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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AJAX and Non-JavaScript Experiences for SEO friendly websites]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/68666</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/68666</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:34:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/68666</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Adams wsrites... With the &quot;Web 2.0a4 world that we live in, companies are inclined to create &quot;snazzy&quot; new AJAX experiences for users. I have been dubbing this the AJAX Dilemma lately because organizations/companies/website owners are creating sites that are not accessible and SEO friendly. They are risking crippling their businesses in the areas of search traffic by not planning SEO into the lifecycle of the product.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Hierarchy of Social Media Needs]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/64243</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/64243</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:02:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/64243</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dana Larson writes.. We all know by now that in order to become a true social media maven, one must spend time within each specific social community and actually participate (and if you don't know that by now, you are doing it all terribly, terribly wrong). Social sites are not designed for the classic swoop-and-dump (think seagulls) tactic, so users need to be careful with how they are using social media for marketing and what kind of information to pass along to other users.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Key to Effective Viral Marketing is Emotional Engagement]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/62368</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/62368</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:34:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/62368</guid>
<description><![CDATA[DoshDosh: Viral marketing is the process of using peer-to-peer communications in order to rapidly spread information about a brand or message. The term a4viral' stems from the concept of a a4virus', a self-perpetuating phenomenon which infects whatever it comes in contact with, spreading itself in an expanding outward arc. Your message is the virus. The carriers are your audience.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Happy 1st Birthday Sphinn]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/58302</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/58302</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:39:04 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Sphinn Zone</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/58302</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Happy Birthday Sphinn! It was one year ago today (actually July 11, 2007 but I'm traveling) that Danny notified beta testing SEOs: &quot;We're now open to the public. Thank you everyone for all your help -- it's deeply appreciated.&quot;Sphinn has been a hugely valuable resource to me and I'm thankful to have meet so many great people as a result of activity here.Thanks Sphinn. Here is to many more birthdays!<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Twitter Will Always Be King Of Micro-Blogging]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57768</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57768</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:37:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57768</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Kieran Hawe writes... Is there a day that goes by where some new micro-blogging &quot;Twitter Killer&quot; isn't launched? Jaiku, Pownce, Plurk, FriendFeeda4the list goes on and on. Each comes out the gate promising to be the next big thing and outside of a few earlier adopters they usually fizzle into social media purgatory - some good user numbers but nothing to get that excited over.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Positioning yourself using SEO and PPC for Customer Acquisition]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/57508</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/57508</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:09:32 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/57508</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tony Adam writes... When I started learning about SEO and the role it can play for any business, whether small or large, there was one quote that put it all into perspective. It was a business meeting that I was having with the owner of our company at the time and he said to me: &quot;We have to find a way to position ourselves so people find us and not us going out finding people.&quot;<br/><br/>37 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[More People Share WOM Offline, But Does That Make Offline Stronger?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/56651</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/56651</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:26:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Other Online Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/56651</guid>
<description><![CDATA[WOM (Word of Mouth)Jennifer Laycock writes... Almost anytime I talk about viral marketing, the subject of offline word of mouth verses online word of mouth comes up. People ask questions like which is more powerful, which has more potential and which leads to higher conversions and purchases.<br/><br/>10 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A Very Unfortunate Error For Farecast and Live]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/55249</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/55249</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:16:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Microsoft</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/55249</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jane Copland writes... This morning, I was talking to Rob Kerry about some particularly competitive search phrases and looking around in the SERPs. We'd gone through most of the usual suspects when [cheap flights] came up. Google duly returned its top ten, and at the bottom, I noticed farecast.live.com.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster or Great Tool?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/53761</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/53761</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:38:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/53761</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Chris Winfield writes... Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called a4Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?' I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use Twitter to do it. Here's the results of the experiment and an extended version of my presentation. Also if you're on Twitter and would like to follow me - here's my profile: http://twitter.com/chriswinfield<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Five Essential Elements of Effective Social Media Marketing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/51075</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/51075</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:29:33 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/51075</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Brian Clark writes... Have you noticed all the skepticism lately about social media marketing?I invited one of those skeptics to vent here on Copyblogger last week. Bob Hoffman is the CEO of a traditional advertising agency, and he raised some valid points about true interactivity online. Unfortunately, as many people ironically pointed out in the comments, Bob is short on answers.<br/><br/>55 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Caffeine and Alcohol Drink Buying Guide]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50777</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50777</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:20:17 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50777</guid>
