I have been spending a lot of time thinking and writing about email marketing. While social media (branding, communication and advertising) gets much of the attention – email is often overlooked and under-discussed… despite being …

What sites and apps do I use on a daily basis? Quora, LinkedIn, Crunchbase and a slew of Google Chrome extensions (which I’ve written about before). So why not put all of them together and …

Your typical email from LinkedIn is text-based and includes some sort of notification about your network, messages, etc. They are straightforward, actionable and likely focus on conversions. A very different email arrived from LinkedIn this …

But tying together the web’s most visited site (Facebook) with arguably the most important communication platform (email) is both natural and a long time coming.
And with this week’s announcement of Microsoft’s ‘Outlook Social Connector‘ …

The article “Can You Trust a Facebook Profile?” describes the “surprising truth” that “Overall people were remarkably honest in representing themselves”:

Erik Qualman of Socialnomics has put together a great video called “Social Media Revolution”. Worth watching and then checking his datapoints and footnotes (a couple of which I included below):

Facebook’s vanity URL push (covered by TechCrunch) is a big deal for two reasons:
- the direct business model opportunity
- traffic via natural search
Let’s leave the business model alone for the now as it is …

I’ve written before that there are many great iPhone Apps… but nothing that is truly game-changing (yet).
I’ve also written about how the iPhone’s contact management system needs serious improvement.
So when yesterday’s LinkedIn App hit the …

This might not come as a surprise since networking sites like LinkedIn and Facebook are becoming popular, effective ways to make business introductions and even hires. But a couple posts on some of my favorite …

Over the course of beRecruited’s growth, we’ve relied heavily on organic growth and grass-roots marketing. Similarly, we’ve used Elance, Craigslist, and Kijiji to outsource smaller projects… and, while each is time consuming, it’s been effective …