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<title>Sphinn / DoshDosh / What's New</title>
<link>http://sphinn.com</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:15:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What Makes for a Good Blog?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/67881</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/67881</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 06:15:42 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/67881</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As I think about the blogs I've returned to over the years - and the increasingly few new ones that really grab my attention - I want to start with, ironically enough, a list. Here's what I think helps make for a good blog.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jason Calacanis: How To Get PR For Your Startup]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/67147</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/67147</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:13:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/67147</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As both subject and writer it feels like I've learned a lot about how the PR and the press works--especially in the technology business. My philosophy of PR is summed up in six words: be amazing, be everywhere, be real. You don't need a PR firm, you don't need an in-house PR person and you don't need to spend ANY money to get amazing PR.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New Firefox 3 Digg Extension Released]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/63999</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/63999</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:00:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>News Sites</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/63999</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We've just launched our first Firefox 3 extension and wanted to provide a quick video showing how it works.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Jason Calacanisa4 First New Email Post (Since Quitting Blogging)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58732</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58732</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 15:22:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58732</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jason Calacanis announced on Friday that he was retiring from blogging. There was a very mixed reaction to the news, with most believing it to be a publicity stunt. Jason said in his farewell post that instead of blogging, he would instead be posting to a mailing list made up of his followers, capped at 750 subscribers. That subscriber limit was reached very quickly, and today Jason sent out his first new a4post' to that mailing list, which we have included below.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Reduce Bounce Rates: How to Fight for the Second Click!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56183</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56183</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:06:55 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56183</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Different traffic sources imply different reasons for why visitors might immediately leave your site. Design to keep deep-link followers engaged through additional pageviews.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Most Powerful Persuasive Element of Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/54608</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/54608</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:20:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/54608</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The most powerful additional thing about blogging is an aspect of human nature that doesn't require a psychology degree to understand. Blogging allows people to like you, and people like to do business with people they like.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Feedly Brings New Social Experience to Start Pages]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53304</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53304</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:52:38 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53304</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Following a lengthy incubation period, intended to get the product rock-solid with an army of features and a sharp interface, Feedly hits the Web today with their own take on the social start page - using your Google Reader subscriptions at its core, but layering on intelligence that learns from you, including your reading patterns, to personalize your information waterfall.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Interview with Twitter Co-Founder  Biz Stone]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52753</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52753</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:13:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52753</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Twitter has received a truckload of criticism over the last month for its frequent service outages. While the stability debate is intense, I got back to basics with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about what's on the radar in terms of features, battling bots, community engagement - and why he isn't afraid of a &quot;Twitter killer&quot;:<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Designing a Reputation System for Your Social Website]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/52187</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/52187</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:44:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/52187</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, we released a family of related Reputation patterns to the Yahoo Design Pattern Library, the first of several collections of social-design related patterns that we're working on. These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or rich-interaction type of pattern. They don't tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead, they address how to design a reputation system for your social software.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Can You Write an (Almost) Unbelievable Headline?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51958</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51958</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:57:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51958</guid>
<description><![CDATA[See, making outlandish claims with your headline in order to attract attention is a sucker's game. Even if you manage to score the click, you're history when the reader discovers you can't deliver on your promise, or you've pulled some lame bait and switch. What you want to do is write a headline that's almost unbelievable.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Writing Style for Print vs. Web (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51742</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51742</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:28:08 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51742</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We should accept that the Web is too fast-paced for big-picture learning. No problem; we have other media, and each has its strengths. At the same time, the Web is perfect for narrow, just-in-time learning of information nuggets - so long as the learner already has the conceptual framework in place to make sense of the facts.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The 6 Best Ways to Rock FriendFeed]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51694</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51694</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:41:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51694</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Just joined FriendFeed? Want to know some dirty secrets you can exploit to gain you popularity, followers and perhaps a bit of fame (or at least infamy)? If so, I have some tips for you! Keep reading and I'll make you a master of the craft in no time.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Plurk: Social Media Marketing in Action]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51645</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51645</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 05:23:18 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51645</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Something interesting happened last Sunday. Plurk, a new social network, grew it's subscriber base from a handful of beta users to over 2,000 in one day. Since then they've continued to grow exponentially. As a marketer, and one of the 2,000+, I think it's been a fascinating process to watch.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Make The Links Come To You]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51302</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:15:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Link Building</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[But in a world where Google can claim it has basically said not to buy links since 2003 and can be iffy on just how juicy linkbait is allowed to be, seems to me the days of tricks are over .So. Here's what I propose we do.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Comment About Your Company on Blog Posts, Without Being Spammy]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51288</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51288</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:19:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51288</guid>
