Social Networking For A Job – Interview Notes

These are my thoughts in response to a reporter’s request back in December for “social networking experts and real-life folks who can offer insights (and hopefully stats) about how social networking can help in a job search.” Thought I’d share: I think social networks are increasingly becoming an essential career tool. We’ve heard all about the [...]

Updating Your Email List Subscribers’ Demographics

February 26, 2009 · Categories: Direct Marketing, Email Marketing · Comments 
I subscribe to the IAB SmartBrief email newsletter for top daily interactive marketing headlines. They’ve recently been trying to get me to update my profile by sending me to a profile update page when I click on a given story in the newsletter and before sending me on to the actual story. The trick to building [...]

Vint Cerf On The Evolution Of The Internet

Danny Sullivan & John Battelle Discuss The Outlook For Search For 2009

Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land discusses what he believe 2009 holds for the search engine marketing field: John Battelle of Batelle Media discusses the outlook for search for the coming year:

How NOT To Use Video For Political Fundraising

On Thursday, Meghan McCain pondered Why Republicans Don’t Get The Internet at The Daily Beast. Perhaps it was the Norm Coleman recount fundraising video that inspired her. Without commenting on the Minnesota recount itself, I do want to say a word about the video uploaded to the Coleman for Senate YouTube account on Tuesday.  Here’s the [...]

Facebook Comments Go Portable

Yesterday, Mashable reported that Facebook is providing code that allows bloggers to include a Facebook comment box on their blog and those users’ comments will then be published back to their Facebook profile, presumably entering their activity stream to be seen by their network of friends. I’ll be including it on this blog. The Facebook Developers [...]

Fundraising Through Facebook Feeds

It makes sense that I would see this on Jon Gordon’s Facebook status update…the Jon Gordon of Future Tense fame: Very smart. There is a much greater likelihood of members of his network reading the message because by updating his status with a fund drive pitch, that pitch will end up in his friends’ activity feed, [...]

Feedly

Someone at work asked me recently if they needed to be on FriendFeed. While I find FriendFeed fascinating and I understand it’s allure, at this point its practicality as a communications medium is limited.  Limited to Robert Scoble and his friends and admirers. I figured that once the audience diversifies beyond the usual suspects of social [...]

Google Ocean Demonstration

February 14, 2009 · Categories: Conference/Event, Maps, Technology, Video · Comments 
Sylvia Earle, a winner of the 2009 TED Prize, as she narrates this demo of Google Ocean, an extension of Google Earth:

Seth Godin Discusses Tribes

Seth Godin discusses tribes with Loïc Le Meur, why we all need one, and how we should be the best in the world at what we do. Seth also answers why he is not on Twitter.

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