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You can lead them to water, but you can’t make them drink

Gregg — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:50:34 +0000

Beth Harte and Marc Meyer have put together a very insightful list.

From the post, “I can show you how to use a social platform, but I can’t show you how to be social.”

How many businesses are really looking for someone to teach them these 19 things? I’ll bet a whole bunch. And then when they don’t get this education, because they haven’t been able to verbalize their need for it, they say that social media is a waste of time.

19 Things Social Media Consultants or Agencies Can’t Teach You

Some of the Best of Web Media Today, August 7, 2009

Gregg — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:01:17 +0000

Hand curated for your reading enjoyment.

How many Twitter friends click on your links? As little as 1%
Just when you thought that by passing on all those useful links to your faithful followers you’d be enriching their lives or careers, along comes this bit of research to let the air out of your tires.
An Era of Mass Micro Marketing
Shel points out that after decades of thinking really, really big, marketers now have to learn how to think really, really small. Look around you and you’ll see what a difficult time they’re having.
Friending Your Employees: What Are The Rules?
The post doesn’t answer the question unfortunately. It does point out some things that should be considered from both employer and employee standpoints though.
4 key ways the tech PR practice is evolving
Four fundamental ways that the tech PR industry is evolving to adapt to doing more with less. Social centeredness, Google trumps ink, Cross functional expertise and Putting the public back in PR (Deirdre and Brian have to love that one!) comprise the four fundamentals.
Adding Value To Social Media Explorer
Jason Falls is going to start complementing his popular blog with a newsletter and he’s looking for feedback on what you’d like to see. I’m betting we’ll start to see more of this.
How to Network With Busy People – Part 10
It’s probably just me, but I’ve really enjoyed this series. If you haven’t been following Steve you might want to check out what you’ve been missing.
When tactics drown out strategy
Seth Godin nails what’s wrong with 99% of today’s marketing.
10-no-4 Days to Become a Social Media Expert
I tweeted about this earlier today saying that Chris might be one of the few who could actually be called an expert and guessing that it took him at least 10 years. He responded saying that he still learns something useful each and every day. And, I missed by one. He started in ‘98.
Blogger claims to have manufactured the infamous Obama Kenyan birth certificate
This is a story that just doesn’t want to go away and this post just adds fuel to the fire.
A Career in Public Relations – A Student’s Perspective
Deirdre, one of the best in the business, does a reverse interview with a future PR professional.
Active Listening on the Social Web; It’s Overrated
Michael Brito points out that you need to do more than just “listen”. You need to engage. And engaging can lead to dramatic financial performance.
Answers to Social Media Questions You Should Know
These are questions you’re likely to ask your social media, marketing pr consultant, or, likely to hear from your client if you are one of the aforementioned. Sound advice here for both sides.
Scenes from corporate life
The first of what I hope will be many more corporate cartoons from goodcopybadcopy. Brad Shorr of Word Sell helped with the inspiration and encouragement. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Social media: Old people rule!
You’re darn tootin’ we do! Mark Schaefer’s daughter guest posted this one. He writes at {grow} and is one of my favorite marketing voices. She is majoring in PR. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree!
Man: Naughty Kitty Downloaded Kiddie Porn
This guy gets the award for Most Creative Way to duck the porno charge. To steal a line from Dharma and Greg, “Who among us has not blamed the dog?” Or, in this instance, the cat.

Web Media Daily – July 30, 2009

Gregg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:34:42 +0000

Social Media, Marketing, PR

Why Do You Tweet?… ReadWriteWeb
Posterous – What’s it all about?… SMT
How Do Companies Manage Multiple Users on Twitter and Other Social Media Accounts?… Fast Company
HOW TO: Deal With Social Networking Overload… Mashable
Marketing with fascinating data: IntraLinks Deal Flow Indicator… Web Ink Now
Andy’s Answers: 3 tips from General Mills on connecting with key influencers… Smart Blog on Social Media
Why You Should Start Over On Twitter With A BRAND NEW Account… TwiTip
From Corporate to Personal: A Breakdown Of The Four Types of Twitter Profiles… Web Strategy
“All I do is work here”… Seth Godin
Warm the Mug… Chris Brogan
Social media measurement — It’s like being a great bartender… {grow}
Is Zappos’ Email as Good as Their Social Media?… Convince and Convert
BlogHer ‘09 reveals the ugly side of social media… Econsultancy
Social Media Agencies and Transparency… davefleet
Sharpen Your Social Media Intelligence… Alibaba
1-800-Flowers.com brings online retail to Facebook… Econsultancy
How Much Do You Think Twitter Is Worth? How about a Half-Billion Dollars… Om Malik on Broadband
Immersive Social Gaming: Twitter and Facebook on XBox… ReadWriteWeb
Want to leave a prayer on the Western Wall? There’s a Twitter account for that… Inquisitir
CONFIRMED: Twitter Takeover Caused By Facebook Glitch… Mashable
Enterprise Social Media Normalizes… Naked Conversations

