Curated Stories Mar. 6 and 7, 2010

Mashable.com recently announced that Facebook results will be integrated into real time search results on Google. This means that having a Facebook Fan page can become a huge opportunity for business owners…

Understanding how to build an effective landing page is extremely important. Most people send their visitors to their home pages, but this is usually not a good idea. Why?

Not all your visitors are the same. I…

The more you understand about your consumers, the more effectively you will be able to provide them with products and services that delight them. This is better for them. It’s better for you. It’s a Win-Win…

Windows only: Free application Tableau Public creates beautiful visualizations from your data and lets you publish them to the web, where users can interact with your charts and graphs with live updates.The vid…

We all give presentations in our work and lives, whether it’s a one-on-one meeting with your boss or a lecture to a room full of people. Psychology Today offers a great guide to giving a successful presentation…

Nice-looking infographic useful stats on what people are buying online v in store – http://img.ly/ATS

Comprehensive article explaining some design principles for social augmented experiences – http://bit.ly/b6BLOk (via @uxmatters)

The CMO’s Guide To The Social Landscape – Cheat Sheet – http://bit.ly/b1hX1a (via @shareables)

Sure the print media might be in various degrees of decline but that hasn’t stop some hilarious ads being created. These six are the one’s that touched my funny bone the most out of a larger collection at…

In the wake of Apple’s sudden decision to remove nearly all “sexy” applications from the App Store, we’ve been hearing that the company is also clamping down on so-called “cookie-cutter” application…

This guest post is authored by Alex Rampell, the founder and CEO of TrialPay. This is a follow on to an earlier article “The End Of Brand Advertising,” where Rampell argues that the collision of online and…

Cliff Atkinson is author of The Backchannel: How Audiences are Using Twitter and Social Media and Changing Presentations Forever (New Riders, 2009).What do you do when you’re giving a presentation, and notic…

There’s an interesting characteristic of the online world that makes things sticky sometimes.
We can get opinions from anywhere.
The ubiquity of information means that not only can we comment or opine on any…

A couple weeks ago I went down to Miami for Future of Web Apps (FOWA). It was a great event and I highly recommend it to web developers and entrepreneurs. I did a keynote talk and the next day I did a three and…

We’ve already brought you a how-to guide to get started with Spotify (read that first if you don’t know what it is), but now we’re delving a little deeper into the music streaming software with a look at…

If Google fails to address the fragmentation issue immediately, it will find that Android suffers the same fate as Linux on the desktop…

One of the challenges for business bloggers that I constantly hear about is the never-ending need for fresh, relevant and timely content ideas to keep one’s audience engaged. I’ve covered this in depth over the…

I’m reading Seth Godin’s most recent book, Linchpin, and I was thinking today about how he writes. In this book, his style is a bit different than in the past, though if you’ve read some of his other book…

By EDWARD MILLER, MD Dr. Miller is the Dean and CEO of The Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Both the House and Senate health-care reform bills call for a large increase in Medicaid—about 18 million mo…

By JEFF GOLDSMITH In popular psychiatry, a classic passive aggressive gambit is “malicious compliance”- intentionally inflicting harm on someone by strictly following a directive, even though the person kno…

Jack Nicholson made his friends urinate in his garden.
The Oscar-winning actor was showing a group of male pals around his Hollywood Hills home when he asked them to make sure they relieve themselves outside,…

A writer grapples with the ups and downs of her craft.

Blogging is such an opportunity. I’m sad to see people abandoning the chance to express, to connect, to build relationships. For me, the love of blogging (and what it means to me) is why I’ve been in the ga…

To do public relations well you need to have a critical mind — to develop compelling content. You need to be able to see fresh angles and points of view in a company, product, or service story so that be…

Roger Nusbaum submits: Friday I mentioned an article on Seeking Alpha where some of the comments seemed to be taking to heart some of the same things I’ve been writing about in terms of how the concept of retir…

I contend that is in large part due to its social media efforts. Minutes after the traumatic drowning death of Dawn Brancheau, the story quickly spread …

This brave new world is raising a host of concerns for employers, who want to tap into the power of social media to connect with customers and clients, …

Question: I am concerned about potential problems for my business from use by my employees of social media such as Facebook and My-Space. What should I do? …

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Fact-Checking And Copy-Editing Don’t Happen As Much On The Web
Google Chrome Is Eating Microsoft’s Lunch
Googlers Still Vastly Ou…

For-profit education companies are scooping up small schools to gain accreditation—and the financial aid dollars that come with it

Michael Panzner submits: As with Friday’s unemployment report, Gallup’s most recent Daily Tracking Poll finds that nearly one-fifth of the population is (still) underemployed: Complete Story »

A study published by two academics from Oregon State University and Eastern Washington University (via Science Daily) found that when people watch ‘graphic’ and ‘intense’ war news on TV, they a…

