Based in Minneapolis, Abby is Senior Manager Creative Services at Best Buy, and also Board President at FamilyWise, a non-profit organization that provides programs for families that encourage self-determination, self-sufficiency, and healthy family lifestyles. Sandy is an active thought leader in helping businesses transition into an era of social business, as well as the award-winning author of two best-selling books: The New Language of Business: SOA & Web 2.0 , and The New Language of Marketing 2.0: A year ago, the #Nifty50 honored 50 remarkable men and women on Twitter. MORE >>

But as this video by Rand Fishkin points out in How Google’s Panda Update Changed SEO Best Practices forever - with the Panda update – the Google algorithm changed dramatically. He presented “How to Build an Awesome Personal Brand&# at the 140 Social Media Conference and appeared to discuss B2B lead generation on Sales Lead Management Radio. “ Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. IMHO, the industry is dead. MORE >>

Set up search alerts for your name ( Google recently made this easier to do from the Google dashboard through a new “Me on the Web” tool ). If, for instance, photos from your Flickr account that you’d rather keep private are showing up in search results for your name, you can simply delete the photos or adjust your privacy settings.After you’ve removed the offensive content, you can use Google’s URL removal tool to stop it from appearing as a cached copy or snippet in search results. Google usually only likes to rank one result per domain name per page,” he says. MORE >>

Help us make September the best month ever for this blog. Take a presentation you did, upload it to Slideshare and record an audio track for it. for a great example of embedding a presentation in a blog article. Google loves frequently updated blogs.) Find New Customers helps companies (with between 150 and 5,000 employees who sell complex products to businesses) to implement world-class lead generation programs. B2B Lead Generation | 6 Tips for Blogging Success. Tweet it, share it, email it – tell the world. 1,085 Posts. Over 63,000 viewers to date. MORE >>

I pleased to present today an interview with William Robb , Director, Social Media Marketing for SAP. In my recent corporate blogging webinar , I cited SAP as best practice and the company is also a pioneer in user-driven training and support videos and the establishment of diverse and vibrant  user communities. phurl_urls' doesn't exist&source=shareaholic" rel="nofollow" class="external" title="Tweet This!">Tweet Post on Google Buzz. Tags: B2B and social media Personalities of the social web Social Media best practices Brand listening, crowdsourcing, etc. MORE >>