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As written for and published by Business2Community.com Make Your Blog Articles Scannable People don’t read, they scan. This was once said by Jakob Nielson, an expert in the field of user-friendly Web design. I’d like to think I’m different, but I’m not. When I read a blog I will quickly scroll down the page looking for […]
As written for and published by Social Media Today Lean, powerful and cohesive was the lesson from Toni Schneider, the CEO of Automattic, the creators of WordPress, at this week’s Signal Conference in San Francisco. This little company powers some of the largest brands in the world who use WordPress to manage their web content. Names like Mashable, TechCrunch, and the […]
As written for and published by Social Media Today Infographics for the Masses Thanks to Visual.ly, we can now all do it–create our very own infographic. The company’s latest release enables users to create an infographic almost instantly, based on their Twitter profile. This is one of what we socialites anticipate will be many web-based, user-generated infographics tools released […]
Facebook Is Meant for Lightweight Interactions Over Time As written for BusinessInsider.com Throughout the history of time people have been applying their old ways to new media. That was the message from Facebook’s global brand manager, Paul Adams, at last week’s Signal Conference in San Francisco. So what exactly does that mean? It would appear that historically for us, […]
Video Advertising As written for BusinessInsider.com “Pre-roll makes me grumpy, is that the only monetization strategy you [Google] will have for YouTube?” That was the question posed to Neal Mohan, Google’s VP of Display Advertising at last week’s Signal Conference in San Francisco. One of the great things about having a strong moderator at a conference like this is he’s going […]
Article first written for and published as Intel’s Social Status Update: Make Conversations, Not Ads on Technorati. Social Media for Big Business Intel launched its marketing campaigns with a bang this year, showing off a number of interesting 2+ GHz Ultrabook laptops with Intel processors at CES. Going head to head with Apple, they talked a whole lot […]
As written for and published by The Customer Collective Marketing Strategy Anyone with a light background in marketing is familiar with the 4 – “P’s” of Marketing – Product, Price, Place and Promotion. Businesses use these four elements to model their marketing strategies. It’s been a mainstay model and rule of marketing practice. But some […]
I go a lot of conferences. I attend some, present at others, and take away something from each. With Signal San Francisco, the team at Federated Media does a whole lot right. The conference format makes Signal SF an incredibly efficient way to soak up a whole lot of knowledge in a short period of […]