Carnegie apparently said, Take away my people, but leave my factories and soon grass will grow on the factory floors……Take away my factories, but leave my people and soon we will have a new and better facto…

There was recently a little skirmish on the web regarding the question of whether or not Microsoft has stopped innovating — whether the internal corporate culture there has thwarted new ideas, and so on. Wel…

I was in a conversation the other day with Miles Austin and he said the following quote: “Inform for free, how to for a fee.” Chris Brogan recently wrote a post on price points, and essentially poin…

I recently read a post by Brian Solis titled Social Capital: The Currency of the Social Economy, which served as the catalyst for one of the most entertaining Twitter conversations I’ve had so far. I person…

Prieur du Plessis submits: Charlie Rose sits down with Elizabeth Warren, the Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she teaches contract law, bankruptcy and commercial law. In the wake of t…

Click HERE to read Part 1 of this article, wherein I explain why writing this novel scared the hell out of me. Maybe even literally.
The Story Behind Whisper of the Seventh Thunder
Consider this for a moment. …

5 valuable design tips to increase your sites user experience – #UX – http://bit.ly/diRi9R (via @jophillips)

Some response guidelines when dealing with an influential rogue community member – http://bit.ly/c8RPqJ (via @martinreed)

23 categorized tools that every e-comm site should check out – http://bit.ly/c5YTa7 (via @smashingmag)

If you’re anxious about switching from a PC to a Mac, consider this: There are a multitude of ways you can virtualize Windows within OS X, and they all work uniquely well. Here’s how to choose the right one.The…

A decade after the dot-com bust, the Internet economy in New York is springing back to life.

Legend has it that when Cortes landed in Mexico in the 1500s, he ordered his men to burn the ships that had brought them there to remove the possibility of doing anything other than going forward into the unkn…

Via Consumerist comes this entertaining financial market forces joint (“Fear the Boom and Bust”) where John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek battle over contrasting economic practices.
Pretty well done and i…

Rob Enderle, president of The Enderle “Group,” talks with Bloomberg’s Julie Hyman and Mark Crumpton…

By MICHAEL TURPIN If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait until it is for free.” – PJ O’Rourke On the eve of sweeping health reform legislation, it is hard not to notice the glowing skyline in Wash…

My last post triggered some interesting debates in the blogosphere about whether entrepreneurs were a product of nature or could be nurtured. It’s not black or white. People are a product of their upbringing…

Barence writes “Why do people think they own code just because they’ve paid for it? PC Pro’s Kevin Partner says many of his clients believe that by paying for the work to be done, they take ownership of it. But…

Content management doesn’t sound very exciting, but content management is not an option if you want to build your personal brand as a high-visibility subject area expert.
The following tips will help you crea…

Steven Hansen submits:In early February, I would have bet that the number of people employed in America would have been positive for the first time since the beginning of the Great Recession. Following the tre…

A guest post by Dustin Riechmann of Engaged Marriage.
My life is pretty typical for a 30-year old family man these days. I do my best to maintain a hectic schedule and the demands that come with balancing a w…

For those of you paying attention to Oprah (or Twitter) this week, Roger Ebert was on the show to debut his new speaking voice. A series of cancer surgeries have taken his voice, but that hasn’t stopped the st…

Do you drink too much? Do you have what it takes to be a movie critic? Are you the Foursquare mayor of your own office? A new service, in its infancy, has emerged to find out the answers to those questions and…

A discussion within the SocialTimes team stemming from recent news that Buddhist religious leader-in-exile, the Dalai Lama, was tweeting on Twitter led to the question of whether the microblogging s…

Rupert Murdoch and his minions at News Corp. have been going around banging the drum that Google and others are “stealing” from News Corp. newspapers by linking to their stories and sending them traffic. But a…

As a small biz owner and entrepreneur there is always too much too do and not enough time to do it. With BIG dreams, BIG ideas, BIG hopes and little budget, resource and stretched time… the BIG and LITTL…

Nina Paley alerts us to a neat writeup (with illustrations) that she did, discussing the concept of originality, and why it’s so often misconstrued. First, things that many people think are “original” usually…

I’m a big fan of maxims and technology. It should be no surprise, then, that Melvin Kranzbergs six laws of technology really speak to me. Perhaps my favorite is, “Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it n…

By Vangie Beal Looking for affordable ways to get the word out on your small business ecommerce site? Check out the marketing tools and strategies compiled over at Webopedia.com. When it comes to small business…

The news that Google is buying DocVerse is now official.

The reasons why Google bought this small company can be learned by taking a look at the people who started this small company out of Seattle.

Shan Sinh…

Having trouble selling your client on #socialmedia marketing? Some insightful reports to reference: http://bit.ly/b1paLW (via @hubspot)