Happy New Year to you all and may you find great prosperity in 2011! I love this time of year if for no other reason than being able to dig into the site traffic to see what content proved to be the most popular for the past year. These are the 20 most popular posts at the e-Strategy blog during the past year: Alternative "No Photo" Facebook Icons Bud Light Paintball … [Read more...]
19 Excellent Podcasts For Communications Professionals
These are the advertising, communications, marketing, media and social media podcasts I listen to regularly (numbered and listed in alphabetical order): The Advertising Show - Brad Forsythe and Ray Schilens talk all things advertising. DishyMix - Â Susan Bratton interviews famous media and Internet business execs. Engadget - Techy but a good podcast to keep on top of … [Read more...]
My List Of The Top Minnesota Social Media Innovators
Arik Hanson has a great idea (again); he's taking nominations (only 5) for the top 20 social media innovators in Minnesota. Rules: You can only nominate five people (but everyone's breaking that rule) The person must live in Minnesota He's taking nominations for one week, after which he'll tally and post the top 20 This is very tough because we have a ton of … [Read more...]
LinkedIn Best Practices For Business
As regular readers of this blog know, I think LinkedIn is a killer business app: in addition to networking, it is a wonderful tool for both business intelligence and business development. But LinkedIn is, first and foremost, about individuals so many of these points will address how individual people can use LinkedIn for business purposes rather than how a business … [Read more...]
17 Web Analytics Tools To Understand Who, What, Why, Where & How People Are Using Your Site
UPDATED: 4/11/09. Google Analytics - Google's free Web traffic analysis tool. Google Webmaster Central Yahoo! Web Analytics - will be made available to a wide range of Yahoo!'s customers, partners, developers and advertisers in stages throughout the rest of 2008 and into 2009. Yahoo Site Explorer MyBlogLog - Social network for blogs that also offers … [Read more...]
14 Keyword Research Tools To Determine What People Want
UPDATED: 2/18/15. One source of keywords are on the search engine results pages (SERPs) themselves: You will often see links to related searches in the SERPs. You can also find keywords from your web site's own traffic analytics program. The following list of 14+ keyword research tools to help you understand what people are searching for, and, therefore, what people want. … [Read more...]
26 Twitter Tools To Track Tweets
UPDATED 6/17/14: This list originally started as a way for me to keep track of the many cool Twitter tools that kept popping up in the wake of Twitter's popularity. Over the course of time, of course, things change--platforms revoke access to their APIs, developers lose interest, etc.--and thus this list has changed and thus does not specifically match my original wonderfully … [Read more...]