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Thursday, June 5, 2008. At the conference EduMedia 2008, TENCompetence Special Technology Track "Technology Support for Self-Organized Learners" I presented my ideas and gained experience with Start pages and their possibilities for building the learning and research environments for Self-organized learners. June 5, 2008 1:41 PM.

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In this short video (about seven minutes) I introduce some basic principles of visual language: Forms, fields and flows. think of this as the “alphabet&# of visual language. This set of principles is the primary set of marks you need in order to create visual meaning. Did you like this? If so, please consider buying me a coffee

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Which social media sites are most helpful for SEO? What common mistakes should you avoid when optimizing a site for search? Which factors do search engine algorithms weight most heavily in determining search position? How can you generate more clicks even when your site isn't in one of the top three spots in search results? Social traffic (e.g.

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Discover the answers to all of these quandaries and more below, in some of the best blog posts and articles on search engine marketing from 2008. Is there SEM life beyond AdWords (and if so, where?)? How do you write a killer search ad? What should you look for when hiring a paid search agency? and MSN.

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Resources for starting a new business, ideas for naming that business, mistakes to avoid, lead generation strategies to embrace, how to apply some of Warren Buffet's wisdom to online marketing efforts.find all of that and more here in this final collection of the best posts on strategy and branding from the past year. What's in A Name? Jivox, xy3).

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TOWARD AN INTEGRATED MODEL OF. INFORMATION SEEKING AND SEARCHING. by Marcia J. Bates. of Information Studies. University of California, Los Angeles. mjbates@ucla.edu. KEYNOTE. The Fourth International Conference on Information Needs, Seeking and Use. in Different Contexts, Lisbon, Portugal, September 11-13, 2002. Copyright © 2002-2003 Marcia J.

Welcome to the first post in the official Best of 2008 series, which will summarize and link to some of the best blog posts and online articles about SEO, social media, online marketing strategy and more. Matt Cutts Translated: 8 SEO Tips I Heard Him Tell Eric Enge by SEOmoz SEO expert Brent D.

2) Click-through rates are pathetic regardless of ad size, so don't use CTR as the primary metric for evaluating banner advertising. In the words of MarketingSherpa, "Online ads are branding tools. Direct clicks are simply a happy byproduct." Banner advertising is most commonly sold on a CPM basis (and with CTR's like that, it's no wonder).

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10 No. 3, April 2005. Contents |. Author index |. Subject index |. Search |. Personal, anticipated information need. Harry Bruce. The Information School, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Abstract. Background. The role of personal information collections is a well known feature of personal information management. Argument. 2001 ).

MarketingSherpa has just released its 2008 B2B Lead Generation Handbook (that's a link to the free executive summary PDF; the complete report will run you a cool $500). The 22-page executive summary contains some useful information for B2B marketers and CEOs (plus a little bit of misinformation best disregarded).

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June 5, 2008 4:02 PM. Jun 24, 2008 — Australian Financial Review — Social networking comes of age, sort of. Jun 20, 2008 — Digital Media — Aus Web 2.0 Jun 19, 2008 — ITWire — Australias top Web 2.0 Jun 19, 2008 — BRW magazine — The New Web Revolution. June 2008 (12).

On the other, if you leave your PDF content open, more people will download your materials but you get no information: who are these visitors? Are they actually reading your content? Printing it? Passing it along? Wouldn't it be great if there was a way to get a higher percentage of visitors to voluntarily provide you with their contact information?

The flipside of the ten P's of blogging previously covered here are the attributes or characteristics that should be avoided in creating a successful business blog. Like the seven deadly sins in Christianity, these vices can relegate a blogger to the underworld of the blogosphere though the judgment of readers. It rarely pays to make enemies.

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PERSONAL KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT: EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR GLOBAL BUSINESS. Paul A. Dorsey. Tabor School of Business. Millikin University. ABSTRACT. This paper clarifies Personal Knowledge Management, and its seven information skills, as a framework for the education of those preparing for knowledge work roles in global business and management. 1999).

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I happen to enjoy poker tournaments and am a math geek poker player, which is a different breed. Part of winning in poker is understanding the equity of your hand. I'll bypass all the math and explain it in layman's terms. Basically it is the value of your hand as it relates to the investment you have made in it. So back to poker.

