concrete advice, and this morning at Search Engine Strategies New York, they got some.
Google’s analytics evangelist Avinash Kaushik had some clear tips… - Report: Social Media + Email = More Power
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Social Media TodayA new report from eMarketer shows how combining the strengths of email and social media can lead to better results.
You’ll recall around these parts the discussion of “Silent E.” Now this rep…
- How To Salvage Your Brand On Facebook: Lessons For Nestle
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Social Media TodayIf you haven’t seen it by now, the Nestle brand* has run into a bit of a brand crisis on Facebook thanks to a combination of a coordinated attack from Greenpeace and missteps from the brand in commun…
- How to Use Article Marketing as Part of Your Social Media Strategy
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Social Media TodayAs you may know by now, article marketing is an effective way to gain credibility and establish yourself as an expert in your field. By writing articles about topics of interest to your readers, an…
- In-Stat: Apple’s dominance of smartphone app download rates is only half the story
Published: March 24, 2010Source: MacDailyNewsThe fight for market dominance has heated up as mobile subscribers take to mobile smartphone apps in rapidly increasing numbers…
- Social Sentry Lets Employers Track Their Workers Across the Internet
Published: March 24, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebHow would you feel if your employer constantly tracked your activity on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter in real time? If it’s up to Teneros, your employer will soon use the company’s new Social…
- Blogging for bankers
Published: March 24, 2010To take on their toughest critics, big banks are playing as visitors on social media’s turf. Can they keep up, much less win?
- Our Emotional Lives in Social Media
Published: March 24, 2010Source: WebWorkerDailyIn the “old” days, if something wasn’t going well for us, we’d share our difficulties with our friends and family. Then along came the Internet and email, and suddenly we could share news more rapidly….
- How to use blog analytics to improve your blog
Published: March 24, 2010Recently I was the featured guest expert on the Social Media Examiner Facebook page, where I answered a bunch of questions about blogging and a few about social marketing. If you missed it, here’s one question…
- Gmail Now Warns You If It Thinks Someone Else Is Using Your Account
Published: March 24, 2010Source: TechCrunchThis morning, Gmail users are getting one more weapon in the fight against phishers and malware. In a blog post, Google has announced that it is adding a new feature that alerts users when the service detects…
- The Internet, In Infographics
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Alison DriscollI’ve got a growing collection of images I think are cool slowly taking over my desktop, so I figured it was time to share. (This is why they stay on my desktop; until I do something with them, as a motivator…
- 10 Beautiful Free Blogger Templates
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Mashable!This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.Let’s face it: The default themes that come with a Blogger account aren’t going to…
- What If Everyone on Twitter Read One Book?
Published: March 24, 2010Source: EpicenterI have a dream. An idea. A maybe great notion. Actually, as Auggie March might say, “I got a scheme.”
What if everyone on Twitter read the same book at the same time and we formed one massive, internationa… - How Will Healthcare Reform Bill Impact Cancer Patients?
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Everything ChangesLots of us want to know how the new Healthcare Reform Bill will impact cancer patients. This is the longest post I’ve ever put up on my blog because there’s a lot of info to cover. Still, these are just…
- 8 Tips on Guest Posting Your Way to Twitter Dominance
Published: March 24, 2010Source: TwiTipI’ll be honest: I’m a bad tweeter (or twitterer?). I’ve been on Twitter for about seven months, and I only have 680 followers. It’s been a struggle, mainly because I haven’t put much time into it as…
- The Social Media Bubble Is Ruining Humankind
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderFrom HBR: I’d like to advance a hypothesis: Despite all the excitement surrounding social media, the Internet isn’t connecting us as much as we think it is. It’s largely home to weak, artificial connections, wh…
- Random House fears iPad price war (Financial Times)
Published: March 24, 2010Source: TechmemeFinancial Times:
Random House fears iPad price war — The worlds largest book publisher by sales could keep its books from Apples iPad when it goes on sale, as the Bertelsmann unit fears the effects of th… - Illustrating REWORK (Part 2 of 2)
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Signal vs. NoiseThis 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…
- Content that works: Contextual content, in context
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com[Note 1: If you're reading this post on Facebook, LinkedIn, a newsreader or any place these posts flow, I suggest you click over to my blog and read it, as it includes a demonstration of one of the things I'...
- A New Threat To Facebook's Booming Business Emerges
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderFacebook's API has become less and less reliable in the recent past, All Facebook reports.
