Is Marketing Automation Asocial?

Let’s cut straight to the chase – marketing automation is asocial and goes against everything that social media stands for. There! I’ve said it. What a relief to get that off my chest. In my eyes the beauty of social media when it first came around was that it got you to actually engage with […]

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Search Rankings Are Dead

I came across this great article on Search Engine Land a few weeks ago that explains why search rankings and SEO ranking reports no longer matter—something I have thought for a very long time. It’s nice to hear other SEO professionals agree that search rankings are too inconsistent and inconclusive to be used as a […]

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Social Shift: How Your Brand Should Prepare for Timeline

Facebook is notorious for making changes to their layout without as much as a heads up for users. The major switch from the infamous “Wall,” to “Timeline.” is no exception. Whether you love it or hate it for your personal page, Facebook has now opened up a the Timeline layout for brands as of yesterday, […]

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Why Google Isn’t Sweating Low G+ Use: Google Knows Exactly What It’s Doing

In recent days, the Internet talking heads have been ganging up on Google+ over some new data published by research firm comScore. Their research found that visitors using personal computers spent an average of about three minutes a month on Google+ between September and January, versus six to seven hours on Facebook each month over the […]

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News.me Is Building A News Social Network Within Its New iPhone App

news meNews.me, the news service developed in The New York Times’ R&D labs and incubated at betaworks, is launching its iPhone app today.

A bit unusually, the part of the app that you’ll use first may actually be the least interesting. In some ways, the new app is just a redesign of what News.me was already offering through its iPad and email products — a list of news stories, pulled from your Facebook and Twitter streams, then curated based on signals from Twitter and bit.ly, and presented with the context of the initial tweet or Facebook comment.

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How Will You Define Your SEO Success?

What is your “magic number” of success? How many orders shipped, new clients signed or dollars earned would it take you make you jump for joy in your office? Success, even when applied to our businesses, is a very personal definition. For instance, having a sufficient (and steady) workload to justify hiring a new employee […]

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Armed With New Funding & A Global Mission, ResearchGate Adds PayPal Co-founder To Board

Screen shot 2012-03-01 at 5.54.28 AMAt the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Benchmark Capital Partner Matt Cohler took to the stage to talk about the state of the venture capital industry. In so doing, Cohler said that he thought too many investors were becoming focused on risk mitigation, which can often deter investors from going after companies that may be building something really big, trying to change the world — but will be slower to monetize and offer the requisite immediate ROI.

He then mentioned that he had recently led an investment in a company called ResearchGate, because when he asked the company’s founder, Ijad Madisch, what would constitute success in his mind, Madish replied, simply, “winning the Nobel Prize.”

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