08 Apr
Last week I had the honor of participating in BlogHer Biz ‘08. Part of my gig was to lead a round table discussion. Our talk turned to etiquette in social media. What is proper and polite in the digital world of social…
I’m reading one of those great Very Short Introductions to… from Oxford University Press at the moment about Anarchism. I cannot recommend it highly enough as a thought-provoking bridge between political theory and…
Last week’s meetup in Toronto featured a live taping of the Inside PR podcast - good fun, that. A great discussion was had by all regarding ‘who owns the social media space?’. All in all, I found the folks there to be…
So, between Lee Odden losing his camera in the bay, and my failure to bring a charger to town, this will be less-than-visual post. Feel free to Google for a stock photo image of Robert Scoble, if you want the full…
Chris Brogan had an interesting post on March 27th and I read it at the time without thinking that I would be putting my own house on the market soon. Yesterday my wife and I made our final decision on a Realtor, but…
Well, not really… and certainly not when you pack the event with 80-plus bloggers.(Photo: Matt Dickman)Those of you who purchased copies of Age of Conversation know that my chapter, “Have You Hugged a Blogger Today?,&
Technique Tuesday!Cherry Donut is constructed with beading wire, so it works up really quickly and easily!MaterialsSize 8/0 seed bead mix16 triangle beads4 mm bicone scrystals (Swarovski)4 mm rounds10 mm facetted…
If social media success = 1/2 social network + 1/2 quality content . an understanding of both social network building and content development is necessary. I’ve written extensively about developing a social media n…
So what comes to your mind when you think about link building? Directory submissions, link baits, link exchanges?Recently, there was this client of mine who had a wonderful website. It was beautifully designed, good l…
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07 Apr
I’m trying out a little experiment in “social media” land. This time I’m using Twitter. I’ve created a game called Twittermethis. Get it? “Riddle me this?” From Batman… You got it.Twittermethis is easy…
There are applications that come along and automatically generate buzz and applications that come and go very quickly. And this brings me to the social media phenomena Twitter. This 145-word cap…
I’m not sure the last time I saw a New York Times piece that failed to convince, well, anybody. It may be because Matt Richtel made the classic mistake of developing a thesis and sticking to it until he found some…
Today I met with a new client who consulted with me about how to build their new ecommerce business online.Interestingly due to the fact that he has a website representing his personal brand online, he is number one in…
I clicked open my New York Times (I read the Kindle version) and was drawn to this story with this headline - In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They DropI started the story and I found myself looking around…
Your customers are 3 times more likely to trust opinions from their peers than advertising messages from you, according to Jupiter data published at eMarketer. This isn’t new, of course. Peers have always been our…
Since it’s debut last year, many of us have invested countless hours in Sphinn, SearchEngineLand’s “social news” community site for search marketing professionals. When the SEL team first released Sphinn in…
Last week, Keri, a student from the Savannah College of Art and Design, reached out to me with a few questions on social media. Keri is pursuing a MFA in advertising design and she is researching new media and blogs in…
twitter_03 Originally uploaded by netwalker100 I know, I know–there are too many “must-do” things online, too many social platforms that all your friends are waxing poetic about, and for those of us that are n
This is a guest post on targeting Social Media Sites is from Steven Snell. Steven writes about social media marketing at Traffikd.Most bloggers recognize the incredible potential that exists with social media marketing.…
While StumbleUpon traffic is not really reliable and I strongly advise you not to depend on it for your blog StumbleUpon is still one of the most valuable places to get attention on the Web. To show you how a succesful…
Despite the initial clamour, and concern, about employers using social networking sites to aid recruitment, new research has shown that three in four employers actually avoid using the likes of Facebook when sizing up…
In an exclusive study conducted for Marketing Voices by Comrade, a boutique full service marketing agency, they discover and report the latest trends in social media strategy and implementation. After talking with…
Whilst this might be personally biased, it is my opinion that my Gary Halbert quote in my recent Players With Money Review is probably better content than 90% of what is submitted to Sphinn, and on its own might even…
06 Apr
As expected, Facebook announced that they will be launching Facebook Chat this week. The announcement, made via a post on The Facebook Blog, says that the rollout will be slow, but, unlike MySpaceIM, there won't be…
Has anyone else noticed that ever since Facebook turned on their “friend finder” feature, that this social network, which has been a haven away from spam, is now more crowded than my email inbox. Every day, I receive
Stealing someone’s identity to defraud someone is a serious criminal offence.Borrowing someone’s identity to take the piss out of them, as the Brits would say, is a time-tested satirical technique.The skewerer gets…
Welcome to episode #98 of Six Pixels Of Separation - The Twist Image Podcast. After spending the week at emetrics in Toronto and then a couple of days with Bryan Eisenberg and Avinash Kaushik, I think you’ll hear plenty…
Over the past few days at the Next Web conference in Amsterdam, I had the opportunity to hang out with about 700 Internet entrepreneurs from all over Europe. The startup scene in Europe reminds me of Silicon Valley four…
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