Recommended Reading This Week
Here are our top picks for what’s buzzing on the web this week….
- Social Media for Business: The Dos & Don’ts of Sharing
From Mashable: It doesn’t matter if you’re on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr; your online personality is not only part of your overall brand, it becomes an interactive experience for you and your business. So, who is the face or voice of your brand and what do they share? It’s a…
- Print You Favorite Wikis As Books, Courtesy Of Wikipedia (And PediaPress)
From Tech Crunch: Did you know that you can assemble your own wiki pages from Wikipedia and print them out in book form? You can, for a while now, thanks to a partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and a German startup called PediaPress
- Slideshare Presentation: How A Blog Can Grow Your Business
From Chris Garrett: Business Blogging is fast becoming a vital part of any online strategy. The old days of “blogging puritanism” where bloggers were not supposed to make money have given way to individuals, companies and non-profits all hoping to use blogs and social media to grow and engage their…
- How To Use Facebook “Notes” To Get More Traffic
From Corporate Dollar: Advice on leveraging Facebook’s Notes application to drive web traffic to your website.
- More Efficient RSS Reading
From Web Worker Daily: The harsh reality is that there are only so many hours in the day one can spend reading and learning. Here are some tips for using your RSS reader more productively.
- 10 Tips For Benefiting From Unexpected Traffic
From The Blog Herald: Sometimes we will write something and it will unexpectedly deliver you lots of traffic without you needing to do anything.This happens surprisingly often after your blog gets established with readers and search engines. While this is nice in itself, many people just bask in the reflected…
- The Secret of Monetizing With Ads Without Sacrificing Design
From Sitepoint: Figuring out a way to monetize a website with ads that doesn’t diminish the design or overall message is a major challenge faced by many designers. Here are some principles to guide such efforts.
- How to Present While People are Twittering
From Pistachio: The next time you make a presentation, instead of being confronted by a sea of faces looking at you, you may be phased by a sea of heads looking down at their laptops. The challenge is how to adapt to presenting with the back-channel.
- 25 Innovative Ways Companies are Using Twitter (That You May NOT Have Heard of Yet)
From Buzz Marketing Daily: Here are 25 companies that are using Twitter in innovative, different, and fun ways.
- The Powerful Potential of Permission-Based E-Mail
From eMarketer: According to “Beyond the Click: The Indirect Value of Email,” from Epsilon and ROI Research, 57% of consumers had a more positive impression of companies they had purchased from when they received e-mail from them—and 40% said such e-mail made a future purchase from the company more likely.
- Tropicana Discovers Some Buyers Are Passionate About Packaging
From NY Times: Might Twitter be a better tool for getting customer feedback than focus groups?
February 27th, 2009
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