Latency times have spiked, and Facebook says it is "investigating issues that may be causing some Platform apps to fail... - SpokenWord.org — The Survey
Published: March 24, 2010Source: BlogarithmsWe’ve just completed our annual survey of SpokenWord.org listeners and starting today I’ll be reporting some of the results here on Blogarithms. Overall:
We emailed a link to the survey to 3,176 registered...
- Why Your Brand Needs to Be on Facebook Now
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Mashable!Dallas Lawrence is Chair of the Social and Digital Media Practice at Levick Strategic Communications, the nation’s top crisis communications firm. He blogs on emerging digital media trends and best practices...
- How to get your social media profiles crawled by search bots
Published: March 24, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaSocial media profiles like those found on Twitter and Facebook are crawled by search engines and are indexed. In addition, user contributions on social ...
- CTRL-ALT-DEL - It's Time For A Business Reboot
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Six Pixels of Separation - Marketing and Communications Insights - By Mitch Joel at Twist ImageMaybe the Internet changed much more than we think? Maybe businesses have to reinvent not only themselves, but the entire industry they serve?
Its very survival could depend on it.
The truth of the matter is...
- 10 Steps to Optimize Your Content Marketing Strategy
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Online Marketing BlogSES New York kicked off with an excellent keynote presentation by David Meerman Scott (interview) followed by a panel on Digital Asset Optimization including Mark Knowles, Chris Boggs and myself. Richard Zwick...
- Telling a story on the label
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Seth's BlogHere's a $20 bottle of soap. Functionally identical to a $3 bottle, so what's the $17 for?Let's assume the people buying it aren't stupid. What are they paying $17 for? A story. A feeling. A souvenir of a sho...
- Using infographics for social media and SEO
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogRemember when school teachers used to tell you that a picture tells a thousand words? Well now social media is telling us too...
Image credit: Flickr
In the same way that teachers don’t really want to read t... - Q&A: Culture Shock, How Social Media is Changing the Culture of Business
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Brian SolisGood friend JD Lasica asked me to answer some fantastic questions for a post he published in celebration of Engage. I poured so much of myself into the responses, that I felt it was worth sharing here with you...
- Dilution of the Press Release
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Soulati - 'TUDE!Don’t get me wrong. Press releases are the number-one best way to deliver a company’s message. The confusion surrounding this 100-year-old vehicle lies with its distribution.
When vendors seize opportunity... - 5 Tips To Optimize Press Releases For Search From PRWeb – SESNY
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Online Marketing BlogTopRank Online Marketing has been working with PRWeb providing SEO consulting services for nearly one year. PRWeb was founded in 1997 to help small businesses and communications professionals leverage the web...
- Is Yesterday's News Preventing Your Success?
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Phoenix RisingMy good friend Bob Burg, and his co-author John David
Mann, opened my eyes to the concept of receiving. Thanks to their wonderful
series of Go-Giver books, I learned about my very own unconscious belief pattern... - Comparing Social Media Analysis Platforms
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Social Media TodayHow many competing products do you have time to evaluate before you need to make a decision? I have some good stuff in my draft folder for next week, but first, let me tell you about the project I j...
- Anecdote Offers Free Workbook on Influencing Change with the Natural Power of Stories
Published: March 24, 2010Source: A Storied CareerThe folks at Anecdote, the Australian consulting firm, reported in their newsletter yesterday that they’re offering to share — at no cost — the workbook they developed for a recent series of workshops on...
- Wondering about Wikipedia? You Should Be
Published: March 24, 2010Source: KDPaine's PR Measurement BlogOne of the annual highlights of the IPRRC is to find out what Marcia Watson DiStaso (Penn State) and Marcus Messner (Virginia Commonwealth University) have been up to lately. Back in 2006 they presented the...
- Kaze: A Close Personal Friend Named Hamlet
Published: March 24, 2010Source: 3:17 a.m.Two readers pick up the same work of fiction. One connects with it, the other doesn’t. All other things being equal, what explains the difference?For me, one question above all decides whether I connect with...
- A little bit of good news from the PR News Survey on Social Media Measurement
Published: March 24, 2010Source: KDPaine's PR Measurement BlogTo coincide with its Measurement Conference, held yesterday at the National Press Club, PR News conducted a survey of its readers to find out what they thought about social media as a PR Measurement Tool. Th...
- Viral Marketing 101 – Seeding Your Campaign
Published: March 24, 2010Source: The Future BuzzThe following is a guest post from Christopher Angus. Christopher runs Warlock Media, an SEO Company in Cotswolds, UK that delivers internet marketing campaigns to UK-based businesses and sectors. If you...
- How Google, Apple, And Other Household Brands Came Up With Their Names
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderFinding a name for a company is sort of like finding a name for a band: all the good ones seem to be taken already.
