Curated Stories Mar. 25, 2010

As social media and web applications have become the hottest networking tools in business, too many sales managers are burying the cold call as an obsolete business practice. If you fall in this category I’ve g…

Erick Schonfeld submits: It’s been in beta for over a year, but today Google (GOOG) is rolling out a new feature for AdWords advertisers dubbed remarketing, enabling its clients to target their respective aud…

Insightful post on creative mobile strategy w/ examples – http://bit.ly/cZpHen (on @MobileBehavior)

I love authoritative titles…
These are the most horrendous 10 online mistakes you can make. Ever. And they’ll probably ruin your entire business.

I created a totally free video series about this- 10 video…

“I want a bike, but I don’t want to learn how to ride it.”
If I said this to you, it would be a ridiculous statement, right?

Many business folk know they need to be a part of the socia…

Recently, I was talking with my accountability partner about email marketing. She’d had a bit of a mishap with one of her email campaigns, and we were trying to figure out how she could possibly correct th…

Do you know about the ancient, culturally embedded tradition of the story gourd? The gourd with a story etched around the surface … with the carved grid on the back … with the hinged door that opens to reve…

Perhaps the best way to improve your effectiveness at work, according to entrepreneur Jonathan Fields, is to get your heart pumping. More »…

Same store sales numbers for e-commerce sites are suggesting the rebound is very real, with February showing a 5% growth over January and Q1 2010 showing a 3% growth over the busy holiday shopping Q4 2009, acco…

WordPress’ iPhone app (iTunes link) just got a nice update and now allows you to geotag your mobile blog posts. WordPress launched official support for geotagging posts through the web interface on WordPress.co…

I’ve recently been thinking about how Google Voice, Google Wave and Google Buzz joining the full Google Apps lineup would make it a budget-friendly teleworking platform. Organizations can now literally purcha…

This 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!Social media marketing might feel simpl…

YouTube EDU, the video portal’s collection of university and college content contributed by schools around the world, launched a year ago today. To commemorate the occasion, the YouTube team has shared some…

Here’s a question I never even thought to ask: How do you
train a blogger?

Isnt blogging just a conversation starter you type instead of talk? Something thats kind of natural – like writing an email or po…

In business and especially marketing, we continually see references to content. Does anyone know what that is? I don’t think so.
It’s spoken of as if it’s a tangible quantity, something measureable, a thi…

Today, I spoke to Brian Solis, who is a new media leader, principal of FutureWorks, blogger, and author of the new book Engage. In this interview, Brian talks about what engagement means in the…

“Social media tools aren’t something new anymore,” writes Chris Brogan in Social Media 101; Tactics and Tips to Develop Your Business Online. …

By now it is clear that privacy advocates and Federal Trade Commission employees don’t like behavioral targeting. Online marketers are increasingly trying to steer clear of regulation on the matter, with cleare…

I had the pleasure of being accomodated at 5 star hotel the other day and when I went down to breakfast I was confronted by an array of food selections that an ancient Roman Emperor would have been impresse…

Social media takes your donors beyond the brick and mortar, inviting them to engage with your organization on a more personal level. It humanizes your organization.

A recent poll by Weber Shandw…

Look, I have nothing against advertising agencies. Some of my good friends work at top ad agencies and I admire their creative brilliance and verve. Also, many advertising agencies do a good job with integ…

When you plug in your iPhone, unless you’ve taken steps to prevent it, iPhoto, Image Capture (or your photo program of choice) should automatically open to download the photos you’ve shot.But over time, you may…

As I do during or after conferences, I’m organizing to follow up with people I reconnected with and new people I met at SxSWi and the social media panel I spoke at in Philadelphia on St. Patrick’s Day. Over t…

At Online Marketing Blog, content marketing is frequently a hot topic. And with good reason: it’s a vital skill for marketers. Not only do we at TopRank Online Marketing see great results implementing co…

Clearly, there’s no shortage of data and possible social media success metrics.Advanced social media analytics and ROI calculations often require tying together disparate systems, and looking for causation (o…

Former Denny’s CMO Mark Chmiel Lays Out Four Simple Yet Effective Ideas That Are Driving Results
Advertising Age, March 24, 2010 — Recently, a media agency executive presented at the 4As and said, I spoke…

CMO Mark LaNeve Unveils Site to Maximize One of the Smallest Budgets in Insurance Industry
Advertising Age, March 24, 2010 — Allstate is reaching out to media sellers, asking them to submit ideas on everyt…

I just returned from a Bobby McFerrin concert, and now I know how to run my new business. No, this post isn’t about “Don’t Worry, Be Happy.” Bobby McFerrin is much more than that.
You see, I’m a litt…

At a recent book reading at SXSW I spoke briefly about a new chapter in the new ProBlogger book (due out next month) that is a case study of my main blog (4-5 bigger than ProBlogger) – Digital Photography Sch…

With health care reform out of the way, lots of politicians are pushing out new legislative ideas, hoping that Congress can now focus on other issues — so we’re seeing lots of bad legislation proposed. Let’s…

Some in the media have argued that The National Enquirer deserves Pulitzer Prize consideration for its investigative work into politician John Edwards’ affair with Rielle Hunter. Although it’s easy to di…

With the passing of Jerome York, the Apple Board of Directors is really sparse, notes the Wall Street Journal.
According to their research, Apple has one of the the smallest boards of any Fortune 500 company.
T…

While virtualization changed the way we operate our data centers, cloud computing represents a fundamental shift in the way we operate applications.

Remember WebTV? It was supposed to combine the web and television experiences into a media consumption firehose. Or something like that.

