September 2010
Your post is finished. Now? Blog promotion time!
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How Popular Is the iPhone, Really?
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Email vs. snail mail
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WordPress for Non-Profits: The Complete Guide
via wpmu.org You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’d like to dig a little deeper…
New WordPress for iOS Brings Video Support
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Social Networking Users are Creating Less Content
via readwriteweb.com I know I’m guilty of creating less and curating more. How about you? You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’d like to dig a little deeper…
Dunkin’ Donuts Seeks Ultimate Coffee Fan on...
via mashable.com Yesterday was national coffee day and I did not pay appropriate homage to the event. Where would we be — I be — without coffee? I would be a mere mortal! If you’re interested in knowing how Dunkin’ Donuts is using Facebook to connect, follow the ‘via’ link…
The Case For Social Media in Schools
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#thingsiwishmyphonedid
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Are these Mindsets Holding You Back from Achieving...
This is a question I’m asked a fair bit on panels or in interviews, and it’s one that I suspect the people asking the question would like a technical answer to. The reality is that the biggest mistakes I see bloggers making are usually things that are going on in their minds, rather than on their blogs. A blogger’s mindset and attitude is as important more important than which blog platform...
Katie Couric: We Need Better Filters for a...
via readwriteweb.com I use Gist and Google Reader to handle the Tsunami — what about you? You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’re interested in learning Katie’s perspective…
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7 Things That Blogging Does
7 Important Lessons About Blogging: Blogging = Critical Thinking. If everything else went away (the readers, the comments, the community, the feedback), Blogging was (and still is) an amazing place to think about an issue or news item and work through it. I liken myself as a Media Hacker. A Blog is a great place for anyone to be a Hacker of whatever it is that they love. If you don’t...
The Short Lifespan of a Tweet: Retweets Only...
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Google Vs Facebook: A Battle Of Colossal...
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Daily Number: Latino Digital Divide
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Skype and Facebook to Announce Partnership
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Pinger Now Turns Your iPod Touch Into A Free Cell...
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5 Tips to Kick Start Your Link Building via Social...
Lately there’s been renewed interest in building links via social media monitoring. To build links this way, a link builder creates a monitoring search in their favorite social media tool and waits for it to find news stories, blog posts, tweets, comments, and other social content. Each new post is an opportunity to find a relevant influencer and build a relationship. Unfortunately,...
Social Media and B2B Marketing
Social media is a tool that, on the surface, appears to only have use in certain areas- such as simple interpersonal relationships or business-to-consumer marketing. However, experienced users recognize the benefits of social media in establishing and maintaining business-to-business marketing. Those in marketing may claim, “Well, people who are into social media aren’t the audience we are...
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Daily Number: Friending Grandma
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Budgeting a Brand’s Social Media Hub
via samirbalwani.com Building a social media hub doesn’t need to be as expensive as outlined in the source article, so don’t be intimidated by the idea. You NEED a hub to help manage your social media outposts or channels and I can help you get one that is “good, fast, and cheap”. You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of...
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5 Steps to Reduce the Pain of Starting a Business...
Blogging can be intimidating for someone who hasn’t done it in the past or grown up in the age where everyone has a personal blog. It is, however, critical that business owners and marketers ‘blog for business.’ Putting pen to paper or more appropriately, putting fingers to your keyboard is the biggest challenge for most people. So let’s talk about how to get started. via blog.hubspot.com...
Let a Thousand Personalized Newspapers Bloom
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Rainmaker Automatically Updates Your Google...
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Top 5 Emerging Brand Trends on Facebook
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11 Trends in Web Logo Design: The Good, the Bad...
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The Future of Online Media Is Video [?]
“At Monday’s IAB Mixx conference in New York, Gawker Media Founder Nick Denton took the stage with AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka to discuss the future of the blogging network — and that future is all about images and video. “People don’t really want to read text,” Denton said. “They want videos, they want images, bigger, more lavish.” In other words, consumers are looking for online media...
Tyra Banks on creating demand with audience...