Apple

The iPhoneocalypse is Coming: Every iPhone is at Risk… Mashable
AT&T releases new mobile social networking app… macsimumnews

Technology

3jam Launches Virtual Numbers, Takes Google Voice Head-On… TechCrunch
Poken And The Evolution Of The Digital Business Card… Interactive Influential Marketing

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

A Copywriter’s Intro to Frame-switching and Nested Storytelling… Conversion Rate Marketing
What If: The New New York Times… TechCrunch
12 Tips to Find Ideas for Your Writing… Ronda Writes
AOL Newsroom Now Has (Wow) 1,500 Writers…. TechCrunch

Business, Finance, Money

Overqualified and underpaid… CNN/Money
What Business Thinks of Obama… BusinessWeek
Foreclosures Spread As Unemployment Rises… BusinessWeek

Medicine, Health

Controlling health care costs will require patient sacrifice, that how that will affect the status quo… Kevin, M.D.
Americans Spend $34 Billion on Alternative Medicine… WebMD
Health Reform: Big Wind, Take Small Steps… medinnovationblog
Fixing health care: Full coverage… CNN/Money
ACP: Putting effectiveness into the health care equation: Rational or rationing?… Kevin, M.D.
E-Health – It All Depends on How It’s Used… Health Care Blog
Health Care in Crisis: Patients Are Pushovers… BusinessWeek

Lifestyle

Beaches better in N.C., report says… News and Observer

Triangle Tweets – July 30, 2009

Gregg — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:56:30 +0000

Tweets from around the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area.

Social Media Tweets Around the Triangle

@DaveMinella: @sarkatbur More proof that [gasp] your PR efforts DON’T always need a social media aspect. Take that, social media experts http://tr.im/uLvN
@deanshaw: Best Buy shows world how not to use Social Media http://bit.ly/RiTEv(expand) 1st clue should have been calling it “@Twelpforce“…moronic
@dhatfield: How do we help people who are afraid of social media?http://thekinetic.wordpress.com/ via @andybusam
@ElizabethPShugg: RT @JustinKownacki: 6 Ways Social Media Gets It Wrong:http://bit.ly/4FNIk5 (expand) Thanks for responding to my blog. Great points in yours
@LTDHQ: Reading “Why Now is the Time to Get Started with Social Media“http://bit.ly/yZ73m (expand)
@josefwoodman: RT @drsteventucker: RT @jensmccabe: Joint Commission ventures into social media. http://twitter.com/JCommission
@MentorTodd: Kaiser Permanente’s Hilary Weber: Using social media for internal …: In her BlogWell San Francisco case st.. http://bit.ly/12HSxF (expand)

Tweets Around the Triangle

@chapelhillmag: Want to help a writer with a story for Chapel Hill Magazine? Read on to see how: http://tiny.cc/oi2Mb
@wraltraffic: Cheapest gas in Raleigh: $2.36 at MurphyUSA on New Hope at New Bern. Your cheapest gas is right here: http://tr.im/fuel5
@raleightopnews: The all-electronic toll road called the Triangle Expressway is coming to NC…soon… http://tinyurl.com/l6dgsy (expand)
@glucklich: NY, you’re a fling. Durham, you’re my real thing

