Posted by Paddy_MooganLast month I spoke at SAScon in the UK on the topic of getting actions from analytics.  Its something that I feel quite strongly about so I wanted to write a post on here to tal...

A rather good post today by Paul Sawers in TNW Industry assesses the state of the internet as it begins to noticeably evolve from being defined as an English-language network to a more homogenous syst...

Brands and Social Media: Real Life Lessons Social media teaches marketers that it takes a community to build a brand. While historically developing your brand has been at the heart o...

Once a year I try to pick the most exciting conference with the best speakers to help me expand my thinking on B2B Marketing, to make new friends and connect with folks who I know only on Twitter, Lin...

"The smartest and ablest experts in knowledge-intensive industries sometimes appear quickest to mock their customers' perceived ignorance and incompetence. This behavior isn't cathartic; it's corr...

The actual cost of an advertising campaign on Twitter has always been somewhat shrouded in mystery with large campaigns run without direct figures revealed. Well now they have and it’s a huge $120,...

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You ‘Like’ SEO! Then you must ‘LIKE’ Facebook. Yes, my SEO friend, Facebook is SEO and ‘Like’ it or not, Facebook can’t be ignored. With almost 700 million users, tides...

In less than a week, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn announced “button strategies” – making it simple to deploy platform-specific actions on other sites.The seemingly basic news means each site c...

James Hamilton is keynoting at SIGMOD Athens and his presentation description has some good ideas to think about. Keynote 1: James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services Internet Scale Storage Abstract The pa...

James Hamilton is keynoting at SIGMOD Athens and his presentation description has some good ideas to think about. Keynote 1: James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services Internet Scale Storage Abstract The pa...

Last week at Cloud Expo in New York, Dell commissioned an independent third party, Marketing Solutions Corporation, to conduct a survey of IT professionals who were attending the show.  The survey, w...

A good friend of mine said something to me the other day, over dinner,  that I keep thinking of, and led me to write this post – a post that I have wanted to write for a very long...

Having just returned a scorching hot New York (host of CloudExpo East 2011) to a definitely cooler Europe, it makes sense to see whether these differences in temperature also apply to the cloud marke...

Twitter marketing usually runs a distant second to Facebook marketing and doesn’t attract the media attention of the shiny social networking toy Facebook  Twitter has an image problem in that it is...

Why do some people sit for hours at slot machines, their sweaty little fingers dropping quarter after quarter, eyes glazed over as pineapples, gold coins and 7s spin in circles? It’s the allure of t...

Some people love them, some people hate them (rather like popups, right?). But the question isn’t whether or not you like them, the question is, do they work for generating any kind of traffic or at...

eMarketer announced their updated advertising spending projections yesterday with some enlightening news about display ads.  Within the next five years spend for display advertising is predicted to o...

Well that didn’t take long. In a suit filed yesterday in the US Disctrict Court in Arizona, a company named iCloud Communications, LLC has claimed trademark infringements against Apple over the use...

Two startups aimed at tackling the problem of excessive noise on Twitter are combining forces. Twitter-powered new reader StrawberryJ.am is partnering with tweet-scheduler Buffer to surface the top st...