Lessons gleaned from Banks’ newest venture? Empower your audience. The data is available and the demand exists, so do your homework and listen up. Leverage your network by pulling in the experts you know who can speak to your audience on the topics they care about. Knowing what they want is half the battle — so when you do know that, make sure you go all out to give it to them. ...
Social Media: The New Battleground for Politics
via mashable.com Why is this so obvious to some and yet beyond the grasp of parties and politicians? You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go directly to the source and get the rest of the story if you’d like…
3 Easy Ways to Turn Your Blog into an eBook for...
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Mark Zuckerberg to Become Comic Book Hero,...
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Multi-Tasking is Bad For Your Brain. Here’s How To...
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Tech Times: Media Coverage of Technology
via pewresearch.org This is very interesting research into media coverage of technology. You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’re interested in learning more…
The Social Media Words & Phrases Most Retweeted
via readwriteweb.com You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’re interested in learning more…
Qwiki Just May Be The Future Of Information...
In the late 1980s, Apple created a few concept videos about a device they called the Computer Knowledge Navigator. These videos came up recently when Apple unveiled the iPad, because the machine in the videos is a tablet computer. But that’s about all the iPad has in common with this conceptual device. Instead, a new startup launching at TechCrunch Disrupt today, Qwiki, is much more like the...
U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen says opponent Reid Ribble...
Like many contested congressional races, the future of Social Security is a key issue in the battle for the 8th District seat now held by two-term U.S. Rep. Steve Kagen, D-Wisconsin. In many races, the accusation is that a candidate wants to privatize Social Security. But does anyone want end it all together? Kagen says his opponent, Republican Reid Ribble, does. A new...
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Survey Show Developers Favor Android in the...
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Research Upends Traditional Thinking on Study...
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. Set goals. Set boundaries. Do not bribe (except in emergencies). And check out the classroom. Does Junior’s learning style match...
You Do This More Than Sleeping And Working
People spend more than half of their day consuming media. Making a statement like that should make you look at this Blog post with your head titled sideways and your eyebrows raised - the way a dog looks when you talk to it. I can’t make this stuff up. “Citing a new Ipsos OTX study of 7,000 online consumers ages 13 to 74, Friend said that thanks to smartphones and laptops, people...
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Survey Show Developers Favor Android in the...
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400 posts revisited; lesson #1
11 months ago, I posted this introspective piece on the results I was getting from blogging… Yesterday, I passed the 400 post mark. 400 posts over 18 months. Wow! Roughly a post a day for a year and a half. Is that a lot? Is that too little? I really don’t know. What I do know is this — when I use my ‘pass or play’ methodology, traffic to my site increases and my ‘pipeline’ fills… My...
The Rev. Robert Barron takes to TV, blogs, YouTube...
The Rev. Robert Barron, a Chicago-based Roman Catholic priest, has made himself a new-media messenger for the church, bringing a Catholic perspective to topics from “Avatar” to atheism to the use of steroids in baseball. The author of 10 books, he has posted more than 180 cultural commentaries on YouTube and delivers a weekly homily on Relevant Radio (WNTD-AM/950 in Chicago). He contributes...
Read This Everyday
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Red Devil Lounge, the iPhone of Nightclubs :-D
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BlackBerry maker RIM announces PlayBook tablet
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Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To...
“The best part of blogging is the people you will meet”- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. If you asked me to tell you a list of three of the best decisions in my life, I can certainly tell you that regularly writing is one of them. It’s the reason I’m an author here at...
Make and Host Your Own Customized, Personal...
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The Evolution of the Apple Mouse
via mashable.com Sigh. A little stroll down memory lane. You can follow the ‘via’ link above to go to the source and read the rest of the article if you’re interested…
3 Business Tools to Spice Up Boring Work Tasks
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100+ Upcoming Social Media & Tech Events
Every week, Mashable puts together a calendar of upcoming social media and web events, parties and conferences. Would you like to have your conference or event listed here? If so, please contact us at least one month before your event to establish a media partnership. For more upcoming listings, check out Mashable’s Events section. Mashable has two events this month: Mashlanta 2.0 – September...