Fresh news is a fundamental element of social media and can be used in a variety of different ways to one's advantage. Across virtually every social network site, users scramble to be the first to break a news story. Inevitably, this leads to hundreds of duplicate story submissions and ends with… [read more]

Yesterday I presented at SES Toronto along with Lee Odden and Dave Snyder on a panel called 'Twitter: Ultimate Time Waster, or Great Tool?' I figured that in order to show how Twitter actually works - it would be best to use Twitter to do it. Here's the results of the experiment and an extended version… [read more]

OK, so you have a great topic ready to write about and now you need to research it out throughly. Creating an effective linkbait piece, one that actually makes people want to link to it, requires some decent researching skills. There is a ridiculous amount of information online just waiting for you,… [read more]

I just got back from the excellent SMX Advanced show in Seattle. Danny and the whole Third Door Media team did another excellent job of putting on a first-rate conference. Over the next two weeks, I will speaking at three different conferences. The nice thing is that each of the conferences will have… [read more]