Cribbed Content for January 9th
Friday
Jan 9, 2009
I’m so excited I can hardly sit still! In just a few hours I’ll be on a flight headed to Las Vegas. I really do love going to Affiliate Summit – it gives me a chance to catch up with colleagues, have some fun, and learn a bunch of new stuff. As always, I’ll be sharing it dutifully with you!
In the meantime, here’s the roundup of some of the stuff that passed through my peripheral consciousness this week! Forgive me if it’s heavy on the Affiliate Summit stuff – whenever a conference comes near that’s almost all that’s on people’s minds!
- Can’t be at the show? Gary Vaynerchuk Keynote at Affiliate Summit Streaming Live on Ustream.tv. Awesome! If you’re already a Ustream.tv user, just search for the affiliate-summit channel. Otherwise go be a voyeur at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/affiliate-summit.
- Charter Membership is now open for the Performance Marketing Alliance. The price tag is a bit hefty (keep in mind – I have no base of reference for how much professional organizations usually cost), so I’ll be grabbing some literature to show my company
- ReveNews editor Angel Djambazov shared his Top 5 Must See Sessions at Affiliate Summit West 2009. I know I expect to be in at least 2-3 of those.
- Angel’s on a tear with the sessions stuff, sharing his Top 10 Must See Sessions at CES 2009. For those of you not entirely geeky (yet), CES is the Consumer Electronics Show, with manufacturers vying to show off their goods to the masses. This show is going on in Las Vegas as well and ends right as Affiliate Summit West 2009 starts.
- There’s a good two part series on the Affiliate Classroom blog that any webmaster should read: Why Content is Still King (and Queen) Part 1 of 2 and Why Content is Still King (and Queen) Part 2 of 2.
- With some news about a client of ours, PrintPlace Expands with New Printing Facility in California. Did you hear that? It was the sound of shipping times being cut in half!
Cribbed Content for December 2nd
Tuesday
Dec 2, 2008
Yes, normally this would have come last week on Friday, but like many I was out shopping for my precious GPS unit that was on super sale. I hope everyone had a lovely Turkey Day! Did you know that until 1863, Thanksgiving was celebrated on different days? The president would announce when it would be celebrated until that year, when President Abraham Lincoln decreed it would be on the fourth Thursday in November. It actually took until 1941 for Congress to pass an official proclamation declaring it a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday in November.
So be thankful for your health and the good information you can find online!
- Our own Manda Otto reviewed the new seoMOZ toolbar, now still in private beta testing. This looks to be an invaluable tool for SEO and SEM professionals everywhere, expected to be available sometime in January or February.
- There’s some debate on the future of the banner ad in online marketing. Brad Waller and Peter Figueredo both discussed it over at ReveNews: The Banner is Dead by Brad Waller and Is Display Advertising Worthwhile in a Down Economy? by Peter Figueredo.
- I wrote a guest post for Marketing Pilgrim that you should check out: Mobile Advertising Has Future Among Teens.
- In more New Edge Media news, we’ve welcomed a new team member, Kate Morris, into the fold as Director of Client Services!
Cribbed Content for October 3rd
Friday
Oct 3, 2008
I can’t believe it’s October already! It’s the end of my first week working at home now that I’m with New Edge Media and I still don’t have a FULL week of working from home under my belt since I attended the Social Media: The Marketing Summit on Wednesday and Thursday.
So I need to catch both you and myself up at what’s been going on in the online marketing world.
- Issue 3 of FeedFront Magazine is out and will be distributed at the Affiliate Summit Social Media show on Sunday in New York City.
- Hydra Networks & Vista Print got their tails caught in the adware crack.
- Some of the people at the conference I just attended need to check this out and learn how to create better presentations.
- G1, the Google Android phone, already sold out in a week. iPhone killer?
- I blogged the Social Media: The Marketing Summit conference this week in San Francisco. A lot. I blogged every session of the second day in near-real time yesterday, and will add the notes from the first day’s sessions next week.
- Yes, I know, I still need to catch up on CJU. I’ll be skipping talking about the keynote since Brad Waller already talked about it at ReveNews. I’m also not going to bore you with the winners of the CJ|You awards since Shawn Collins already covered that as well.
