Web Media Daily – July 28, 2009

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

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