by Ann Handley The Top 10 US Social Network and Blog Site Rankings were just issued for October, and there were a couple of interesting bits. First, the highlights, via MarketingCharts: MySpace again wins the Smackdown of top US social networking sites, with more than 58.8 million unique visitors in October, according to custom lists
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By Geeta Saini & Jinal Shah Imagine walking through Times Square and instead of seeing larger than life Gucci, Prada, or Nokia ads, you see only the frame of the billboard, or traces of an outline of a poster. Or driving down the freeway and not knowing where the next gas station or rest stop is.
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As I have shared with many folks over the past few weeks, my wife and I are expecting our second baby any day now. It feels like getting ready for an extended vacation, except I’ll be trading the overrated benefits of sleep and relaxation for three hour shifts changing diapers and burping (which any father
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This is a great sign. Today there is a very unique event happening throughout the day – the Personal Branding Summit is a telesummit of some top speakers all talking about the topic of personal branding. It is a topic that is very close to my heart and one that I have been and will
Continue reading »Creating Talkability – Ad:Tech Panel Today
I am on my way to New York today for a morning panel discussion about how brands can "create talkability." This is a topic I have been spending a lot of time on recently, because it brings together a lot of diverging ideas and is central to what most brands are trying to do. In
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With all of the attention on global warming and what each of us could do, there is an interesting paradox that you may not realize which is happening right under your nose at work. I was reminded of it again as I came across a Dilbert comic that sums up the issue in three short
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There has been a firestorm of discussion lately after Chris Anderson, editor of Wired Magazine and author of the long tail recently "outed" all the PR professionals that had been contacted him with anonymous spam style "Dear Editor" communications. On a day where he had more than 300 of these, he finally decided he had
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I have an unwritten rule on my blog that I try to do my best to follow – and that is to avoid flagrant self promotion. As a fair warning, I am going to break that rule with this post. I am fairly sure that most of you who read this blog on a consistent
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I give a good ten minute presentation. In fact, if you think about the usual types of speaking outside of keynotes, ten minutes is really all you get. This is not just for public speaking, but also in front of clients. Talking for a long time rarely pays off. On conference panels, the people rated
Continue reading »A Lineup of All Stars at New New Internet in DC
This Thursday I have the chance to moderate a panel titled "Engaging your client community via blogs and social media" at the New New Internet event right here in the Washington DC area. Aside from being one of the few local events that I have the chance to speak at after my whirlwind of events
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