WebTV didn’t work out, but that hasn’t kept other companies from pursuin…

It is common to hear entrepreneurs and investors talk about the high level of engagement (what we used to call “stickiness”) of their website.
They quite rightly believe that it’s better to have a more…

Brad Feld has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years and is the co-founder of Foundry Group. This post originally appeared on his blog, and it is republished here with permission….

Recently deceased Apple Board of Directors member Jerry York told The Wall Street Journal last year that he wished he had resigned after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs didn’t publicly disclose his health issues….

You’ve likely read about my recent research project with Chris Baggott, Jay Baer and Debbie Weil into the web analytics of corporate blogs. Our underlying premise is that most corporate blog…

Life on the road is hard. Business Insider’s collection of Twitter Lists will connect you with other road warriors to make your business travels just a little bit easier. You’ll get tweets on plane delays, trav…

Re-purpose means to use or convert for use in another format or product. It would seem obvious that the definition and purpose of Public Relations (PR) needs to be re-purposed.

The common definit…

Disclaimer: I’m annoyed. This post is probably crabby. Not my usual fare. Skip it if you like.
If you’re still here, can we, pretty please, talk to the people around us and do something to prevent these tra…

As Twitter evolves, many things become either forgotten or ignored. There are mistakes that people make because they’re new or unaware, but sometimes people just don’t do certain things because they’re no…

If you have a teacher (of any sort) that you cannot please, that you
cannot learn from, that is unwilling to take you where you need to go because he is defending the status quo
and demonstrates your failure…

If the future is all about touchscreen interfaces, then performance of the screen in registering where it’s been touched is pretty important. International design firm Moto ran a robotic finger test on 6 leadi…

Are we looking at end of Cancer? Human trials of nanobot treatment for cancer have proven the concept: Targeted nanoparticles deliver RNA substrands that interfere with cancer cells’ growth, effectively killi…

My daily Signal is up over at FM, in which I break down the Nestle dust up. From it:
Musing on the recent Nestle Facebook “debacle” (which I do not believe is, or needs to be proclaimed a debacle), Josh…

Social Security will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes this year, the first big milestone on the road to its eventual insolvency.
Thanks to a surge in benefits and a collapse in paych…

I find myself increasingly speaking on the topic of social media. I’m not a guru or an expert, by any means. I am just a practitioner who is learning through trial and error.

I am often asked how it all work…

Writing a Killer Blog (Without Killing Yourself)View more presentations from Louis Gray.For a presentation this morning, sharing with all of you.More: louisgray.com | RSS | Buzz | E-mail | Cell: 408 646.2759…

One of the enduring misconceptions in marketing is that it takes a long time, a lot of work, and a lot of resources to truly empower a brand, to make it stick in your head, and to eventually be a part of your m…

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-…

Can you imagine being in charge of marketing and watch your product become the first-ever “viral” success story?
It was just five years ago. YouTube was brand new. Facebook was just being opened to…

Social media is changing the behaviors of potential consumers. By combining traditional advertising principles and the features of today’s social networks, …

The latest social media storm is Nestlé’s mishandling of the response on its Facebook page to Greenpeace’s campaign against the confectionery brand’s use of …

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Now more than ever people are eager to hang onto every dollar they can, and social-media sites can help you …

Running an ongoing SEO campaign is a lot like spinning plates. With so many factors in play in search engine algorithms, you really need to be aware of all of them at once to ensure a successful campaign – it’s…

We’ve discovered a lot of great ideas here at The Economist Innovation Conference in Berkeley, California. Pixar’s President spoke on how the company creates great films and Paola Antonelli of the Museum…

Does this look familiar?@YourBuddy Im at the Apple Store Palo Alto in Palo Alto http://gowalla.com/spots/9591 about 7 hours ago via Gowalla
It looks all too familiar to me. And these messages are increasi…

I touched on this a bit yesterday, but I wanted to talk a little more about the idea of constantly chasing “what’s next”.
It comes up at every conference session, in every customer or client meeting. Folk…

DrRich is obviously far more intelligent than those wayward Democrat Congresspersons, whose last-minute “yes” votes Speaker Pelosi is seducing with her winning smile, and with her double-super-hope-to-die p…

As if there weren’t enough reasons for marketers to fear that federal regulators might turn off the behavioral targeting spigot, a new study claims that BT advertising is starting to deliver on those promises t…

These authors are all geniuses just based on their works alone. When you consider they invented words within those novels that are now in our day-to-day vernacular… well, it’s enough to make a humble blo…

My iPhone has become more than a phone; it’s become an indispensible part of my life. The main reason is the number of apps that I use. I have 178 in iTunes and about half that number actually on the phone….

Agency theorist Michael Jensen has a very clever view about qualitative performance assessment. He notes that subordinates generally object to receiving qualitative performance feedback from their superior, esp…

Online daters should no longer be considered a desperate minority that trolls the web for love. In fact, a fascinating infographic from Online Schools reveals the truth about online dating — it’s booming a…

When the author of ‘The World is Flat’ speaks, listen.
Thomas L. Friedman offers some colorful thoughts drawing from the foundation of his best-selling book:
“Today, just about everything is…

It may not be the nicest-sounding phrase, but “user-generated content” has come to be the term we use for everything from Flickr photos and YouTube videos to blog comments, Twitter posts and reviews on Ye…

Getting people to divulge personal information online can be a challenge. But recommendation engine Hunch stumbled on an easy way to do it this week: by turning the answering into a game.
The company’s Twitter…

The more we learn about the Apple iPad, the more excited everyone seems to be about…