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Forrester Research Gets an F in Monitoring

Apr. 8, 2009

But that’s not the only company with an F.
Two weeks ago, I challenged six social media evangelists at a wide range of organizations to add a blog comment as proof whether or not they or their colleagues were actively monitoring blogs.
Many social media consultants and community managers routinely search for their names, their corporate executives’ [...]

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Why Monitoring Your Name is Important

Mar. 22, 2009

Do you monitor your name if someone mentions it in a blog post? Whether you are an individual, company, nonprofit organization, or government agency, you’re keeping tabs on bloggers who write about you, right?
By means of example, if I didn’t ego surf my own name and links to my blog, I wouldn’t know that David [...]

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Could There Be a Correlation Between Search Engine Queries Getting Longer and Blog Post Titles Getting Longer?

Mar. 20, 2009

Frederic Lardinois opines:
This is an interesting trend, and it could be interpreted in a variety of way. This could mean that a growing number of users is finding less value in the search results they get from relatively unspecific, short queries. It could also indicate that users are becoming more sophisticated in how they structure [...]

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Stop Using Search Engines

Feb. 22, 2009

Can you?
I don’t need to tell you that the web is progressively beating the library in every battle for information. The search engine has effectively replaced the card catalog, microfilm reader, magazine stand, and bestseller list.
Representing those born after 1993, the Google generation is trending the future with 93 percent of college students satisfied finding [...]

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Q&A: How to Save RSS Searches in Google Reader?

Feb. 15, 2009

Wallace Reid, as first responder to my request for questions, asks:
Is there a way to save searches in my Google Reader? I ‘tag’ a lot of items by topic, and then search those topics for items that I have found interesting over the last year or so. I’ve been able to create a library in [...]

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Why I Donate to Wikipedia

Dec. 24, 2008

Everyone is writing about Christmas, Santa Claus, and tidings today.
Not me.
I want to focus this blog post on Wikipedia, the recipient of too many links from my blog over the past 19 months.
I ask you to join me–and donate.
My request does not come lightly. People are asking for money left and right. The economy is [...]

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How @Replies Work on Twitter (and Why It’s Stupid)

Dec. 9, 2008

UPDATE: Six months after the below was written, the kind folks at Twitter, Inc. changed their policies on replies, per here, now calling them mentions. As such, the following is moot. If you’d like to read about it, feel free.
Regardless how you use Twitter, if you have something to say in 140 characters or less, [...]

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