Tweet Google has just announced Feedburner integration with Google Analytics. Now when you are using both Google Analytics and FeedBurner, you will see campaign attribution for item clicks tracked by your AdSense For Feeds or your Google FeedBurner account. Even many businesses that have fully embraced RSS as a tool in their online marketing toolbox [...]
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Tweet I have been getting asked by friends for information on how to setup their own business. I think in these hard times getting a business going can be a very appealing alternative to finding another job. While I was doing the research I figured I’d just publish here for everyone to reference. This generally [...]
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Tweet I have been seeing a trend in new navigation on top sites out there. I have heard this suggested from friends and colleagues who are graphic designers. Maybe there is another term out there, but for now I am calling it the Mega Dropdown Navigation. I have seen on top sites such as www.npr.org [...]
Tweet I am currently taking a company and reconstructing its entire server and infrastructure platform to operate in the clouds. It is a lot of planning, work and just readjustment in thinking on how to deploy a server infrastructure. However it is so worth it. It is such a more scalable and resilient platform than [...]
Tweet I have been using a combination of Dreamweaver and Notepad to do my code editing for a few years now. I use Dreamweaver because of employers mandating it mostly. I really don’t like the application, or use many of the features. With my new role at WebEvents Global I started using Homesite which I [...]
Tweet I have been through some major changes lately. Feel like I am really moving on into the 2nd half of my life. (Mid-Life…don’t like that?). Anyways I recently went through a divorce with my wife Ishbel. I am learning how to spend time with my daughter Kaia both virtually, phone and in scheduled weekend [...]
Tweet I was just reading another great blog post 2.0 from Dion Hinchcliffe, he always delivers with his posts. This one is called Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know and has some critical 2.0 advice for decision makers in any company. There is one tip that really stood [...]
Tweet I have been using wikis a lot lately to layout strategy for social media marketing campaigns. Social media marketing really overlaps into a lot of different areas, some are internal and some are external. So we are designing what we call “online ecosystem” strategies for companies that help visualize all of their online virtual [...]
Tweet I am seeing more and more talk of crowd sourcing of projects. I am reading more about virtual assistants and how they are changing how businesses operate and grow their business in this tough economy. In my work with Ahren over at Social Media Squad I have assisted him in the development of crowd [...]
Tweet When is image search going to move past what the picture is named and more about what the picture is about. If the picture author named the picture appropriately then the picture search is valid…however most of the time the results are crap. Makes it very frustrating to search for relative pictures.
Tweet I have used Google Chrome for the last few days, and I am happy with it. I still definitely can’t live without my Firefox and its Add-Ons. However as a browser Google Chrome is very smooth and functional…I like it…it is an excellent start. I added to my desktop shortcuts right next to Internet [...]
Tweet I just want to say I really like how my Google Talk conversations show up right with all my Gmail email conversations as well. Closer to how I have my SMS, Email, Chats, Phone Calls in one listing on my Blackberry.
Tweet Lately we have been receiving a lot of requests for in-house social media marketing trainings. Clients are requesting that we come on site to assist them in developing a social media marketing campaign strategy. The downturn in the economy has really hit small businesses and they are looking for new ways to find and [...]
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Tweet I was Googling my name as I usually do on a Monday morning as part of my personal reputation management. I noticed a social network profile I signed up for a few months back called Naymz has grown significantly in PageRank as well as made it to the first page on my Google Results. [...]
Tweet I was just reading a Techcrunch blog post on the the local services market Workstir.com. I went and signed up to be notified for the private beta. Then after I signed up it gave me the following option on the thank you page: In the meantime, if you could help us out by tweeting [...]
Tweet Was just reading an article on the latest comScore report showing that Facebook has beaten out MySpace as the number one social networking site. Facebook grew 153% last year and has 132 Million unique visitors. MySpace better clean up its act!
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Tweet As part of every social media marketing strategy that we build we conduct a conversational marketing assessment that evaluates the target arena we are considering entering as part of the social media marketing campaign. We are noticing that pretty much every one of our clients has a very fragmented presence on the Internet and [...]
Tweet Was just contemplating the power the Internet gives you in having a voice in this world. Within minutes you can have your own domain and site or blog up and being broadcasting to the world. That is really powerful stuff.
Tweet So was just having a random thoughts while designing a couple of social applications. I was thinking out you can build social applications that run on different platforms and work with a web service that allows various information to drive the application. So why can’t you start evolving advertising to be widget based and [...]
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Tweet Here is a new presentation from Ahren over at Social Media Squad on Social Media Marketing. Social Media Marketing By The Numbers View SlideShare presentation (tags: social marketing marketing media social)
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