The Blog
Today's economic crisis, and the federal government's response, is likeputting a finger in the dike to avert a major catastrophe -- possiblyeven a depression.But as quickly as we plug one leak, another springs forth.Congress is seeking to avoid deflation by pumping up public confidenceand economic demand to encourage consum (Read More)
Delicious/javacola
Over the past couple of months, I’ve been curating a list of social media marketing examples. The list started with 100 examples (including 35 from Mashable) and has since tripled in size with the participation of over a hundred contributors with examples from companies around the world. (Read More)
: This is extremely helpful for those of us who work with larger organizations and want to show solid examples/case studies of big brands and their use of social media.
Submitted by Genuwine4532:
As webmasters, we inevitably need to utilize many different tools, whether it be templates, link checkers, website analysis tools, Internet Marketing Strategy tools, logo designers, snippets of code and especially SEO Tools.Here are a lot of great free Webmaster and Search Engine Optimization Tools. Make sure to subscribe t (Read More)
Ranjani Ravi - FriendFeed
PitchEngine - The emergence of the social media release (SMR) will soon dominate in interactions between journalists and PR people. Those who do not take the initiative to learn about the “new press release” will get left behind. My favorite tool to date is PitchEngine. Still in beta stage, PitchEngine offers a full suite o (Read More)
Submitted by Morgan
from Google Reader:
Scientists may have discovered that commenting on this article may extend your life by 3/8 of a year!Fighting Bulky Inboxes With RSSGoogle Alerts are a way to tell Google what terms (like your name, business or neighborhood) you want to know when they’re mentioned online. You can have it emailed to you as it happens or dai (Read More)
WebMD Health
Workers' health insurance premiums have shot up more than five times faster than their wages since 2000, according to a report by a health care consumer group. (Read More)
Google Operating System
Two weeks ago, I posted how to embed a YouTube and make it start from a certain point. Now you can do the same thing for YouTube's watch pages: just append #t=XXmYYs to a YouTube URL, where XX is the number of minutes and YY is the number of seconds. For example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBNDYggyesc#t=24m30s.Google Vid (Read More)
New York Times
Economists believe large and medium companies might have to contribute as much as 6 percent of their payrolls toward coverage.
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New York Times
Evidence of Americans cutting back on medical care in order to pay bills underscores the need to provide affordable health insurance for all. . (Read More)
: Many of the uninsured and under-insured skip the preventive health care tests that they need. One affordable alternative to preventive screenings can be to use the FDA-approved home medical tests available to everyone via online home health screening companies.
Submitted by Raavi:
The HTML Playground offers XHTML and CSS references by example. The site is still in beta at version 0.4, but offers an easy to use interface that makes digesting all the information displayed simple. It is a fast loading application and I have just found it to be overall a great tool for learning the basics of HTML and CSS. (Read More)
: This site is one of those "brain-blank" incredibly useful sites - and I love the fact that it gives you not only inline sample usage but the display, plus options to test yourself.
SEO Book
Sales people talk a lot about about "closing the deal", the final stage in the sales process needed to get people to sign on the dotted line.Typically, the stages leading up to the "close" are affordability, no perceived need, no hurry, or no trust. Sales people are trained on how to spot and deal with this issues, and ways (Read More)
louisgray.com
On yesterday's micromedia panel here at the Blog World Expo, I said the way that companies can start using microblogging tools is to first be aware of them, and second to monitor them, before jumping in deep with both feet. The idea would be to understand the nature of the community, and to see how your business or industry (Read More)
: I've been using Tweetbeep for some time now. It's a useful service for ensuring you never miss at @reply or mention of topics and/or keywords that are important to you. Kudos to Michael Jensen (@mdjensen) for his Tweetbeep work!
: @Kenburbary I too have used it for a while... but felt rather not to overflow my inbox .. probably i dont want to miss something important in the mail get lost in the tweets list...Ofcourse i do afford the time to check them on twitter iself:)
: I have had several beeps monitoring things for a few weeks - one of the great aspects is that is recognises when a domain is 'beeped' using a short url - a link you'd otherwise have no clue had been made.
Submitted by Pitchengine:
Pitchengine is one site/service that is offering the opportunity to add, images, video, and release via social media networks quickly and seamlessly. And what’s better, it’s free! The site is easy to use and offers the best vehicle I’ve found to distribute to social networks. (Read More)
Submitted by Pharmacist Mike
from blog:
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has charged 5 companies with making false and misleading claims about their products ability to cure cancers. They have also reached settlements with 6 additional companies. The FTC has been working in concert with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Canadian authorities to raise pu (Read More)