crowdSPRING is the latest entry into the increasingly crowded crowdsourced graphic design service market. From its humble beginnings as an area on the web development discussion forums at SitePoint , to being spun off from the SitePoint Marketplace a few months ago, 99designs has experienced astonishing growth to become a leader in its market. With how flooded the market is with graphic designers it can be tough to get a foot in the door. mashups. aggregators. MORE

Towards a Definition The following definition is intended to introduce the general nature of PLEs: a Personal Learning Environment is a facility for an individual to access, aggregate, configure and manipulate digital artefacts of their ongoing learning experiences. PLEs are meant to simplify managing these artefacts, creating meaning through aggregation, linking and metadata tagging (eg comments, keywords). A PLE could be implemented as a mashup. MORE

Marketing. Entering the Job Market With Your Distance Degree. Get a Marketing Degree, Free: 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Web Entrepreneurs. Change your wallpaper with this fun tool that also serves as a news aggregator. Google Maps Mania will send you updates with all the fun mashups and tools making use of Google Maps. Use this aggregator to blend several RSS feeds into one feed you can post on your website. Accredited Degrees. MORE

Marketing. Entering the Job Market With Your Distance Degree. Get a Marketing Degree, Free: 100+ Open Courseware Collections for Web Entrepreneurs. Change your wallpaper with this fun tool that also serves as a news aggregator. Google Maps Mania will send you updates with all the fun mashups and tools making use of Google Maps. Use this aggregator to blend several RSS feeds into one feed you can post on your website. Accredited Degrees. MORE

This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the resources mashup and the best keynote at Blog World Expo 2010 on kikolani.com. The Resources Mashup. A marketer’s guide to content curation – not just for marketers, but this post will help you learn how to appropriately aggregate information in one place to create value for information consumers. Making Money Online / Online Marketing. MORE

It’s safe to say that 2020 has become the year of data-driven marketing with 83% of B2B marketers focusing more on data analytics this year. 89% of B2B marketers agreed that data quality is becoming increasingly critical for marketing and sales success. B2B Marketing MORE

The cereals are celebrated through a delicious array of mashups , recipes and bowl selfies. Instead of overtly marketing over 40 brands, “Hello, Cereal Lovers” is more focused on crafting a visual story on people’s love and passion for cereal. Another great takeaway from the “Hello, Cereal Lovers” community is how to engage in collaborative visual storytelling with the help of content aggregation. Love cereal? You’re not alone. MORE

For many content marketers, curation is something of a silver bullet. The average B2B marketer is using 12 different content marketing tactics , and a curation strategy can boost the volume of information shared without dramatically increasing the workload. Only 5% of the marketers worldwide surveyed in their annual report never share other organization’s content, while nearly ? Mashups: Blending original and curated content into a fresh, original take. MORE

Social Media Consultant and Tech Geek at Heart Home About Press Consulting Contact Sitemap Home > Interviews , Marketing , Opinion , Social Media , Websites > What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer? What Traits Define a Social Media Marketer? What skills, though, do successful social media marketers have that put these individuals above the average (or addicted) social media user, and better yet, above the traditional marketer? MORE

Expo Ascentium – A model for the agency of the future I spoke to the CMO, Romi Mahajan who explained Ascentium 's go-to-market strategy to me. They are the nexus of a digital marketing company mixed with a technology firm that does Microsoft CRM, Business Intelligence and Analytics to provide creative solutions for brand perception and instantiation. Not only do they build cool marketing campaigns but they can connect to your sales process. MORE

However, that doesnt mean that its something that everyone innately understands or knows how to use - especially when it comes to using it for marketing, PR, or other business-related purposes. Today, you will find Communications and Marketing majors heavily involved in learning to use new media to their advantage. Dean Whitney, an executive with global digital marketing agency Digitas , also taught a class at Bentley (a hip school?) mashups. aggregators. MORE

It only works for a defined use case, but, in a search market that is 85% going on 90% Google-dominated, this can still be significant. I have been in business for 30 years and have worked across many markets, in many countries and I have worked the LinkedIn system to get those contacts usable. We are launching in Boston, MA and New Hampshire in June and will expand to the other major markets around the country in Q4 2008 and 2009. mashups. aggregators. MORE

The Resources Mashup. Optimize Your Content Marketing Strategy with 8 Keyword Tracking Tips – If the success of your content marketing strategy is in any way dependent on SEO and search rankings, explore these 8 tools and tactics to track your keywords. 53 Actionable Content Marketing Metrics – Content marketing is about attracting the right target audience and getting them to take appropriate action as a result of engaging with your content. MORE