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Sarah Worsham / Feb 24, 2009

Morning Edition – Feb 24, 2009

Happy Paczkis Day! Happy Mardi Gras! Have a little fun today!

Startups in 13 Sentences (Paul Graham)
How To Take Your Blog to the Next Level… Once You’ve Got a Start (ProBlogger)
The Hall of Shame (Slideshow) (The Business Insider)
Ogilvy On Social Media: “Totally Baffled” Says Biographer (Social Media Explorer)
Need Content? Your Community Are Your Best Writers (Caffeinated Blog)
Image-Based Online Ad Impressions by Industry – January 2009 (Marketing Charts)
Is marketing evil? (Seth Godin)
Android vs. iPhone: Why Openness May Not Be Best (GigaOm)
Boomers Adopt Social Technologies: How Marketers Should Respond (Forrester Blog)
10 Tips for Blogging Your Way to Small Business Success (ProBlogger)
Embracing an Iterative Approach to Site Development (the Bivings Report)
New research: B2B buyers have very high social participation (Groundswell)
How To Get Started Making iPhone Apps (AAPL) (Silicon Alley Insider)
Build Upon Your Strengths as a Blogger (ProBlogger)
Free Social Media Buttons For Your Blog (Performancing)
Six Key Tactics for Organic Success (Search Engine Guide)

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Sarah Worsham / Feb 23, 2009

Ask Sazbean – What's a Pingback?

fleur120 Sandra from Brighton (MI), asks:

Can you explain what a pingback is?

A pingback is when another blog links to an article on your blog and their blogging software automatically notifies your blogging software of the link (also works with websites). Usually blogging software will then put a link on your article with a link to the page linking to it. Sounds a bit confusing, but it just lets you and your readers know who has linked to a particular article and posts a link to it so anyone can go see what was said.

Since part of blogging is having a conversation, pingbacks make it possible to know when someone may be saying something about what you’ve said. Reversely, if you comment on someone else’s articles, they’ll know about it. It’s also a way to get some extra traffic to your blog – readers often follow links to get more information on a particular subject.

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Sarah Worsham / Feb 23, 2009

Morning Edition – Feb 23, 2009

Monday morning links, made especially just for you:

A Secret to Writing Posts that Go Viral on Twitter (ProBlogger)
28 Days to Improved Results with Social Media: Week Four (Traffikd)
Key Advertising Groups Committed to Strong Industry Self-Regulation and the Development of Privacy Guidelines for Online Behavioral Advertising Data Use and Collection (Ad Operations)
How to Get Retweeted (OPEN Forum)
Adding Social Features to Your Web Site (Duct Tape Marketing)
Top 5 Lies That Marketing Tells Sales (BNET)
Best practices against hacking (Google Webmaster Blog)
Email Increases Likelihood to Buy by 50% (Marketing Charts)
How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media (ReadWriteWeb)
10 Writing Tips for Web Designers (Web Designer Depot)
It’s so much more fun this way (Opinionated Marketers)
Social Media to Go: Outfitting Your Mobile Toolbox (Social Media Explorer)
The Top 21 Twitter Clients (According To TwitStat) (TechCrunch)
4 Top Tools for Visualizing Search Results (WebWorkerDaily)
How to get word of mouth working for you (Jim’s Marketing Blog)
Top 13 Funny Software Development Quotes (Paul Tiseo’s Livin’ La Vida CIO)

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