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Don Campbell has a pretty good overview of Yahoo Search Monkey and it’s relevance for online marketers.

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No sooner do I join the Twitter revolution then Sebastien P. comes out with this.

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And I’m not talking about Larry Craig here.
Twitter is already starting to pay off. Don Campbell followed me and I in turn followed him. Don tweeted about this summary of an interview with Brad Bird of Pixar about innovation which turned out to be excellent.
One of my favorite take-aways about how Steve […]

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Twitter’s value just went up ever so slighty - I just installed their widget on the right-hand column. After much encouragement by Brian Wallace I have decided to try and make Twitter a regular part of my routine. I have been trying to think about how Twitter could be of use to local […]

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Just got off the phone with Robert Silverman of Statepoint Media, a service that distributes advertorial to local newspapers, who claims that while the big dailies are busy falling off a cliff, local newspapers are thriving.  He’s talking about the kind of local papers you pick up in the hotel lobby or in a box […]

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Tim Nash has a great post on social media image optimization. He has figured out the image sizes that produce the best results on social media sites. This makes a huge amount of sense. If you are trying to maximize your posts’ power you could do worse than follow Tim’s lead.

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A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the Best Passover Book Title Ever. I thought the book cover was such a classic that it deserved a submission to This Is Broken, a site I found several years ago that I loved. It features bone-headed product design choices such as this […]

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I just discovered a new social media blog, Social Media Influence. You would think I would have known about it because it was started by my friend, Matthew Yeomans of Custom Communication.
Maybe Matthew needs to work on his social media marketing skills.
The blog is full of interesting stuff. This post about the […]

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I was having a conversation today about the importance of social media marketing with a guy who has a very big social network.  He’s all over Twitter, Facebook, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc. And it occurred to me that the size of your online/wireless social network and the influence you hold over it is […]

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While at the Kelsey Local Search Conference last week I was talking to some folks from the local search group of one of the major search engines and they asked me if I knew any good sources of local content to add to their service.  They were already familiar with a lot of the sites […]

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