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Claim Your Name on Reddit, Odeo, Twitter and 338 Other Networks at Once with KnowEm

If you don't want to run around creating profiles on every social network on the Web, there's a shortcut to maintaining a unified online identity. It's called KnowEm, and it lets you register your name (or brand) across a litany of ...READ»

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Facebook Out-Classes MySpace in Social Networks' Prestige Rank

Everyone online knows about social networking--there're even Twitiquette guidelines, for goodness sake. But that doesn't mean everyone's taking part, or that each network is the same. Even online there are class distinctions. Facebook ...READ»

FACEBOOK   |  Comment

Add Facebook Connect to Your Site in Three Steps

Facebook Connect, the network's unified-login service, has been adopted by a litany of major sites, this one included. But in the year that it's been available, it hasn't become any easier to implement for amateur website ...READ»

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Frog Designs' New iPhone App Lets You Talk TV

Frog Design is releasing an iPod app that allows you to talk to your friends about shows as you watch them. Called TVChatter, the app allows you to follow a Twitter stream about your favorite show and respond to other viewers with ...READ»

Microsoft's Looking Glass Tool Tracks Social Buzz for Companies

Microsoft's Looking Glass Tool Tracks Social Buzz for Companies

So you can figure out how to calm the angry Twitter masses or handle Facebook slapdownsREAD»

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Facebook Aims for the Heart of Mobile Social Networking: Apps

When I joked everything would soon be wired to a social network the other day I didn't realize how close I was to the mark. Because social net giant Facebook is angling to become the vehicle that lets everything on your smartphone get ...READ»

MEDIA   |  Comment

It is not about the product or service, it is strictly a business decision

Managing your business is no easy task, because at the end of the day it’s not about marketing, customer support, or a terrific product. It’s about making money. Never lose sight of the fact that money is why you are in business. Your ability to identify your organization’s issues and evaluate your strategies relative to the bottom line is what will make you successful.READ»

MEDIA   |  Comment

What Will Drive Your Business Forward, Strategies or Tactics?

Technology is developing at such a fast pace that in order to be successful, you need to quickly outline a plan, introduce it to the market, get feedback, modify your Approach based on the feedback, and delivers it to the market again. How long should you do this? The answer is, until you get it right! Tactics shape processes on a continuous basis. Ideas are fine, but what gets results and revenue into your business day-to-day is the execution of your plan. Don’t spend a huge amount of time planning; the key is to just do something, every single day. Most people assume that an existing organization is in the right business, has positioned the right products, and has the correct resources in place to make it happen. What has worked in the past is no reason why it should work now. In fact, the past is what got you here and it’s not going to get you there. I recommend that you start at ground zero and ask the obvious questions.READ»

MEDIA   |  Comment

Web Site Strategies – topical website tend to gain higher click-through rates

topical websites help to optimize conversion across the buying continuum process (engagement, educate, convert, enable enrollment, and retain). READ»

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You don’t want happy customers … You want loyal customers.

You don’t want happy customers … You want loyal customers. Loyal customer will continue to buy and promote your brand.READ»

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Its Not Your Sales People ... Its Your Sales Process

Selling is a process, and to be effective you must understand the process. Listen to your prospect’s needs and help the prospect move along the sales process to obtain a business commitment. “Your goal is to simply get the prospector to move from one step to the other”.READ»

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How To Develop A Mobile Marketing Strategy – A Point of View

How to develop a mobile strategy that will leverage the mobile platform and enable the consumer to do what he likes to do - connect with people he knows, using his mobile. READ»

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Glue: The Next Marketing Tool for Creatives

Glue is a free Firefox add-on that lets you take your social network to every major site you visit. At heart, it's a semantic Web tool: it can "read" and contextualize the content on the sites you visit, and serve up your ...READ»

ART   |  Comment

Real Designers Sell a Process, Not the Result

Design isn't something you can buy off the shelf. Designers that try to sell their work as a product only undermine themselves by promoting the idea that design is a low-value, mass-produced commodity.READ»

FRENCH   |  Comment

Dirty PR, Sexy Keywords and Outsmarting the Search Engine

As I continue develop and build PitchEngine, more and more PR and internet marketing experts reach out to offer insight and sometimes even functionality to our web app. In a few short months I've discovered there is a lot more to ...READ»

BLOGGING   |  Comment

Jason Calacanis' Retirement Could Save Newspapers

A couple of weeks ago Jason Calacanis announced he was retiring from blogging. This, from a guy who many consider the catalyst to professional blogging. In his follow up email (re-posted here by TechCrunch), Jason details his ...READ»

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Jason Calacanis' Retirement Could Save Newspaper

A couple of weeks ago Jason Calacanis announced he was retiring from blogging. This, from a guy who many consider the catalyst to professional blogging. In his follow up email (re-posted here by TechCrunch), Jason details his ...READ»

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Associated Press: Go Social or Go Away?

On the heels of the heavy-handed announcement by the Associated Press to strictly enforce copyright guidelines on bloggers, Jim Kennedy, vice president and strategy director of The A.P., decided he and his group would ...READ»

BRANDS   |  Comment

Quick Start to Social Media Change

Since I started blogging about social media and PR, I've managed to spark a lot of discussion around some seemingly overlooked opportunities for newspapers, journalists, brands and agencies to embrace and integrate social media. ...READ»

2.0   |  Comment

The New PR: Clean, Green, Smart

By now, you should know I'm a big proponent of social media for both PR and journalists alike. On the PR side, this new revolution is about more than just increased efficiency and open dialog, it's also a change in lifestyle for PR ...READ»

2.0   |  Comment

The New PR: Clean, Green, Smart

By now, you should know I'm a big proponent of social media for both PR and journalists alike. On the PR side, this new revolution is about more than just increased efficiency and open dialog, it's also a change in lifestyle for PR ...READ»

Go Ahead, Add 'News Producer' To Your Resume

So I'm sifting through my RSS feeds on Google Reader, organizing each element just right, and filtering out the junk I don't want to read about when it hits me... I'm producing my own news! Believe it or not, social media has ...READ»

2.0   |  Comment

Your Social Media Mission - PR It Forward

From the amount of response to PitchEngine, it's apparent that the majority of social media adoption is coming from PR professionals, not journalists. While there are some early adopters like Wired Journalists and others in the ...READ»

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CONFERENCES   |  Comment

Networking Social

Design conferences are enjoyable and effective venues for networking. It was great  to catch up with old friends and colleauges at the IIT strategy conference in Chicago recently. The conversations and presentations centered mostly ...READ»

CULTURAL   |  Comment

What About Us: We believe the Country Can Represent a United States?

What About Us: We believe the Country Can Represent a United States?  I have to say I continue to struggle with this question of who is taking care of the middle to upper middle class.  While I certainly don't want to ...READ»

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