Help Victims Of Hurricane Katrina
August 31, 2005 · Categories: Miscellaneous · View Comments
I remember the horror and pity I felt when watching the coverage of the Southeast Asia Tsunami. I’m feeling the same thing as I watch coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Help out however you can. Here’s a FEMA press release to tell you how:
Cash Sought To Help Hurricane Victims, Volunteers Should NOT Self-Dispatch
Washington, [...]
Email Deliverability
August 30, 2005 · Categories: Email Marketing · View Comments
Email newsletters will only get harder to deliver due to the increasing sophistication of spam filtering technology. A 2004 report by Return Path indicated that on average 22 percent of legitimate opt-in commerical email did not make it to subscriber’s inboxes.
I see mistakes every day that could be the difference between inbox or junk mail [...]
Google’s Interest In Mobile Computing
August 19, 2005 · Categories: Mobile Marketing, Product Placement, Search Engine Marketing, Technology · View Comments
Google annouced yesterday that it would raise $4 billion with a new stock offering, the New York Times reports today.
The Times story largely focuses on speculation of just what the tight-lipped search titan would buy with the new money. The article suggests that the company will move into businesses beyond Web search and advertising. [...]
Text Messaging Marketing Using SMS Gateways
If you want to get your feet wet doing text messaging marketing, a great way to try it out is by using a Web-based do-it-yourself service much like the e-mail marketing service Constant Contact, which basically broadcast text messages to your subscriber list and are a way to allow visitors to your Web site opt-in [...]Blog Tool – Map For Finding Local Blogs
August 14, 2005 · Categories: Weblogs · View Comments
The web log directory Blogwise hosts a neat little tool for finding a web log near you.
Blog Maps, currently in beta, is built on the Google Maps API (that’s Apllication Programming Interface). Using a zoom out/zoom in navigation scheme, you can find blogs near you on either a map, or a satellite image. You [...]
Wikipolitica
Here in Minnesota we have established a rich tradition of online politics and Internet campaign innovation. In 1994, Minnesota E-Democracy held the first-ever online debate between candidates. In 1997, the first political banner ad was placed on a web site I published at the time. In 1998, Jesse Ventura won the governorship in part on [...]Product Placement In Madden NFL 06
In 1994, the neo-punk band Green Day broke onto the popular music scene with their album Dookie, several songs from which enjoyed quite a bit of airtime on radio stations nationwide. Since then, the band has not enjoyed simliar commecial success until last year’s run-away success, American Idiot. That success could very well be due [...]Yahoo! Claims Search Bragging Rights–For The Moment
The Yahoo! search engine announced yesterday "that its online search engine index now spans more than 20 billion Web documents and images, nearly double the material scanned by rival Google Inc.," the Associated Press reported. Yahoo! claims they’ve indexed 20.8 billion "objects," meaning documents and images compared to Google’s 11.3 billion objects. This sort of a silly [...]Successful Blogs: Greek Tragedy Case Study
On Sunday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune published a piece from the New York Times News Service about Stephanie Klein’s Greek Tragedy blog. Klein is basically the Carrie Bradshaw (HBO’s Sex and the City sex columnist character) of the blogosphere. The article claims Klein’s blog is in the “top 1 percent of all bloggers” in terms of [...]Business Podcasting
August 5, 2005 · Categories: Podcasting · View Comments
The Twin Cities Business Journal devotes most of the front page of their current issue to a story on business podcasting.
The excellent piece by staff writer Nicole Garrison-Sprenger details how local radio stations are turning to podcasts as the medium of the future and includes some telling statistics:
According to Newsday, "the amount of time [...]
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David Erickson is Director of e-Strategy at Tunheim Partners strategic communications company.
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