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Compensation for Unbiased Opinion

by Mike Valentine on November 20, 2009

Why Is Paid Blogging So Controversial?
Blogs are widely recognized as a bastion of unadulterated thought and ideas. Readers are loyal largely because they assume the blogger’s ideas have not been compromised by commercial interests. On the surface, a sponsored conversation seems inconsistent with this ideal. Compensating a blogger to write about your company suggests the [...]

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How to Market with Social Media

by Mike Valentine on November 19, 2009

Online Marketing & Social Media as Business Tools
What Is Online Marketing?
Online Marketing is the interactive process of selling your company, goods or services over the internet. A good online marketing strategy will create a synergy between your company’s business model and sales goals and your overall website appearance and function. Some of the most commonly [...]

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What is RSS? A Bit of Background

by Mike Valentine on November 17, 2009

About RSS
RSS defines three different things. Originally RSS (RDF Site Summary RSS 0.9) was developed by Dan Libby for Netscape. Simpler and easier-to-use versions i.e., Rich Site Summary or RSS 0.91 was produced after a couple of months. Due to loss of interest the owner of this was not specified. Since RSS was widely in [...]

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Crossing out problems and instead offering solutions I make mistakes. You make mistakes. We all do. And some of these mistakes end up providing our readers with a 404 page.
Chances are that page says “Error 404: file not found”. How does that help your visitor? Instead of just identifying the problem, your 404 page needs [...]

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Facebook Share Button Like Retweet & Digg

by Mike Valentine on October 26, 2009

Each week, users share more than 2 billion pieces of content on Facebook, and most of that sharing is facilitated by Facebook Share buttons across the Web, on websites like YouTube, Wall Street Journal, and Photobucket. With just a few lines of code, Facebook Share is the simplest Facebook Connect, feature you can add to [...]

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Are You Leveraging the Power of LinkedIn?
LinkedIn is an online social network of experienced professionals from around the world with over 37 million members in over 200 countries. Executives from all the Fortune 500 companies and well known experts, authors and leaders are all LinkedIn members, so the question is, are you?
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Updates From Google, Twitter, Facebook, Bing

by Mike Valentine on October 23, 2009

Google, Twitter, Facebook, Bing – Oh My!!
Today was a big day for Google, Bing, Twitter and Facebook.
To quickly recap: Bing announced they have made a deal with Twitter AND Facebook to pull their updates into the SERPS (search engine results pages).
Hours later Google announced they too have a deal with Twitter and will be delivering [...]

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How to Avoid Risk from FTC’s New Regulations for Bloggers

by Mike Valentine on October 18, 2009

3 Critical Things Blog Site Webmasters Need To Know About The FTC’s New Blog Regs
Copyright © 2009 Chip Cooper
In recognition of the increasing influence of social media online, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on October 5, 2009, for the first time since 1980, issued new regulations governing online testimonials and endorsements by bloggers.
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Blog Action Day 2009 – Blogging for Climate Change

by Mike Valentine on October 15, 2009

#BAD09 Today is Blog Action Day 2009 and bloggers are uniting to discuss what could be called the most important issue facing all of humanity – Global Climate Change. Social media has been used to discuss corporate interests, small business and local concerns and even trivial daily minutia. Even though bloggers feel free to discuss [...]

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Google Wave Is The Future of Real Time Collaboration

by Mike Valentine on October 8, 2009

So what exactly is Google Wave?
You could classify it as a real-time collaboration tool that enables communication between a group of people. The environment enables a multitude of media that can interact within a wave or be embedded, such as  text, photos, videos, maps, gadgets, bots and more. It’s also  a platform with a rich [...]

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