Web Media Daily – July 29, 2009

Gregg — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:33:37 +0000

Social Media, Marketing, PR

Public Relations Measurement 2010: Five Things to Forget & Five Things to Learn … Metrics Man
What Twitter and Facebook Can Learn From Phish… Mashable
Socialcast Thinks Your CEO’s Status Be Louder Than Yours… ReadWriteWeb
Managing Your Small Business’s Online Reputation… NY Times
Airlines Follow Passengers Onto Social Media Sites… NY Times
How do you report social media success?… Dirk Shaw
If It Feels Wrong, It Probably Is… All Facebook
A Guide to Crowdfunding Success… Mashable
Why Big Business Will NEVER Get Social Media… Spirit Wealth
Top 10 Things the Microsoft/Yahoo! Deal Changes for SEO… SEOmoz Blog
Deloitte Study Suggests Social Media Policy a Must Have… Web 2.0 Journal
Top 10 Social Media Gaffes… ABC News
Share Tweets with Friends Right in GMail… Micro Persuasion
How Should Marketers Guard Against Viral Backlash?… Fast Comapny
Dumb Facebook Comments On Current Events=No Jerb… Wonkette
Super-Charge Your Twittering With FollowFormation… Fast Company
Social Media Mavens – An Interview with Kodak’s Tom Hoehn… The Viral Garden
If I Had A Social Media Hammer … Patrick Barbanes
How Social Media Monitoring Can Benefit B2B… Search Engine Land
Social Media Best Practices… eMarketer
Readers have responsibilities too… Writelife
Turning Web Analytics into Nonprofit Success… Conversion Rate Marketing
Great Headlines, Poor Rankings – Why Clever Headlines Don’t Beat Optimized Title Tags for SEO… Search Engine Journal
How Gen-Y Startups Use Social Media to Shatter the Status Quo… Mashable
Stop Blaming Marketing!… Phoenix Rising
Report: Social Networks Growing while Other Social Media Sites Stagnate and Decline… ReadWriteWeb
Facebook To Release Ads API… All Facebook
How to Find Your Blogging Mojo – Experiment with Different Voices and Styles of Writing… ProBlogger
Marketing Voices: Three Recommendations for Marketing Leaders (11min)… Web Strategy
Does that Facebook App Have a Privacy Policy? Probably Not.… ReadWriteWeb
How Amanda Palmer made $11,000 on Twitter in two hours… Web Ink Now
Time for Twitter to Ditch Trending Topics… Naked Conversations
Measuring Your Level Of Social Media Engagement … PR Communications
The Ultimate List of Basic SEO Resources for a Kick-Ass Start… Search Engine Journal
What is Digital Asset Optimization?… Online Marketing Blog
Tweet Cloud for Luxury Brands – Using Twitter for Exposure… TwiTip
May I Contact You Please? The Evolution of Permission… Convince and Convert
How Twitter Is Changing Business Blogging … Word Sell Inc.
Can a single tweet create a tidal wave?… Econsultancy
Social media influence in the workplace may be relatively small… {grow}
Do Thought Leaders Need To Be Practioners?… Th Kmiec Ramblings
Cameron condemns Tweeters as tw*ts… Register
How to Win Customers and Piss People Off… Ask Kalena
Social PR Crisis and Response: How Horizon Group Management Might Yet Save the Day… Experience: The Blog
Marketing is Not a Substitute for a Great Product or Service… Social Media Marketing Strategy
TweetDeck updates – Creating an application with thought… SMT
Live Tweeting from the Verizon Developer Conference #VDC09… Socialize Mobilize
Twitter Highlights Search on New Home Page… Search Engine Journal
What Would Happen If Social Networking Sites Charged… Techdirt
Twitter Finally Explains Itself… Technologizer
You are the Captain…. Chris Brogan
Twitter Redesigns As Streaming Trends Site… ReadWrireWeb
What the Horizon Realty Fail Can Teach You About Social Media… Copyblogger
The Goal of Twitter’s New Homepage? Be the World’s Water Cooler… Mashable
Facebook Announces New Ad Policy Which Eliminates User Data From Third Party Networks… All Facebook
The Power Of ALL… s.m.o.g.
Would the real social network please stand up?… apophenia
Social Media Experts, Your Messages are Getting Through. Sort Of.… Elizabeth Shugg

Apple

How I Read the ATT Comment on Google Voice… Newsome.org
AT&T: Don’t Blame Us For The iPhone’s Google Voice Ban… TechCrunch
Apple to developers – piss off and don’t bother us… Inquisitir
The Black Mac Desktop [Featured Desktop]… Lifehacker
See Apples through Windows… PCR
iPhone SMS Vulnerability: Should You be Scared?… Technologizer
TNT doesn’t like Mac users… David Alison’s Blog
Apple bigger than Dell and HP combined… CNN/Money
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’… Forbes
Apple’s fussyness shows the real platform – the web… Epeus’ Epigone
Why You’ll Buy Apple’s iTablet… Fast Company

Technology

Recipe for a Successful Teleconference… Web Worker Daily
YourMapper.com Quietly Building World’s Largest Map Mashup Platform… Social Media Explorer
Lack of demand for Acer’s Android netbook: a sign of things to come for Chrome OS?… Econsultancy
Yahoo’s Bing Deal Puts Delicious, BOSS & More at Risk… ReadWrireWeb
Exclusive: Former MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe Raising Money For New Venture… TechCrunch
Screw the Cloud! Tonido Wants to Put Your Apps on YOUR Computer… ReadWriteWeb

