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Excellent advice on how to deal with influential people to get them to help you, from long-time technology analyst, blogger and startupper Marshall Kirkpatrick. (Marshall has recently launched a new web app, that focuses exclusively on helping you find who is really influential in your areas of interest. The app is called Little Bird and you can go and request a free trial on the site.) What he suggests is to invest in building long-time, high-value relationships, by using the tech tools like the one he's created, to get to know more about the people you are interested in, before you reach out to them. The more you know who they know, what they like as well as what they have written and what brands and people they are not aware of, the easier it will be for you to reach out and provide useful information, insight and advice to them. Rightful. Correct. 8/10 Full post: http://getlittlebird.com/2013/05/i-found-the-leaders-in-my-field-now-what/ 
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Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn can be found in the majority of social media management apps. It is with Google+ that things get a little bit more complicated: very few social media tools support it due to some technical challenges.
However, most social media managers would prefer a solution that would allow them posting to all social networks in one place, Google+ including.
In this post, you’ll find reference to all tools that are to date integrated with Google+. We’ll bring small business editions to a special focus and review social tools that (1) support Google+ and (2) the ones you can use for free or under $10 a month. Via Martin Gysler
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If you are looking for tools that allow you to easily share any news, image or video on all of your social media channels, including Google+, this is a useful and updated resource to reference. 
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May 11, 10:32 PM
integrate your marketing efforts!.. in social media 
Venkatesh Iyer (venkyiyer.com)'s curator insight,
May 18, 2:22 AM
I am most familiar with Hootsuite. I wasn't aware of a couple of the tools mentioned in this post.
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Here some very good stuff about community-building for your online business. Great points and great advice, including an awesome infographic. I recommend this content for any small business online trying to establish greater reputation and crediblity for itself, as these are in my opinion, the key winning traits of successful web companies. Excerpted from the original SEOmoz article:
Must-read. Right on the mark. 8/10
(Thanks to Pino Mauriello for having scouted it) Via Giuseppe Mauriello, Alessio Carciofi 
AndySernovitz's curator insight,
May 9, 9:03 AM
Here is a super awesome infographic and the play-by-play breakdown of each step in the process. ➨ Read Social Media Content Curation & Marketing Strategies articles here http://www.scoop.it/t/all-things-social-social-media-magazine
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If you haven't used it yet, it may be time to give PaywithaTweet a second look. The service, which is completely free, is available to anyone and it allows to give access to a link, a downloadable eBook, a music track or whatever else in exchange for a tweet or a post on Facebook.
I think this is a great way to build greater visibility and authority in your niche, while letting people discover some of your best stuff.
Free to use. (pay with a tweet to try)
Create a PaywithaTweet button now: http://paywithatweet.com/sell.php
More info: http://paywithatweet.com/
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March 20, 4:14 PM
Thanks Robin. I tried to send this link to a friend with a message on Facebook, and surprise, Facebook has blocked the message because the link "paywithatweet" is considered spam ... hmmm!
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As marketers, we spend plenty of time and energy tracking the metrics that will push our business forward. In today's post, Will Critchlow walks us through what makes good metrics and how to build the right reports for any situation.
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Will Critchlow has a good, in-depth analysis of SEO metrics and how to pay attention to those that really count.
If you are into KPIs, testing, measuring and keeping progress under precise, measurable tabs this is definitely a good resource to check.
Informative. Instructive. In-depth. 7/10
Full article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/meaningful-seo-metrics
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Excerpted from article:
"If you don’t have a good landing page, it’s like going fishing without a net: you might land a big one on your hook, but you won’t be able to drag it into the boat.
You don’t want people to just visit your page. You want them to take action once they are there. So make it as easy and compelling as possible for them by including these elements found in a landing page that CONVERTS:
C = Clear Call to Action
O = Offer
N = Narrow Focus
V = VIA: Very Important Attributes
E = Effective Headline
R = Resolution-Savvy Layout
T = Tidy Visuals
S = Social Proof
CLEAR CALL TO ACTION:
Whatever it is you’ve decided will move people further along your conversion funnel. That’s what you should be asking them, clearly and temptingly, to do. Don’t distract them with lots of other requests. The best pages accentuate only one CTA.
OFFER:
An offer is anything you give your visitors in exchange for getting them to do what you want. This can mean offers in the traditional sense of coupons or discounts, but it also can mean a free trial, a free version of the product, a whitepaper, or a matching gift.