<description><![CDATA[For every 1000 people who read a tech blog post, there may be one that leaves a comment. Lurking in the crowd are often any number of people who work for companies related to the subject of the post. They almost never comment, and when they do they often come across as obnoxious, self-promoting and spammy. It doesn't have to be that way, though.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Three Easy Ways to Fix Broken Links and Stop Unneccessary Visitor Loss]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50714</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50714</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:54:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50714</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When the broken links are internal, within your own site, those are easy to prevent and correct. But when broken links are external, from other sites or bookmarks, there is not a lot you can do to correct them, short of contacting each offender and asking them to change it. No matter what, you can't always prevent people from linking to you incorrectly. So the onus is on you to do what you can to keep the visitor on your site despite the broken link.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pick One, Just One Web Analytics Report!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50522</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50522</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:04:14 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Web Analytics</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50522</guid>
<description><![CDATA[All tough questions to answer. With so much choice it is hard to pick one, and if you don't get paralyzed then it can reveal a lot about you.After having thought about it for a little while (ok for just a few minutes), regardless of the website and its purpose, I would pick this web analytics report as my golden choicea4<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Step Plan on How to Build a 'Twitter Killer']]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50505</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50505</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 11:03:36 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50505</guid>
<description><![CDATA[By building up a huge mass of users, Twitter benefits from our existing social connections and their inertia. But as the problems continue, it's possible that someone else could grab the mindshare - and traffic - that currently belongs to Twitter. Here's a five-step plan for building a &quot;Twitter killer.&quot;<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Kevin Fox of Gmail & FriendFeed on User Experience Design]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50260</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50260</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:35:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50260</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From 2003 to January 2008, Kevin Fox worked as a user experience designer at Google, designing such products as Gmail, Google Calendar, and the second version of Google Reader. He's currently working at FriendFeed. I met Kevin for a three-session instant messenger chat interview.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Expand Customer Relationships As Search Engines Evolve User Experience]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49851</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49851</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 17:02:03 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49851</guid>
<description><![CDATA[From a marketing perspective, any interaction with your brand raises awareness, and while interaction on the SERP is clearly more difficult (if not impossible) to measure than a search referral, that interaction is still valuable. In some cases, it may be more valuable, if the user associates the positive experience of a quick answer with your brand. With that in mind, it's more important than ever to ensure both your brand and primary message are prominent in your title tag and meta description tag.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Your Obsession to Rank Higher is the Final Nail in Your Coffin]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49287</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49287</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:18:31 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49287</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What kind of recording artist says stuff like &quot;my goal is to make the Billboard Top 10a4? Sure, recording labels may set goals like that, but did Lou Reed ever sit down and write songs just to win a Grammy? If making money is your only goal on the web, I don't want you as a client.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49286</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49286</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 08:14:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49286</guid>
<description><![CDATA[If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. But you can't know that because the browser secures the user's history, right? Wrong. Today I'm releasing SocialHistory.js, code which enables you to detect which social bookmarking sites your visitors use. Here's an example of how to use it<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[10 Helpful Email Design Guidelines]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48853</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48853</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 13:49:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48853</guid>
<description><![CDATA[As web designers, we've grown pretty good at understanding how to create a modern, semantic, accessible website using XHTML and CSS. We understand what makes a good website, and how to make it happen. When it comes time to design emails though, do all the same rules apply? Are there things we should be doing specifically for email that don't make sense on a website? In this article we'll discuss the technical, design and information elements that make up a successful HTML email.<br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Report: Web users 'getting more selfish']]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48506</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48506</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 11:11:35 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48506</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Web users are getting more ruthless and selfish when they go online, reveals research. The annual report into web habits by usability guru Jakob Nielsen shows people are becoming much less patient when they go online. Instead of dawdling on websites many users want simply to reach a site quickly, complete a task and leave.<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Whiteboard Friday - Adopting Twitter]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48314</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48314</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 10:45:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48314</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This week, Rand (semi-reluctantly) takes a look at everybody's favorite new time-waster application: Twitter.  He outlines a few points that may help late adopters get over the hump and realize that, while it may seem a little silly, Twitter can actually have considerable social and marketing value to those of us in the search world.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Want Tons Of Traffic? Dona4t Be An SEO Sheep]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48292</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48292</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 09:28:22 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48292</guid>