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

EBooks: Sony Now Offers 1 Million Free Books From Google Books… ReadWriteWeb
Chris Anderson’s Unbelievably Annoying Interview With Spiegel… Silicon Alley Insider
Editorial: Google’s Big Plan for Books… NY Times
Inside AP’s New News DRM System… TechCrunch
Become a Better Proofreader By Distancing Yourself from the Text [Writing Tips]… Lifehacker
Old Media, New Media and Where the Rubber Meets the Road… O’Reilly Radar
eBook Craze Spurs $15M Funding for LibreDigital… Om Malik on Broadband
AP Says It’s ‘Done’ Talking About Fair Use And Its DRM… Techdirt

Business, Finance, Money

Why Microsoft and Yahoo had to do a deal… Fortune
Study: 40-hour workweek is no more… Triangle Business Journal
Question…Is Tweeting Your Trades Pumping Stocks?… Howard Lindzon
How One Grasshopper Is Boosting Employee Morale… Fast Company

Medicine, Health

AARP Members Air Doubts about Obamacare… medinnovationblog
Mass Mess… medinnovationblog
Magical Thinking Of The Week: The Anti-Inflammation Diet… Better Health
Health Care: Public Plan, ‘Pay or Play’ May Go… BusinessWeek
Orzag’s Bad Idea – Ending Practice Variation… medinnovationblog
Why it’s difficult to put doctors on a salary… Kevin, M.D.
Much ado about something important… DB’s Medical Rants
Creating Cost-Efficient Primary Care Medical Practices By Using 21st Century Technology… Better Health
Are patients refusing doctors who no longer do hospital work?… Kevin, M.D.
Obama asks Americans to tweet their Senators… Econsultancy
Who can save the future of medicine?… CNN/Money
Are health info seekers sharing less with doctors?… Health Populi
Kung Fu Surgeon…. Surgeonsblog
Health program brings back house calls… News and Observer
Health Care, A Plan… John Dalt
Health Care Mythology… Clifford Asness
Patients for a Moment… Everything Changes
Health Care in Crisis: Overmedicating America… BusinessWeek

Lifestyle

Personal Lives vs. Electronic Communication: The Battle Continues… Web Worker Daily
The Case for Eating Local, Beautifully Made… Fast Company
Imagine Pot Was Legal. How Would You Brand It?… Fast Company
6 Resources for Tomorrow’s Happy Hour… ReadWriteWeb
Dear god no: Coca Cola is test marketing a fizzy milk drink… Inquisitir
Cremation urns that look like the dear departed… BoingBoing
4 ways to restart your career… CNN/Money

Triangle Tweets – July 29, 2009

Gregg — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 09:30:44 +0000

Tweets from around the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area.

Social Media Tweets Around the Triangle

@ncsulilwolf: RT @graciefabulous: someone called to sell me a social mediaprogram, I asked for their website and twitter handle – they had neither #FAIL
@andybeal: Reading: How Social Media Monitoring Can Benefit B2B http://gri.ms/9Z
@MMIPR: Wow, amazing post from @MackCollier about #Kodak’s social mediaplan. Includes graphics and interview with Tom Hoehn: http://bit.ly/2ztNju (expand)
@williduke: RT @waynesutton: Reading: If I Had A Social Media Hammer ->http://idek.net/MAm – very interesting. Your thoughts?
@ElizabethPShugg: Social media experts, your messages are getting through. Sort of. http://bit.ly/T3Z8u
@MYM_Organizing: RT @LiveYourBrand: social Media Tip: Download Scott The Nametag Guy’s (Unofficial) 9th Book for Free, RIGHT NOW! http://cli.gs/3G80E
@deirdrereid: Great post – What the Horizon Realty Fail Can Teach You AboutSocial Media (by @soniasimone) - http://bit.ly/12Gl0X (expand)

