Social Media

Key Points from Interview with Sagar Kamdar This interview transcript is from the March 13th, 2012 conversation I had with Sagar Kamdar, who heads up the authorship program at Google. This provided some simple, straightforward clarity on how it works, and some of the various scenarios for implementation. Here are some of the key points […]

An Interview with Andrew Shuman of Bing Key Points from This Interview I had a fascinating chat with Andrew Shuman about the adCenter UI and the integration of search and social media. He provided a lot of great insights on what some of the opportunities are, and some of the challenges as well. Here are some […]

One of the early sessions at SMX Social Media was the session titled: “Extra! Extra! The Social News Sites. This session feature Neil Patel, Tamar Weinberg, and Chris Winfield as speakers. They all did an excellent job in providing an overview plus some great detail on how to work with the social news sites. This […]

Key Interview Points In this interview with Danny, we delve deeply into Google+, Facebook, Twitter, Social signals in search, and the value of a holistic approach to Internet marketing. There was just too much in this one for me to summarize everything in the key interview points below, so consider these a bit of a […]

Bruce, currently president of Bruce Clay, Inc; has operated as an executive with several high-technology businesses, and comes from a long career as a technical executive with leading Silicon Valley firms, and since 1996 in the Internet Business Consulting arena. Bruce holds a BS in Math and Computer Science and also has his MBA from […]

Key Points Jim provides a great perspective on how we should think about Social Media Analytics. The major takeaways from this discussion are: Social behavior is intrinsic to the web. Today it might be Facebook and Twitter, and tomorrow it might be something else. What matters is that the power to communicate exists. Reach, frequency […]

I know I am a day late with this post, but this is not really a news blog. For those interested in social media marketing services, a new killer agency in the space has formed yesterday, Blueglass Interactive had formed. The company has many industry stalwarts, including Chris Winfield, Dave Snyder, Brent Csutoras, Loren Baker, […]

It amazes me when people obviously use scrapers to harvest email addresses and then blindly send out mass emails looking for business. Below is an email I received this morning, with my comments in: “Hope you are doing well. (I am glad that she is concerned for my well being) Haven’t heard back from you, […]

Back on Feb 26, I put a podcast together with Michael Gray. In this podcast, we dug into the various uses of Twitter. In particular, we spoke about commercial uses, and the types of things you need to do to use Twitter as a promotional tool, while not incurring the ire of the audience. Good […]

A serial entrepreneur, Edward “Ted” Murphy has founded six companies since 1994. Murphy’s latest venture, IZEAoperates a variety of social media properties including PayPerPost, the world’s largest Consumer Generated Advertising Network. Founded in June of 2006, IZEA has raised over $10 million in venture funding from leading venture capitalists including Draper Fischer Jurvetson. The network […]

The process for winning on Digg (and other social media sites) is a complex one. This has been made even more complex by recent changes in the Digg algorithm. Many webmasters strive to develop content that will score well on Digg, looking for tons of traffic and lots of links. The first key, obviously, is […]

Matt McGee of Small Business SEM officially announced the launch of the SEMMYS early this morning. The SEMMYS are a set of awards that will be given to the best search marketing blog posts of 2007. A panel of judges, including yours truly, are helping pick a set of finalists during the course of this […]