NARROW FOCUS:
Research has shown that the more choices you offer people, the longer they take to make a decision. So the clearer and simpler you make your page, the more likely you are to get someone to take the action you want.
- Do you really need that navigation bar?
- Do you really need to talk about your company philosophy?
- Do you really need to collect all that information?
VIA: VERY IMPORTANT ATTRIBUTES:
We’ve all heard stories of companies that reserved a catchy URL, put up zero information about what the site was for, and harvested 1 million email addresses before they even launched.
You should assume that’s not going to happen to your company.
Instead, you’re going to have to give visitors some good reasons they should do what you want. Those reasons are the VIA: Very Important Attributes.
EFFECTIVE HEADLINE:
People coming to your site are going to decide in a split second if they want to go back to their game of “Words with Friends” or stay and see what you are all about. A key way to keep them is to tell them in plain language what your site is all about.
RESOLUTION-SAVVY LAYOUT:
Do you know that there are people out there still surfing the web on 800 x 600 monitors?
Keep the most essential parts of your message – logo, headline, call to action, a supporting visual – in the center top of the screen, with supporting messaging lower down on the page.
TIDY VISUALS:
As with the headline, distracting elements can work when you’re trying to get attention. But when people are on your site, you don’t want to sidetrack them with a bunch of visual junk.
SOCIAL PROOF:
As social creatures, humans tend to place greater value on things that other people have already approved. That is why most sites will tend to display evidence of such social validation."
In the original article there are more information about: "Considerations for strategy", "Considerations for design", "The cautionary tale", "Doing it right" and some examples. Check out full interesting article here:
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/c-o-n-v-e-r-t-s/
Via Giuseppe Mauriello
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When you boild it down to what really counts to make a landing page effective, these are the things you seriously need to pay attention to.
Simon Cripps's curator insight,
March 11, 4:35 PM
Great Acronym for making people convert to sales (or leads) on your site. Keep it simple Stupid ! KISS is always another
YvonneFinn's curator insight,
March 19, 8:42 AM
Useful tips that bear repeating often even though they should be well known to all marketers.
The "call to action" can make a big difference in a successful marketing effort.
Mr Branson's curator insight,
May 5, 9:17 AM
Interesting article. I am wondering what will the future of landing pages be in the face of online users reading less and watching more daily? http://www.infogurushop.com The online world in the past few months has again changed and VIDEO will surely take center stage worldwide.
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Collaboration has gone Google. Create a story and then share your video.
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Google Story Builder is a great and very easy-to-use tool that allows you to create video clips that playback a story you have built between two or more characters with simple text phrases.
The final video can be shared directly on Google+ on shared as a link anywhere you like (unfortunately, no preview or thumbnail is shown when I have tried to share a video created with StoryBuilder on Facebook).
A great tool.
Free to use. (it looks like you don't have even have to register or log in to use it).
Try it out now: http://docsstorybuilder.appspot.com/
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Rand’s recent WBF about co-occurrence was a real wake up call for those still transfixed with link building practices of old.
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Simon Penson, founder of Zazzle Media, has a fascinating article on the future of SEO, that I have been wanting to highlight for some time. He argues and provides good supporting reference to the idea that Google is moving away from primarily leveraging links and anchor text to evaluate web site relevance to the use of semantic analysis of text co-occrunces to determine it.
He writes: "Imagine being able to outreach awesome content without having to look for links.
Simply make people aware of what you are doing and get them to talk about you.
It’s how it should be and it would have a profound effect on the type of content you might produce and brand-marketing activity you might pursue."
The article is rich in valuable references and tools for anyone interested in exploring this topic.
Game changing. Resourceful. 8/10
Full article: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/semantic-web-and-link-building-without-links-the-future-for-seo
Justin Bruce's curator insight,
February 25, 8:05 PM
From an SEO perspective, google is updating all teh time and reliance on linkbuilding is dangerous as we have just seen with a key client.
Google still recommend a link building stratgy but suggest you diversify into PR and social media to build page rank. That means you need to create great content and promote it.
From a conversion perspective, great contnet is not enough, it must also be relevant. Look through your email subject matter from your customers over the past year and match this with search queries in analytics (not keywords but actual terms they used to find you) and there's your relevant topic and inspiration. Now you gotta do it daily.
Don't forget contributing to other publishers (especially popular and high authority sites) also constitues as content. Curation is fine if relevant (check out scoop.it) but creation is always best, it takes time so allocate time!
