Did you know there are similarities between blogging and construction work? also took notes about how the construction lessons I was learning applied to blogging. This post is a collection of those notes and reveals valuable lessons that bloggers can learn from construction workers to become better bloggers. Construction workers aren’t typically reading types. Lesson #2: Learn how to use your tools. On a construction site, tools are a worker’s best friend. In blogging, you also want to know how to use your tools. It’s true. lot faster. MORE >>

The New Value Movement: From yesterday’s pos t: I have encountered hundreds of people developing social currencies with increasingly creative and constructive methods because their community is important to them. The Internet and emerging social media technologies have finally integrated the tools that people need to organize themselves into New Value economic developers. I believe that it is important to make a distinction between New Currency and New Value. The potential for confusion is high but the implications of getting this wrong could be catastrophic. MORE >>

Plant +1 badges on all your assets to take advantage of the Direct Connect tool that automatically brings customers and prospects searching in your category to your page.” That means a well-constructed G+ post (with a main keyword in the first sentence/title and a good amount of engagement) can rank well in Google search and, unlike other social media status posts, actually stay ranked for a long time,” and explains why Google authorship is important and how to set it up. He writes, “Google tools used to enhance the Internet. So what makes Google+ special? MORE >>

Marketing to the professional tradesman in the Construction, Industrial and MRO markets Home About Me Contact Market Overviews Newsletter Podcasts Services Why Manufacturers Should Use Blogs as a Brand Building Tool to Reach the Professional Tradesmen Manufacturers are missing an opportunity to build brand awareness and thought leadership if they don’t consider using a blog as part of their marketing mix. This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 at 9:09 am and is filed under Marketing Tips , Marketing Tools , Social Marketing. take my survey [link]. MORE >>

As a pilot application, the researchers constructed an earthquake reporting system in Japan. Tags: Trend Spots Trend Spotting Behavior Trend Spotting Tools Trends Review Twitter buzz google internet behavior location prediction search volume semantic trends twitter We have already discussed Google’s ability  to predict the spread of epidemics as the flu. Simply by measuring the surge in search by different locations – Google can trace and predict future occurrences and their spread. Semantic. analyses were applied to tweets to classify them into a. MORE >>