I’ve reset the reading plugin to go back as far in time this week as memory constraints will allow. I’ll try managing the sharing with the plugin manually for a while and we’ll see what happens.
- Apple to target iPad at business users with added features – sources (Prince McLean/AppleInsider)
Published: January 29, 2010Source: TechmemePrince McLean / AppleInsider:
Apple to target iPad at business users with added features – sources — Apples new iPad isnt just a new product for consumers; the company is targeting the new device at bus… - An Ode To Dangling Body Parts – Guest Post by Larry Brooks
Published: January 25, 2010Source: World's Strongest LibrarianLarry Brooks
This is a guest post from the great Larry “Dangling Body Parts” Brooks over at Storyfix. This man can write, and he’s been a huge help to me, although he probably doesn’t know that….
- OS X Hidden Gems
Published: January 29, 2010Source: TheAppleBlogHave you ever noticed that little dark circle that appears within the close button of a document window in OS X when you have unsaved changes? Yeah, me neither. After years of diligent Mac use, this subtle lit…
- Privacy: Managing the New Currency of the Social Web
Published: January 29, 2010Source: Mashable!Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a g…
- Will persistent social networks change the way our minds work?
Published: January 29, 2010Source: SmartBlog On Social MediaHow will my kids see the Web?
I’m 27. I went online for the first time in 1995, when I was 13. Being introduced to the Web when it was still in a very 1.0 state colored the way I’ve used computers ever sinc… - Baby Boomers Renew Their Connections With Facebook
Published: January 29, 2010Source: All FacebookAlmost half of the online Baby Boomer generation (born between 1946 and 1964) update their Facebook or other social networks regularly. According to eMarketer Online senior Analyst Lisa E. Philips, “About 4…
- What Has Edward Bernays Taught Me About Link Building
Published: January 29, 2010Source: Search Engine JournalEdward Bernays, the original spin doctor, passed away before the term “link building” was coined, yet there aren’t a lot of people who could teach more about how links should be built.
The days of m… - Citysearch Unleashes CityGrid, A Massive Local Advertising And Content Network
Published: January 29, 2010Source: TechCrunchThe momentum around local online advertising is growing, especially with the expansion of the Web to mobile devices and flowering of Geo-mobile apps which need a way to make money. Today, Citysearch is throw…
- Individuals Are Running Circles Around Your Brand
Published: January 29, 2010Source: The Future BuzzIndividuals are beating your entire marketing and PR department online. Not by just a little – they’re running circles around it.
They’re…Earning more links.
Getting more organic visitors/pageviews… - 20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited
Published: January 29, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogIt’s around six months since I last threw out some truly mindboggling pieces of data surrounding social media. So, what’s happened between then and now?
I try to put as much information as I can into Econ… - Should you hire a ghostwriter to be your social media personality?
Published: January 29, 2010Source: Posts from the Econsultancy blogThe rise of social media has posed a challenge to the well-known. That challenge: working social media without being forced to work too hard on social media. After all, if you’re rich and/or famous, blogging an…
- Guest Post: How to Launch a Viral Marketing Campaign
Published: January 29, 2010Source: Michael Hyatt’s BlogThis is a guest post by Greg Howlett. He is a Christian concert pianist, educator, and recording artist. He is also a blogger and Twitterer. If you want to guest post on this blog, check out the guidelines her…
- 5 Facebook Privacy Tips You Need To Know Now
Published: January 28, 2010Source: All FacebookIn honor of national Data Privacy Day, we’ve decided to list some of the most important things that users should know about Facebook Privacy. We’ve covered the topic extensively over the past couple years…
- Why Corporations Need Real Writers
Published: January 28, 2010Source: About Freelance WritingGregg’s Note: Isn’t this the truth? And not just big corporations. Businesses of all sizes. And not those 10 cents a word writers either.Over the weekend I emailed a well-known, international company about the problem I’m having with one of their products.
