Google to Hold Live Webmaster Chat

Info off of Search Engine Land:
The Google Webmaster Central blog announced the first new live chat event in over a year. This event is named the “Holiday Webmaster Webinar” and takes place a week from Friday, November 13th at 10:00 am, Pacific Standard Time (GMT -08:00, San Francisco). Again, this is the first one since [...]

Online Marketing Best Practices from the Obama Campaign

M+R Strategic Services just released a report outlining the strategies and best practices from the Obama new media campaign and how those practices should be applied to nonprofits and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. It’s a great read. Here’s the lead in paragraph:
The best news for nonprofits? The most successful new media strategies for [...]

Slides from Social Media Presentation at AMA DC

I had a great time on a panel yesterday about social media organized by the DC Chapter of the American Marketing Association. I pulled together slides of useful online marketing tools and wanted to share them here. It was tons of fun getting folks excited about social media and web measurement.

Speaking at American Marketing Association Panel on Social Media

I’m on an AMA panel this week about social media. The panel is unbelievably diverse, so it should be an interesting conversation and lunch is served!
Here’s the info:
What do a university medical center, a woodworking tools manufacturer, and an environmental nonprofit organization have in common? They’re all using social media to great effect…and they’re all [...]

PPC influencing your SEO work?

Had to share an interesting article about how Google’s new ability to crawl javascript is resulting in unintended consequences.

Using News to drive SEO & traffic

Stumbled onto a great webinar I wanted to share: http://www.slideshare.net/toprank/using-online-news-to-drive-seo
It has some great tips about items that should be in your online newsroom.

Social Media and Local Search Training for Leadership Alexandria

I had a great time this morning leading a training session for Leadership Alexandria’s alumnus related to online marketing, local search and social media for non-profits and businesses.
Here’s the online marketing presentation from today’s training.

Search Marketers that like to Rap

I’ve noticed a trend of search folks who like to rap and figured I would start a collection. Let me know if you find other funny/dorky SEM raps.
GAAC Rap
Here’s Paul Chastain from Just1 a Google Analytics Authorized Consulting company out of Idaho.

And of course the PPC Rap song from PopLabs
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How we scan search results

It’s mornings like this that I feel 100% connected to my Hampshire College undergrad education. Back in 1994, the “build a website class” on my schedule was in the same department as the cognitive science folks who were focused on how the brain understands and comprehends the world around it.
I think doing online marketing without [...]

Salvation Army’s Online Marketing Efforts – Innovative, but not strategic

So I’m impressed by the creativity of the Salvation Army of Chicago’s marketing efforts. You can see their YouTube vide where they have Chicagoans helping them play a Christmas carol using the SA bells, and their online donation kettle.
They get a gold star for innovation, but no stars for effectiveness. Why? They did not develop [...]