Stats: The State Of The Internet

A cool video statistical visualization of the state of the Internet. Found at Vimeo from Jesse Thomas via Holy Kaw!

Google Buzz Demonstration

Google announced Google Buzz today, their integration of social accounts and online conversations with Gmail. TechCrunch has a rundown, here’s Mashable’s coverage, here’s ReadWriteWeb’s coverage, and here’s Google’s own blog post about Buzz.  Here’s a video demo of Google Buzz. Found at YouTube from Google. UDPATED: 2/9/2010 3 P.M. Google Buzz on a mobile device. Found at [...]

A/B Testing Using MailChimp By Cary Lenore Walski

February 5, 2010 · Categories: Email Marketing, Language, Minnesota, Online Communication, Video · View Comments 
I had the pleasure of meeting Cary Lenore Walski yesterday at a presentation my Tunheim colleagues and I gave for the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Communicators workshop. I’ve known Cary from Twitter; it’s always fun to meet the real person behind the username! You can find Cary on Twitter @defiancecary and she blogs at Defiance. She [...]

Email Marketing & SEO

September 4, 2009 · Categories: Email Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Video · View Comments 
Great video on email marketing and SEO from seomoz.org. Found at Vimeo from Scott Willoughby.

Email: The Black Hole

I have a love/hate relationship with email. I love it because it’s so easy to use but I hate it because all the insight that comes in and the wisdom I send out evaporates the next day when my attention is focused on that day’s email. I know I can search my email but that’s not [...]

My Branded Birthday: Birthday Marketing Online

I know I’m in the extreme minority but I don’t quite get the idea of celebrating birthdays (my own). I mean, I didn’t do anything to merit celebration. I was just born and I didn’t have anything to do with that. I’m not really a curmudgeon about it, but, you know, there it is. So, today [...]

Punch Pizza Featured On Fox News

My favorite pizza place, Punch Pizza, and a client of my employer Tunheim Partners, was featured on a Fox News segment last night about the economy and the proliferation of online coupons. Very cool:

Updating Your Email List Subscribers’ Demographics

February 26, 2009 · Categories: Direct Marketing, Email Marketing · View 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 [...]

Brazen Comment Spam

January 15, 2009 · Categories: Blog Marketing, Email Marketing · View Comments 
This comment spam was submitted yesterday to my blog: So, if I want to keep you from spamming my blog, I need to let you spam me through email?!?

Barack Obama’s Online Fundraising Machine

Howard Dean’s 2004 Democratic primary candidacy pioneered online fundraising by proving it could work and provided a sort of proof of concept for using online social networking tools through Meetup. Barack Obama perfected online fundraising by combining it with social networking and throwing in a dash of the subscription model used by such software-as-a-service companies as [...]

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