blending the mix

Stuff you should have been readingJuly 14th toJanuary 12th:

• Are blogs the beating heart of a social media strategy? - Debbie Weil (if you don’t know who she is, I haven’t got enough time to tell you but go here and here to find out more!) posted the following question which has really resonated with me:Is Corporate Blogging the Hub of Social Media Marketing?Debbie’s
• SQUARE PEG - this chap waffles a lot
• Link building services. SEO company. Directory Submission - Get 7000+ Guaranteed One-Way Links. Top ranking - Link building services. SEO company. Directory Submission - Get 7000+ Guaranteed One-Way Links. Top ranking
• The definitive UK Facebook audience breakdown - Robinâ��s chart below had some interesting stats about a huge surge in Facebook traffic last month when Facebook launched the vanity URLâ��s. Traffic to the site was up 9.5% on the previous Sunday.
• brandhack - a lesson for brands everywhere - This is one of the most exciting events I have seen. I received this invitation to attend the Pepsi Brandhack. Main problem is Iâ��m in the UK, the brandhack is in the USâ�¦shame. The UK would benefit from something like this - and I donâ��t just

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 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.

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 9th through January 10th:

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Blenders and Brand pick up awards - results from the .net awards
• Micro Persuasion: The Attention Crash - You know you’ve got it - too much to read, too little time in which to read it…
• BBC NEWS | Business | Microsoft to buy Fast search firm - I’d rather wait for the ciorrect result than get a bad one Fast…
• BBC NEWS | Business | Persimmon upbeat but sales slide - Devastated to see that my old employer’s main client has suffered an 18% downturn in sales
• BBC NEWS | Business | Sarkozy proposes new internet tax - New President suggests taxing VOIP

These are my links for January 8th:

• minha selecao - My selection: Pimp my Keyboard - Tracking the conversion of a standard IBM keyboard to an olde-worlde typewriter
• Twittertale - You kiss your momma with that mouth? - Watch the potty-mouthed kids on Twitter
• Politweets - When Twitter gets political - Using the Twitter API to track political commentary on Twitter
• Pluck: Leaders in Social Media - Aggregation of social media content
• Groups for Twitter; or A Proposal for Twitter Tag Channels | FactoryCity - Chris Messina - along the same lines. Grouping Twitter feeds
• How I created a TwitterGroup for Gnomedex « kossoâ��s braingarden - creating twitter groups using the API - way cool.
• Innovative Minds Donâ��t Think Alike - New York Times - Interesting piece about how to stop being fogged by convention to continue being creative
• 50 Ways To Improve Your Life in 2008 - US News and World Report (usnews.com) - 50 ways to improve your life this year.
• Communication Overtones: Advertising in Disguise: Cough up a Few Million and Call It Social Media - Advertiising as Social Media - what a load of pants!
• Yahoo mounts fightback against Google | Technology | Guardian Unlimited - Yahoo to take lead on mobile for 2008
• Search Wikia - search - a Wikia wiki - wiki-powered search from the creator of wikipiedia