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Mar 20 2010
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Weekend Favs March Twenty

I have a weekend routine where I share a handful of favorite things I tripped upon online this week. I usually post about three and don’t go into much detail, but suggest you check them out.


Wordle Image of yesterday’s blog post on PR – Click to enlarge

Cool stuff I found this week:

Slide Rocket – Online presentation tool that allows you to create, manage, share and measure interaction. Lots of social media features built in as well.

Wordle – Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can simply paste a blog post URL into Wordle and produce the cloud.

Prova.fm – Crowdsourced advertising design. This service allows you to create design competitions for your next print, radio or video ad.

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Mar 13 2010
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Weekend Favs March Thirteen

I have a weekend routine where I share a handful of favorite things I tripped upon online this week. I usually about three and don’t go into much detail but suggest you check them out. The image featured in the post is a favorite creative commons image on Flickr.

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Image credit: bender 990

Good stuff I found this week:

Traffic Travis – Free SEO and PPC software. Very powerful tool for analyzing your pages and those of your competitors.

Trackur – Social media monitoring service. I’ve mentioned this tool before because I think it’s a great one. This past week they created a free account so I felt the need to mention that development.

SocialNet Gate – Service that signs you up for multiple social media profiles and offers paid tools to help promote and spread content. It’s a bit pricey but one way to outsource some of this activity

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Mar 6 2010
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Weekend Favs March Six

I have a weekend routine where I share a handful of favorite things I tripped upon online this week. I usually about three and don’t go into much detail but suggest you check them out. The image featured in the post is a favorite creative commons image on Flickr.

snow
Image credit:Nordgren

Good stuff I found this week:

Backup Buddy – a WordPress Plugin that automates the back-up, restoration, and migration of a WordPress blog. This is a paid plug-in but I’ve not found much out there that offers the migration ease that this plugin seems to offer if you need to move to a new host.

Harness the Power of Referrals – Inc magazine article showcasing Make A Referral Week 2010 – a week long effort to raise 1000 referrals for 1000 businesses from March 8th to the 12th.

Master List – a wiki format list of social media monitoring solutions

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Feb 27 2010
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Weekend Favs February Twenty Seven

I have a weekend routine where I share a handful of favorite things I tripped upon online this week. I usually about three and don’t go into much detail but suggest you check them out. The image featured in the post is a favorite creative commons image on Flickr.

go Canada
Image credit: aufumy

TweetGrid – a number of interesting ways to set up views of things you want to follow on Twitter, but take a look at what they call Twitter Parties, interesting concept for hosting live chat sessions on Twitter.

Comapping – online mind mapping software to manage and share information. Good business interface that works well for brainstorming and project management.

Litmus – Testing software that allow you to see how your web pages and emails will render in numerous email clients and browsers. Could be a good investment to test new designs.

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Feb 20 2010
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Weekend Favs February Twenty

I have a weekend routine where I share a handful of favorite things I tripped upon online this week. I usually about three and don’t go into much detail but suggest you check them out. The image featured in the post is a favorite creative commons image on Flickr.

let it snow
Image credit: Akajos

Good stuff I found this week:

Xobni – an Outlook plugin that makes searching your inbox and finding information about your contacts online and in social media fast and easy.

Kampyle – real time customer/user feedback about what works and what doesn’t work on your web site.

Mobile Marketing Watch – great site dedicated to covering all things related to mobile marketing (all marketer need to stay on top of this topic)

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Feb 6 2010
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Weekend Favs February Six

I’ve added a weekend post routine that I hope you enjoy. Each weekend I write a post that features 3-4 things I read during the week that I found interesting. Generally speaking it won’t involve much analysis and may range widely in topic. (Flickr image included here is also fav image of the week)

hawk
Image credit: Dr Swan

Enjoy!

Good stuff I ran across this week:

Siri – An iPhone app that acts like a personal assistant – you can ask to find things by name – nearest Starbucks or by broad category – good vegetarian restaurant near me. The app then gives you a list complete with maps, details and reviews.

20+ mind-blowing social media statistics revisited – great list of statistics to use in those social media presentations you’re needing to give.

Alert Rank – if you’ve set up Google Alerts (and you should) to help monitor your brand online, Alert Rank helps you understand and filter alerts so you can know when to jump in and join conversations based on the authority of the mention.

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Jan 30 2010
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Weekend Favs January Thirty

I’ve added a weekend post routine that I hope you enjoy. Each weekend I write a post that features 3-4 things I read during the week that I found interesting. Generally speaking it won’t involve much analysis and may range widely in topic. (Flickr image included here is also fav image of the week)

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Enjoy!

Good stuff I ran across this week:

Free PowerPoint Twitter Tools – Presenters know that the social media backchannel has become a very important tool to manage. This tool automates tweets while you present.

Quirky – This site bills itself as social product development. The idea here is users submit product ideas and then vote and influence the development and sale. Very interesting concept.

20 Tools for Tracking Social Media Marketing – Title says it all, a nice round-up of free and paid services for listening for social media mentions.

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Jan 23 2010
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Weekend Favs January Twenty Three

I’ve added a weekend post routine that I hope you enjoy. Each weekend I write a post that features 3-4 things I read during the week that I found interesting. Generally speaking it won’t involve much analysis and may range widely in topic. (Flickr image included here is also fav image of the week)

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Image credit:

Enjoy!

Good stuff I ran across this week:

  • Nutshell Mail – Manage social networks through email. An interactive digest of all your social media activity delivered to your email inbox.
  • Flowtown – if you have a person’s email you can turn it into an entire social profile – great way to append social media activity and profiles to all of your email records.
  • iSites – Create and update your very own smart phone (iPhone, Android) apps on the fly.
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