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Most social media websites give you an individual profile page alongside the option of befriending other site users. The adding of someone as a 'friend' on a social media website is not just an empty gesture. Usually when you add someone as a friend, you're giving them greater access to you through the social media channel. Read More

What's more stereotypically trivial than shoe shopping? Using Twitter, of course! Online shoe retailer Zappos does shoes and social media remarkably well. Scores of bloggers, lots of video blogging and 198 employees on Twitter help keep the company's profile high and humanize the folks behind the shoe sales. Of all the different types of soci Read More

Jeff Bezos recently highlighted, Animoto, a great self-service video creation site. As a former TV commercial director and still photographer I can relate to what Jeff is saying -- in the old days it took dozens of hours in an expensive post-production studio to create even the simplest video from collections of stills. Animoto can do it in a Read More

You are an example to your children in everything you do. Your example teaches them how to be responsible, how to treat others, and how to eat and exercise. What are you teaching them about your work life balance? Read More

What's wrong with MySpace and how are advertisers and marketing companies looking at them now? Read More

Legitimate email marketers could be impacted by a new bill before the California State Legislature aimed at hampering the efforts of spammers. The proposed bill could make things more difficult for illegitimate marketers, especially in the short term, but long term impact could harm legitimate marketers as well. AB 2950, co-sponsored by Assembl Read More

US households with $100,000+ in income are the fastest-growing segment of the population according to US Census Bureau data, up from 19.7 million in 2005 to 22.2 million in 2006, an increase of nearly 13%, said Unity Marketing. Read More

Ever felt you'd NEVER get the chance to advertise your business on TV? Google AdWords has just made a MAJOR announcement: they are launching Google TV Ads, an all-digital system that lets you place your ads into TV program. The service has been available as a trial program for over a year now, and now Google has opened it up for everyone. Read More

Can a viral video contest generate results for a business to business company when the pool of prospects is much, much smaller than for a consumer campaign? Read More

If a web site falls in the search engine forest, would anyone hear it? If the web site belonged to Victoria's Secret, it wouldn't be missed by a shopper like my young adult daughter. She doesn't need search engines to find Victoria's Secret products. Why? Because the company sends her discount cards in the mail every month to lure her with 20% Read More