What Watson and Jeopardy Teach Us about Computers and Language
Image by charliecurve via Flickr Like millions of others, I have watched the past two nights as a computer has taken on Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, Jeopardy’s two greatest champions. IBM’s Watson...
View ArticleMarketers must be mindful of the software ecosystem
Image by Chris Pirillo via Flickr It’s a brave new world for marketers. When I started in this business, it would have been hard to find two teams with less in common than the IT team and the...
View ArticleWatson? Quora? What’s the perfect answering machine?
Image by andertoons via Flickr When Quora announced earlier this month that they were eliminating their policy against self-promoting questions and answers, some analysts wondered if that was opening...
View ArticleBlog so you can be taken completely out of context
Image by quinn.anya via Flickr I am in the middle of guiding some new bloggers over at Marketing Conversation on how to blog most effectively. It is pretty exciting and instructive because there are...
View ArticleWhy you too should be social media slutty
Photo credit: Christopher S. Penn If you call yourself a social media marketer and you’re not completely promiscuous about it, you’re not serving yourself, your boss, or your clients. If you’re not...
View ArticleWhy enterprise digital marketing can’t be completely in house
Image via CrunchBase Chris Abraham wrote a great post on Friday called “Why you shouldn’t bring your social media (completely) in house.” He made a lot of great points in that article and I want to...
View ArticleThe Seven C’s of Content Quality
Panda (Photo credit: PeroMHC) Last month I talked about optimizing your site architecture for Panda. This is of course important, but it is only one component in optimizing for Panda. As everyone who...
View ArticleThree Ways to Build Links in the Age of Google Penguin
Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife Last month, I talked about The Seven C’s of Content Quality, as a way of helping you develop higher quality content. Why is this important? Because the Google...
View ArticleAre you turning your marketing into PR?
Photo credit: Wikipedia Some of you might be scandalized to here me urge you to turn marketing into PR. I mean, I have a reputation as someone who is constantly advising people to measure everything...
View ArticleShare This: 5 Tips You Must Learn to Create Sharable Content
Photo credit: SHAREconference During last month’s webinar on how to use web analytics and search marketing, Rob Petersen, Mike Moran, and I talked about how offering sharable content to your customers...
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