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Over the years, the one thing that I’ve always noticed is that most sites aren’t optimized for search engines. Even ...
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If you are looking for a good systematic path to to test and analyze the optimization level of your web site for major search engines, this guide by Neil Patel does an excellent job of providing you with 23 specific steps to follow.
P.S.: As a free bonus to the readers of the article, a $5,000 downloadable template is promised to track in an orderly fashion your SEO Audit collected data, at this URL http://www.quicksprout.com/files/audit.zip. After having checked the contents I have found a series of interesting examples of audit data reports for a specific site, but nothing that would resemble what I'd call a template for me to collect my SEO Audit data. Maybe a small readme file could provide some guidance to how these files should be best used or interpreted.)
Useful. Resourceful. 8/10
Full SEO Audit guide: http://www.quicksprout.com/2013/02/04/how-to-perform-a-seo-audit-free-5000-template-included/
Neil Ferree's curator insight,
February 6, 10:40 AM
I didn't know Google likes 2,400 Words on the page for Optimal Indexing
Ken Dickens's curator insight,
February 7, 2:01 PM
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is about actions you can take to make your website more search friendly, and therefore improve your overall search results and increase traffic to your website. It is a huge category with lots of tricks and is a moving target, but this report is a good start- Ken
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February 12, 6:21 AM
BallyABC provides you the best service regarding the side effect. http://bellyabc.com
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Eval&Go is a web-based survey tool which allows you to ask and collect users feedback, preferences and suggestions in an effective and organized fashion.
Simple and user-friendly to use Eval&Go offers over 20 different survey templates and 20 types of questions that you can use while generating questionnaires that can automatically redirect users to other pages or actions depending on which answer they provide.
Final results can be exported to different formats including Word, PDF, Excel, Powerpoint.
The free available version offers:
Available in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.
Pricing: http://www.evalandgo.com/pricing-survey-software/
Tour: http://www.evalandgo.com/tour/
Features: http://www.evalandgo.com/features-survey-software/
More info: http://www.evalandgo.com/
Gaurav Pandey's curator insight,
March 14, 3:45 AM
Here's another good tool to gain customer insight.
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Whether it was at SES London or one of the many other search marketing conferences in the U.S., I've always been able to count on Dixon Jones for great advice
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Dixon Jones does a good job of explaining five ways in which you can evaluate links and the tools you need to do that.
"Marketers tend to think about links as “something that affects SEO”. Here’s 5 practical reasons for marketers analysing links beyond search."
Useful. Informative. resourceful. 7/10
Full article: http://www.toprankblog.com/2013/01/link-insights-beyond-seo/
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Traffic from Google to digital publishers dropped 30% over the past eight months.
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If you keep investing time on optimizig your site for Google, or investing in link building efforts of all kinds I suggest you give a good read to this article.
Wriiten by Awini Anburajan on Buzzfeed: "Search traffic to publishers has taken a dive in the last eight months, with traffic from Google dropping more than 30% from August 2012 through March 2013...
...While Google makes up the bulk of search traffic to publishers, traffic from all search engines has dropped by 20% in the same period.
BuzzFeed tracked traffic referrals to over 200 publishers in the BuzzFeed Network, a group of sites that carry BuzzFeed's tracking code and include the Huffington Post, Daily Mail, NewsweekDailyBeast, Time, Sports Illustrated, Us Weekly, and Rolling Stone. Collectively the sites represent an audience of more than 300 million people globally.
Of the three major search engines — Google, Yahoo and Bing — only Yahoo saw growth in this period.
While Yahoo grew search traffic in this period, it sent 21M referrals to publishers in March, less than half of the 48M referrals sent by Google. Traffic from Bing dropped 12%."
And check this: "In March, Facebook sent 1.5x more traffic than Google, the greatest difference we've ever measured between the platforms. At the same time, we've watched traffic from other social platforms — Twitter and Pinterest -—continue to grow an audience and drive traffic traffic to publishers."
Are you ready for this?
Insightful. Informative. Must-read. 8/10
Full article: http://www.buzzfeed.com/aswini/where-did-all-the-search-traffic-go
Mr Branson's curator insight,
May 7, 7:40 AM
Google search is 'changing' but Google will GROW with video and search content is moving from written content to video advertising content from websites, blogs to every platform over this and the next century. http://www.infogurushop.com/a-z-business-video-directory-links/ the world of business, advertising and web will again transform and potentially eradicate traditional offline business practices as most of us know it as video takes center stage worldwide.
