One Exhausting Post!

This amazing post wore me out just in “quick scan” mode – I can only imagine the work that went into creating it!
Best Internet Marketing Posts of 2007 -  Over 250 links, consolidated by Tamar Weinberg (Techipedia), on just about every topic imaginable touching on internet marketing. Lots of gems here!

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Age of Conversation Revisited!

Yes, it’s that time – perhaps an annual event now? – the call for authors has gone out for a collaborative marketing book.
Last year’s Age of Conversation was a great experience. This year, it should be even better.
Who has “signed up” so far? Well, at least this group has gone public (and surely others are [...]

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Off-Target Blogging

Amy Jussel of Shaping Youth took aim at a Target promotion that, in her opinion, was promoting a promiscuous approach.
Target’s reply to this blogger was quite enlightening:
“We are unable to respond to your inquiry because Target does not participate with non-traditional media outlets. This practice is in place to allow us to focus on publications [...]

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Pharma Web Branding, Part 7 – Abbott

In my occasional series on how effectively pharma companies present themselves on their website home pages, today we arrive at Abbott labs (Abbott.com).

I will admit right off that I’ve never been a fan of the Abbott logo. I find it singularly uninspiring and I wish that a company that has so much going for it [...]

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Steve’s Sticky Stuff 1_26

Who doesn’t like to save money? Here’s a page with 21 money-savings sites around the web.
Create your own, instant, no-cost, ad-hoc chat room on-line (ChatMaker).
Fun with time-lapse photography. 13 very cool time-lapse wonders. It’s hard to pick a favorite, though the Milky Way clip is really astonishing. This is a 3/4 cup of coffee stop [...]

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Dick’s buys Chick’s

You can’t make this stuff up. Headline spotted this week:
Dick’s Sporting Goods Agrees to Acquire Chick’s Sporting Goods
I guess that’s one way to keep it all in the family. I knew I should have launched a Rick’s Sporting Goods!

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A Jeep on the Altar

One minor scratch.
That was the toll, on a rainy and rather traumatic night this past week. Yes, the Jeep was totaled after being thoroughly T-boned by an 18-wheeler, but the driver – my son – walked away with only one scratch.
And that is why we bought the Cherokee in the first place. So, consider this [...]

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Top 5 things to do while stranded at the airport

It happens to all of us, of course. “Due to Air Traffic Control delays at your destination, your flight is going to be (significantly late / canceled / diverted to Duluth, MN / dangled tantalizingly in front of you for the next 5 hours, then postponed until tomorrow morning…)” – you know the drill.
And here [...]

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Game-changer? What do you think?

Very cool – an “open-source” hackable and universal digital video recorder (article from the NY Times). The manufacturer is inviting people to improve both the hardware and software, and the device sounds downright versatile.

What do you think – a portent of things to come?
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The Hidden Life of Drew McLellan

OK, four (or more) can play at this game. Shel Israel tagged two of our lovely ladies of blogging, Toby Bloomberg and Liz Strauss, to reveal deep and dark secrets about themselves. Both Toby and Liz rebelled, and instead revealed faux secrets about Shel.
Drew McLellan picked it up, and decided to reveal some secrets about [...]

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Monkey goes wild on world tour!

For a while, all seemed orderly. Curious George, the Age of Conversation mascot, was making the rounds on his world tour – when suddenly, he broke free of his restraints and began to exert his curious nature!
First, it was all the partying and bar-hopping with the NYC crowd. OK, you let a monkey out of [...]

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The saddest post you’ll read today

A blogging soldier has been killed in Iraq. He left one final post, to be published in the event of his death.
It’s gut-wrenching. I’ll just link to it without further comment.

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Lights, Camera…Interaction!

How valuable is our growing blogging network?
Well, here’s an example from the recent holidays. My oldest son is very interested in a career in film production/direction, and I’ve begun to reach into my network of contacts to try to find guidance and advice (Nate was in a “magnet” high school with an emphasis on Performing [...]

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Counter-culture Marketing

There’s always a market for going against the tide. Look no further than the surprising political candidacy of Ron Paul, maverick Republican/Libertarian running for U.S. President.

(Disclaimer: this is not a political post per se, but a marketing post that touches on a political phenomenon. For my part, I actually haven’t decided who I’d vote for [...]

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One more quarter..

…before the big Blogger Social in NYC. Yep, just 3 months away, and Drew and CK and others (esp. Mark Goren, with the cool video) continue the great promotion.

Hope you can show up and join us!

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