Here is our 2009 year in review.  December 2009 Online Marketing News Top word of 2009: Twitter November 2009 Online Marketing News October 2009 Online Marketing News Take a moment to reflect on the year’s most interesting, exciting and sometimes surprising online marketing news. Twitter Starts Testing Features for Businesses

I was just searching on Amazon for my new book Facebook Marketing for Dummies (Wiley) which is due out in late August. And I was looking at the “personalized recommendations” that Amazon provided me. Amazon should connect search on its site to my social profile (say on Facebook) thereby making a truly personal search. There was a section on books that were “Frequently Bought Together” with my book. Obviously it lists Facebook for Dummies and maybe not so obvious, Twitter Power.

This article contains excerpts from Facebook Marketing For Dummies (September 2009, Wiley - available for pre-order on Amazon ) ...Tags: One of the great things about the Facebook platform is that it provides you access to a large audience of over 200 Million people worldwide at a low cost. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have a strategy in place for what you are trying to achieve.

If you read the last two blog posts on Social Search could it be a Google Killer and When is Amazon go Social , you would begin to get a glimpse of the web in the next 24 months. A very different web that brings your search results based on what your friends clicked on and a buying experience based on what others in your social network (like Facebook) have bought. I am excited for this to happen,

As the story of Georgia's blog continues, her experiences provide illustrative examples of routine, advanced and just plain cool features like: activating backlinks and trackbacks creating a blogroll adding a Twitter widget replacing a blogger profile with a Facebook badge (very cool) providing PayPal service for e-commerce selecting and building widgets creating separate RSS feeds based on post labels adding an outside RSS feed to a blog integrating a video player setting up a Google AdSense for Search box displaying AdSense adds in RSS feeds using FeedFlare creating a customized

More significant changes include: - availability through the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), which lets companies order up a QlikView-equipped server in minutes. (Of QlikTech released version 9 of its QlikView business intelligence software today. The product has been in public beta for several months, so the general features are well known to people who care about such things.

In the fourth of a series of Thought Leader interviews for MarketingSherpa's 6th Annual B2B Marketing Summit 2009 , we talk to Richard Fouts, research director at Gartner, Inc., And Amazon still sells plenty of books and BW, Harvard Business Review, and the Economist still sell lots of magazines and journals (especially when they do special editions on things like social computing). an information technology research and advisory company. Fouts presented yesterday in Boston.

Combine data from multiple sources: PrismCubed provides a wizard to connect with different data sources, including SQL Server, Oracle, CSV files, Excel and Amazon S3 logs (which earns them extra coolness points). Summary: SiSense PrismCubed offers a reasonable option for a business-analyst business intelligence system. It’s probably a little harder to use than some competitors, but gives a bit more power and flexibility in return. SiSense PrismCubed, officially launched this past August, is another member of the growing set of business intelligence systems aimed at empowering business

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