Shortly after I clicked send I received an automatic response telling me how wonderful… - Lessig on Copyright and Culture: “Things could have been different”
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Boing BoingFor the Love of Culture, Google, Copyright and our Future. Astute and moving commentary by Lawrence Lessig, a love letter to the real-space library. Whatever your view of it, notice first just how different thi…
- How Matters as Much as Why
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Conversation AgentWitness the allure of “how to” posts, books, videos, and so on. Right?You probably heard about the theory of the 1,000 true fans put forth by Kevin Kelly. In the post, Kelly writes:A creator, such as an artis…
- Expect Rapid Evolution of the Branded Support Community
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Web Strategy by JeremiahCompanies With Support Communities Not Ready For Changes To Come
For over a decade, with simple BBS systems to community platforms, support communities haven’t undergone much innovation. Often a silo and tu… - Proof the Splinternet is real
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Groundswellby Josh Bernoff Since I published the post about the Splinternet Tuesday, a lot of discussion has been flying about. See the comments on that post, the post on Advertising Age, and my interview with Kai Ryssdal…
- The iPad Showdown: Apple Versus Comcast
Published: January 28, 2010Source: The ConversationWith yesterdays long-awaited release of the iPad, the Web is atwitter with prophecies regarding the face-off between Apple and Amazon. At twice the price, maybe the iPad is a Kindle Killer — maybe. But Kind…
- Data Shows That Self-Reference Does Not Get Followers
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Dan ZarrellaIf you like this post, or any of my work, please, nominate me for a Shorty Award.
Following up on my last post using TweetPsych Data, I looked at a metric opposing social behavior: self-reference. This time th… - How to UNshorten Any URL
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Search Engine JournalURL shorteners have become popular together with Twitter: they allow to save on characters and thus tweet and retweet very long URLs.
They do have one huge advantage of making URLs short; they also have two hug… - Website analytics: most marketers still clueless ?
Published: January 26, 2010Source: Social Media TodayA lot of companies have invested a lot of money in web analytic software yet few companies have people who can interrupt the reports and provide recommendations. If IT is reading the report it’s ha…
- Quieting the lizard brain
Published: January 28, 2010Source: Seth's BlogHow can I explain the never-ending irrationality of human behavior?We say we want one thing, then we do another. We say we want to be successful but we sabotage the job interview. We say we want a product to c…
- Is community management unimportant to senior marketers?
Published: January 28, 2010According to this report, senior marketers say that social networks and applications were their biggest priority for their 2010 marketing plans, followed closely by digital infrastructure. The others priorities…
- Paul Volcker Explains His Rule
Published: January 27, 2010Source: SeekingAlpha.com: Home PagePrieur du Plessis submits: With the “Volcker Rule” regarding U.S. financial regulation taking center stage, Paul Volcker’s response to questions on financial innovation at the “Future of Finance Initia…
- Experts Behaving Badly. Why? Drama Sells!
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Phoenix RisingThe great minds of Apple gave us innovation today.Thanks to the iPad, I can access anything I want on the web, watch videos, write a blog post, create a presentation, run a spreadsheet, read my book or maga…
- What We Learned About Apple Yesterday
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Mashable!When I woke up today, it took me about half an hour to get up to speed with the iPad (I’m in Croatia, so the bulk of the news came in overnight for me). After I’d read a couple of articles, I already knew e…
- My First 25 Questions About Apple’s iPad
Published: January 27, 2010Source: TechnologizerIn the end, the one thing about Apple product events that’s utterly predictable is this: Some of the rumors will turn out to be true, and some of them will turn out to be false. And until you know which are w…
- Report: Facebook’s Twitterfication May Have Stunted Twitter Growth
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Social Media TodayWhile Twitter is still adding new users at a brisk pace of 6.2 million new accounts per month, only 17% of Twitter’s users (approximately 15 million users) are actually using the social networking s…
- What Your Followers Want
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Social Media OptimizationCompanies “brag” all the time about the number of followers or friends that they have on Facebook or Twitter. But what motivates someone to friend or follow a company?
