Thursday, March 27, 2014
CiteLighter - citation tool / browser extension
DJ Launches Lightwave To Provide Wearable, Real-Time Analytics For Events | TechCrunch
Lightwave, which provides actionable analytics for real-world events.
At the heart of the project is a wearable wristband that measures a number of different user interactions —movement, audio levels, and temperature —to provide live performers with real-time data about people in the audience.
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014
AddToAny.com - Share Buttons & Code (EXCELLENT List of Share/ Post to Sites)
Monday, March 17, 2014
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Policymap.com demo on YouTube video!
dditional Resources
Video demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57llGc5EBnY
Sample maps and publishable images: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11557/PolicyMap%20Images.zip
Fact sheet: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11557/The%20new%20policymap%20%20fact%20sheet_Final.docx
About PolicyMap
PolicyMap was established in 2007 as the data mapping and analysis division of The Reinvestment Fund (TRF), a national leader in the financing of neighborhood revitalization programs, founded in 1985. TRF has invested $1.3 billion in community development programs including affordable housing, schools, businesses, supermarkets and other projects that build wealth and opportunity for the people and places that need it the most. TRF partnered with 3D-L to create the technology that powers PolicyMap, leveraging an expertise in displaying geographic data as highly sophisticated and draggable maps in standard Web browsers. Learn more at www.policymap.com or on Twitter @PolicyMap.
PolicyMap Releases New Mapping Tool for the Masses | Business Wire
Includes basic mapping tools along with access to any publicly available data such as the U.S. Census, FBI, IRS, HHS and HDMA.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2014
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014
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Monday, March 10, 2014
HarvardX: GSE1x: Unlocking the Immunity to Change: A New Approach to Personal Improvement | edX
Do you have a personal improvement goal that has proven resistant to your sincerest intentions, smartest plans, and best efforts? Did you make a New Year's resolution for 2014? This course invites you to take part in a world-wide experiment to see if Kegan and Lahey's ground-breaking, award-winning approach can be deployed on-line to help tens of thousands of people make lasting changes at work or in their private lives. Via demonstrations, exercises, readings, experiments, small-group supports, and novel interactive tools, this course will teach you new psychological theory about personal change, but—more than this—it will engage you in applying that theory to yourself from the first class to the last. In 2011 Oprah Winfrey listed the Top Ten Things You Should Do to Start the New Year Right. Number One on the list was, "Try the Immunity-to-Change approach." Come, join us in this experiment!
Before your course starts, try the new edX Demo where you can explore the fun, interactive learning environment and virtual labs. Learn more.
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Step-By-Step Blueprint for Audiobook Cashflow! | The Net Results
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Case Study: How to Take a Small Niche Market and Turn it into a 6-Figure per year earner working just a few hours per week | The Net Results
Tanner Larsson
How Tanner took a 68 cent novelty item and sold it over and over again for $25 bucks (for a total of $9000 profit!) How he gets all the traffic he needs without affiliates. How he is adding 800 to 1000 new subscribers to our list per day.
Sunday, March 9, 2014
SumoMe apps to increase traffic
Twilighter - let site visitors highlight text & share via Twitter with a free simple script
Saturday, March 8, 2014
The Local SEO Checklist
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10 Uniquely Different Social Networks
1. Viddy - Capture Life in the Moment.
http://www.viddy.com/
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2. Medium.Com
Tell Your Story - e.g.
Are you competing with well funded competition with a zero dollar marketing budget? So am I with my startup. Here’s what I’m doing, hopefully some of this helps you out too.
3. http://runkeeper.com/ fitness goals 19 million users
4. http://tryghost.org/ "just a blogging platform"
5. Pose.com
7. https://www.days.am/ share pics cataloged by your day
8. App.net
Since launching in August 2012, this ad-free social platform has swelled to have more than 100,000 registered users. These users are sharing pictures and documents with file storage apps, spinning yarns with blogging apps and communicating with group message apps across mobile, desktop and the web. Full access to App.net isn't free -- it'll run you $36 per year, but there is a free tier (available by invitation only).
10. Kleek
Kleek lets you build your own private social network within Facebook, giving you only the statuses and data of your closest friends (if you're using an iPhone).
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Friday, March 7, 2014
3 Steps for Optimizing Facebook Page Wall Posts for Action
3 Steps for Optimizing Facebook Page Wall Posts for Action
When it comes to advocacy and political campaigns, many online organizers are quite ambivalent about Facebook. On the one hand, Facebook is notorious for changing its interface, it is better for niche communication than mass communication, people on Facebook prefer not to click links that leave Facebook and it is difficult to convert page likes into email subscriptions. On the other hand, two-thirds of all internet users in the US use Facebook, making it an essential and inescapable channel to potentially reach your audience. Hence, online organizers have a love-hate relationship with Facebook.
