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Transcript. Clay Shirky, author of the newly released Here Comes Everybody. In two parts: The sitcom as the social glue of mid-century society. Society had to learn how to manage free time. TV had absorbed our surplus of free time. Wikipedia represents 100 million hours of human thought (TV representing 2 billion hours every year). […]

As Twitter and it’s ilk go up and down in availability and service, Wadd writes: Has web 2.0 become an excuse for piss poor customer service? Companies don’t need to invest in customer service because users don’t expect it. But inevitably if applications regularly fall over users will dump them and go elsewhere. Free is […]

Distilling this. Use keyword rich titles and descriptions. Get your photos indexed by using alt descriptions. Use meta tags for search engine visibility Offline Events generate online traffic. Tagging to build community Embrace bloggers. Create interactive product demos.

Matt writes: Keep in mind that Yahoo News is the No. 1 news site online (wish I could find a link for that), so this is not an opportunity to ignore. I’ve written before about how to market on Flickr, so that’s a good place to get started if you’re not on Flickr yet.  There’s […]

From Melissa Burdon: Unless the high exit page is a shopping cart, a lead generation form, or a landing page, if it is getting minimal traffic, you probably have bigger fish to fry. Try comparing your top 20 exit pages with your top 20 most trafficked pages. Then, find the highest trafficked pages with the […]

I just freaked out. Bill Gammell over at The Ubereye marketing blog has an entire series devoted to translating the farce of Jerry, George, Kramer and Elaine into marketing smarts! Proceed directly and begin reading (and pick up the ebook).

Good God – I was so intent on getting this out on the newsletter I forgot to post it on the blog! Reminder of our call tonight: Thursday, May 22nd @ 8:00pm Eastern Full details: http://goblogwild.com/traffic I’m hosting a call with Yaro Starak from Blog Mastermind on Thursday. He’s going to be walking through his […]

Mario Skyped me thusly: If you send an email through facebook containing the keyword “wadja.com” … your message will be blocked. I really don’t know if the same happens with other social networks, but i call this Fascism. Blogs and twits should spread the word. It’s serious…. Note: Wadja is a new (killer)startup, a mobile […]

Back when Six Part launched Vox.com I was pretty much head-down in the world of TypePad. I was digging around in the archives of our internal blogs today and found the Vox team’s external blog and the original video where Ben and Mena describe who Vox is for. Watch the video…

  Fellow blogger and colleague, Dr Susan L. Reid writes: just received notification today that my book, "Discovering Your Inner Samurai: The Entrepreneurial Woman’s Journey to Business Success," was just awarded the 2008 Indie Book Finalist Award in Business. I am over the moon excited about this award! Thank you for your part in the […]