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Sentiment Analysis

3. September 2009

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Understanding when your company or brand is being talked about is important. Understanding whether or not your company or brand is being talked about positively or negatively may be more important. In the last few years the research behind sentiment analysis has ranged from thumbs up\thumbs down and emoticon faces to more advanced methods. A [...]

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Great Ways to become a Personal Brand Online

24. April 2009

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Every so often I connect with people working on interesting projects or strike up great conversations – in that vein I invite those interested in guest blogging at Marketing.fm and invite any reader to do the same if they need a platform. Get in touch! Guest post from Ben Johnson of LogoInn, custom logo design. [...]

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Google Friend Connect (there is a new widget in town)

4. December 2008

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I added the Google Friend Connect widget to my blog today as they have begun sending out invites to the program.. Please join on the right hand sidebar if you are interested. Official notification is here. This certainly represents a new direction for interacting with Google as more of a social network. You can now [...]

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Managing Social Networking – Ping.fm and RSS

18. November 2008

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Guest post by Josh Whitford of Unconventional Marketing Image by luc legay via Flickr As the social media scene unfolds there is now more opportunity than ever to join a variety of social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, WordPress and so on. The problem now more than anything is having the ability to manage [...]

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Facebook Purgatory

29. October 2008

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Image via Wikipedia When you request friendship with someone on Facebook you are assume you will be accepted or ignored after a certain point. The state in which you exist while not yet accepted and also not yet ignored is known as Facebook Purgatory. (update: yes, this is already a coined phrase see urban dictionary) [...]

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Domain Discrimination

26. October 2008

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More and more it has become hard for people to differentiate themselves when applying for a job, school, or any other position. Sometimes the smallest details can make a big difference. I have had some conversations recently with people who have had to go through job applicants to a online job posting and the first [...]

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Interview: Erik Qualman – SES 2008 San Jose Q&A

25. July 2008

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EriK Qualman is a Search Engine Watch Expert and the Global VP of Online Marketing for EF Education. He will be speaking on the upcoming panel at Search Engine Strategies 2008: San Jose on the Social Media Track Social Media Marketing: What is it and What is it Good For? More information about this session [...]

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Web 2.0 World Map

24. June 2008

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The folks over at AppAppeal.com have put together a very cool web 2.0 world map showing off the logos of web companies to make a world mosaic. AppAppeal looks at and reviews web apps and does comparisons between them. For a quick example see the Bookmarking section. They spell out the details with short and [...]

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Thoughts on Plurk

2. June 2008

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I can now be found on another micro blogging platform called Plurkhere is my Plurk page. I found out about Plurk this morning via Inquisitr and it has an interesting format. I spent some time reading reactions to the Plurk service and feel basically the same way – except I am looking for a centralized [...]

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Watch the widget trends

2. June 2008

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In my recent article about being bullish on widgets I was asked a lot about supporting data. The article was primarily my own thoughts, but nonetheless people always want more stats. Read Write Web has a great article about watching widget stats for US politics. They do caution that this is no indication of an [...]

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