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May 13, 9:15 PM
Need an SEO guru to verify or dismantle this argument... anyone?
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Ready to take a vacation? Found your destination but do not really know what to go and visit once you are there? KLM, has a fantastic, personalized solution that positions the company as a point of trusted reference for whoever wants to find out what's best to pay attention to, at any travel destination.
The initiative, which due to its success has become a permanent KLM offering, offers the ability to anyone using it, to invite his social media friends who have already been at your next detsination to contribute places, events and spots to visit once you get there.
All of their suggestions are printed on a unique, personalized journey map that KLM sends physically to you, and that showcases all of the suggestions and tips of your network of friends, nicely integrated with the map of your destination.
N.B.: Must see Maps cover only KLM official detsinations.
"...perfect solution to collect and organize the best things to see and do at your destination."
More info: http://mustseemap.klm.com/ot_en/create-map/intro
FAQ: http://mustseemap.klm.com/ot_en/q-and-a
Original video: http://youtu.be/dosrsAy4ENY
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April 27, 10:43 AM
Un esempio concreto di come creare contenuto utile per un bisogno del tuo cliente
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..round-up of the various tools that helped users manage their Twitter accounts by finding who to follow, following new people, unfollowing many people at once and organizing groups of users they follow into lists.
Via Frédéric DEBAILLEUL, Rui Guimarães Lima, Maria Margarida Correia, Heiko Idensen
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If you are looking for tools that can help you cleanup, and unfollow useless or unworthy people, here is an updated list of the best free tools you can use for this task as many have shut down since Twitter latest API update.
No longer functional are Untweeps, Just Unfollow, Twit Cleaner, Who Follows Whom and Tweet Effect.
Useful. 7/10
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Susan Daniels's curator insight,
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With the latest round of API restrictions from Twitter, have you lost your favorite tool? Are you wondering what is still available?
Camerson Scott lists current tools for following, unfollowing and managing lists on Twitter.
Free Tools:
Paid Tools:
For my Scoop.it readers, when you visit this post in my blog, I will add more information about TweetAdder so join me there.
Warmly,
Susan Daniels
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Jake Sorofman, Research Director at Gartner, highlights in his blog the key traits of effective online communication:
1) It’s human: it speaks with a conversational voice, from one human being to another. Thought isn’t hidden behind stilted corporate speak, chest-thumping claims and pompous language.
2) It’s neutral: perhaps not wholly objective, but it holds fire on the hard sell in favor of issues-centric storytelling that supports a brand’s point of view without always making the brand the hero.
3) It’s simple: attention spans aren’t what they used to be and competition for that limited attention has reached a fever pitch.
4) It’s visual: It’s also easier to consume when you’re already up to your eyeballs in dense text.
5) It’s curated: you don’t have to create all of your own content. Leverage happens when you organize and annotate third-party content that helps tell your story or sell your point of view.
6) It’s conversational: communities talk back to sustain the dialogue in the form of comments, reviews, ratings and new content of their own that defends or argues against your point of view.
7) It’s organic: it’s published fast, often in response to unpredictable moments."
My comment: I think that most of these seven points are pretty accurate though I personally do not think that being neutral and simple are always strengths when it comes to effective online communications.
I guess it depends on the situation, but, in my humble view, I will likely favour more companies and individuals that a) take a stand and a side on important issues and b) that are not concerned with providing simple, superficial, easy-to-consume content.
Being organic, as intended here, is also something that in my eyes will not be a key absolute advantage point for companies, but it can definitely be in many cases a plus point.
Good points. Rightful. 8/10
Original article: http://blogs.gartner.com/jake-sorofman/forget-big-data-here-comes-big-content/
Gartner's 2013 Social Marketing Survey:
http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/digital-marketing/social-
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Gail Worthington-Eyre's curator insight,
April 22, 10:00 PM
Conversation with the consumer is the key and framing your content to deliver good conversation is vital to social marketing success.
Sergey Yatsenko's curator insight,
May 7, 2:47 AM
Good contents for Nanotechnology /New IP of Nano/.
Jordi Carrió's curator insight,
May 9, 5:42 AM
Macnifiaca reflexión de Jake Sorofman y de Robinn- Recomiendo el artículo!!!
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What does it mean for online content to "go viral"? An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the...
