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Archive for January, 2012



The new Facebook Timeline is not the most popular feature that Facebook has ever introduced. Granted, it’s well documented that Facebook users are often super-resistant to change, but for some the new Timeline goes beyond minor annoyances like crowded layouts and superfluous features. For many users, it’s a…

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By Scott Scanlon curated from lyntonweb.com -


Like it or not Google is here to stay.

How social is your content? In other words, aside from visitors showing up to your blog, how often do they click “Like,” Tweet it, add to their bookmarks? Google wants to know. This past June they added Social Interaction metrics to Google Analytics. Why?

The one big question businesses…

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Twitter will unveil a series of new tools in the next few months, including sophisticated analytical tools, according to Erica Anderson, Twitter’s manager for news and journalism.

Anderson said the analytical tools will better help publishers track the reach of tweets sent through the microblogging service. She made her…

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The President of the United States held a Google+ Hangout today. He fielded questions selected from over 130,000 submissions as well as from five lucky Americans selected to hang out with him live. For the rest of us, it was a streaming video experience. It began with a swooping, dramatic…

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By Scott Scanlon curated from inc.com -


This is interesting…

What do hyper-creatives, emergency room nurses, and CEOs have in common? Dr. Aaron Blackledge has identified a particular neuro-chemical pattern. Do you have “entrepreneur brain?”

How did you go from medical student to entrepreneur?I was a young doctor that had worked in the system. I had come from art…

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By Scott Scanlon curated from pbs.org -


Here’s another story we can put in the bin on starting to think like a media company.

Though it’s a relatively new idea, the phrase, “We’re all publishers now” already has become somewhat of a cliché.

Seriously. Let me Google that for you. I’ll wait while you go look …

Back? See what I mean? More than a full page of results with that exact…

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By Scott Scanlon curated from wordpress.com -



This week on LeadershipChat (on Twitter, 8 pm ET Tuesday nights), we welcome Joel Garfinkle, author of the recent book Getting Ahead: three steps to take your career to the next level (Amazon link).

This book introduces Joel’s PVI-model of advancing your career; (1) Actively promote yourself as an…

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By Scott Scanlon curated from hubspot.com -



Social media can be a huge contributor to a company’s lead generation efforts in both B2B and B2C. But how efficient are the various different social channels in directly driving leads? In a recent study of over 5,000 businesses, HubSpot found that traffic from LinkedIn generated the highest visitor-to-lead conversion…

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