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Delegate Source Launches in Denver

Delegate Source Denver is a work-life balance and concierge services company dedicated to streamlining the lives of busy professionals. Services include dog walking, babysitting, housekeeping, and home healthcare. Delegate Source is ...READ»

The First Step in Creating a Search Engine Marketing Campaign that Gets Results

Today you can create blogs, micro-blogs, share information using around forty different means of linking, emailing and Twittering, create at least sixty profiles and in general spend a great deal of time “marketing online” with little to show for it other than maybe a lengthy list of friends or followers.READ»

The Community That Hughes Built

Volunteers flooded My.BarackObama.com -- MyBO, to insiders -- from the day it launched, nearly crashing the site. Under Hughes, it became a virtual system for helping real people do what they wanted to do in real life: elect Barack Obama president.READ»

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Lessons From The Trenches

Activating a customer base with digital tools isn't as easy as it looks. As Chris Hughes showed with both Facebook and Obama, detailed execution is at least as important as strategy. Some examples:READ»

• Boy Wonder
• The Community That Hughes Built

Gen Y Entrepreneurs: Here Are the First Steps to Starting Your Own Business

While some people decide to dive head first into entrepreneurship, others feel more comfortable dipping in a toe, then an ankle, then a knee before swimming solo. The choice is very personal and depends on your experience, finances and overall comfort with risk.READ»

Using Social Media To Grow Your Business

Business owners are also going to have to start looking for ways to reach more people with less money. The Internet is a great resource for exactly that if harnessed correctly and the many different social media tools such as Facebook not only offer venues for the sharing of ideas but also for PR and marketing directly to consumers.READ»

Taking Advantage of Online Marketing and PR

The bare bones minimum to taking advantage of online marketing and PR is a website and most of you reading this have a website which is good, but is your website working for you? Can your public easily find you on a search? When they do is the search engine entry tasty enough to make them click? What about the competition? And how does PR fit into the mix? READ»

"Sexting": Why Worry?

Reports of "sexting"--or teens sending each other homemade pornographic images using their phones--have exploded in recent weeks. Schools and parents are outraged and terrified, and lawyers are confused, because most child ...READ»

IT: Friend or Foe of Innovation?

Kathy Harris of Gartner muses on the connection between innovation and knowledge management, the disappointment many organizations feel over their knowledge management initiatives, and the promise of social networking software to ...READ»

On Building Land Surveyors United Social Network

Building a social network isn't easy- especially for a niche industry comprised mostly of individuals who have limited internet access. Let me tell you a little bit about Land Surveyors United...READ»

Real-Time Communications Means Real Talk

This is my first full week back from being on holiday for the past month. Ahhh, good old R&R.... Yesterday, I spent half the day leading two roundtable discussions at the Real-Time Communications Conference, where Steve Etzler ...READ»

These Cars are So Green They Should Be Recycled Immediately

The need to produce eco-friendly automobiles that run on a mix of sunlight, garbage, and cold fusion have given concept car creators license to imagine all sorts of misguided, albeit cool creations. Here are six green concept cars ...READ»

What Millennials Most Want to Know: 3 Questions for Entry-Level Recruiters

Millennials (a.k.a. Generation Y) have earned a less-than-stellar reputation in the recruiting community. You’re not alone if you’ve found young candidates to act “entitled” to jobs or not know basic rules of professional ...READ»

What Proposition 8 Shows Us About Having Your Own Social Media Turf

This post is an idea-stem from an excellent post that was written by Michael Mace in the Rubicon blog network. When consulting with clients and while delivering presentations about social media, I often mention the imperative that ...READ»

Millennials Working Abroad: The View from Australia

A few weeks ago, I blogged about a young woman from Bangladesh who is launching her career at a U.S. company. For today’s post, I wanted to share the perspective of some American Millennials working abroad.Australia has a special ...READ»

How Cisco's CEO John Chambers is Turning the Tech Giant Socialist

A hard-core republican turns Cisco into a socialist enterprise -- one with $26 billion in cash.READ»

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Much Ado About Convergence

Who knew there was so much to say about convergence? Steve Etzler, the founder of the conference and career fair producer, Business Development Institute (BDI) did.  READ»

Consider the Source

I wrote a post for the Marketing Prof’s Daily Fix blog today and in it, I talk about how agency types have “predicted” a slow down in brand spending on emerging media. I won’t repeat the whole post here, but you can read it ...READ»

LinkedIn Users Make More Money

Social networking has become an invaluable tool for businesses and individuals alike. Anderson Analytics recently confirmed that members of the business focused social networking site, LinkedIn, are likely to have a high personal ...READ»

Gen Y and the Presidential Election

World, meet Generation Y. If you weren't aware of them yet, you couldn't miss them on Election Day. Barack Obama’s victory is the biggest and most inspiring example yet of the growing influence of Generation Y (born approx. ...READ»

How to Generate Business with LinkedIn

This month's flyte log (our email newsletter) has arrived and the subject is Six Simple Steps for Getting Business from LinkedIn. Although I've had a LinkedIn account for a few years, I really didn't use it much except when ...READ»

Wii Can Play, But for How Long?

Nintendo Wii is firmly in the lead in console sales, but without quality content that appeals to more discerning gamers, how long can it stay on top?READ»

Gasp! Ads Do Work After All!

The folks at Razorfish conducted a survey of 1,000 "connected consumers". Most say they don't mind ads on social networking sites so much so that 40% of them had actually purchased a product or service after being ...READ»

Test-Driving LinkedIn's New Apps Platform

Throwing sheep and swapping vampire bites? Not so much. But early this morning, business-networking site LinkedIn unveiled its new developer platform, loaded with apps aimed at wooing the buttoned-down crowd to its site more often. ...READ»

Brand Obama Thrills Broadcasters with Record Ad Spend, But Cheap Video and Democracy Are the Big Winners

It may be silly season for the Presidential campaigns on television until Election Day, but the Brand Called Obama has been brought to you by the internet.READ»

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