Tweets Around the Triangle

@CInscoe: Chapel Hill #8 best city in US for local food according to HuffPo!!http://bit.ly/Wc7Pn (expand)
@JtotheP8701: Yes im in a good mood i just landed the role of Dwane in a feature film named “Hooped”. The shoot is going to be in my home town Durham,NC.
@marshallgay: Local BBQ pitmaster Ed Mitchell’s scheduled for the Today show tomorrow morning! Check out one of Raleigh’s finest.
@RalDowntowner http://twitpic.com/c11hq – Obama riding through downtown Raleigh. (cool photo!)
@TriangleBIZJrnl: Obama stays on health-care message in Raleigh visit.http://tinyurl.com/nk64dj (expand)
@jhodgson76: Saw Air Force One in Raleigh today, also saw the huge Air Force C17 planes that bring Obama’s limo and secret service vechicles in where …
@WilliamTeach: RT @underthedome Kay Hagan blows off Obama in Raleighhttp://bit.ly/SIDhD
@alanpringle: Downtown Raleigh Restaurant Week next month: http://is.gd/1SGym(expand) Nice way to try some expensive restaurants without breaking the bank.
@gregflynn: At the end of a verrrrry long line for Obama healthcare town hall meeting in Raleigh
@aysu: Working out the final details of the President’s visit to Raleigh…http://bit.ly/uoSRp (expand)
@CarolinaDevelop: RT @Carolina_News Follow @UNC_Health_Care for tweets from Obama’s town hall meeting in Raleigh.
@CanesSSQ: Storm Squad photo shoot for Cary Magazine! Something tells me this is going to be hilarious:)
@onoflocke: Obama’s coming to Raleigh to pimp #hcreform. What a week: terrorists in my backyard, dead woman next door, statist a few blocks away #nctcot
@BenjaminArie: Listening to 4th Fighter Wing F-15s hauling ass over my townhouse, securing Raleigh airspace for Obama. #fb
@wraltraffic: Happy Wednesday. The president is coming, so avoid I-40 btwn RDU and Ral from mid-AM to mid-PM. Expect delays in west Raleigh, too.
@andreaweigl: New vegetarian eatery in Chapel Hill http://bit.ly/nYGtG (expand)

Web Media Daily – July 28, 2009

Gregg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:12:17 +0000

Social Media, Marketing, PR

An Organized Facebook: An Impossible Feat?… All Facebook
Ford one of Top Ten Brands Using Social Media… SMT
Best Buy’s Interesting, Imperfect Experiment in Customer Service Via Twitter… Technologizer
Social media growing in sports… Cincinnati.com
Would You Twitter if Your Tweet Carried a $50,000 Price Tag?… Fast Company
Number of Social Networking Users Has Doubled Since 2007… Mashable
TweetMart: Classifieds For & From Twitter… ReadWriteWeb
How Social Media Can Help Organic SEO : 2 Case Studies… Jeff Bullas’s Blog
What Is Twitter? Apparently, No One Knows… Fast Company
34 Ways to Use YouTube for Business… Web Worker Daily
SEO Is Not Always As Simple We Think… E-Marketing Performance
Social Media Engagement And Financial Success Are Both Trailing Variables… BrandSavant
Business Banking Leaders Pioneer Social Media… SocialMediaB2B
Beware the Social Media Hucksters… Community and Conversation
Announcing The Social Times 25… All Facebook
Enough With Social Media ROI, Already… davefleet
5 Easy Social Media Wins for Your Small Business… Mashable
How to Create Compelling Content Through Reader Interaction… ProBlogger
How to Develop a Successful Facebook Page… Marketing Profs
Does your legal department work for you?… Web Ink Now
Making the Most of the Press Release: Getting the Idea Viral… Search Engine Journal
A Facebook success story from the Lupus Foundation of America… Smart Blog on Social Media
Review of Twitter Success Blueprint… TwiTip
Sustainable Web PR Requires Relationships… Future Buzz
The Agency Side of Business, Walking the Talk… Conversation Agent
5 Social Media Lessons You Can Learn from Bikers … Words of a Broken Mirror
The 4 Biggest Motivators for Social Media Marketing… Commerce Times
Retailers need to focus on online customer service… Econsultancy
Five jobs for Facebook addicts… CNN
Add Multimedia to Your Blog Quick and Easy with Apture … Word Sell, Inc.
UK Government Writes a Twitter Guide…in 20 Pages… Mashable
The Importance of a Social Media Audits… Web Strategy
Why IZEA is Wrong for Absolutely Everyone: Bloggers and Consumers… Experience: The Blog
When Bloggers Attack: Retaliation is Not the Answer… Search Engine Watch
Why Coke beat Pespi for the last 100+ years… Inquisitir
Groupon – Clever Collective Buying Site… Chris Brogan
10 Signs that Sales & Marketing are Mis-Aligned… SMT
Verizon Uses Twitter To Trash Talk AT&T Too… TechCrunch
Creating a measurement plan without losing your marbles… {grow}
What’s the point of social media… Examiner
Mommy blogger tries to introduce honesty seal, colonoize Mars… Inquisitir
Along the Media Spectrum… SMT

Apple

Best. Comment. Ever.… TechCrunch (This is just too funny!)
Why is Apple even getting away with this shit?… Inquisitir
Busted! Thieves Caught by MobileMe’s Find My iPhone… Mashable
Introducing Scanaroo… Social Customer Manifesto
Locking Customers to Your Product? It’s Probably Not Good Then.… Louis Gray
Let the Apple tablet wars begin… CNN/Money
One Bad Apple Does Spoil the Whole Bunch of Apps… Newsome.org
Apple iTablet: Will You Buy One?… Mashable
Is AT&T behind the rejection and removal of Google Voice apps?… Unofficial Apple Weblog
Why Michael Scalisi deserves the Al Reis ‘Why the iPhone will Fail’ Award… Rex Hammock
Phones Down, Tablets to Go… Newsome.org
Things Keeps Tasks Under Control… Web Worker Daily
Apple Is Growing Rotten To The Core, And It’s Likely AT&T’s Fault… TechCrunch

