Yahoo recently partnered with Twitter. According to an article at Mashable, “Yahoo will have full access to the Twitter data firehose, so you can expect real-time updates in Yahoo Search, among other integrations. It will use tweets to improve relevancy, freshness and search results, as well as ‘drive deeper user engagement.’” The deal will focus on three main areas:

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I presented at the American Strategic Management Institute’s Online Engagement Marketing event. The presentations at the event were choc-full of information about online engagement initiatives. A lot of topics were covered by various speakers in a short amount of time.
The various methods to analyzing and integrating online initiatives were definitely a lot to absorb. Since the event took place …

In October 2009, I was asked to give a presentation about marketing a business with Twitter. The event was held by the Society for Human Resource Management in Indianapolis (SHRM) (@IndySHRM). The presentation was built with the intention that the audience had no prior knowledge of the service.
Of course, there were some in attendance who had prior knowledge of …

“Living Statistics – Many of us who have been following social media since the early 90s are very sensitive to today’s exponential growth in usage of the sharing web. Inspired by other cool real time counters, The Goddess of Social Media Laurel Papworth, my own Rise & Rise of Social Media presentations and various ‘cool’ videos (you know the ones) …

Is social media a fad? Or is it the biggest shift since the industrial revolution? Welcome to the revolution.
This article is a textual representation of “Social Media Revolution” by Socialnomics.
By 2010, Gen Y will outnumber baby boomers. 96% of them have joined a social network. Social media has overtaken porn as the #1 activity on the Web. 1 out …

Last week, I attended SIGGRAPH 2009 in New Orleans. Although attendance was low compared to previous years, it was a great show with a lot of great companies and people in attendance.
Pearson had some new titles debuting at the show. See the top products at the InformIT SIGGRAPH page. Save some cash by taking advantage of the discount that …

SIGGRAPH is quickly approaching. It takes place August third thru August seventh in New Orleans. This is the “highest quality, most timely educational experiences the community has to offer, presented by the most powerful and most engaging leaders in computer graphics and interactive techniques,” according to the SIGGRAPH Web site.
I am attending for Pearson, the parent company of Addison-Wesley, …

If you have been around me, or worked with me over the past few months, you’ll know that the cell phone I have been toting around was in need of an upgrade. It’s a topic that would infiltrate my mind whenever I thought about mobile technology or happened to drive by a retail cellular store.
I have always been the …