<description><![CDATA[After attending only a few SEO events and conferences, it becomes apparent that search marketers like two things just about as much as they like links. Those two things are caffeine and alcohol, something you'll typically find in great abundance at your next search marketing event.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[8 Arguments Against Sculpting PageRank with Nofollow]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/50534</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/50534</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:56:46 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/50534</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Adam writes... This post will explore several arguments against using nofollow for internal PageRanka4 sculpting. It is based on a presentation I did at SMX Advanced. You can view my presentation slides here, however the deck is very brief since I only had about 10 minutes to present my position. The bulk of the discussion is treated in this post.<br/><br/>60 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why You Need To Know SEO Basics, Even If You Outsource]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/49341</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/49341</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 12:27:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/49341</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jessica Bowman writes... When you outsource SEO, you don't outsource responsibility and accountability for getting the job done and driving more traffic. Even though you may outsource SEO completely, you really should invest the time understand SEO basics to best manage your SEO firm, your strategy and provide greater value to your SEO program.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[An Internet Tastemaker Diggs Himself a Hole]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/48351</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/48351</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 13:22:25 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/48351</guid>
<description><![CDATA[NPR News writes... Andrew Scorcini, known to millions as MrBabyMan, has made a name for himself with his unrivaled skill at posting stories on a fiercely democratic Web portal. But recently and even on his beloved portal, Digg.com, the name MrBabyMan has been the target - rather than the generator - of a Web firestorm.<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Viral Marketing on Youtube: A Look at LisaNovaa4s Sexy Videos]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47546</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47546</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:17:27 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47546</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Maki writes... Back in August 2007, usability guru Jakob Nielsen wrote about banner blindness and indicated that plain text, faces and cleavage (or other private body parts) were the three design elements most effective at attracting eyeballs. While Nielsen didn't examine any popular internet websites specifically, this eye-tracking research holds true in many instances.<br/><br/>36 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Does My CEO Really Need a Facebook Profile?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47202</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47202</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 12:02:15 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47202</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Shannon at 10e20.com writes... When people think of social networking, Vanessa feels they tend to think of the high profile stuff like MySpace and Facebook and these are great examples, but she stressed that there are all kinds of social networking. Social Networking is anywhere people are talking online. From a corporate perspective, what you are interested in - is where people are talking about you and are talking about the topics you care about (competitor brands, issues that involve your brand).<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How Search Engines May Substitute Other Search Terms for Yours]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/47048</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/47048</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 01:04:54 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Searching</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/47048</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Bill Slawski writes... When you search for something at a search engine, the search engine might not just try to find pages on the web which match the keywords that you searched with, but may first try to expand upon those keywords by finding similar or related terms.<br/><br/>42 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Five Things Twitter Shouldn't Be Doing]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46863</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46863</comments>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 16:15:01 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46863</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Andrew Feinberg writes... Twitter is at an awkward point in their lifetime. It's their age of prepubescence. The time in every young tech companies life when it's time to face some of the issues that will thrust them into their teenage and adult lives. And just like any pre-teen, they are bound to make some pretty stupid decisions, while going through some awkward changes, physically and mentally.<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Baby Girl Born on Twitter!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46784</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46784</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 23:29:51 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46784</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Internet marketing strategy guy and family man extraordinaire (who also really likes beer), Adam Audette, posted to twitter about 15 hours ago with a tweet that read... We're having our baby today. Heading to the hospital at 12 noon to induce. I'll post with updates along the way!I (and many others) followed his tweets throughout the day and I thought it would be great to share them all in one place. See comments for the remainder of this beautiful story.Congratulations to Adam and Sally Audette on the birth of their baby girl!