Socl.com, a domain name recently purchased by Microsoft, briefly posted a landing page for a service called Tulalip. While it’s now been taken down, Tulalip seems intended as a social search feature from Microsoft

Today’s Google Doodle is written in pea pod shells to mark the work of Gregor Mendel, a monk, who is considered to be the father of Genetics. Mendel studied the inheritance patterns in pea plants, which were fast growing, to define traits of the…

Last month Google warned WordPress site owners of out-of-date versions of their content management software as a preventitive strike to getting hacked. Starting Monday, Google began warning people who have a specific piece of malware that uses pro…

The role of the online community manager (CM) was born out of the need for brands to connect with relevant people in a meaningful way.

The role of the online community manager (CM) was born out of the need for brands to connect with relevant people in a meaningful way.

This is the second of my “workation” blog posts this week, so I hope you enjoy the brevity.

This is the second of my “workation” blog posts this week, so I hope you enjoy the brevity. My oldest son is a relatively new fan of skateboarding and I’ve noticed some interesting comparisons with his advancement of skills to the experience of many social media marketers – or any new discipline for that matter. To be clear, I don’t know much about skateboarding beyond the games of suicide and smear we played as kids, skateboarding down the hill by my childhood home

Yesterday morning, James Breckenridge discovered a huge bug in Google Webmaster Tools that technically gave anyone the ability to remove any site from Google’s index. I held off on reporting it here and on Search Engine Land until I know Google fixed the issue…

Last month, we discussed how display media has evolved to be more quantitative in Why Search Marketers Are The Future Media Planners, and ironically, how the skillset held by search marketers has become more relevant to display media than the skill set held by current media planners. Using the…

Every day you are given the gift of time (OK, so there is never enough of it, I hear ya, but all you can do is make the most out of what you do have).  So what are you going to do during that time? There are so many demands on your time, your To Do list is growing rapidly and there is always a fire to put out.  Again, I hear ya.  BUT what happens is you become too reactive and not proactive enough.  We all spend so much time reacting to things, we never get to being proactive about the important things – the things that will help grow a business. So let’s set aside some time each day and let’s pick 3 things that will help grow our businesses