<description><![CDATA[When it comes to blogging, Seth Godin is an SEO disaster.So, why's his traffic and readership so massive? Does Seth spend hours loading up his content with meticulously researched keyword phrases and patterns? If you've read him for long enough, it's a safe bet the answer to that question is no. Then, what's his secret? It has to do with a little thing called HEOa4<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Simple SEO: Explaining and Understanding SEO]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48166</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48166</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 18:27:56 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48166</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've found that explaining SEO in terms of specific goals is the most successful way for me to get my point across when pitching my services or products to prospective clients. I like to think of SEO as anything and everything you can do to your website to improve the number of qualified visitors coming from search engines.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[30 Websites to follow if youa4re into Web Development]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47930</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47930</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 05:31:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47930</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I've made it a goal to learn at least one useful thing each day so that I can stay sharp and well-versed on the topic of web development and design. To that end, here's some of the websites I keep track of to find new techniques, resources, and news about building websites. Most of these sites are updated frequenty, so there's never a lack of new content that fills up my Google Reader.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Email Marketing for Linkbait - It's the Distribution, Stupid]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47807</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47807</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 14:57:34 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47807</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How does linkbait work from 10,000 feet up? If you look at the big picture, linkbait works because of distribution. And email marketing can be just as great - if not greater - a vehicle for promoting linkbait than social media, because the distribution possibilities are superior, to say nothing of segmentation.<br/><br/>21 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47238</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47238</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:16:05 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47238</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The usage lifecycle isn't as clear cut as pregnancy is, but it recognizes that people go through a progression as they use software. They go from not knowing much at all (like parents early on in pregnancy) to feeling comfortable with the product (like, say, when parents become grandparents) to finally being passionate users.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Benefits Of Blogging - A Practitioner's Perspective]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46623</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46623</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 09:06:47 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46623</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Many people start a blog for this reason, to create a presence for their company or themselves. Perhaps sell some things or just flog their brilliance or get leads / clients. All perfectly legitimate and it could work for you as well. I think the only condition is that you give something remarkable and of value to your readers. If your blog meets those two conditions then I think you are kosher and the blog can be a great asset for your business.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46426</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46426</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 10:08:20 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Usability</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46426</guid>
<description><![CDATA[There are many available tools to help make web development projects quicker and more productive. Aside from a handy text editor or WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver, you can find plenty of tools and utilities that can greatly increase development speed, reduce debugging and testing time, and improve quality of the output. The tools described below are a variety of utilities, optimizers, testing, and debugging tools aimed towards helping developers create websites more efficiently.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does Your Blog Have a Twitter Landing Page?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45990</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45990</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:15:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45990</guid>
<description><![CDATA[On your Twitter profile page, there's a small area where you can create a bio and link to your blog.  But Laura saw an opportunity to improve on the skimpy space that Twitter provides. Laura added a link on her Twitter page that sends you to a special page on her blog that explains more about who she is, and what she does.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Many Keywords Should Your SEO Be Targetting?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45744</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45744</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:32:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45744</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had a question from a client asking how many keywords we will target for each project. It reminded me that out of all the questions I get that illustrate a need for better understanding of how an SEO process works, this is one of the top 5.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter Beats (Wow, By A Minute) The USGS With China Earthquake News]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45737</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45737</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 10:13:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45737</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Hey, I like Twitter, but this entire thing Robert Scoble started about how Twitter had news of the Chinese earthquake before the US Geological Survey seemed absurd. Did it really? As it turns out, probably so -- by about a minute. Reading some of the accounts, you'd get the impression Twitter seemed to alert the USGS to the news.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Tools Everyone Working Online Should Have]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45379</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45379</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 19:07:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45379</guid>
<description><![CDATA[We've noticed that many people don't use some tools that would make their lives online much more effective and efficient. Here's our list of some tools we'd suggest are essential. Several of these tools will deliver huge value to your workday and take less than 10 minutes to get set up.<br/><br/>17 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Media Influence: The YouTube Top 10 Brands]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45265</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45265</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 07:02:58 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45265</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Every time we do social media strategic reviews for clients we can't help but note the growing influence of YouTube on a company's reputation. So, ahead of our Social Media Influence conference we decided to compile our own YouTube Corporate Top 10 list. We've chosen 10 of the biggest global brands with the help of Business Week's annual top 100 brand guide.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Critical Steps for Every Marketing Campaign]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45115</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45115</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 12:01:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45115</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Effective marketing is so much more than just &quot;getting the word out&quot; - it is a series of efforts that complement and support each other for the ultimate goal of creating a satisfied, lifelong customer for your business. By taking the time to understand your potential customers and the psychology behind their buying decisions, you can boost your bottom line significantly.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Definitive LinkedIn Guide]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45112</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45112</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 11:52:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Networking</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45112</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A good friend of mine asked me for some tips on how to use LinkedIn.  I sent him a long email and figure that I should share my thoughts on this with all of you.  I'm not an investor in LinkedIn, but think it's a great service.  Here's the scoop.<br/><br/>13 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Ultimate Guide to a Wildly Sticky, Successful and Outstanding Blog]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45098</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45098</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 10:38:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Blogging</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45098</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Before you go anywhere, you have to know where you're going. What's your destination? What's your plan? Building a blog of quality and relevance is an accomplishment. It's not something that just happens by letting your fingers type anything. It takes planning, heart, and &quot;a village&quot; to make a successful blog, but a great blog is worth every minute invested in pulling those three together.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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