Furthermore, while it might not be what actually matters about what you do, all creators have... - Understanding how to track inbound links from #socialmedia profiles - http://bit.ly/bzEhVM (via...
Published: March 23, 2010Understanding how to track inbound links from #socialmedia profiles - http://bit.ly/bzEhVM (via @pamdyer)
- Understanding that viral videos are RARE - Proof here - slideshare - http://bit.ly/aLKbbD (via...
Published: March 23, 2010Understanding that viral videos are RARE - Proof here - slideshare - http://bit.ly/aLKbbD (via @benkunz)
- Google Releases AdWords Search Funnels
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Search Engine JournalGoogle is currently testing a new Google AdWords feature called Search Funnels. These are set of reports that describe the ad click and impression behavior on Google.com that results to conversion for ad campai...
- Google Bookmarks Rolls Out Social List Feature
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Search Engine JournalAlthough Google has already stopped supporting its Notebooks service, those who did not delete their accounts can still use the service and its features. One of Google Notebooks’ feature is the creation of li...
- My Location Is A Box of Cereal
Published: March 23, 2010Source: John Battelle's SearchblogMy latest Signal is up over at the FM blog. I had a fun day. From it:
...As readers know, I’ve declared the “check-in” as the latest field in the Database of Intentions. “Where I am” is a powerful... - Social Media Projects You Could Start Today
Published: March 23, 2010Source: chrisbrogan.comIf you’ve got the powers that be convinced that social media’s the set of tools you need, or if you’re the one making the decisions and you feel hooked, but don’t really know where to start, I’ve got...
- jQuery UI 1.8 comes with new plugins, effect, and fixes
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Ajaxian » Front PagejQuery UI 1.8 has been released and it contains new plugins, a new effect, bug fixes, and is forkable on GitHub
What’s new?Position utility
Position any element relative to any other, or even relative to th... - Trust Me…I Write a Blog
Published: March 23, 2010Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home PageOckham Research submits: The graphic below comes from Clusterstock’s Chart of the Day; ING asked investors where they turn to find investment ideas and/or advice. Behind the obvious answer, myself (how is it...
- Microsoft Testing OfficeTalk - Microblogging Service Much Like Twitter
Published: March 24, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebMicrosoft is testing a microblogging service called OfficeTalk that is much like Twitter. The service is designed for the enterprise and appears it will be offered as an on-premise service.
OfficeTalk is being...
- Salesforce.com: “We’re more an API company than an applications company”
Published: March 23, 2010Source: ProgrammableWebPeter Coffee, Director of Platform Research at Salesforce.com, has published a compelling post about “The Incredible Importance of Open APIs” over at the Force.com blog. In case you may have forgotten, Sal...
- Why TV Everywhere Will Fail: Because It's Based On Taking Away Value, Not Adding It
Published: March 24, 2010Source: TechdirtWe've been pretty skeptical of the plans by the big cable companies to create "TV Everywhere," a system to try to reduce churn by offering users the ability to access TV shows online that match their cable subs...
- It’s not trust. It’s social capital.
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Social Media TodayTrust has become the major buzz word in describing the currency of the social media economy. I’ve certainly been riding that wave, but I think it’s time we really took a look at what makes this soci...
- The Leadership Strategy of Jesus
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Michael Hyatt’s BlogSo much of the activity I see among leaders today is focused on reaching the masses. “Successful leaders” speak at big conferences, host popular television or radio shows, publish bestselling books, or wri...
- Not Being Evil Has To Be More Than A Marketing Slogan.
Published: March 24, 2010Source: TechCrunchGoogle’s Matt Cutts takes issue with my post yesterday expressing mild outrage that Facebook puts its application developers in a position of having to choose between “user experience” and “monetization...
- Instapaper For The iPad May Be The First Killer App. And It Will Be Universal.
Published: March 24, 2010Source: TechCrunchThe simple bookmarking application Instapaper made by Tumblr developer Marco Arment is one of my favorite applications, period. Between the web, the iPhone, and the Kindle, it’s easily one of my most-used app...
- 4 Effective Search Advertising Techniques
Published: March 24, 2010One of the fastest-growing forms of small business advertising is internet search advertising. Traditional forms of advertising, such as radio, TV, and newspaper ads, are no longer as effective as they once wer...
- Is bigotry good for business?
Published: March 23, 2010Source: {grow}The comment sections in some blogs, and many online community newspapers, is becoming a cesspool of bigotry, sexism and intolerance. Nobody has struggled more with the idea of online community than the America...
