To answer that question I created a visual history of Twitter's growth, feeding data from Dharmesh Shah ( developer of TwitterGrader.com ) into OpenHeatMap to produce an animated visualization of the service's growth, along with information on the earliest users for each region. billg ran across Om's blog post, was working on some wristwatch technology that was a perfect fit for the 140 character messages and so leapt at the chance to try it out. neha " learned about twitter very early because I worked at Google when the Blogger guys did. High signal to noise ratio ". MORE >>

What the best practices for professional networking, generating sales leads, connecting with potential business partners, sharing content and getting answers to tough business questions? Get the answers to all of these questions and more here in 21 of the best guides to LinkedIn tactics, tools and techniques of last year. participating in groups and answering questions). Now you can provide links to your published works as part of your profile.&#. Mark Walsh reports on company pages, another new feature added by LinkedIn in late 2010. by My Venture Pad. MORE >>

So here are words of wisdom from those who have done the dirty work. The level of sophistication will depend on your company's skill set, budget, and available resources …The key point is to focus on a specific role and better understand how that role buys, what are the key pain points and motivations, what are the right type of questions to ask, and who do those people turn to for purchase validation, whether peers, analysts, or media sources." Michele Linn offered lots of great questions in a post last year. What is a Buyer Persona? to achieve their goals. MORE >>

Straight from the Horses Mouth (Interview Sales) September 29th, 2010 by Marcus Tewksbury If you want to know what’s happening with your customers, start with your sales team.  Make sure you’ve polished up your questions and can get the meetings executed in 30-45 minutes.  To get deep insights into what may or may not work it’s very important to get a three-sixty degree view of a deal.  Report Email Abuse © 2010. Nobody should have a better perspective than sales.  As it so happens, that’s exactly what’s also needed for truly effective marketing.  LoopFuse ,Inc. MORE >>

was very honored that David was willing to spend an hour with me and answer some questions about his the second edition of his book, The New Rules of PR and Marketing , as well as some questions about marketing and blogging. The company that I was working for, Thompson, fired me in 2002, and I’m like, “Damn it!  This stuff works and I’m going to prove it.”  I started working with a couple of clients to implement the ideas, and they worked really well, so I started to write about it.  I’ve found that with my own work.  I like that. . My iPhone?  MORE >>