Recent Kickass Social Media Strategy Articles

Bringing Out Your Inner Blogger

A thoughtfully planned new media campaign can beat big budgets. It can provide large-scale product refinement and increase the online conversations about you...  Read more

How to Develop a Pitch That Gets Read 

What does it take to impress the media? Here are five things you need to know.   Watch video

Logoworks to Offer Blog Designs

The new designs aim to help businesses build customer interactivity.  Read more

Their Online Dating Site was Struggling

Was a blind-date stunt really the answer?  Read more

SEO for Blogs: If You Build It, Will They Come?

Blogs can be effective tools for raising the profile of your product or service -- but only if your target audience find them. Search engine optimization (SE...  Read more

From Blogs to Online Communities

Now that there are so many blogs, and search engines aren't reliable enough to be the main source of Internet-based customers, online communities may be the ...  Read more

Setting Boundaries for Employee Internet Use

A total ban on Internet surfing for workers isn't practical, but employers do need to create a balance to use the technology to increase productivity while m...  Read more

How to Banish Blog Spam

It’s great when your company blog gets noticed -- but not so great when the acclaim makes it a spam magnet. By taking a few simple steps, companies can sto...  Read more

Essential Steps to Starting a Business Podcast

Whether you go it alone or hire a professional producer, follow these rules of thumb to create an engaging podcast that can attract listeners, and hopefully,...  Read more

MySpace Unveils Advertising Platform

The platform allows advertisers to build, maintain and customize brand profiles.  Read more

What You Need to Know About The People Who Read Your Blog

A new study on the habits of blog readers, conducted by The University of California at Irvine, is quietly making the rounds at conferences and Read more

Anything Could Happen

Evan Williams's first little idea shifted the culture. (You can thank him for the ubiquity of blogging.) His new business, called Twitter, will be entering y...  Read more

Drive Traffic to Your Business Blog

You won’t get any business from your company blog if nobody knows about it. To reach its full potential, a blog needs traffic. To get visitors, use a mix o...  Read more

Why Business Bloggers Are Twittering

Business bloggers are finding that tools like Twitter help draw traffic to their blog posts and give them a way to stay connected without the commitment of w...  Read more

A Digital Makeover for the Modeling Business

How Ford Models became the hottest thing on YouTube.  Read more

Blogging: More Than Idle Chatter

Do it--and do it as if you mean it.  Read more

Social Networks: Ready to Join the Party?

Marketing your small business on Facebook and MySpace.  Read more

Social Networks: Up And Down The Social Register

For companies that market to niches, one of these specialized social networks may be a better value.  Read more

MySpace to Launch Advertising Service

MySpace, a division of News Corp. (NYSE:NWS), has plans to launch a self-serve advertising service targeted at small and midsize businesses and anyone els...  Read more

Is Facebook Really Worth $15 Billion?

Maybe not. Microsoft's $240 million investment in the wildly popular social networking site is turning heads, but some insiders describe the valuation as "ri...  Read more

Beyond YouTube [Audio] 

Online video is transforming the way companies communicate with customers and employees. How can your company take advantage of the trend? Associate edito...  Watch video

55-Alive! Wants to Be MySpace for the Baby Boomer Set.

Can it raise $250,000?  Read more

Helping Customers Help Each Other Online

A growing number of companies are creating online community forums, or other ways for customers to interact. This not only improves customer satisfaction, bu...  Read more

Can You Spot the Real Utube?

Millions of Web surfers couldn't, so now there's a lawsuit.  Read more

What's Next: Beyond Facebook

There are people who have the answers you've been searching for. Here's how you'll find them.  Read more

Think Employees Are Fudging Their Timesheets? Try Fingerprinting Them

A weekly look at the latest products and services designed to help you run a better business.  Read more

HedgeStop Wants to be the MySpace of the Financial Community

Now it needs $2.5 million.  Read more

What's Next: Blinded by the Buzz

Everyone is chasing Internet buzz. But be careful. Online hype doesn't always deliver.  Read more

The Outsider

Want to learn the truth about your business? Hire a blogger.  Read more

How We Did It: Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, Co-founders, Flickr

The original plan had been to create an online game. But they were just about out of money. And then Butterfield had this crazy vision of building a photo-sh...  Read more

Going Viral

A smart video campaign can generate low-cost buzz. Here's how Heelys does it.  Read more

Contagious Commercials

How to get in on the YouTube craze.  Read more

What's Next: Stupid Productivity Tricks

Worried that employees are wasting time on the Web? Here's why you shouldn't crack down.  Read more

Newsgroups and Blogs

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