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ViralSearch from Microsoft Research Labs is a new means to navigating, searching, content that spreads over social media.
ViralSearch visualizes how stories get distributed and how they virally get spread online.
From the official site: "An analysis of almost a billion information cascades on Twitter news, videos, and photos has produced the first quantitative notion of whether something has indeed gone viral, thereby enabling further research into topic experts, trending topics, and viral-incident metrics."
A fantastic tool, but still in its testing phase.
Hope it will soon be available to many.
Original video: http://youtu.be/wSwOszoHuoI
Download video: http://msrvideo.vo.msecnd.net/rmcvideos/185452/dl/185452.mp4
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
March 16, 6:31 PM
Cool. Visualization of what Clair was talking about on her Sharing Is Caring post: http://sco.lt/66UOtl
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Nick Eubanks has an excellent case study on SearchEngineWatch demonstrating how a content-based web site, built on an existing publishing platform, can reach high levels of traffic without doing any pro-active link-building activity.
Here's the gist of the story: "Useful content and a solid, well-researched roadmap is the best way to acquire organic traffic.
If your content is serving a purpose, is accessible, and is easy to consume – your readers will build all of the links you will ever need, and your online presence will flourish as a by-product.
Put in the time, do the research, build your own websites, talk to everyone you can, TEST, and you will start seeing improvements in your organic search."
Rightful. These guys got it right. 8/10
Full case study: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2254983/From-0-to-1.4-Million-Visitors-in-6-Months-A-Lesson-in-Building-Organic-Traffic
Sigrid de Kaste's curator insight,
March 17, 6:47 PM
Great information and easily followed ...put your own details in place and make a go
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Google Consumer Surveys is a fast, accurate, and affordable way to do quantitative market research online.
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Patrizia Pappalardo, a young Italian startupper, just reminded me of a useful Google web service, especially for those in the US and Canada, which has gone unnoticed for many for over a year.
Called Google Consumer Surveys it allows you to run customer surveys on just about any topic you want in a unique and innovative approach.
It works like this:
a) You create online surveys to gain consumer insight
b) People complete questions to access premium content
c) Publishers get paid as their visitors answer
d) You get nicely aggregated and analyzed data
Specifically:
1) People complete questions in order to access premium content.
People browsing the web come across your questions when they try to access premium content like news articles or videos. Opinions are valuable, so answering the question gives them near instant access to the page they want for free.
With Google Consumer Surveys, you can run multi-question surveys by asking people one question at a time. This results in higher response rates (15-20% compared with an industry standard of 0.1 - 2%) and more accurate answers.
2) Publishers get paid as their visitors answer.
Questions run across sites in our diverse publisher network in order to get the necessary respondents. Publishers—online news sites, video creators, and app developers—make money as site visitors provide answers.
Learn how to earn money hosting surveys. (Works only for US and Canada publishers).
3) You get nicely aggregated and analyzed data.
Google automatically aggregates and analyzes responses, providing the data back to you through a simple online interface. Results appear as they come in, not days or weeks later.
In addition to raw data, charts summarize responses and insights highlight interesting differences. Using the DoubleClick cookie and the respondent’s IP address, Google Consumer Surveys infers demographic and geographic information for each response so you can easily segment by age, gender, location and more.
Check this white paper: Comparing the Accuracy of Google Consumer Surveys to Existing Probability and Non-Probability Based Internet and Telephone Surveys. (PDF, 631 KB)
FAQ: http://support.google.com/consumersurveys/answer/2753080
Pricing: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/pricing
Examples: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/examples
Case Studies: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/case_studies
Find out more: http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home
Richard Stadler's curator insight,
March 5, 4:04 AM
I like the added value to both the reader and the supplier.
Gaurav Pandey's curator insight,
March 14, 3:41 AM
It could turn out to be a great tool for entrepreneurs looking to launch a new business/product. Gauging the market size and customer segments can be a daunting task and at the beginning most people start with what can be best described as a set of hypotheses about who their target customers are and what's the best product - market fit. Google Surveys, coupled with the good old "get out of the building and talk to people" method is a great way to gather thsi information.
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http://www.anecdote.com/StorytellingForLeaders You can't get the benefits of storytelling without telling stories. So the first step is getting good at spott...
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Om je visie als leider goed over te kunnen brengen is een goede story belangrijk - on- en offline! Hier een paar handige tips om in de gaten te hebben of je het eigenlijk wel een verhaal is - of alleen een promotie-praatje...