Facebook offers a handful of tools that organizers can use to reach, educate and mobilize people to support policy or political campaigns. And while they are not perfect (see the reasons above for a sample of these imperfections), they can be more effective than not if used optimally.
3 steps for optimizing your Facebook wall posts for campaigns.
1. Images are better than Status updates for sharing links. I am sure you have heard this all the time… images are better than status updates because they are more likely to be shared. But that is only one of the reasons images are better, and maybe not the most important one. When you want to share a link—to an item in the news, a document on your website or to an action you want people to take—it is better to put that link in the caption of an image than in a status update.
When someone decides to share something from their wall to their own wall or the wall of their friends, groups or pages, you want your messages to travel with the link. You want your message framing the content in the link, your call to action to also be shared with the link. Unfortunately, only the link and its corresponding thumbnail, headline and lead sentence get shared.
But when you share an image, the entire caption gets shared with it. Instead of putting the link to the piece of content in a status update, put it in the caption for the image. You can even take an image from the linked content, upload it and link to its source in the caption. And you can put your framing, your call to action in the caption.
You should also put identifying and framing text on your own images before posting them. If you are using original images (photos, infographics, etc.) or creative commons/open source images, add your URL and/or Twitter handle on the image. Also, if it doesn’t detract from the image, put some message text on it. This way, if someone chooses to strip the image away from your caption (to share it on Twitter, for example), your branding and message go with it.
2. Give Image Captions a Good Hook. Whether you give your image captions a right hook or a left hook depends on your ideology, but a good hook, regardless of perspective captures people’s attention. Unfortunately, Facebook does not allow you to italicize or bold text in wall posts or captions. So USE ALL CAPS for the title, skip a space and then hit return. That will create the look and feel of a title for your post. And if your title is compelling, it will catch the eye of your readers.
The first sentence below the title should be direct to your point. Since only the first couple lines of your caption will appear along with the image on the next wall where it is posted, you want to make sure that your message is delivered even if people do not click on the image to read the rest of the text, let alone not clicking the link.
3. Convert Facebook Actions into Email List Opt-ins with ActionSprout. In addition to a good title and a compelling message, it is always a great idea to include a call to action. Sure you could ask people to share the image, and that always offer a lot of good value. But what if you could ask people to take an action that involves liking your page AND giving you their email address? That would be great!
Of the two, getting people to like your page is usually easier because it does not include leaving Facebook to take the action. But signing up for your email list is much more problematic. You could embed a MailChimp form into your page, but there isn’t really compelling reason to sign up.
Enter ActionSprout. ActionSprout is a module that works within your Facebook page. It creates an action tab on your page and populates that tab with a host of actions you can manage in the ActionSprout dashboard. No matter the action—petitions, endorsements, recommendations, etc.—ActionSprout requires the action taker to create an account with their email address. And you get to set the action to require a page like, as well. And there you have it: anyone who takes an action on your Facebook page gets converted to your opt-in email list.
Once you have captured an email address from your Facebook fan a new world opens up to you. Where fundraising on Facebook is very difficult, email fundraising is state of the art. So converting action takers into email subscribers directly and positively impacts your fundraising efforts.
If you look at the wall posts on Mike Honda’s - https://www.facebook.com/mikehonda - Congressional campaign Facebook page or Andy Shallal’s DC Mayoral campaign page, you will notice that most of the posts, regardless of what other asks may be included in them, also include a link to an ActionSprout action. Once created, any action can be used and reused repeatedly. So, simple actions like endorse a candidate or recommend to a friend can be tacked onto any (and most) posts on the page. Even sharing a simple Valentine’s Day card can become an opportunity to create deeper connections with your supporters.
Take these steps, or play variations on the themes presented in them, and you will get more impact from your wall posts. Even if your viewed and shared numbers do not improve, the value of each view and share increases significantly. Any increase in views and shares only adds to your improved ROI.
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A Google Analytics Checklist and the Possible Dwindling Value of Links
Subject: A Google Analytics Checklist and the Possible Dwindling Value of Links
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This week we have learned how to use the keyword planner in an all new way, how to do better with ecommerce checkouts and the best way to use social media for customer service. And, a big change is coming to Gmail!
The 10 best articles in the world of marketing and SEO:
Google Didn't Want Us To Use The Keyword Planner This Way. But It Works Nicely. ( http://www.advancedwebranking.com/blog/google-didnt-want-us-to-use-the-keyword-planner-this-way/ )
Learn how to use the Keyword Planner in a whole new way by using landing pages instead of keywords. If you need some great ideas for keyword research this is the article for you.