March 14th, 2008. The results of this study will be presented at WWW2008 , the 17th International World Wide Web Conference which will be held on April 20 to 25, 2008 in Beijing, China. In its March/April 2008 issue , Technology Review has published a series of articles about the 10 Emerging Technologies of 2008. ZDNet.

Top 21 Signs You Need a Break From SEO (2008 version) by Small Business Search Marketing The prolific Matt McGee offers his annual list of signs you may be spending too much time in the SEO world, such as "While telling your son about your favorite childhood books, you wax poetic about the 'Wikipedia Brown' series. Poking fun at Web 2.0

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This week's Weekly Articles looks at a variety of topics from Twitter, search to spamming bloggers. Another interesting article highlights lead scoring benefits and how sometimes a bad pitch isn't really a bad pitch. You can click on the Weekly Articles tag for previous issues or subscribe to the Weekly Articles Feed.  . Enjoy.  . del.icio.us

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2008 American Psychological Association VOLUME 29, NUMBER 3 - March 1998. Data smog: newest culprit in brain drain. Psychologists are beginning to study the impact that information. overload is having on our lives. By Bridget Murray. Monitor staff. e awake to news radio updates and talk-show chatter. Welcome to the jumble?the as distracting.

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In early April, my husband and I attended the Blogger Social in New York. This was a great event, meeting all these great bloggers. What was extra special is the support that this community provides to one another. As part of the last night dinner, a donation was given to the Frozen Pea Fund , a non-profit organization to fight cancer. The catch? Anyone

I was recently invited to give a presentation on the "do's and don'ts" of creating a successful business blog. In thinking about the topic, words beginning with the letter "p" kept coming to mind: Persistence: the number one reason, by far, that blogs fail is that they aren't maintained. But then, other P-words started coming to mind.

The most difficult websites to search optimize are those of small or new companies, in a market with larger and more established players, focused on a highly competitive set of keywords. However, a blog can be a valuable tool in helping smaller, newer players improve their rank and generate search traffic. del.icio.us

Calling itself a "digital magazine rack," Alltop is a human-powered content aggregation site that brings together the best news and blog feeds from around the web in more than 80 categories (and counting) grouped into broad topic areas. Both sites offer their own unique features.

Despite the fact that several smart PR bloggers, including Cece Lee , Laura Moncur and Elge Premeau have written about what works in blogger outreach for PR, there are still a lot of agencies and PR people who just don't get it. Their efforts at appealing to bloggers are awkward at best, counterproductive at worst. Just send a press release.

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McGees Musings. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker. Knowledge work as craft work. Jim McGee, April 1, 2002.  . Knowledge work takes us back to a world of craft work practices. Curiously, most of the discussion around knowledge management is decidedly industrial in flavor. So what? They show up.

I've been thinking about this recently. notice that certain folks seem to have very active, two-way conversations or multi-person chats on Twitter. Sometimes, I engage in a conversation with someone about an upcoming event or meeting up.  . What I'm talking about are the extensive conversations amongst multiple folks. Which was the best? LinkedIn.

Time 17:53. new book is coming out on September 15 called The Numerati by one of the most prolific journalists on social media platforms, Stephen Baker. He is a senior writer with Business Week a regular podcaster along with Heather Green, his colleague at Business Week and writes frequently on Blogspotting.net. Or you can pre-order The Numerati.

I just read a simple but effective white paper from Bronto on sending a repeat emails to those that don't respond to your first email. This concept is an obvious one but the article does provide some good strategies on how to improve email response. Again, that's obvious but this can take time to do. Chad H.

The inimitable Harry Hoover at THINKing is locked in a tight battle in the PRWeek blog competition. To vote, scroll down to the bottom where you see the charts and click on "My Creative Team." Let's put Harry over the top

Time 22:51. One part chat room, one part instant messenger, and one part blog, the microblogging platform Twitter has gained in credibility and usefulness among businesses and journalists. don't want to say popularity, although it has 3.2 million users , because this word is less meaningful. journalist to his core, Ojeda has been with the St.

Venture capitalist Stu Phillips of Ridgelift Ventures writes about companies needing to “eat their own dog food” when it comes to using their products. He makes the point that they’ll understand product issues and fix them faster if they do. While I agree, I think it’s especially important that companies eat the competitors’ dog food too!

In one of my recent speeches, I applied Malcolm Gladwell’s Tipping Point principles to conclude that we are at or approaching this point for the mobile internet, and are on the verge of explosive growth. The three principles are: Law of the Few: There is power in the individual on a stand-alone basis, rather than relying on a large group.

