Apple and Google and Windows, Oh My!
After all kinds of announcements and press invitations this week, the tech world is set to be abuzz with news over the course of next...
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Michelle Stinson Ross is a digital marketing industry recognized authority on the outreach power of social media. She has worked as a community manager and consultant for several brands to increase brand awareness, raise the visibility of special promotions, and train their teams to use the social space to connect with media influencers and the public. Michelle is the Director of Marketing Operations at Apogee Results and co-host of #SearchTalkLive. Her passion for digital marketing has made her a regular conference speaker at events like Digital Summit, Pubcon, Zenith, and Search Marketing Expo. She has also been a featured guest on Webmaster Radio and several industry Hangouts on Air.
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Blekko Releases New Premium SEO Tools
Blekko, the user curated search, launched a new suite of SEO tools to give developers and websites unparalleled data for improving site traffic. The new...
HootSuite Enterprise Solution: Social Media Command Center
HootSuite, the popular social media dashboard, announced it will be launching a new comprehensive social media solution for enterprise business. The HootSuite Command Center will...
Majestic SEO Fresh Index Updated Hourly
Today marks another milestone in the Majestic SEO offerings. This morning, the Fresh Index began updating on an hourly basis. According to the blog post...
FTC Moves Closer to Pursuing Antitrust Action Against Google
On Friday, Reuters reported that four of the five Federal Trade Commissioners were convinced that antitrust action is warranted in the case against search giant, Google. This announcement lines...
Content Marketing: Sister Discipline to SEO and Social Marketing?
A recent survey of more than 1,300 digital marketing professionals finds that 64 percent of them agree that content marketing is emerging as a discipline of...
Facebook Privacy Settings Easily Exploited
When it comes to social networking, one golden rule seems to apply: If you share it with Facebook, you share it with the world. Whether...
#YouTube Expands Niche Channel Lineup
“In your mind which is more valuable, content or distribution?” This was the question posed by YouTube’s Vice President and Global Head of Content, Robert Kyncl, as...
Twitter Launches User Directory
In a world where altruistic social gathering doesn’t pay the bills, Twitter continues to make changes that it hopes will drive more traffic directly to...
#Facebook 1 Billion Users & Promoted User Posts
Last week was yet another BIG news week for Facebook. First for the fluff that Zuckerberg did interviews for. Facebook officially hit one billion active...
#SocialChat Discusses Facebook Offers
On Monday evening, Oct. 1, the #SocialChat community on Twitter gathered for an open forum discussion of the new Facebook “Offers” post now available to...
Remembering Steve Jobs One Year Later
Today marks the passing of the most influential technological innovator of this generation. One year ago today, Steve Jobs passed out of this life and into legend....
A Conversation with Ric Dragon
On Tuesday between sessions at SMX, I had an opportunity to sit down with Ric Dragon and discuss his book, Social Marketology. Many of you...
Search Week in NYC with #SMX Conference and Workshops
Yesterday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially declared the week of October 1 as Search Week. The proclamation was issued in recognition of New...
Majestic SEO Offers Massive Freebie
In the early morning hours here in the United States, Majestic SEO posted a major announcement on its blog. The UK-based SEO firm has spent...
Media.net Partners with Yahoo! Bing to Provide Context Ads
The doors are now open to a fresh supply of targeted contextual ads for Web publishers from the Yahoo! Bing Network. Thanks to a partnership...
#Facebook Fakes: Did You Lose Fans?
Yesterday, Facebook confirmed that it was indeed purging fake accounts and page likes from the system. According to Josh Constine of TechCrunch, “Illegitimately created accounts...
Recruit Co. Brings Indeed to Asia
Indeed has announced its acquisition by Japanese human resources and information systems firm, Recruit Co. Ltd. Indeed is the top job search site worldwide, attracting...
Myspace Gets a New Prom Dress
Yesterday, the buzz engines lit up with chatter about the tease of a totally revamped MySpace. “The NEW MySpace” released a video previewing the look...
Facebook Offers: The Beginning of the End of Business Freebies
Last Friday, we saw the full roll-out of offer posts for business pages on Facebook. For the past year, the social networking giant has been...
Co-Working: Collaborative Office Space of the Future
Last night the New Tech Group, a Web and tech-centric networking group in South Florida, gathered to celebrate an anniversary and get the first look...
#SocialChat Discusses the Synergy of Search and Social
On Monday evening, Sept. 17, the #SocialChat community on Twitter gathered to discuss the relationship between SEOs and SMMs. Our guest expert, Jim Hedger, is...
#PubCon Announces “Virtual PubCon”
In a post on the PubCon blog yesterday afternoon, event organizers released big news for PubCon attendees. This year, all of the break-out sessions on...
#Twitter Update: Benefits for Users and Brands
Twitter’s CEO, Dick Costolo, made a live appearance on the TODAY Show yesterday to announce updates to the Twitter experience. The changes affect the look...
National Cheeseburger Day: Check-In via #Foursquare and Help Fight Hunger
Today is National Cheeseburger Day! As if we really needed an excuse to celebrate the warm juicy goodness of ground beef grilled to perfection, dripping...
Google to Begin Transforming Kansas City into a Gigabit City
What does a former Port Authority building in NYC, dark fiber, gigabit-speed Internet, and Kansas City have in common? Google. In early 2005, the Internet search...
Discussion of Personal Privacy and Facebook on #SocialChat
#SocialChat is a weekly discussion of the best practices in Social Media Marketing hosted every Monday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern by Alan K’necht (@aknecht)...
YouTube, Religious Tolerance, and Internet Freedom
The highly prized freedom of speech came with the cost of an American Ambassador’s life. On Monday night, Muslim radicals attacked the United States Consulate...
iPhone5 to Be Unveiled Today
The Apple faithful will at last be rewarded with their first look at the newest incarnation of the iPhone later today. The rumor mills have...
#Facebook CEO Addresses Stock, Mobile, and Search
Yesterday afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg made his first public appearance since the IPO this spring. He sat down with TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington at the Disrupt Conference...