How to Design an E-commerce Checkout Flow that Converts ( http://conversionxl.com/how-to-design-an-ecommerce-checkout-flow-that-converts/ )
There are many things that interfere with e-commerce conversions. ConversionXL breaks down exactly what you need to know to have an effective checkout system on your site.
The Complete Guide to Using Social Media for Customer Service ( http://blog.bufferapp.com/social-media-for-customer-service-guide?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top10 )
If you use social media for customer service this is the guide for you. This article explains what customers want and tells you how to meet their needs. Great information for anyone managing social media.
What Can SEOs Do That No Other Marketer Can? ( http://moz.com/rand/what-can-seos-do-no-other-marketer-can/?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top10 )
While there is much debate over the role of SEOs, we know they are still needed. Rand explains seven important skills that SEOs have that most marketers cannot perform.
A Simple Guide to Responsive Design ( http://www.adamkaplan.me/grid/ )
Adam Kaplan offers a very clean and simple grid-style guide to responsive design. Developers and those new to coding can learn a lot from this.
Google Analytics Checklist for New Projects ( http://moz.com/blog/google-analytics-checklist-for-new-projects?utm_source=sendgrid&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=top10 )
There is a lot of work to do when you get a new client, but have you forgotten anything? Geoff Kenyon breaks down the analytics checklist that he uses. Great tips on linked accounts, campaign tracking, conversions, and more.
Gmail Adding Prominent 'Unsubscribe' Option to Marketing Emails ( http://www.pcworld.com/article/2100020/gmails-unsubscribe-tool-comes-out-of-the-weeds.html )
Want to kill spam quickly? Unsubscribe fast? Well, Gmail is offering a new and faster way to help you out! We are sure millions of people will love this feature. Thanks, Gmail.
The Future of PageRank: 13 Experts on the Dwindling Value of the Link ( http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2014/02/25/pagerank )
Is the power of the link dwindling? The opinions vary greatly, but some of the best in the industry give their opinions on what we all need to know about links and the future.
Only 90s Web Developers Remember This ( http://zachholman.com/posts/only-90s-developers/ )
Want to remember the good ol' days? Zach Holman reviews some of the coding done in the 90s. This is a very funny article that brings back many memories.
Top SEOs and Digital Marketers Offer Advice on Thriving in the Modern Ranking 'Slog' ( http://www.buzzmaven.com/2014/02/surviving-the-slog.html )
Dealing with clients is not always easy. Scott Clark gets some advice from the experts on how to deal with certain difficult client interactions every SEO faces.
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Welcome to New Rainmaker
Subject: Welcome to New Rainmaker
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You've found New Rainmaker -- the weekly audio broadcast (with much more to come) that will give you a new perspective on business, life, and what freedom truly looks like, all while educating you on what to do to make it all happen.
As you'll soon find out, the future of new business generation is media, not marketing. Check out the first five episodes right now ...
// New Rainmaker Episode #1
The New Rainmaker: Why the Key to Business Success is Media, Not Marketing
In this quick 22-minute episode you'll discover:
- The two business fundamentals I learned as an unhappy attorney
- Why you don't need privilege or sales skills to make it rain
- The true nature of the commercial Internet
- That the fundamentals of human nature haven't changed (and what has)
- The problem with "content marketing"
- How to create marketing people actually want
- What a personal media brand is, and why you want one
Listen to our first broadcast below …
http://newrainmaker.com/audio/media-not-marketing/
// New Rainmaker Episode #2
Why a Personal Media Brand Beats "Marketing" Every Time
In this quick 19-minute episode you'll discover:
- Why just "being known" means being known for nothing
- The fallacy of the train wreck approach: The poverty of attention
- How to give away what you're selling for fun and profit
- The evil psychological trick that people love
- Why to never expect anything in return (for the win)
- How keeping it real lets you "sell out"
- Why leadership is the key to lead generation
- The religious concept that makes it rain
Listen to New Rainmaker Episode No. 2 below …
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// New Rainmaker Episode #3
How to Build a Lucrative Asset While You Make it Rain
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- How a detergent company in Cincinnati became a television producer
- Why a "disposable marketing" approach is an unnecessary waste
- Which asset you can give away, still keep, and watch increase in value
- Why I turned down a seven figure offer for copyblogger.com
- How to maximize your marketing wealth with new media
- Why Mark Zuckerberg makes the rules for fools
- What real freedom looks like
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// New Rainmaker Episode #5
Why the New Rainmaker is a New Media Producer
In this 17-minute episode you'll discover:
- Will Google become the next big movie studio?
- How to grow the business you have, or build the business you want
- Why the benefits of "content marketing" are only the beginning
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- The reason you'll likely succeed (big), if you start now
Listen to New Rainmaker Episode No. 5 below …
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