Technology

Online usage has flat lined. And why that doesn’t matter.… Econsultancy
Top 7 Places to Watch Great Minds in Action… Mashable
Google Realizes That Short Links Are Smart Links In Mobile Gmail… TechCrunch
Ten Useful & Interesting Google Docs Hacks… dumblittlemanblogs
First Impressions: Google Voice… paul Stamatiou

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

AP: “We’re Done” Answering Questions About Fair Use & Our Rights System… Danny Sullivan
The Freelancer’s Library of Free E-books, Manifestos and Other Resources… Web Worker Daily
The Joys of Unplugging… Well-Fed Writer Blog
Pay = “mass delusion”: Schiller… BuzzMachine
Reset: How This Crisis Can Restore Our Values and Renew America… BoingBoing
How To Improve Your Writing – Resource Roundup Tuesday… About Freelance Writing
Finding the right subscription model at the NYT… Econsultancy
Tomorrow’s news companies: small, lean and venture capitalist… Econsultancy
How not to write a job advert… goodcopybadcopy
Is The AP Even Relevant Any More?… Techdirt
Permission Culture: Want To Quote A Single Sentence In A Book? Pay Up!… Techdirt

Business, Finance, Money

Diller: TV Web Revenues will Come from Cable… BusinessWeek
How to Save $1,000 on Your Kid’s College Costs (Deal of the Day)… Smart Money
Bank of America may close 10% of branches… CNN/Money

Medicine, Health

Are female surgeons happier than their male counterparts?… Kevin, M.D.
WHO: Tanning Beds Cause Cancer… WebMD
Explaining soaring health care costs in easy to understand language… Kevin, M.D.
Divorce Has Lasting Toll on Health… WebMD
Beyond the pill – comparative-effectiveness is about people, too… Health Populi
Physicians Are Biased About Healthcare Reform… Better Health
The senate 6… DB’s Medical Rants
New Estimate on Swine Flu in U.S.… MedicineNet
Health Care in Crisis: Needless Costs, Needless Deaths… BusinessWeek
Seven Reasons to Have a Digital Personal Health Record… Prudent Press

Lifestyle

Is YOUR husband hooked on internet porn?… Mail Online

Triangle Tweets – July 28, 2009

Gregg — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:11:57 +0000

Tweets from around the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area.

Social Media Tweets Around the Triangle

@garyalanmiller: RT @andrew_dunn Here’s the @dailytarheel social media policyhttp://bit.ly/XWR3G (expand)
@andybeal: Set up your social media monitoring dashboard in just 60-seconds, guaranteed! - http://gri.ms/9D
@srcomblog: The patient-physician social media triangle: There is an interesting discussion going on in the blogosphere surr.. http://bit.ly/NHGMo
@jtobin: 57% of b-to-b marketers surveyed report using social media in 2009, up from 15% in 2007. (Source: BtoB, ANA survey)
@gradfad: Truth. RT @alaskamiller: just a point: hood kids are running the youtube game better than most social media experts (via @cameronreed)

Tweets Around the Triangle

@mikehall: The President is coming to Raleigh, NC tomorrow. We plan to give him a warm “leave our healthcare alone” reception. #tcot
@wral_psaulsby: Suspected homegrown terrorist cells. International news story here in the Triangle. Attracted here by the same things as the rest of us.
@ChapelHillNews1: Chapel Hill unfriendly to businesses? Entrepreneur magazine doesn’t think so: http://bit.ly/16RLYY
@CHMayorsOffice: Chapel Hill named best place to start a business!http://bit.ly/1wuSB (expand)
@wral: #wral Durham schools chief named regional superintendent of the year:Durham Public Schools Superintendent .. http://bit.ly/W2yHB (expand)
@30THREADS: New color map shows the best ways to get around Durham without a car: http://idek.net/L_K
@30THREADS: Will paying musicians to perform in downtown Chapel Hill boost foot traffic? http://idek.net/L.1
@MyNC: Harry Potter fans get ready, Durham Library is one of 12 nationwide selected to host Harry Potter Exhibit: http://idek.net/LzH
@Raleigh_News: Raleigh To Host National Convention For Chambers Of Commerce – MyNC.com: http://bit.ly/EFCxz (expand)
@triangledotcom: have we asked you to share your photos?http://share.triangle.com/gallery/new
@Resume_Writer: @TriangleBIZJrnl RT: Triangle unemployment continues to rise in June. http://tinyurl.com/n93bad
@grantwral: 7 terror suspects were in a federal court in raleigh… read the indictments that reveal their jihad attack plans on WRAL.com
@zachschabot: @jimmyvgolf : Big Brother Big Sister of the Triangle could always use tix to expose kids and their mentors to the golf classic.

