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Last week, Mark Burgess asked me to speak to his students at Rutgers University about content marketing trends and futures. An opportunity to shape young minds?! I’m in! I replied. If you would like the read-version of this post, it’s here. WARNING: I’m in the business of changing minds, and you may not like everything [...]

Yesterday, Rachel Thompson -aka Bad RedHead Media- invited me to her Spreecast to talk Triberr. I expected this to be just another interview, but Rachel -a long time Triberr member- asked some really, really burning questions that are on a lot of people’s minds. So I decided to publish it here for posterity. If you’re new [...]

At Conductor’s C3 conference last month we presented new research that gave attendees a view of how SEO is maturing in the organization (Why 2013 Will be the Year of the SEO).  We looked at factors like headcount, budget, where SEO sits in the organization, and more, and concluded that SEO is indeed rapidly maturing [...]

Tumblr is cool. It had the “retweet” function before Twitter. Tumblr calls it a ReBlog Comments travel with every instance of the ReBlogged post And, Tumblr has it’s own ecosystem of content creators and content consumers (readers and writers) So, I think Tumblr has the right idea. Here’s why: The ReBlog function establishes Tumblr as its own ecosystem independent of Google, [...]

Are you aware of the online reputation that you or your business have?  Do you keep tabs on all the web properties that people could find?  Weather you’re selling something, looking for a job or even looking for a date, you can be certain that you or your business will be ‘Googled’ – online reputation [...]

Two days ago, Instagram announced that they will be launching web profiles, accesible and viewable on your computer. For the uninitiated, Instagram was a strictly phone app, up until now. Within next week, all Instagrammers will have their own profile accesible via instagram.com/username All the other functions (like Follow, share, comment, etc) will also be available to web users. What Does It Mean? [...]

You want to make sure no one reads your blog post? Put the word “philosophy” in the title. So if you’re here, about to read this, thank you for being extraordinary. Also, I’m not too sure I have the linguistic skill-set necessary to fully convey what I would like to convey. But I’ll give it a go. So, anyways…what is [...]

Robert Moore, the Founder of Internet Media Labs, shares a systematic approach to growing your followers on Twitter. But it doesn’t end there. He also talks about how to take a casual encounter on Twitter and turn it into a real-life relationship. Check it. And if you’d like to bring the next TribeUp into your [...]