Twitter Starts Testing Features for Businesses. Geocities goes out of business. Technorati release their state of the blogosphere - shows that most bloggers are just hobbiest and number one use of Twitter is to promote blogs. YouTube is routinely serving more than a billion video views per day. FTC Cracks Down on Blogger Payola, Celebrity Tweets. Microsoft announces Looking Glass to let marketers look into a real-time social stream aggregating feeds from Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, and will connect with CRM’s and more. Top word of 2009: Twitter. MORE >>

In the words of Jeffrey Zeldman , the renowned web designer, blogger, independent publisher and the king of Web standards according to Business Week, “Content precedes design. It doesn’t matter whether you work for a corporate marketing department or the owner of a small business website. This is not an isolated case based on my 12 years of experience designing business websites. Six months later, very little traffic, even fewer leads and no sales > The new web site sucks, hasn’t done anything for our business. If so, you know the frustration. Resources MORE >>

This post is meant to outline the “ quality &# approach to guest blogging where: Linking (and keywords in the links) is not the most important thing What matters is networking with niche bloggers and influencers as well as building a positive brand image So read on if you are serious about guest blogging… 1. It saves your time writing unsolicited email pitches because there you can connect to bloggers who are willing to publish your article. It is going to grab the blogger’s attention, interest and prompt him/her to get back to you to discuss the post. MORE >>

Top Stories Photo & Video Galleries Top Lists Trending Topics Twitter YouTube Facebook iPhone Google Video More Topics. 12 YouTube Clips of Hungry, Hungry Kitties. This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. According to a recent MerchantCircle survey of 8,500 small businesses across the U.S., more than two-thirds of small merchants are using social media to market their business. At 10 Free WordPress Themes for Small Businesses. MORE >>

However, that doesnt mean that its something that everyone innately understands or knows how to use - especially when it comes to using it for marketing, PR, or other business-related purposes. The end result of these classes is going to be a wide range of young professionals entering the business world with tricks up their sleeve that some of the the old pros have no idea (or only a vague idea) about. Lesson # 3 : Learn To Use YouTube To Convey a Message. Think of it as Facebook for bloggers (well, before Facebook was for everyone.) youtube. privacy. MORE >>