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CREATIVE RAMBLINGS JULY 16, 2011 3 plugins to monetize your WordPress blog Ad Squares Widget Easy Ads Smart Ads Related Posts: In a previous article, I shared 12 must-have plugins to make your WordPress blog more interactive. This time, I want to tell you about three plugins that will help you monetize your page. Ad Squares Widget “The Ad Squares Widget makes it possible for you to. Branding Great Resources Tips affiliate marketing marketing marketing tips monetize your blog plugins to monetize your blog Promotion Wordpress tips | SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING JULY 16, 2011  The Gamification of News "Gamification" seems to be the up and coming buzz word. You may recall that in April, I covered Empire Avenue in a post about the gamification of social media. Now, Google is in the news (literally) with a gamification project of their own, and I think it has some potential. Let's explore why. This week Google announced the launch of their Google News Badges. Image credit: Austin Bryan (Flickr). | THE RELATIONSHIP ECONOMY JULY 16, 2011  The Raw Material of Social Org Games Fibonacci Trust Curve. Trust Scarcity? This article is a loose argument related to trust scarcity in social organization games. Rewarding trust in a social game is a difficult thing to do unless certain agreements and institutions are in place. The Social Value Game. Technology is not yet here, but getting close…. The problem is that big data has become big business. Spiral of trust. | PAMORAMA JULY 16, 2011 25 Google Plus Resources, Articles, and Reviews to Help You Get Started Google+ (or is it “Google Plus&# ?), the search giant’s big social initiative, has arrived and there’s a lot to learn. Google’s answer to Facebook has been in the works for a year and has been delayed several times due to disagreements about its design, purpose, and execution. Facebook’s threat to Google’s domination of the Web was a wake-up call that ignited the development of the new social platform. Even though Facebook’s traffic seems to be slowing in the U.S. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s probably, well, a duck. Enough said. | | | | | | | |
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DANNY BROWN | SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011  If This Was My Last Blog Post
Over at For Bloggers By Bloggers, I offered up a new list of free blog topics to help you with ideas for your blog. There are ten topics to choose from, and it’s something we offer up as a thank-you to the For Bloggers By Bloggers community. One of the topics suggested is If This Was My Last Blog Post , and its premise is wondering what you would say, if you knew it would be the last post you ever write (if you were to die). little morbid, maybe, but I’m curious about these kind of things. So, putting my money where my mouth is, here’s what I would write. Underworld+, anyone? MORE >> -
SMALL BUSINESS MAVERICKS | SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011 So How Do You Integrate Your Message?
Yesterday I discussed integrating your online and offline marketing. I’m glad readers understood what I was saying and took the message to heart. But how do you integrate your marketing so that your branding message is unified? In a word, you should do one of two things. Either put your Internet marketing under your overall marketing umbrella so that one follows the other, or have a liaison between the two that works to simplify and integrate your message. Simplify and unify! That’s your key, but what are the dangers? You can’t swallow the message and make it disappear. MORE >> -
TWIST IMAGE | SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011 The Social/Anti-Social Network
Online social networking continues to change and evolve. The latest news is all about Google + (you can read some of my initial thoughts about the platform right here: Co-dependency In The Age of Facebook ). This week, Google CEO and co-founder Larry Page announced that Google + has over 10 million people using it in less than two weeks with over one billion pieces of content shared. That is mind-blowing, impressive and not all that surprising when you consider how popular platforms like Twitter and Facebook are, and how people are looking for newer/cooler social networking experiences. gmail. MORE >> -
THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER | SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011 Visible sign of market creation for a product designed for social impact
It struck me when I saw this Moneymaker pump by Kickstart on a street corner matatu stand in Nairobi while wandering around a market with Muchiri who was shopping for shoes. I’m giving this level of detail so you can see the context in which we spotted this classic and oft quoted example of a [.]. Business Design Engineering Innovation in Africa Kenya Marketing Prepaid or informal economy Technology MORE >> -
JANET FOUTS | SATURDAY, JULY 16, 2011  Google+ and Lessons Learned
I saw a message on Google+ yesterday from the-ever on top of the newest app-Louis Gray that made me cringe. It was about an import tool called Facebook Exodus. Basically it allows you to invite your entire Facebook friends list to Google+. Of Of course you could pick and choose but if you’ve got a lot of friends you could be tempted to just invite them all. ARRGGGHHH!! ARRGGGHHH!! Facebook shut the application down immediately, and I’m thinking that’s not exactly a bad thing. don’t want all my connections on Google+ yet, maybe ever. This is geek fun at it’s best. MORE >> -
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