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Americans are notorious for their ignorance of global issues and international news. This may be because Americans aren’t interested or it may be that our news outlets feed us fluff and focus us only on the U.S. Probably it’s a vicious cycle.Dmitriy T.M. pointed me to some stunning evidence of this phenomenon.The cover st (Read More)
TechCrunch
When it comes to the web, one name that doesn’t exactly jump out at you is Sears Holdings Corporation (SHC). Certainly, you might think that during a economic downtime, the parent company of Sears and Kmart has more pressing things to worry about than social networking. But it is thinking about them. And tomorrow, it’s laun (Read More)
: I saw the Sears social networking presentation at Learning 2008. I remember being surprised that they were even looking at it, last fall, but they had it pretty well thought out.
louisgray.com
By Mike Fruchter of MichaelFruchter.com (Twitter/FriendFeed)This is a continuation of last week's post regarding creating social media outposts. The first part was creating outposts or as I refer to them, tollbooths. The core objective is for organic search engine traffic, and reserving the brand's identity on the given soc (Read More)
The Social Path
There are a million ways for businesses to use social media well, and only a handful of ways to do it horribly wrong. So why do companies keep falling into the same traps?The answer is easy: human nature. And as we all know, humans are constantly beset by malicious temptations.So as a public service, I've decided to break (Read More)
Convince and Convert Blog: Digital Marketing for Advertising Agencies and PR Firms
David Armano may very well be the best writer of any graphic designer in America. He writes about social business, visual communication, and micro-interactions on his own blog, and for AdAge and BusinessWeek. (He also makes insanely great presentations). David has worked with some of the world’s largest brands, creating suc (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
"It is the greatest mathematical discovery of all time." - Albert Einstein on compound interest.There is a fallacy that startups need to be super-secretive and then, when they launch, move very fast to capture the market. This is rarely true. Most startups would do well to study compound interest rather than market share.Sp (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
Social interaction online is not very sophisticated. The newsfeed model of conversation has taken over the social web, from Facebook to Twitter to FriendFeed to MySpace, but by itself it doesn't serve us very well.That's where the creation of groups of sources comes in. Various services have different ways for users to se (Read More)