A December 2009 survey from MarketingS… - Challenging the old media business models
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Social Media TodayThere are quite a few media business (revenue) models which come in different classifications and structures, but i find this diagram organized by Paul Bradshaw most suitable to discuss the subject, m…
- Google Opens Social Search to All; Cuts Facebook Off at the Pass
Published: January 27, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebLast fall Google began experimenting with a new feature called Social Search, and we called it a big chess move against Facebook. Today Google Social Search is opening up in beta for all Google users. The exp…
- Practical Social Media Measurement: Leads, Conversions, Sales
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Altitude BrandingOne of the chief things that managers seem to want is the ability to draw lines and connect dots between their social media participation and sales (or other conversion metrics). There are two ways to do that,…
- The iPad will be legendary for sales and marketing
Published: January 27, 2010Steve Jobs and gang did a phenomenal job introducing the iPad for consumers. Books! Movies! Music! Games!
…but…
The iPad has the potential to make sales and marketing people into legends. Take any sales dem… - iBooks: Apple Answers the Kindle with a Digital Bookshelf Like No Other
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Mashable!There’s no doubt about it, Apple’s newly unveiled iPad is the ebook reader that will change the game, especially since it is directly attacking Amazon’s Kindle. And Steve Jobs wasn’t being coy about it…
- Combination of mobility, cloud and social media has power to transform enterprise
Published: January 27, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaCloud computing and social media represent two other spheres of innovation for enterprises as we enter 2010 and beyond. More importantly, the combination of …
- 10 steps to a practical social media business strategy
Published: January 27, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaHow can you make social media and Web 2.0 work for your business? As we discussed last time, social media sites and models are really just …
- Go Beyond The Default Social Profile Strategy
Published: January 27, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaDuring the most recent PubCon, Kenny Hyder spoke in a session called “Online Brand Management Strategies” where he suggested that you should “own” all ten positions on the first page when someone sear…
- Google Could Lose 50% of iPhone Traffic to Bing
Published: January 27, 2010Source: ReadWriteWebA week ago, the cat was let out of the bag: Apple and Microsoft were in talks over replacing Google with Bing, and have been for weeks, as the default search engine on the iPhone. Immediately, there were questi…
- why monetizing twitter [with ads] won’t work
Published: January 27, 2010Source: emergent by designMaybe it was sparked by a new course I’m taking on digital media strategy, or some recent data on Twitter users and engagement, but it got me to thinking about the big question of how Twitter is going to…
- Consumers Slow to Embrace Social Media As Shopping Resource
Published: January 27, 2010Source: WebGuild RSS for Social MediaThe Compete Online Shopper Intelligence study provides powerful insight into the complete online shopping experience. Please contact Matt Pace at mpace@compete.com or Debra Miller at dmiller@compete.com for mo…
- Innovation Without Imitation Is A Waste Of Time
Published: January 27, 2010Source: The Future BuzzGuest Post By Dayne Shuda of Hunting Business Marketing (follow him on Twitter)
“Innovation without imitation is a complete waste of time.” Mike Rowe – Dirty Jobs
In December 2008, Mike Rowe of Dirty J… - The social media deadzone: why only tools focus on tools
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Greg Verdino's Marketing BlogThis morning I happened across the above graphic in an older Center Networks post and it triggered a quick thought on a familiar theme. I have often chided marketers for focusing too much on specific tools,…
- Apple's Tablet Is The First Big Threat To Google's Core Business
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Silicon Alley InsiderGregg’s Note: Interesting take.We’ve heard for the several years how a) Google owns search b) their market share is going to continue to increase to pretty close to 100% c) it’s therefore game owner for any potential competitor and d)…
- A Collection of 50+ Enterprise 2.0 Case Studies and Examples
Published: January 26, 2010Source: Social Media GlobetrotterI’ve been chatting with a few folks about E2.0 case studies and found that there are some good sources of information out there but they appear to be spread out all over the place. I spent some time aggrega…
- The Planning Controversy Continues
Published: January 26, 2010Source: The Ad Contrarian
- 10 Tips For Content Marketing Success
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Online Marketing BlogAs more companies, marketers and industry professionals flood the web with content, the value of those with a true understanding of content marketing keeps going up. More noise increases the value of signal….
