Archive for December, 2008

New Perspectives on Digital Asset Optimization for 2009

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Search engine optimization can be challenging enough, especially for large, enterprise organizations rich with digital assets.  They’re also rich with policies, procedures and often times a labrynth of  content approval and publishing processes.
An effort to optimize and promote those assets to search engine bots can be even more challenging than standard SEO. And yet it […]

Dell Social Media Interview with Richard Binhammer

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Social Media Smarts: Interview with Richard Binhammer from Dell - @richardatdell

Photo Credit www.briansolis.com 
Of all the companies known for making advances in the realm of social media, Dell holds a place that reaches both ends of the spectrum. References to “Dell Hell” are less about something wrong and more about one of the most popular […]

TopRank Brings 2 Speakers on 2 Panels at SES Chicago

Monday, December 8th, 2008

TopRank Online Marketing will have two speakers presenting on two panels at SES Chicago this week.  
On Tuesday, Senior Account Manager Jolina Pettice (who recently spoke on a panel with Yahoo’s Ron Belanger and Anne Kennedy at DPAC) will be speaking on a session about how to use Public Relations tactics to improve SEO results.  On […]

SES Chicago Winds of Change

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Today kicks off another Search Engine Strategies conference, this time in the windy and bleeping cold city of Chicago. 
Change has been in the air for SES with the naming of Stewart Quealy as VP of content development, responsible for creating conference program content for all SES events and training. Also, Marilyn Crafts (whom I like to […]

Get Social Media Smart with 26 Tips on the Social Web

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Day one of the DMA / TopRankMarketing.com Social Media Smarts workshop kicked off covering a tremendous amount of information including defining social media, practical examples & case studies and blogging soup to nuts. Creating, marketing and measuring blog results was covered in 3 different modules.
Social media and making sense out of the social web is […]

Fundamentals of Social Media Marketing Strategy

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Central to the notion of social media is the ability to create, publish and share content. The sheer volume of information on the topic of social media marketing makes filtering and prioritizing what’s most important to a specific organization a challenging task.
There’s a lot of excitement from marketers and companies but not everyone is exactly […]

Social Media Interview Shonali Burke

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Social Media Smarts Interview with Shonali Burke
 
I first ran into Shonali Burke right before she presented with Katie Paine at the PRSA International conference, “True Tales From the Social Media Measurement Trenches”. We had not met in person before but were connected on Twitter. Social media will do that - facilitate real world connections.  Based […]

Reader Poll: Best Blog Analytics Software

Monday, December 1st, 2008

There are more companies blogging now than ever. How do you measure results? Measuring the social web is a different thing than what most web analytics packages offer. It can be easy to start a blog, but making it successful requires an excellent feedback mechanism. Blog analytics is one of those sources of feedback to […]