Here is our 2009 year in review.  December 2009 Online Marketing News. Twitter Starts Testing Features for Businesses. Top word of 2009: Twitter. November 2009 Online Marketing News. Linkedin and Twitter integrate. Twitter creates Twitter Lists. October 2009 Online Marketing News. Technorati release their state of the blogosphere - shows that most bloggers are just hobbiest and number one use of Twitter is to promote blogs. September 2009 Online Marketing News. Twitter gets an (unofficial) app store. MORE >>

The Nifty50 Men of Twitter. Cheryl Burgess of BlueFocus360 and Tom Pick of KC Associates (both good friends of the Fearless Competitor , President of the B2B lead generation consultancy, Find New Customers ) recently announced the Nifty 50 men of Twitter on the Blue Focus Marketing Blog. Jeff, Tom and I truly recognize your great accomplishments and want to give you “honorable mention” for the #Nifty50 Top Twitter Men. Your contribution not only in your Twitter stream and numerous Twitter Chats, but also building business communities. Cheryl. Ranked No. MORE >>

If social media worked the same way, companies would first buy a monitoring system to track what’s being said, followed by tools to respond to comments made by others. True listening ranked fifth in the Visible Technologies/SiriusDecision survey (“monitor and respond” at 14%), and third in the B2B Magazine survey (“customer feedback” at 46%). Perhaps this is an old habit that will change in a customer-driven world. Summary: Social Agency’s Spredfast helps marketers schedule social media campaigns the same way they schedule paid advertising. Silly me. links for each event. MORE >>

It’s time for marketers to replace traditional publishers. Here’s what you need to do and why: Play the Powerful Role of Publisher to Meet Your Buyer’s Critical Information Needs. As Paul Gillin suggests in The New Influencers, content marketing is all about engaging in a conversation with your customers and prospects: The next generation of customers will want to interact with businesses in very different ways. As you become increasingly customer centric, you can develop an intensely loyal and lucrative base of repeat customers. No longer. MORE >>

The main difference this year from last year was that we not only shared our knowledge and insights with each other but with the power of Twitter, we could share these with the rest of the globe. While I could write a number of blog posts on my own findings from this event, I decided to let Twitter write the post for me. This post as an example, was written from the product of social media (Twitter). It actually caused Twitter to block the #EE09 hash tag at the hotel for a short period of time due to the amount of traffic generated. Because it’s real. Silos must go. MORE >>