Web Media Daily – July 27, 2009

Gregg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:31:46 +0000

Social Media, Marketing, PR

Are Bing users flocking to advertisers — or away from Yahoo?… Econsultancy
Huffington Post; Taking the Next Step… Richard Edelman
Why business blogs should focus on cheerleaders, not lead-generation… A Smart Bear
LinkedIn Gives You a Better Way to Brand Your Business… Mashable
Remember This is All Opt-In… Altitude Branding
Ten top issues in adopting enterprise social computing… ZDNet
When Big Brands Discover Social Media Marketing… Search Engine Land
Better Blog Search Results… Web Worker Daily
Lost magazine ad pages aren’t coming back… Econsultancy
The Vocus Virtual Conference… Deirdre Breakenridge
Usage and Experience Doesn’t Equate to Social Expertise… Web Strategy
Marketers Like Twitter More Than Consumers Do… Media Post
Defending Its Turf, TweetMeme Is Already Threatening To Sue ReTweet… TechCrunch
The Authoritative Book On Social Media Finally Published… Social Media Explorer
Everything About BtoB Magaine’s Social Media Study Is Wrong… Social Media B2B
‘Twitter Answers’ Could Make Twitter Gobs Of Money… Silicon Alley Insider
5 Tools for Social Media Monitoring… Off Madison Ave.
The A-to-Z of online copywriting… Econsultancy
45 Creative, Clever And Effective Blog Taglines… Online Marketing Blog
Do Damaged Brands Have More Opportunities In Social Media?… davefleet
Listening, for a Change… Conversation Agent
4 Reports: Facts and Figures About Twitter… Jeffbullas’s Blog
Audit Your Intellectual Capital – 7 Ways to Find Your Stories… Convince and Convert
Why IZEA is Wrong for Absolutely Everyone: Brands… Experience: The Blog
Column: How to Build Social Capital – Innovate Early and Often… Micro Persuasion
Yes, it IS about the money… {grow}
5 social media strategies you need… iMedia
How Social Media Can Improve Your Sales Process (A Real Business Case Study)… HubSpot
Cuban Revolution faces social media buzz tumult over one group’s experience… Bull City Rising
Social media: myth versus reality… Econsultancy
Identifying a social media workflow… P Morgan Brown
How to Get In Tune with Your Readers Needs [and Produce Compelling Content]… ProBlogger
Facebook Guide For Professionals: How To Succeed In A Networked Economy… All Facebook
Denise Tanton’s BlogHer09 wrapup… BlogHer
HOW TO: Build Your Personal Brand on LinkedIn… Mashable (Dan Schawbel)
80+ Social Media eBooks for Your Kindle… Interactive Insights Group
Study Reveals High Levels of Twitter Use at Conferences… ReadWriteWeb
More Creative Shops Are Commercializing Their Own Product Lines… Fast Company
5 More Things You Do To Get Business On Twitter… TwiTip
Facebook Friend Recommendations From The Grave… All Facebook
4 Fundamental Rules of Small Business PR… Moreover
5 Ways to Reach Social Media Audiences via Paid Search SEM/PPC and Sponsorship Tactics… SMS
How Social Tools Allow People to Bypass Barriers… Chris Brogan
Full Disclosure: Sponsored Conversations on Twitter Raise Concerns, Prompt Standards… SMT (Brian Solis)
SEO Q&A: How to Prevent Google from Crawling AND Indexing a Page?… Search Engine Journal
Interview: Bill Gassman (Gartner) on Google Analytics… Web Analytics Demystified
Martha Stewart: Twitter is Better than Facebook… Mashable
Ashton Kutcher talks Twitter… CNN/Money
47% of the CMO’s will spend more on social media marketing – good to know… SMT
How Has Blogging Affected Your Business?… Business Logs
Bitly + Twitter Has Driven 350,000 views to Youtube’s JK Wedding… Ryan Spoon

Apple

What We Want From an Apple Tablet… Fast Company
What Apple, Record Labels are Forgetting… BusinessWeek
Three things the Apple tablet needs to be successful… Apple Core
Apple working with record labels to resurrect the album… Ars Technica
Review: TweetMic for iPhone… MacCentral
Apple Tablet May Launch in September… Mashable
Apple Flip Flops on “Mature” iPhone App Policy… ReadWriteWeb
FT.com says Apple is rushing to have the iPod touch/tablet/mediapad/rumor #3 by Christmas… Rex Hammock
Spotify Waves iPhone Buzz Under Apple’s Nose… paidContent

