It is early in the morning and I am poking around in my email looking for interesting items on health and medicine search. I am finding that calls for papers for conferences or announcements of competitions in various areas of biomedicine are actually quite interesting and lead to enjoyable and productive hours of surfing and fruitful moments of serendipity. One such case is an email notice I got a few days ago from the magazine Bio-IT World that mentioned its competition, Bio-IT World Best Practices: 2009 Call for Entries: Reading the come-on to prospective entrants provides some insight into the...
5 Posts that I have been diving into on this snowy, ugly, Indiana day. 1. 123SocialMedia: by Barry Hurd Post: Social Media Examples - Marketing Your Brand “Social media marketing has been changing the way business utilize communication technology, combining different mindsets with flexible rules and non-existent standards.” 2. Logic + Emotion: By David Armano Post: The 4 C’s of Community “Quality content is a great way to attract the people who are needed to form the elusive community that your brand is hoping will to help build. When considering community initiatives, there are three questions to ask yourself.” 3....
Doug Karr has a great post over at his Compendium blog called When to Fire Your Blogging Expert. The post breaks down the concept of weighing the intangible and tangible benefits of blogging. Doug talks about what a blog consultant should be discussing when they are helping with an overall communications strategy: 1. Your Business 2. How You Drive Customers 3. Measuring Results I wanted to map out a couple of things you should remember when planning your communication strategy. If you are the smart business owner, a social media strategy will be combined with your current offerings. I...
Chris Baggott has a great post on his Compendium blog called There Are Still People Out There Buying. During the doom of gloom of an economic downturn (or so I hear) it is always good to read posts that are more encouraging than not. In the post Chris quotes Ian Beavis from AdWeek: “There will still be people out there buying cars, and the trick will be to identify them and what triggers them to purchase.” Despite a economic downturn or the talks of another bailout, there will always be people buying. Money will still be changing hands in the...
We had a great event tonight at the Confluence Networking Corporate Blogging Panel. Thanks to everyone who made it out to the event. It was awesome! I wanted to link some posts I have been concentrating on lately. I thought it would be a good digression from my daily rants! 1. 123SocialMedia: Social Media Politics - How Fast Things Change I have been fascinated with the social media and marketing extravaganza known as the recent political campaigns. Barry Hurd talks about the transition from traditional media to new media by politicians. 2. Andy DeSoto: Social Media Basics Provide Necessary Spice...
Google has announced the expansion of its online encyclopedia Knol into new languages, opening up the service for spam in three new languages. Google Knol now supports French, Italian or German along with its native English spam, a move that is sure to be welcomed by spammers in some of Europe’s biggest countries. Knol launched in July 2008 and was immediately billed as a Wikipedia killer by some, by offering shared ad payments against every page. But the encyclopedia with paying Adsense ads quickly became the target of spammers; the ideal of a free-for-all anyone can post anything promoted by...
AFP - Google on Thursday made its version of communally-constructed online encyclopedia Wikipedia multi-lingual, opening its Knol compendium to nuggets of knowledge shared in French, Italian or German....
Image via Wikipedia On occasion I will write a post regarding something Seth Godin has written on his blog (this is an understatement). A couple of days ago Seth wrote a post entitled Failure As An Event. In the post he talks about some of the big failures in his life and the lessons he learned from them. After reading the post, I started thinking about the concept of getting back up after you have been knocked down. The concept of never-ending strength in driving toward specific goals in life is extremely important to long term success. This is...
Meeting with Julia and Andrés Fredes, founders of Pure Austrian Design (as well as their own studio Juland), last week was a great introduction to the Austrian design scene, including Vienna's second annual design week and their pop-up installation, " In The City." The showcase of Austrian-designed furniture was housed in a giant bubble smack dab in the middle of the Museum Quarter (a five-year-old cultural complex in the heart of the city) and featured the best of recent Austrian design. As a means of calling attention to Austrian design as a way to make it part of the...
I follow the writing of many of the staff at Compendium Blogware, a local company here in Indianapolis offering an extremely trackable and orangic seo based blog software. I was reading through a post by Megan Glover called Is Blogging In Your 2009 Marketing Budget?, and happened across a powerpoint presentation about measuring, tracking, and adjusting your corporate blog. You can view the ppt by clicking here: measure-track-and-adjust-webinar. In the webinar they had a graphic from Google Analytics that show where the traffic to their blog was originating from (image below). Of course being a search and keyword driven blogging...
The NYC-based artist Ryan McGinness, known for his graphic-inspired art, is a super busy guy. He has every day scheduled until mid-2010 — just thinking about his numerous upcoming shows and books, all due out by year's end, leaves us exhausted. (Click images for detail; see gallery details after the jump.) Last week, McGinness opened a solo show in Milan, "A Shadow Feeling of Loss," at Paolo Curti & Annamaria Gambuzzi & Co. and his first show in Toronto, "Aesthetic Comfort" at Artcore/Fabrice Marcolini, which includes his new work that will be shown in black light. Then parts of...
