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The Art Of Content Marketing @smashingmag

Content marketing used to be about customer magazines and mailed newsletters.

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Fantastic! Facebook Goes Public. What now? fr. @tyturnbull and @damienlc

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Primer on The Online Ad Industry through the Stock Market lens. @adotas and graphic fm. @pretarget

And today’s methods, according to the infographic, mirror the way the stock market works: In each, there’s a buyer, a seller, an adviser, a facilitator, the trading technology and a marketplace.

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Data Analysis 101: Seven Simple Mistakes That Limit Your Salary @avinash

Data analysis is not easy. It takes years to get good at it, and once you get good at it you realize how much more there is to learn. That is part of the joy. You are always learning. You are always growing.

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Reviewing The Brand Marketer’s Digital Strategy @adexchanger

Now, the online ad industry - from the buyer and the seller's point of view - went to Boy Scout camp. We tied ropes and knots and we made them look like a noose and we hung around our necks and attached them to the rafters. Thus clicks became the dominant thing and we hung ourselves on them.

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Innovation is About Execution, Despite the Myths @martinzwilling via @smartbrief

Most people think innovation is all about ideas, when in fact it is more about delivery, people, and process.

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'Engagement': Fashionable Yet Bankrupt @mweigel

It really is time to call bullshit on ‘engagement’.

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'Engagement': Fashionable Yet Bankrupt @mweigel

It really is time to call bullshit on ‘engagement’.

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Infographic: Media Consumption Across Generations | Euro RSCG

Magid Generational Studies, using data compiled by Advertising Age, has released an infographic breaking down media consumption by hour of day and generation.

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A great primer on UX and business implications from @smashingmag

A great user experience is the result of setting concrete goals that meet both user goals and business goals. Unfortunately, I have seen many teams kick off a project with nothing more than a goal of, “Let’s create a great UX!” While a noble thing to strive for, it’s not specific, actionable or measurable. It contributes nothing to the planning or design phases, and it is the UX equivalent of a motivational high-five.

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The Difference Between Content Marketing and Custom Content @aboer for @adotas

So, then what do you see as the difference between content marketing and custom content?

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It's the little things! New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms @smashingmag

These experiences are not just frustrating for us, but are bad for businesses as well. How bad? User Interface Engineering’s analysis of a major online retailer found that 45% of all customers had multiple registrations in the system, 160,000 people requested their password every day, and 75% of these people never completed the purchase they started once they requested their password.

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Three reasons why email still rules the Internet | Henrik Werdelin

Email is, besides all its flaws, still the cornerstone of the Internet.

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Future of Mobile Tagging fr @psfk thx @daveknox - for the next time someone brings up the "mobile strategy".

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The art of childraising, cognitive neurosciences and business. @openforum

Are there lessons you can apply from brain development to the lifecycle of a company?

A: I am not sure about the lifecycle of a company, but certainly for the environment in which the company’s lifecycle takes place.

I am often asked to speak to business audiences on the potential of applying findings from the cognitive neurosciences to business practice, something about which I am very skeptical. I usually say three things to explain my skepticism:

 

a) We don’t know enough about how the brain works to apply anything to business practice. We don’t know in real terms how your brain knows how to pick up a glass of water and drink it. Let alone be prescriptive about how business should work.

 

b) That doesn’t mean we are clueless about brain functioning. We know a lot about the brain’s performance envelope, for example. The brain appears to have been designed to solve problems related to surviving in an outdoor setting—in unstable meteorological conditions—and to do so in near constant motion.

 

c) So, even though we don’t enough to be prescriptive about how companies should run their business, we do know this: if you wanted to design a business environment that was directly opposed to what the brain is naturally good at doing, you would design a cubicle. And you would place it in a building with very few windows surrounded by people who were constantly gunning for your job.

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Behind the Scenes: What it Takes to Redesign a Website. Hard damn work, and not for your cousin's brother-in-law.

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Questions on Social Media terms. Good place to bookmark. @smacorg

Learn to talk SMAC

Every trade needs a standard vocabulary to refer to its environment, users, actions, products and results. Surprise, social media didn’t have one! So we took the bull by the horns, collected over 200 terms that we’d seen or used, and then edited, sorted and defined the list. The result is documented here, on the SMAC Wiki. As our industry grows, we will continually review and add those terms that reach a critical mass of usage.