People all over the world are aware of the global economic crisis. don’t have to update you on what’s happening. In my last post “Budget Cuts Are Coming: What are you going to do about it?” , I talked about how to handle the budget cuts. VC friend of mine said something I liked (he often does). Get it done and move on. I couldn’t agree more.

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Mopsos. You are here: Home > November 2007 > Friday 30 > Social bookmarking as a core knowledge sharing approach for companies. November 30, 2007. Social bookmarking as a core knowledge sharing approach for companies. Posted at 11:11 in Enterprise2.0. But still, it looks like a great knowledge sharing solution for the corporate world.

Since I first started tweeting on Twitter (thanks Jeremiah !), I have learned some additional tricks for maximizing my time and presence on Twitter. My main difficulty was how to manage more than one account for person and work related tweets. That is until I found out about Twhirl. What a time saver! Shorten URLs automatically. Give Twhirl a Whirl.

The next interview in the B2B Marketing thought leader interview series is with Robert J. Tell us a little bit about how you got into B2B marketing. and what you like most about it. originally started my career in direct marketing where I worked with some of the largest B2B and B2C companies in the world. How creative and messaging works together.

I happen to enjoy poker tournaments and am a math geek poker player, which is a different breed. Part of winning in poker is understanding the equity of your hand. I'll bypass all the math and explain it in layman's terms. Basically it is the value of your hand as it relates to the investment you have made in it. So back to poker.

Summary. This guide is intended to help you determine the information , which you need, to reach those decisions which get you to your objectives. The questions. There are three primary elements of information which answer the questions: What is needed? ? relevance. When is it required ? ? timeliness. How is it required? ? accuracy. yesterday??

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Time 14:03. Gary Koelling and Steve Bendt were Best Buy advertising guys in search of better information about the customer experience. Their first stop was the blue shirt sales associates on the floor of Best Buy stores who interact with customers everyday. Without that they knew they would have nothing. Fun and interesting.

Time 13:04. Early adopter companies are making inroads in using social media to achieve tangible business goals. The H&R Block income tax services brand is quickly building on its brick-and-mortar foundation by effectively using social media tools, including Facebook and Twitter. The key to their effectiveness is being a part of the community.

Marketing is at a cross roads and I believe social media will force a major crash of competing values. The crossroad is a dilemma presented by a society based, for the most part, on consumption, a global economy accessible to all, and the wonderful raw rules of capitalism. Marketers are a major part of the issue, why?

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Wednesday, November 12, 2008 B2B CRM / Branding Model I was doing some more thinking about a specific B2B CRM and branding model. skip to main | skip to sidebar B2B Marketing Confidential B2B Marketing Confidential is published by a ten-year veteran of B2B Marketing who has worked with over 20 Fortune 500 companies. View my complete profile

At what point will people finally get tired of all the screw ups with Twitter

2008 is the Casey Kasem era of social media. Share on StumbleUpon This entry was posted on Monday, January 7th, 2008 at 12:04 pm and is filed under new media. Michael Benidt Says: January 8th, 2008 at 7:14 am Wanna’ see a place where all the people who want to sell you the dream of making the “A&# list? God, no!

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When I say that you should become an eco-marketer, I don't mean that you should add some corny green recycle image to your website (who would do that?) or support a "Save the Whales" campaign. focused my research this week on how I can help my customers build out a demand waterfall as defined by the smart people over at SiriusDecisions. Chad H.

Here are my 10 Commandments of Successful Marketing Management: I. Thou shalt learn from mistakes - If you're not taking risks, and making mistakes, you'll never progress past the point of what you already know. It's your job as marketing manager to discover each worker's value, then apply that to the overall marketing task. Then, leave them alone.

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OK, I freely admit I’m fascinated by offbeat database engines. Maybe there is a support group for this. In any event, the highlight of my brief visit to the DAMA International Symposium and Wilshire Meta-Data Conference conference last month was a presentation by Joe Foley of illuminate Solutions , which marked the U.S. You decide.)