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Michael Brenner has put together a useful list of the top 30 news sources you should be following if you are interested in online business and marketing news.
Useful, resourceful. 7/10
P.S.: In my humble opinion, this list is tainted by the author placing the magazine he writes for (Forbes in this case) as the top one in the list. As a curator this is something I suggest to avoid like the pest as it instantly taints your supposedly impartial collector skills with a way too evident marketing effort, which dents significantly into the credibility of the overall list and the on the reputation of the writer.
In my effort to help others recognize effective curation from simple-minded content marketing efforts I feel quite important to highlight such small details, as even though they may appear of no relevance to some people today, they will have enormous importance - in my opinion - in the near future.
Gaurav Pandey's curator insight,
March 6, 5:38 AM
Robin Good's insight:
Here's what Robin Good (the original curator) has to say about the article, so you know why no 1 is missing from the list. He's spot on, I'd say :
Robin Good's insight:
Michael Brenner has put together a useful list of the top 30 news sources you should be following if you are interested in online business and marketing news.
Useful, resourceful. 7/10
P.S.: In my humble opinion, this list is tainted by the author placing the magazine he writes for (Forbes in this case) as the top one in the list. As a curator this is something I suggest to avoid like the pest as it instantly taints your supposedly impartial collector skills with a way too evident marketing effort, which dents significantly into the credibility of the overall list and the on the reputation of the writer.
In my effort to help others recognize effective curation from simple-minded content marketing efforts I feel quite important to highlight such small details, as even though they may appear of no relevance to some people today, they will have enormous importance - in my opinion - in the near future.
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Facebook's new Graph Search is very different from Google search. With Graph Search, you can combine keyword searches with friends who’ve shared content on Facebook related to that search.
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How to SEO-optimize your Facebook official Page? Here is some good basic advice from John Haydon at SocialFish. Eight key things to work on now, that can make a big difference when people search on Facebook with Graph Search functionality.
Useful. Well illustrated. 7/10
Full article: http://www.socialfish.org/2013/02/how-to-improve-your-facebook-page-seo.html
Philippe Trebaul's curator insight,
February 20, 7:48 AM
Facebook SEO: Huit étapes pour optimiser votre Fan Page FB Rechercher Graphique
Rechercher Facebook Graphique nouvelle est très différente de recherche Google. Avec la recherche graphique, vous pouvez combiner des recherches de mots-clés avec des amis qui avez partagé le contenu sur Facebook liée à cette recherche.
Article complet: http://www.socialfish.org/2013/02/how-to-improve-your-facebook-page-seo.html
Facebook SEO: Eight Steps To Optimize Your FB Fan Page for Graph Search via @amisant http://sco.lt/...
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Must-read article for anyone who has been investing any significant time or resources into link building efforts.
From the original article intro: "The Google Penguin updatehas changed the link building process forever. Gone are the days when it was easy to rank for desired keywords by building tons of links using exact keywords as the anchor text.
In the wake of Penguin, uncertain exactly where the thresholds and ratios are. Just how well distributed should our anchor text be in order to get the best results?
We have been busy with research on the subject and, not too long ago, discovered what Rand Fishkin at the SEOMoz blog had to say for their Whiteboard Friday series. Much of what we’ve observed has fallen in line with his predictions."
Must-read. Save yourself some serious time and risk. 7/10
Neil Ferree's curator insight,
February 4, 9:06 AM
Co-Citation is a popular similarity measure used to establish a subject similarity between two items. If A and B are both cited by C, they may be said to be related to one another, even though they don’t directly reference each other. If A and B are both cited by many other items, they have a stronger relationship. The more items they are cited by, the stronger their relationship is
Michelle Hamel's curator insight,
February 15, 9:20 AM
Good Bye Anchor Text, Welcome Co-Citations: Revolution in Link Building for 2013 Revealed
Chris Agro's curator insight,
March 16, 2:34 PM
More info about citations and how they are used in Google to rank.
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If you are trying to identify your online usiness niche, I suggest you give a good read to this short article by Brian Clark of Copyblogger, in which he explains in simple words which things you should be paying attention to before you make your final choice.
Right on the mark. 7/10
Full article: http://www.copyblogger.com/find-a-viable-niche/
Sigrid de Kaste's curator insight,
January 30, 6:13 PM
Intersting concept and every entrepreneurs starting point in deciding on fine tuning their ideas
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