We invite you to be part of the process! Learn to use these terms properly; share them with your colleagues; and by all means, give us feedback. The SMAC Standards Board reviews all submissions and publishes approved terms with proper credit.

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Behind the scenes – The Great Piggy Bank Adventure @northkingdom. Games ain't easy.

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Scotland Trailblazes the Use of HMTL5 in Museums. Beauty! @rww

The National Museums of Scotland have become the first major museum organization in the world to fully implement HMTL5.

Museum digital media tech manager Simon Madine explained in a blog post that the implementation across the five allied sites was married to an overall redesign. That redesign saw the site gain color and shoulder-room and emphasize more visuals. But the implementation of HTML5 is more revolutionary. It allows a greater level of search engine accessibility, easier rendering across browsers and overall makes it easier to elegantly add and change site content.

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The Social Stack: In 15 Classes @jowyang -- > if you use the term social media, know how deep it is.

[The social software space has ballooned into a disparate set of technologies, data types, and over 1000 vendors confusing buyers. Despite the explosion of innovation, expect a 'Social Business Suite' to appear that consolidate many of these features for enterprise buyers]

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Google’s Prediction for Online Ads thx @marksilva

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PBS KIDS: Educational Games, Videos and Activities For Kids!

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Memo to CMO "It's Over". fr. Walter Sabo @mediabizbloggers

he result of spreadsheet based media plans is that BILLIONS of dollars are wasted in depreciating properties. Every quarter, viewership and readership is going down at predictable rates. Current media planning enforces the waste of money on media that goes down in value every day because it reaches fewer potential customers.

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Roll your own Twitter sentiment analysis.@zambonini

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Awe inspiring in many ways. DARK SIDE OF THE LENS @thisistheorder thx @simonmainwaring

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11 Principles of Interaction Design explained

1. Match Experience & Expectations

When using a product or service for the first time there is likely to be an element of learning needed to get to grips with it. This learning curve can often be an uncomfortable experience especially if the proposition doesn’t feel familiar.

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Impact of Digital Revolution on Ad Agencies @saneel --> can't miss

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The Myth of the Crafted Brand. @passitalong

What Tony is saying is that crafting our communications is no longer THE solution.

Your culture is now an indicator that will impact your brand.

And to provide amazing service, you require an amazing culture.

No big deal.  Until the introduction of digital into our everyday lives.

Everyone is exposed.  Our actions.  The actions of our employees.

The actions of our customers.

This belies a shift far greater than the movement of funds from TV to Search Advertising.

Our audience is looking past the carefully worded telephone scripts and customer service training.

Our audience is starting to see inside the walls.

The skeletons are being revealed.

How long before Wikileaks is reporting on everyday brands?

The answer to this one is easy.  They already are.

And yet we expect that our company cultures will stay hidden?

Fat chance.

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Google and the Search for the Future @wsj Oh come on with your Neal Stephenson Snow Crash stuff Mr. Schmidt.

Let's say you're walking down the street. Because of the info Google has collected about you, "we know roughly who you are, roughly what you care about, roughly who your friends are." Google also knows, to within a foot, where you are. Mr. Schmidt leaves it to a listener to imagine the possibilities: If you need milk and there's a place nearby to get milk, Google will remind you to get milk. It will tell you a store ahead has a collection of horse-racing posters, that a 19th-century murder you've been reading about took place on the next block.

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Why Social Media Projects Fail?! – A European Perspective thx @daveknox

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Publishers: The Best Way To Monetize Data Is By Selling It. Simple, no? Guess you've got to collect it first.

The market displays this phenomenon right now.... here’s an example:

• A run of network campaign sells for 6 shekels
• That same campaign combined with declared (not inferred) age and gender data sells for 9 shekels

There’s a 3 shekel upcharge for leveraging the demographic data.

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Facebook is run by Hackers. Reflecting on 3 years there. thx @cherkott

Facebook is run by Hackers

A month after joining, I asked another engineer when the next Hackathon would be, and he said “Whenever someone wants to organize it.” I went to my desk and emailed the company that I was going to hack the following night and, if anyone else wanted to join me, I would get food and drinks. The following night, we had a jam-packed Hackathon that generated lots of innovative projects and ideas. Zuck came to my desk the next day and told me how awesome the Hackathon had been, and it totally reconfirmed to me that I made the right decision to join Facebook.