<br/><br/>48 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46394</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46394</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:06:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46394</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matt Cutts writes... The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for &quot;haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)&quot; and see when I've gotten my hair cut.<br/><br/>4 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Create Printer Friendly Pages Without Creating Duplicate Content]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46393</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46393</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 08:02:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46393</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Stoney deGeyter writes... When it comes to issues of duplicate content, one of the most frequent offenders is the &quot;printer friendly&quot; page. Just about any kind of site can benefit from creating printer friendly versions of their pages, but improper implementation of these pages can wreak duplicate content havoc on your site.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO Has No Future? Think Again!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46391</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46391</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 07:57:49 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Search Marketing</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46391</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Dave Wallace writes... I am so weary of non-SEO types who have some measure of influence spouting off their opinion of what SEO is, what it isn't, whether it is growing or declining and the like. It is no different then when celebrities use their clout and status to speak out of some subject like they are some kind of authority on the matter when in all actuality they are not.<br/><br/>62 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Summize Gains Local Twitter Search Option]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46161</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46161</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 07:05:21 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46161</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danny Sullivan writes... Summize has already turned into my preferred tool to search for what people are saying on Twitter. Now it's gained a way to see what people are twittering about near a local area.<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[How to Get More Twitter Followers]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/46036</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/46036</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:46:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/46036</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Maki writes... Darren Rowse recently wrote a series of posts about increasing your Twitter presence, in which he mainly talks about how to use Twitter by adding value in order to increase your Twitter following. While Darren made several good points, I want to give you my perspective on it, which is somewhat different.<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Google Friend Connect How To Video]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45852</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45852</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 22:32:48 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google Other</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45852</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tonight, Google launched their new social application called Friend Connect. According to the information page (only launched within the past hour) &quot;Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.&quot;<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What Google Knows About Spam]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45609</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45609</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:47:39 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Google</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45609</guid>
<description><![CDATA[What Google Knows About Spam: A video presentation by Matt Cutts (recorded recently at a Web 2.0 conference).<br/><br/>52 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Live Twittering A Conference? Try Live Twitting!]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/45324</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/45324</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:57:16 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/45324</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Danny Sullivan writes... I recently had a go at live twittering a conference and what a pain! First, I was flooding my followers with constant updates. Second, trying to recreate what I live twittered into a blog post was a nightmare, with me literally having to cut-and-paste newer twits above the older ones to reconstruct the proper chronology<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Elevator Pitch Is Dead. Introducing The Twitpitch]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/44679</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/44679</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 15:59:02 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/44679</guid>
<description><![CDATA[MSaleem writes... The landscape of corporate public relations is changing fast. First the press release died and we told you how to write a press release for the social media audience. Now the elevator pitch is dead and here's how to adapt.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SEO and Web Site Redesign]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43721</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43721</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 10:05:00 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>SEO</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43721</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lee Odden writes... It's a near nightmare situation really. A client sends an email on Friday saying, &quot;We're launching a new web site on Monday, can you take a look at it to make sure our site optimization is ok?&quot;.<br/><br/>66 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Muhammad Saleem on the Importance of Community]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/43070</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/43070</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:56:13 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/43070</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Saleem writes... To ensure the success of any social media marketing campaign, it is important to have a strong network of friends who support you. When you build up connections and friendships online, you establish credibility as a user.<br/><br/>41 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Social Communities Going Down a4 Whoa4s Got Personality?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42275</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42275</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:51:29 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42275</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Jeff Quipp writes... If its in fact true that &quot;actions speak louder than words&quot;, and &quot;problems are merely opportunities in disguise&quot;, we should be able to read a lot into the personality and philosophy or various social communities by looking at how they behave when confronted with adversity (read scheduled maintenance).<br/><br/>50 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SBM Unleashed: Local Search Workshop]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/42026</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/42026</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:45:45 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Local &amp; Maps</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/42026</guid>