Technology

How do Yahoo! Answers get to the top of Google Search?… Wikinomics
Introducing Quick Steps… Microsoft Weblogs
‘Old’ tech like Java and .Net is hot in cold economy… CNet News
10 Ways Google Is Trying To Kill Microsoft… Silicon Alley Insider
Intuit Partner Program adds open source community… macsimunnews

Journalism, Newspapers, Magazines, Writing

How The Huffington Post Can Pay Its Bloggers… Huffington Post
Is Cursive Handwriting Dead? [Ask The Readers]… Lifehacker
Gallery: Screens That Save Me Time… Micro Persuasion
A next generation in Ann Arbor… BuzzMachine
Five reasons why consumers will reject news paywalls… Econsultancy
The Empire strikes back or the old order’s attempt to draw a close to the age of free… News from the Herd
Guardian column: Charity v. collaboration… BuzzMachine

Business, Finance, Money

Another industry disintermediated… BuzzMachine
4 Fundamental Rules of Small Business PR… Moreover

Medicine, Health

Tweet Your Senator: Healthcare Reform Gets a Presidential Mashup… Mashable
The high cost of avoiding health care reform… DB’s Medical Rants
The Continuing Shingles Saga & The Absence Of A Medical Home… Better Health
We need a personal health reformation… Politico
The Real Cost Drivers Of Health Insurance Premiums… Better Health
Why rationing is a dirty word, and can we ever limit care in America?… Kevin, M.D.
More costs, less filling: health care coverage and the middle class… Health Populi
Can we measure quality?… DB’s Medical Rants
Rationing. There. I Said It.… Surgeonsblog

Lifestyle

12 Fantastic Facebook Fan Pages for Parents… Mashable
HOW TO: Use the Web for Socially Responsible Shopping… Mashable

Triangle Tweets – July 27, 2009

Gregg — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:31:30 +0000

Tweets from around the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area.

Social Media Tweets Around the Triangle

@hdc_NCSUlib: RT: @HarvardBiz: Three Instantly Effective Social Media Strategieshttp://bit.ly/fY83H (expand)
@jtobin: Social media marketing to grow from $700m today to $3.1b in 2014 (or 45% CAGR) Forrester: http://bit.ly/VJteq (expand) Seems like good news to me!
@internetdoctor: Quantification of a qualitative entity such as a relationship, makes measuring social media effectiveness extremely difficult.
@smb2b: Everything About BtoB Magaine’s Social Media Study Is Wrong:http://bit.ly/4dL9oz (expand)
@chuckhester: I don’t want to know how you make money on Twitter, or how to get more followers – I want to know how you use social media to help others!
@bullcity: Cuban Revolution faces social media buzz tumult over one group’s experience http://bit.ly/3dRE6
@scottboren: Good read. RT @BooleanBlackBlt: Just read: Social media: myth versus reality http://bit.ly/i2iHp (expand) from @econsultancy
@jbhester: RT @michsineath: Social media is like a marathon, it’s not a sprint — on Creating a Social Media Workflow… http://bit.ly/15VUxm (expand)
@jhoysi: RT @randymatheson: READING: 5 social media strategies you need – iMediaConnection.com > http://ow.ly/ihEE

Tweets Around the Triangle

@embalog: chapel hill makes top 10 in huffpo’s “10 Best US Cities for Local Food”http://bit.ly/op18l
@bullcity: South Durham Little League team vies for state championshiphttp://bit.ly/vh2Ly
@Triunitedway: photos and video of our recent LIVE UNITED day at the DurhamBulls game, check them out here, http://tinyurl.com/lldfeh (expand) ,and become a fan!
@me3cia: Did you know that the volunteer rate for people age 16 and up inRaleigh/Wake County is only 26.7%?
@GinnySkal: Woot! Looks like I might be getting credentials to live blog the Obama Health Care forum in Raleigh on Wednesday.
@LinkingRaleigh: TONIGHT! LinkedIn Fundamentals and Profile Development Seminar with @martinbrossman and I at BNC Cary http://su.pr/35T3HW
@SeaboardCafe: Spent a lot of time working on our marketing plan and branding efforts. We are shooting to be one of the top lunch restaurants in Raleigh!
@rileylife: RT @kenanflagler: Preview UNC Kenan-Flagler Aug. 1 in Chapel Hillhttp://tinyurl.com/nfxt2x (expand) (CB: this MBA changed my life.)