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Technorati Is Dead To Me

Photo Courtesy of Morguefile

Start digging, Technorati is dead. I’m sure, like the old man in Spamalot, Technorati is protesting that “I’m not dead yet.” But trust me, the corpse is quickly reaching room temperature. Bring out your dead.

Connections Revisited

I asked what social networks you are a part of and several of you have waded in. Let’s see what’s working for our readers:

Ashleigh Hunter of Bank of America wrote:

A Vote For Me Is A Vote For Me

Photo By ldcross (Flickr)

Election season has me in its grip, so I am shamelessly campaigning for votes. Now, you will have to register to vote for me, just as you should to vote in any campaign. Here are the links for you to visit to vote:

You Want Fries With That?

Some talk percolating in the blogosphere about customer service being the new marketing.  PRSquared riffs on it, as does Common Sense PR.

Well, duh. Customer service was the old marketing, too. No matter how much media weight you threw against something, if you didn’t deliver, at the end of the day you were toast.

Links – 10/10/2007

Everyone always thinks about the brand first. Sometimes you should consider your category first.

What are the Top 25 Marketing Blogs, according to Technorati?

Who doesn’t love an advertising mascot?

How do you develop killer web content? The answer.

Press Release Evolution

According to Barks & Bites,

the news release is one of the oldest tools in the PR professionals’ toolkit and also one of the newest. Once you begin using it as your principal “conversation-starter” with audiences who find you online, you will see the dialogue and the positive results of your marketing and communications programs take on a life of their own.

Does Your Agency Really Understand Web 2.0?

The Logic + Emotion blog throws down the gauntlet for agencies claiming to understand the new digital world in a recent post:

Emerging technologies are nearly always part of the equation—and the equation shifts like the desert sands. And digital isn’t even an option—it’s mandatory.

Technorati Experiment

I’m participating in an experiment to try to break into the most favorited category on Technorati.

Dosh Dosh, an internet marketing blog, started the whole thing, saying

The goal of this experiment is simple, to break into the Technorati Top 100 and determine the exposure and traffic benefits of being included in the Top 100 list.

Social Media Is Transforming Business

According to a recent report in Inc. Magazine, social media is transforming business. More than 51 percent of the companies on the Inc. 500 list are tracking social media.

And in a new online study by IBM, more than 26 percent of US online consumers have contributed to a social media site.

RSS Resources

BNET is a great source for business information of all types. I read it regularly. Here is a link to BNET’s RSS tagged information.

RSS Resources on BNET

In other RSS news, here is an excellent list of RSS and Blog directories, and here is some additional RSS information from Search Engine Watch.