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Daily Digest 11/19/2008

11 Ways to Use Twitter to Help Your Site Go Viral Twitter is one of the most satisfying ways to spread your website or idea. In addition to referrals, you can also gain loyal users, expert opinions, and possibly friends. It’s unlike any other medium in its ability to propagate interesting things. Word of mouth has read more..

Amazon CloudFront - A Conted Delivery Network

Two months ago I wrote about Amazon’s plans for launching a Content Delivery Network (What’s a Content Delivery Network?). Today, Amazon announced CloudFront - “a service designed with ease of use in mind from the very beginning.” So what does this CDN have to offer? “Today marks the launch of Amazon CloudFront, the new Amazon Web Service read more..

Google Mobile App for iPhone

Wow. The new Google Mobile App for iPhone makes it possible for you to do a Google web search using only your voice. Just hold the phone to your ear, wait for the beep, and say what you’re looking for. That’s it. Just talk. Once the App is on, you don’t have to push any buttons read more..

Daily Digest 11/18/2008

Joe The Plumber’s Landing Page But one problem nags at me. Local merchants like “Joe The Plumber” usually don’t have a web presence and many don’t really even want one. But if you are going to buy cpc advertising, then you’ll need a place for the clicks to go. The local ad agencies and local oriented read more..

Analytics Tips To Get To Know Your Website

Web analytics information is KEY to analyzing, developing, and measuring an effective web strategy. There is NO EXCUSE to not be tracking analytics on your website because one of the best and most powerful solutions is free from Google in Google Analytics. Installing analytics software is just the first step. Knowing what the data gathered means read more..

Blogging With ScribeFire

Ever since I started blogging again after my hiatus, ScribeFire has been my tool of choice. It’s a Firefox plugin with a hugely powerful blogging application inside. I can say that it has helped me become a much more efficient blogger and it allows me to quickly write posts. It has all the features you read more..

Building Community

I have many more posts coming about building communities and how to culture hyperlocal projects. Creating and fostering community is not only a cornerstone of an effective web strategy for business, it’s a vehicle for revolutionizing media and building social connections. More on these thoughts later, but for now I want to share a couple read more..

20 Things Des Monies Needs Right Now - Friday Video

This week’s Friday Video is Nathan Wright’s presentation from last week’s Ignite Des Moines. courtesy Andrew Roger with RockIowa November 14, 2008 — Building Community November 11, 2008 — Ignite Des Moines Video November 7, 2008 — Ignite Des Moines 2008 HUGE Success August 29, 2008 — Twittad Launched This Week - Monetizing Twitter August 5, 2008 read more..

Daily Digest 11/14/2008

RSS to Email: 3 Tips To Get You Started Now that the idea that RSS and email can and should coexist has taken hold, what can bloggers learn from the email marketing world and use to make RSS to email (even more) worth their while? tags: getanewbrowser, email marketing, internet marketing, aweber, web strategy Official Google Webmaster Central read more..

Twitter Squatting

So Twitter Squatting is getting huge… Is your brand in trouble? If you are familiar with the web you have probably heard of domain squatting - which is where “squatters” buy domains in hopes of selling them to the respective brand at a later time. This is a HUGE industry. Well, these squatters are moving to Twitter. read more..