I often use photos that are licensed through creative commons for my blog and for presentations and I’ve often had people ask me about how to use creative commons and what it means. I thought I’d try to answer that and give a few resources for learning more and finding creative commons content.
Sep
30
2009
Ask Sazbean – What’s Creative Commons?
Sep
30
2009
Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 30, 2009
- Flickr Now Supports OpenStreetMap Tags (ReadWriteWeb)
- RIM Call Volume Rising; Falling Knife? [Voices] (All Things Digital)
- What if Twitter Had an App Store? Now It Does. (PR 2.0)
- Detroit Scuffle: Eminem’s Record Company Goes To Trial Against Apple (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Google and YouTube Now Serving 10 Billion Videos Per Month (Mashable)
- PREVIEW: Tweetie 2.0 for iPhone [Pics] (Mashable)
Sep
29
2009
Assigning Value to Actions
Pageviews, visits, unique visitors, followers, etc. are all great ways to measure success online, but what about actions that don’t lead directly to a conversion or lead (but probably will down the line)? How do you measure actions that may lead to something important later, but there’s not a direct connection online? Assigning a value to those actions may help…
Sep
29
2009
Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 29, 2009
- San Francisco Launches City App Store (Mashable)
- Ad Spend up 119% on Top Blog, SocNet Sites (Marketing Charts)
- How to Create Reader Profiles/Personas to Inspire and Inform Your Blogging (ProBlogger)
- RIM’s Secret Growth Plan For The BlackBerry (Silicon Alley Insider)
- STUDY: Time Spent on Social Networks Has Tripled (Mashable)
- Trendspotting: Rich Autocomplete in Site Search (Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog)
Sep
28
2009
Igniting Innovation at Ignite Lansing 2.0 #ignitelansing
Ignite Lansing didn’t involve any combustion, just some great ideas in a great venue. Ignite was originally started in Seattle, based off Pecha Kucha Nights. Speakers are given a stage and mic to talk about whatever topic they want. The catch? They only have 5 minutes and 15 slides. And the slides automatically advance every 20 seconds. Talk about a bit of pressure…
Sep
28
2009
Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 28, 2009
- Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure (Ars Technica)
- The Wisdom of the Crowds? (PR 2.0)
- Economic Growth Slows In U.S. Cities. Plus, Fewer Claims For Unemployment. (NPR Planet Money)
- Twitter Raising Massive, $100 Million Round At $1 Billion Valuation (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Great Blog Content vs. Search Engine Optimization (Web Worker Daily)
- When the lack of comments damages your news brand (Online Journalism Blog)
Sep
25
2009
FollowFriday for Blogs #followfriday #ff
FollowFriday is a twitter meme where people recommend people they think you should follow. The power of the followfriday recommendation has diluted somewhat with the practice of recommending a long list of people. A single (or few) recommendation with a reason is still useful. Anyway, I think there are a lot of good blogs out there, so in the spirit of followfriday, I’m going to recommend a few I like to read….
Sep
25
2009
Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 25, 2009
- Twitter Gets an Unofficial App Store [INVITES] (Mashable)
- Give Squidoo $400 a month. Or your brand gets it. (Econsultancy)
- MMS for iPhone Arrives on Friday (Mashable)
- Is Facebook Taking Over Southeast Asia? No Wonder Friendster Is Trying To Sell (All Facebook)
- The Dangers Of Google Sidewiki: Complete Brand Invasion (Legends of Aerocles)
- Americans Don’t Want To Bail Out Newspapers (Silicon Alley Insider)
Sep
24
2009
In Case You Missed My Twitter Interview with Gary Vaynerchuck @garyvee #crushitbook
I had the opportunity to interview Gary Vaynerchuck on Twitter this morning about his new book, Crush It! Why Now is the Time to Cash In On Your Passion. If you weren’t able to join us, here’s the twitterscipt:
Sep
24
2009
Internet Strategy, Marketing & Technology Links – Sept 24, 2009
- Google Can’t Handle iPhone Demand For Push Gmail (Silicon Alley Insider)
- Top 10 Site Genres by Image-Based Impressions – August 2009 (Marketing Charts)
- Report: The Future of RFID Smart Cards Looks Bright (ReadWriteWeb)
- Research reveals increasing use of online ad networks (Econsultancy)
- Squidoo Aims To Make Brands Pay For Dedicated Web Dashboards (TechCrunch)
- A Peek At The Future Of Search? (Social Media Explorer)
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