Curated Stories Mar. 24, 2010

Filed 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 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…

As 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…

Richard 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…

Apple’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…

The 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…

Speaking of good writers on writing. (Thanks to DF reader Shajith Chacko.)

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Lately, 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…

Within 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…

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…

I 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…

This 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”…

For 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…

Attendees 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…

A 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…

If 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…

As 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…

The fight for market dominance has heated up as mobile subscribers take to mobile smartphone apps in rapidly increasing numbers…

How 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…

To take on their toughest critics, big banks are playing as visitors on social media’s turf. Can they keep up, much less win?

In 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….

Recently 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…

This 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…

I’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…

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…

I 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…

Lots 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…

I’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…

From 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…

Financial 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…

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…

[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'...

Facebook'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...

We’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...

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...

Social media profiles like those found on Twitter and Facebook are crawled by search engines and are indexed. In addition, user contributions on social ...

Maybe 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...

SES 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...

Here'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...

Remember 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...

Good 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...

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...

TopRank 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...

My 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...

How 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...

The 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...

One 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...

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...

To 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...

The 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...

Finding 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 @pamdyer)

Understanding that viral videos are RARE - Proof here - slideshare - http://bit.ly/aLKbbD (via @benkunz)

Google 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...

Although 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 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...

If 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 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...

Ockham 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 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...

Peter 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...

We'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...

Trust 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...

So 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...

Google’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...

The 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...

One 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...

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...

What 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...

AppStore 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!

Some 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...

If 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...

“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...

A 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...

Back 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...

A 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,...

In 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.

Filed 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 - http://bit.ly/c4Aw7b (via @Missmcj)

iTag, 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...

Most 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…

It looks like ATT is creating a separate, secure Web browser (with all types of controls and offline access) for accessing enterprise apps remotely.
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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…

I 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…

A 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…