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Oct 09

Link roundup: read & recommended between September 22nd and October 22nd

Added to my Delicious bookmarks between September 22nd through October 22nd:

  • 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
  • 5 Winning Post Ideas for Your Small Business Blog : Technology : Idea Hub :: American Express OPEN Forum – Keeping content fresh is one of the most important things you can do on your small business blog. Consistently putting out quality posts accomplishes two important goals: it turns visitors into repeat visitors and it creates a community around your content. Further, good content builds on itself over time and will slowly increase your blog's traffic as it becomes more discoverable in search engines. However, blogging regularly isn’t easy, and while it's true that almost anything can be turned into a blog post, generating ideas for fresh, original, high quality content is difficult, especially for those new to blogging.

    In this post we'll take a look at five different types of posts that you can use on your business blog. We'll talk about what these posts look like, explore why each variety of post works especially well for business blogs, and look at examples of each type of post from actual blogs around the web.

  • Working Less Means Working Better, Says Study – Productivity – Lifehacker – It's no surprise that cutting back on work and taking regular breaks is beneficial for workers, but a four-year study from the Harvard Business School found that less work also benefits workers—and workplace productivity—in less obvious ways.
  • The Beginner's Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog – Blogs – Lifehacker – Nice overview for Wordpress newbies
  • HOW TO: Set Up a Winning Facebook Fan Page – Nice, simple overview of how to set up a Facebook Fan Page
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Sep 09

Link roundup: read & recommended between September 16th and September 21st

Added to my Delicious bookmarks between September 16th through September 21st:

  • Foursquare Beats Twitter to Local Advertising Goldmine – Foursquare, however, isn’t wasting any time on monetizing and has just beat Twitter to the business services market. Today marks the launch of their beta advertising platform — Foursquare for Businesses — designed to provide retailers with an opportunity to highlight specials to Foursquare users who check-in nearby and get data based on the location-based campaigns.
  • Online Database of Social Media Policies – Database of 82 corporate social media policies
  • WordPress Super Cache – WP Super Cache is a static caching plugin for WordPress. It generates html files that are served directly by Apache without processing comparatively heavy PHP scripts. By using this plugin you will speed up your WordPress blog significantly.
  • Newspapers get the kind of communities they deserve » Nieman Journalism Lab – "… what seems to escape many journalists is the direct connection between their own indifference to interacting with readers and the parlous state of their comments. If my research has taught me anything — not to mention writing columns and a blog for 15 years — it is that the surest way to improve the tone of the debate in forums or comments is to get involved in them. Writers who do, both at the Globe and elsewhere, uniformly say it has a significant effect on the civility of the comments they receive afterwards.
  • Alvenda Lets Consumers Shop From Their Facebook Pages – Advertising Age – Digital – A hypothetical example of how it works: You create a gift registry on Target.com or Macys.com, and by hitting a button you can share your registry with all your friends on Facebook. They'll see the notification in their newsfeed — "Karen has shared her gift registry" — and, without leaving the newsfeed, Karen's friends can purchase off the registry. Users could also compile wish lists on retailer sites (or e-commerce-enabled brand pages) that they share with their Facebook newsfeed. Their friends will then have the option to pool their money to purchase items from that wishlist together.
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Sep 09

Link roundup: read & recommended between September 4th and September 9th

Added to my Delicious bookmarks between September 4th through September 9th:

  • Tuesday Tops for Brands on Facebook – MarketingVOX – Click-throughs for Facebook brand pages average about 6.76% — still much higher than the click-through rates for display advertising across social networks in general, including Facebook itself.
  • 21 Great Plugins to Manage Multi-Author Blogs Efficiently – Multi-Author Blogs are a popular trend that is spreading rapidly in the blogging industry. It is getting hard to keep up with the fresh content for one man bloggers therefore more and more blogs are now seeking for guest authors, co-authors, and multi-authors. This is not only a great way to expand your blog’s content, but it is a great way to attract different type of audiences.
  • Must See SEO Guide for All WordPress Bloggers – SEO for WordPress blogs is more focused on the technical infrastructure of your site, and your ability to write creative articles that are noteworthy for others to read and link to. This SEO guide should be your reference point for all WordPress blogs because in here we will mention some of the tips that has been proven to work. These techniques does not require heavy investment except for few bits of your time.
  • How to reach young consumers using the mobile channel | mobiThinking – What needs to happen to make mobile a viable channel to reach the youth segment – i.e. teens, students, school leavers, graduates? What follows is a summary of the responses received back from experts around the world. These fall neatly into two categories:
    A) Five things you should know about mobile and youth
    B) Eight tips for successful engagement with young people via mobile
  • In These Ads, Customers Are The Celebrities – Forbes.com – Big brands forgoing celebrity endorsements in favour of featuring real customers during recession.