blending the mix

Cool stuff I was readingJanuary 13th toJanuary 22nd:

• Master of 500 Hats -
• 40 of the Best Twitter Brands and the People Behind Them - Some good names here. Wonder what they’d look like in Twitter Friends?
• BrewDog on BBC 2 with Oz Clarke and James May - Cool brand, cool product - Yes please!
• Social Notworking? | Web Developer 2.0 - Seems that using Twitter at work is not worth it, despite it bringing not only enquiries and meetings, but business too.
• 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats - 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

Cool stuff I was readingSeptember 17th toOctober 7th:

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• Gartner Says More Than 60 Percent of Fortune 1000 Companies With a Web Site Will Connect to or Host a Form of Online Community by 2010 - Percent of Fortune 1000 Companies With a Web Site Will Connect to or Host a Form of Online Community by 2010
• BarCamp wiki / SocialMediaCampLondon -
• How To Build Traffic To Your Blog | WebProNews -
• Ten Commitments All Social Media â��Expertsâ�� Must Provide Their Clients : phil baumann /*rn*/ - 10 good rules to live your social media salesperson life by!
• You just cannot shoe-horn metrics into Social Media - Can you really quantify social media campaign effectiveness with one metric?

Cool stuff I was readingAugust 21st toAugust 22nd:

• BusinessBlogAngel: Case Studies -
• Skip Hire Blog -
• Graco Blog » About the Graco Blog -
• Sumo / Bean Bags / Bean Bag Chairs / Bean Bag Furniture / Bean Bag Store -
• 5 Womenâ��s Styles/Fashions That Men Hate -
• FriendFeed is Google Bait + 23 Great Ways to use it -

Cool stuff I was readingJune 5th toJune 11th:

• Plurk: Unique or Just Another Twitter Clone? - ReadWriteWeb - Quite the most comprehensive review of Plurk (or in fact any social media tool) I have seen in a LONG time!
• Revenue Robot | Plurk Tools and Tracking - Plurk Tracking Tools
• Mento -
• Blogger Outreach is PR and Not Marketing < Chris Abraham - Blogger Outreach
• entrepreMusings - entrepreneur, business, babies, parenting - A fantastic way to respond to negative blogger comments
• Shapeways | Home -

Cool stuff I was readingMay 25th toJune 1st:

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Facebook ‘violates privacy laws’ - News that Facebook is breaking MORE laws.
• Advertisement feature | guardian.co.uk - Interesting immersive “urban” competition by Nissan
• BBC NEWS | Business | Will fake business blogs crash and burn? - Authenticity will ALWAYS win through
• PR Secrets for Startups - Great PR tips from Brian Solis
• Beyond Blogs - Are blogs the ONLY way?

Cool stuff I was readingMay 19th toMay 23rd:

• The Work of Jonathan Harris - Quite the most stunning work I have ever seen on the web.
• YouTube is the UK’s biggest social media site, says Nielsen | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk - Some very interesting stats. Facebook up, myspace down.
• Top 15 Corporate Blogs (Ranked - May 2008) « Marketing Nirvana - The Top 15 corporate blogs - on what basis? I don’t know, but a welcome list all the same.
• The French Open - Twitter Tennis conversation aggregator
• The 5 Types of Corporate Blogs (with examples) « Marketing Nirvana - Interesting from mario. always a good read and thought provoking. A subject close to my heart too.

Cool stuff I was readingApril 6th toApril 9th:

• Ideas in Action -
• Windows Live Writer Goes Portable | Sarah In Tampa | Channel 10 - windows live writer goes mobile!
• We ignore internet at our peril, Murdoch warns editors | Media | MediaGuardian - rupert murdoch on the internet
• The Omni Group - OmniGraffle - Download -
• Twitter Fan Wiki / Apps - This is where it ALL happens!

These are my links for February 4th through February 13th:

• Sandrine Plasseraud: UK Online Readership overtakes Newspaper Readership - Online being read more than newspapers
• Commuter Feed: Latest Incidents - An awesome use of Twitter
• Word of Mouth Marketing Association — WOMMA - Word of Mouth Case Studies - WOM cae studies
• Word of Mouth Marketing Association â�� WOMMA - Word of Mouth 101
• Campaign tools | A-twitter | Economist.com - It’s in the economist - it MUST have arrived!
• OpenSkies » Behind the blog - openness in blogging - awesome
• The biggest RSS reader? - Interesting use of RSS for something other than a laptop

These are my links for January 7th:

• TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz … and Cash -
• The Next Web - Now! - the next web - a blog from the orgainsers
• Ten Common Objections to Social Media Adoption and How You Can Respond - ReadWriteWeb - how to overcome objections to social media marketing
• Content Labels, explained in plain English - Paul Walsh explaining what could be THE next big thing
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Gates hails age of digital senses -
• Gates bids farewell to the computing industry | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Bill Gates’ final words as boss of Microsoft.
• Disruptive Conversations: The 10 ways I learned to use Twitter in 2007… (aka Why and How I use Twitter) - How to use Twitter
• Terraminds twitter search - a twitter people and subject search engine