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Flying Blind vs Flying With Instruments. @fredwilson

I suggested they only invest in advertising and marketing that they could test, measure, and then scale what works. And that is Internet advertising. Not just search, but the whole ball of wax. Search, display, video, social, affiliate, and of course, audio.

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Media’s Roles Beyond Planning & Buying. Using performance, search and social as a core for planning. Yup. @bbhlabs

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Jonah Peretti's Viral Media Presentation.

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Enron CDN PowerPoint circa 1999. thx @alleyinsider

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In the era of big data - 18 questions to get started. Then, let's talk. @marthabush

It’s the Data, Stupid.

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Web content strategy. Few quibbles, but beautiful visual. @richardjingram thx @halvorson

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End of 'digital' road. What if you banned the words digital, social, mobile, POS, PR, etc. thx @asi_sharabi

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The iPad & Mobile - brewing storm on device/product optimization. @minethatdata

I have no idea how all of this will turn out. I can only see, from my experiences, that I've changed ... and I've had the device for a week. What happens when 40 million households have a similar and far more affordable device?

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Why Print Advertising Isn't Working - applicable to lots more than just print. @pwsawyer for @adage

What is wrong with print ads?

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How to Give Time Back to Your Team - Ron Ashkenas @harvardbiz

Do you ever feel that too much of your day is spent on low-value activities that perhaps need to get done, but certainly don't require your level of experience or training?

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Marketing incentives and valuing of agency work. @noahbrier

The sellers price, in a perfect market, would reflect the potential quality of the product (piece of communication) they can deliver against the buyers objective. This leads to two major issues. First, there is no real way for agencies (or the marketers that pay them) to understand the effectiveness of their own campaigns, which leads directly to the second problem, that opacity in effectiveness creates a pretty serious market inefficiency: One side having a whole lot more information than the other (which leads to exploitation).

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Agile marketing. Yes!

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Enterprise Value and Market Value. Who knew that OpenTable had a $1.2B market cap? @fredwilson

Let's use Open Table, a recent public company as our real world example in this post. Open Table (ticker OPEN) closed on Friday at $48.19 and has a "market value" of $1.1bn according to this page on Tracked.com. According to Google Finance, Open Table has 22.77 million shares outstanding. So to check the market value calculation on Tracked.com, let's multiply the market price of $48.19 by the shares outstanding of 22.75 million. My desktop calculator tells me that is $1.096 billion.

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The Changing Role Of Media Planner @mattgreitzer for @adexchanger

The Media Strategist would call upon three distinct teams of specialists to execute their strategy: one team for integrated sponsorships, one for social media, and one for biddable, “algorithmic” media.  The first would be dedicated to high-end, custom sponsorships and strategic partnerships with key publishers.  The second, focused on using social media for customer acquisition, retention, and customer feedback.  And the third focused on the integration of technology, data and expertise to drive efficiency, targeted reach and reach extension through automated, biddable media.  Each of these teams would have deep category expertise in their field, and would be called upon to greater or lesser extent depending on their relevance for a given client’s needs.  The role of the Media Strategist as orchestrator of these three disciplines would be central to any digital marketing agency and core to their business.  While the three tactical arms of integrated sponsorships, social media and algorithmic media could either be built and maintained in-house, or outsourced to specialists.  Large agencies would likely build these tactical arms in-house, while small and mid-sized agencies would choose to outsource and focus on building their core strategic expertise.

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Yahoo research on needs and activities online. Nicely illustrated.

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How many of these shifts is your organization embracing? @mck_biztech

The rapidly shifting technology environment raises serious questions for executives about how to help their companies capitalize on the transformation under way. Exploiting these trends typically doesn’t fall to any one executive—and as change accelerates, the odds of missing a beat rise significantly. For senior executives, therefore, merely understanding the ten trends outlined here isn’t enough. They also need to think strategically about how to adapt management and organizational structures to meet these new demands.

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Spreadability - the age of memetic engineering is upon us. A Site That Went Viral and The Numbers Behind It. @vedrashko

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Bloody brilliant - Radiohead cover The Smiths 'The Headmaster Ritual' (via @thaz7)

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