Archive | July, 2008

“You have control” – “I have control”

It’s fascinating helping people get into blogging. It’s like teaching them to fly, given that you’ve been doing it for a while and you’ve got your dorsal tail feather control down and everything, but they’re still a bit ungainly and fluffy and, without guidance, would not fly so much as plummet. I stumbled into it [...]

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links for 2008-07-08

louisgray.com: The Importance Of Blog Linking Seems to Be Declining A neat study of where the google juice really comes from nowadays. Answer: not blogs any more. (tags: blogging seo forblog)

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links for 2008-07-07

gapingvoid: “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards”: more thoughts on social objects Are social objects just ‘content’? As in, content brings people together? (tags: marketing geek socialnetworking forblog)

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links for 2008-07-04

Micro Persuasion: Friendfeed will Change Journalism, PR and Marketing It’s a bold claim but I’ve played around with Friendfeed and there’s something in it. (tags: metrics marketing journalism internet blogs blogging blog friendfeed forblog) Pre-Order Rovio Spy Robot Don’t want – need. It will be mine. (tags: robots coolstuff forblog) Marketing 2.0 Seminar – Ronnie [...]

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links for 2008-07-02

YouTube – How to Use Twhirl for FriendFeed Great introduction not only to setting up twhirl, but how and why you should use it as your communications hub through to Twitter, then Friendfeed, then the world (tags: twhirl friendfeed forblog twitter) Richard Edelman – 6 A.M. – tectonic plates shifting The most compelling insights from [...]

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Objective: own your Google page

source » You can’t beat the web, but you can certainly join it. Today I was talking to someone about a client that I used to work for, who had a spot of trouble couple of years ago. On the whole their web presence is pretty solid but there’s a fly in the ointment: when [...]

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links for 2008-07-01

Google Trends Comes To Web Sites: Trends For Web Sites Via Steve Rubel, via Barry Schwartz – Google Trends just got trendier. (tags: google analytics internetmarketing marketing metrics online research seo) Crazy Egg – visualize your visitors How do people use your website? No, really – how do they actually use it? Crazyegg might help. [...]

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If it’s social, it has a story, and sells as it tells

Even scientists can be social and savvy. Today the Guardian makes me come over all giddy with a special section on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at Cern. It’s at times like this that I’m actually proud to be a Guardian reader. It has dedicated a lot of time and space to this landmark achievement, [...]

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