Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Try to wait until after work to hit the green beer…

• Despite Recession, More Than 50% of Marketers Increase Spending on Social Media (ReadWriteWeb)
• ComScore: Mobile Internet Usage Doubled in 2008 (ReadWriteWeb)
• WeFollow: A Top Twitters List (ReadWriteWeb)
• Socialmedian Makes It Easy For You To Spread Social News On Facebook (TechCrunch)
• How To Make Money From iPhone Games (GigaOM)
• Getting Things Done with Gmail Tasks (Web Worker Daily)
• Beyond Aggregation — Finding the Web’s Best Content at SXSW (Fast Wonder)
• Is There a Reverse Network Effect with Scale? (ReadWriteWeb)
• Google Introduces Google Ad Manager Consultants Certification and Services (Ad Ops Online)
• TweetDeck Joins The Facebook Connect Army (TechCrunch)
• Most Americans Still Not Using The Mobile Web (Silicon Alley Insider)
• Facebook Pages Get More Business Friendly (Duct Tape Marketing)
• “A fabulous example of how not to cold e-mail people” (Opinionated Marketers)

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Hope you had a nice weekend and didn’t do too much pre-St. Patrick’s Day partying….

• Twitter Trends and Tracking Tools (Book Marketing)
• Firefox Extension Search Cloudlet Brings Integrated Tag-Based Search To Twitter (TechCrunch)
• Can Optimizing My 404 Error Page Make Me Money? (Web Analytics World)
• 5 Reasons I No Longer Hate Twitter (Traffikd)
• Facebook’s New Public Profiles: Good for Businesses, Bad for People (ReadWriteWeb)
• Hey Marketers, Stop Being Control Freaks (Silicon Alley Insider)
• Twenty Years Later, The Web Is Finally Turning Into a Computer (TechCrunch)

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Yesterday wasn’t a very good day… but today is Friday the 13th — good luck or bad?

• “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?” (Danah Boyd)
• Strength Building without Fear (Blue Wave Media)
• 5 Writing Tips for Web Designers (Web Designer Wall)
• Top 10 things New People to Twitter Should Know (Marc Warnke)
• Consumers to Troubled Companies: Stop Sponsoring Sports (Marketing Charts)
• 5 Ways to Amp Up the Personal in Your Brand (Duct Tape Marketing)
• Pivots for change (Seth Godin)
• The Semantic Web: A Treasure Trove for Marketers (ReadWriteWeb)
• How to Blog for a Global Audience (ProBlogger)
• Is A Picture Worth 140 Characters? (The Bivings Report)

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It’s snowing! argh!!!!

• Why the kids don’t use Twitter (and other insights on online community) (Online Journalism Blog)
• “Social Media is Here to Stay… Now What?” (Danah Boyd – speech from post above)
• 7 Ways to Have Character (and Show It) on LinkedIn (Duct Tape Marketing)
• It’s remarkable (Jim’s Marketing Blog)
• Just Ask for It (Chris Brogan)
• It Is Truly a Planet Facebook (GigaOM)
• Zappos and Magnify Join Forces to Combine The Thrill Of Retail Therapy With Web 2.0 Video (TechCrunch)
• Google Now Lets You Target Ads At Yourself (TechCrunch)
• You don’t deserve to use web 2.0, and that’s okay (Josh Klein Web Strategy)
• Tell People What You Want Them to Do for You (DoshDosh)

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Brrr cold and windy Wednesday.  Stay warm!

• The difference between PR and publicity (Seth Godin)
• The top 7 mistakes new Twitter users make (10,000 words)
• What to Do if Your Startup Is Failing (Business Week)
• Twitter Can Help Your Online Business (Practical eCommerce)
• How to: Work on Stuff That Matters (ReadWriteWeb)
• An Upgrade for the Web (MIT Tech Review)
• “Search Is A Pencil” (John Battelle’s Searchblog)
• Finding the Right “Brand Voice” on Twitter (Mashable)
• Getting Started Guide from Google Analytics (Web Analytics World)
• Top 10 Internet-Advertising Websites – February 2009 (Marketing Charts)
• Adjix Announces New Way to Advertise within Twitter “Tweets” (Ad Ops Online)
• Aggregation of Marginal Gains: Recession Busting Analytics! (Occam’s Razor by Avinash Kaushik)
• The Guardian launches open API for all content – but they still control the ads (TechCrunch)
• Are Blogs Losing Their Authority To The Statusphere? (TechCrunch)
• Strategic Partnering: Turning Suppliers Into Partners (Duct Tape Marketing)

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I’ve been writing over at Practical eCommerce again with our monthly social media feature.  This month – Twitter Can Help Your Online Business.  Hope you find it interesting and helpful!

Most people shop online for convenience rather than customer service. And while inroads have been made into providing better customer service online, the personal aspect is often still missing.

Enter Twitter, a social networking and micro-blogging tool that allows you to send 140 character updates to whoever is following your profile and to the public Twitter stream. Although 140 characters may not seem like enough for meaningful information, you’d be surprised by how much you can fit into such little space. But, it’s the ability to have conversations with customers that makes Twitter extremely valuable to any ecommerce site. – Twitter Can Help Your Online Business – Practical eCommerce

You can find the other articles I wrote for Practical eCommerce here.

Bit ugly here in Michigan, but, as we like to say, at least it’s not snow!

• Things not to do when you’re naming your new product (The Opinionated Marketers)
• The Three D’s of Being More Referable (Duct Tape Marketing)
• Twitter Has A Big Month, Grows To Over 8 Million U.S. Users (Social Times)
• What does one TRILLION dollars look like? (Zee Slash Blog)
• Why You Shouldn’t Trust Social Media To An SEO Consultant (Social Media Explorer)
• StatCounter Launches GlobalStats (Web Analytics World)
• Banners Go Bust?: New Razorfish Report Finds Social Media Ad Spend Flattening (FEED)
• Google’s Revenue Weakens Markedly Over Past Month (GOOG) (Silicon Alley Insider)
• Sending the Wrong Message (Chris Brogan)
• The Essence of the Inbound Referral (Duct Tape Marketing)
• Return on Design (Seth Godin)
• The Great Restructuring (Buzz Machine)
• The value of each viewer/user/customer is NOT THE SAME! (Gary Vaynerchuk)
• Social Networking Now More Popular Than Email, Report Finds (ReadWriteWeb)
• New Opportunities and Tools for Startups Seeking Funding (Social Times)
• Do We Really Need to Optimize Our Sites for Mobile Phones? (Daily Blog Tips)

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