<description><![CDATA[David Wallace writes... The days of flipping through a big fat yellow book to find a local business are quickly coming to a close. After all, why settle for a simple phone number when an online search can also net you menus, pricing, hours and consumer reviews?<br/><br/>32 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[8 Reasons I Am Successful, And You Are Not]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39918</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39918</comments>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:54:09 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39918</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Neil Patel writes: One thing I get asked frequently is how did you become successful. Usually when people ask this they are looking for 1 answer, but the truth is there are a lot of factors that caused my success.<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Twitter hasn't yet taken the journalist community by storm]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/39128</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/39128</comments>
<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:02:23 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/39128</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Charles Cooper writes: Out of curiosity, I drew up a list of 55 technology journalists to find out how many use Twitter, arguably one of the most important social-media technologies on the scene. I included names of some online reporters--including colleagues from CNET as well as TechCrunch--but in the main, the list is comprised of people employed by A-list newspapers and periodicals.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The Essential Guide to Managing Your Reputation While Social Networking]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/37752</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/37752</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:30:29 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/37752</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Patricia Skinner writes: Rumblings of discomfort are being felt by some web users who have found to their cost that someone, somewhere sees what you do online. The social media sites are great networking tools, and can be useful for business. But if you don't take steps to guard your reputation there can be repercussions.<br/><br/>47 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[What is Your Social Media Marketing Strategy?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/36690</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/36690</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 10:48:21 -0700</pubDate>
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<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/36690</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lee Odden writes: There are many reasons social media can be a productive marketing channel or platform. Rather than emplying it as a tactic du jour, the purpose should dictate strategy and the tactics used for reaching desired goals. A few common outcomes for social media marketing efforts include...<br/><br/>49 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[5 Ways To Have Fun with Twitter When You're Bored]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35465</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35465</comments>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:55:26 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35465</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alex Iskold writes: We've all had one of those days when the universe seems to be playing games with us. Things haven't quite worked out all day, there's nothing good on TV, all your friends are out with each other and forgot (didn't want?!) to call you. Even 10 years ago this sort of Friday night would have been lonely. But these days, if you are plugged into the web, you simply cannot be bored!<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[The baiting hordes of social news sites: how will you react?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/35321</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/35321</comments>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:11:59 -0700</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/35321</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Muhammad Saleem writes: if you've contributed to any of the major social news sites, you are probably aware of the fact that the commenters on these sites are not the most articulate or the most civil members of the social web. in fact, in many cases, on sites like digg, the commenters are juvenile and downright abusive.<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[SMX West: Most Popular Guy at the Bar?]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30720</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30720</comments>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:14:08 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Water Cooler</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30720</guid>
<description><![CDATA[An evil green plot to get someone to buy you beer? You be the judge.I was checking out the SMX Connect pages (very cool) for the SMX West conference that is starting this Tuesday.I found the tags really interesting, and I found myself browsing through tags for what people listen to, what people watch, what companies they work for, and what search related topics they are most interested in.Besides the main event, there are luncheon topics for Video, PPC, Local, Branding, and others. But there's one topic not being discussed on the conference floor or the lunches. I suspect if you want to learn more about it, be prepared to belly up to the bar, and get connected with the guy that has the goods.See my comments (with screenshot link) below. If this is indeed a tactic to get people to buy you beer, it should be on someone's Marketing Tips list. Could make good Beer Bait. :)<br/><br/>35 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Why Saying No Can Mean More People Saying Yes]]></title>
<link>http://sphinn.com/story/30405</link>
<comments>http://sphinn.com/story/30405</comments>
<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 09:45:52 -0800</pubDate>
<dc:creator></dc:creator>
<category>Social Media</category>
<guid>http://sphinn.com/story/30405</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lyndon Antcliff (aka Lyndoman) says: Sometimes, you just have to say no. When building a social network whose main aim is to improve your social media marketing strategy you have to say no at some point when someone asks if you would put your name to a social media submission.<br/><br/>45 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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