- Engagement: Understanding It, Achieving It, Measuring It - A Complimentary White Paper
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Junta42 Content Marketing blogWhat is engagement? What does it really mean in marketing? How should we measure it? What tactics can we employ to help enhance it?
Those are exactly the questions Keith Wiegold and I try to tackle in...
- Apple finally embraces Social Media
Published: March 23, 2010AppStore is on Facebook. Apple is on YouTube.Way to go Apple! Social media is gaining in Cupertino (finally!) www.facebook.com/appstore started on March 18 - over 40,000 fans already!
- Gutless Ad Weasels
Published: March 23, 2010Source: The Ad Contrarian
- 'Celebrifying' your business: pros and cons
Published: March 24, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogSome of the world's most recognizable brands collectively spend billions of dollars annually associating themselves with celebrities (movie stars, athletes, etc.). The logic is simple: consumers love celebritie...
- Facebook Developers Increasingly Concerned About Platform Reliability
Published: March 23, 2010Source: All FacebookIf you are going to build an application on Facebook, you’d expect that users will be able to access your application as long as it’s developed properly, but unfortunately Facebook’s reliability has not b...
- Businesses and the Social Media Trap
Published: March 23, 2010Source: GigaOM“Which social network is best for business?” When I was asked this question last week, I was stumped. Not because a plethora of possibilities rushed to mind, but because this is the wrong question for a bus...
- The “So What?” Test
Published: March 23, 2010Source: (EMP) E-Marketing PerformanceA great post by Avinash Kaushik teaches us a simple test to use to identify if an analytics metric is right for your business. It’s the “So What? Test” and it simply involves asking that question up to...
- Twitter Starts Rolling Out Contributors Feature, Salesforce Activated
Published: March 23, 2010Source: TechCrunchBack in December, Twitter noted a new feature it was testing out, Contributors. Basically, this allows multiple people to tweet from one account (with individual attribution below the tweet). Twitter noted tha...
- GM Drives with Social Media
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Inbound Marketing StrategiesA podcast interview with Christopher Barger, Dir, Global Social Media Communications, GM.
GM’s social media strategy began with the Fastlane Blog in January 2005. It was followed by the FYI blog in July 2006,... - Analysis: Can the iPhone save higher education?
Published: March 23, 2010Source: MacworldIn the second year of its mobile learning project, Abilene Christian University is studying how the iPhone is changing the way teachers teach and students learn.
- US Army meets with Apple, discusses tech for soldiers
Published: March 23, 2010Filed under: iPod FamilyEarlier this month, Major General Nick Justice and several members of his staff traveled to Apple's Cupertino campus to discuss soldiers using Apple's products and technology in the fiel...
- Documenting how #SEO is evolving - Visibility strategist: the new and improved SEO consultant -...
Published: March 23, 2010Documenting how #SEO is evolving - Visibility strategist: the new and improved SEO consultant - http://bit.ly/c4Aw7b (via @Missmcj)
- iTag: Finder of Lost Phones
Published: March 23, 2010Source: TechnologizeriTag, which launched here at CTIA today, is a little like LoJack for lost or stolen Android phones. Or, to make a more relevant comparison, it’s a rough equivalent of Apple’s Find My iPhone, with a dash of...
- Between PayPal, Credit, and Debit, Credit Cards Are the Safest Way to Pay Online [Security]
Published: March 23, 2010Source: LifehackerMost Lifehacker readers are perfectly comfortable buying stuff online, but if you’ve ever wondered what method of payment is best for your online purchases, th…
- AT&T's WorkBench to bring Enterprise Web apps to iPhone
Published: March 23, 2010Source: 9 to 5 Mac – Apple IntelligenceIt looks like ATT is creating a separate, secure Web browser (with all types of controls and offline access) for accessing enterprise apps remotely.
read more - Twitter Reduces Spam to 1% of Tweets
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Mashable!In a blog post today Twitter comments on the “State of Twitter Spam.” Once a pressing issue for most Twitizens, the graph released today shows pretty clearly a sharp reduction over the past eight months or…
- Afraid of Blogging? Read This
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Small Business Search MarketingI know a very talented writer who has a blog, but admits to being afraid of blogging. I’ll be sharing these links with that person, and thought I’d post them here since there’s bound to be more people out…
- The Anatomy of an Ethical Testimonial
Published: March 23, 2010Source: Inc.comA while back I received a marketing email for a home study course that piqued my curiosity. It boasted astounding results with a money-back guarantee to grow my business practically overnight. It was pricey and…




















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