  One of my most popular posts last year was my summary of 2008 trend lists. I’m a little late this year, but better late than never =) When I look back at my three trends, it seems odd that I selected the growth of blogomerates, social media connections for PR and long tail PR. To me, these seem almost second nature! del.icio.us

So fast forward to 2008 and it seems that Blu-ray may finally getting the edge over HD-DVD. Update: Toshiba has announced that they will no longer promote HD-DVD. Blu-ray has won.  . have a personal interest in the recent news coming out of CES and now Variety. the studios) about the large support behind the Blu-ray format. del.icio.us

This is a follow-up to a conversation I had with Valeria Maltoni and the excerpt that Tom Kephart posted at New Tech Heroes about my “social media is a movement” theme. read that transcript of my comments and thought, “What the heck? Is this guy naïve or what?!” Relationships? What are those? don't want relationships; I want revenues.

I have a page about how to pitch a blogger , but I'm realizing that this goes beyond pitching bloggers vs. traditional media. It's how do we pitch people in general?  . The traditional standards still apply: get to know the person you're pitching, understand his or her preferences for pitching, and make sure you're pitching something relevant.

Ken Molay of The Webinar Blog poses an interesting question - are our assumptions about when to schedule a webinar rational?  .  . Currently, most webinars are scheduled from Tuesday - Thursday to capture the largest number of viewers. But why are Monday and Friday ignored? Please take a moment to fill out the survey. del.icio.us

I don't include my political leanings on this blog. That's not the purpose. With that said, the recent uproar over the torch relay hits home a bit. majored in East Asian Studies with a heavy dose of Chinese language and culture. So I've been exposed to the dialogue on China for years. The torch relay in San Francisco will be tumultous.

When you're a start-up, PR can be a difference for the company. The challenge is how to get targeted, quality media coverage on a limited budget and competing objectives. One One of my favorite sayings lately is "by hook or crook." What I mean is what can I do in the short-term to satisfy immediate results while keeping the eye on long-term value.

Valentine's Day can either create fear or joy in your heart. Several years ago, I was dreading another lonely Valentine's Day. didn't want to stay at home but I didn't want to feel out of place on this "romantic" day.  . My first love has always been dancing - ballet, tap, jazz, even hula as a girl. was intrigued.  . Evan is a great marketer.

The other day, my husband and I were watching TV and saw this ad. With a blue background, the images were being outlined by words - I'm assuming it was a transcript of the voiceover?   . he way the announcer was proceeding, we thought the ad was an anti NSAID commercial. It described the risks of NSAIDs, including Celebrex.  . Is it just me?

Over the past few weeks, I've been hearing that more agencies are working on projects on a retainer basis vs hourly. My understanding is that the retainer enables an agency to focus on the work versus the administration.  . It raises several questions for me: - Are smaller/boutique agencies the only ones doing this? No ugly surprises. If so, why?"

I have several PR blogs that I follow. Some are from PR agencies and others are from PR practitioners. purposely didn't include some bloggers who may be more "marketing" related. In alpha here are the PR blogs that I follow.   . Fleet Street PR - Written by Dave Fleet, I find his insights on PR, social media and the industry interesting.   .

  When I was with Niehaus Ryan Wong, we used to have this saying, "If a truck, God forbid, hit one of your team members, what would you do?"  . Yes, not a pleasant thought, but this did happen to me. No, not the truck =), a broken and dislocated ankle. What has that person be working on? Here are three things for surviving the truck test:  .

Last week, I noticed a tweet from Andy Beal about Google PR sending an email on masses to a list of reporters and a few bloggers. His tweets were:  . Google PR just sent me an email. the CCd instead of BCC - I know have email addys for all major journalists! Woohoohaha   . Don't get me wrong, Google is obviously doing something right. del.icio.us

Help A Reporter Out. Help A Report Out (or Haro).com com  is a free version of Profnet. Started by Peter Shankman, this great service is growing greatly based on word of mouth. Frankly, if it’s free and a way to pitch stories to journalists, us PR folks are on it faster than flies on shit. So they know where the pitch was coming from. See ya.

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Other than general vicinity and locale to your running out of gas, how much marketing does a gas station really need to do. can see some of the top company branding (Exxon-Mobil, Shell, Sunoco, and Citgo), does anyone really care who they buy gas from? In many cases the only competition that exists is the station across the street. Dunkin Donuts?

If new clients for your business is a pure numbers game, then you have to look at ConnectAndSell. This is one Sales 2.0 offering that I have to rave about! friend of ours recommended CAS a year ago and at first were reluctant. But then over the summer a good client of ours told us they were achieving results with it (thanks Char!). Need I say more?