- Where Do Brands Go To Die? Part 2: The Diagnosis
Published: January 27, 2010Source: The BrandBuilder BlogIn Part 1 of this series, we looked at what it takes for business managers and CMOs to come to accept that their brand is in trouble. We also discussed why it is often difficult for them to admit that they nee…
- The Socialization of Email Marketing
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Brian SolisFollow me on Twitter! Become a fan on Facebook!It seems that everywhere you turn, businesses, media properties, and brands are asking us to connect with them in the social Web. Whether it’s on TV, in press ma…
- Is Twitter Tanking? An Update
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Jeffbullas's BlogThe lack of transparency from Twitter on its traffic including its domain and API traffic from sources such as Tweetdeck and Hootsuite are surprising and mystifying unless it’s a secret strategy by the Twitt…
- The difference between a bonus and free
Published: January 27, 2010Source: Seth's BlogFree is something you get, no matter what.A bonus is something you get as an add-on when you purchase something, or trade your attention.The purpose of free is to spread the word, alert the universe and generat…
- The New Subsidy
Published: January 26, 2010Source: TheAppleBlogIt didn’t really surprise me in December when I learned that Google was buying AdMob, the leading mobile advertising platform. I was surprised, however, to learn that Apple had been in the discussions and pos…
- The Waltons Invented Social Media
Published: January 26, 2010Source: All articles at BlogcriticsWhy the more things change, the more they stay the same.
- Web 3.0, Semantic Web, Potayto, Potahto
Published: January 26, 2010Source: EpicenterJust when you think you’ve got a handle on Web 2.0, the cocktail party chatter increments to Web 3.0. Mediabistro.com, an organization devoted to helping journalists find employment, hosted the first day of i…
- Thanks For Writing, Joel: Here’s What You Missed
Published: January 26, 2010Source: EpicenterJoel Johnson takes a somewhat contrarian view of my cover story in the latest edition of Wired, “In the Next Industrial Revolution, Atoms Are the New Bits.” Joel’s article on Gizmodo is headlined: “Atom…
- The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple’s Hands
Published: January 26, 2010Source: TechCrunchHere we are, on the eve of the Tablet’s unveiling, with only hours to go before we find out just how ambitious Apple’s latest creation is. Countless articles have been written about how the forthcoming Tab…
- Free Publicity: Who do we help?
Published: January 26, 2010Source: Anil DashI’m not a Democrat; I don’t much care about the scorekeeping of who has more seats in any given chamber of Congress. But I do think there are things that need fixing in this country, and one of the most importa…
- The State of the Union – And the Economy: Why We Need Health Care Reform Now
Published: January 26, 2010Source: The Health Care BlogGregg’s Note: It definitely ain’t pretty.By MAGGIE MAHAR According to the headlines, 10 percent of Americans are unemployed. The truth is that closer to 17 percent of the population cannot find full-time work; this number includes workers who have be…
- The Maturation of Social Media ROI
Published: January 26, 2010Source: Mashable!Brian Solis is a principal at new media agency FutureWorks, and author of the upcoming book, Engage. You can connect with him on Twitter or Facebook.The debate over measuring social media investment inspired m…
- Alan Kay: With the Tablet, Apple Will Rule the World
Published: January 26, 2010Source: GigaOMComputer pioneer Alan Kay isn’t known for buying into hype. Credited with inventing the concept of the laptop back in 1968, Kay has been lambasting computer makers for not maximizing its potential ever since….
