New Media Marketer: E-mail marketers are lobbying the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to add a sunset provision to the CAN-SPAM Act that would allow e-mail addresses to be automatically removed from suppression files after five years.
The High Price of Creating Free Ads the pitfalls of inviting consumers to create ads for your brand (tags: advertising ugc) coRank: Build Your Own Digg Clone could a more focused Digg challenge the “original”? (tags: socialmedia ugc) Who Can Compete with Facebook? which matters more? platform or user base? (tags: innovation) Don’t Adjust My…
Last week I had the good fortune to be able to present a talk on effective writing for social media at a half day writing workshop led by my friend Don Bates, a professor at George Washington University and a long-time PR practitioner who frequently teaches people how to write more gooder 🙂
For more than a decade, I have been working with employers, colleagues, and clients to maximize the use of the Internet for political and public affairs advocacy. I’ve tried a lot of things. Many worked well, some didn’t. And I’ve seen a lot from others that worked and some that didn’t. InterAdvocacy will keep an…
Scripps bought Shopzilla recently. This article addresses some of the synergies for the companies: “Scripps officials say they’re happy with Shopzilla as a standalone business, but both sides clearly are excited about the possibilities of joining the two categories. By the end of this year, they said, you could see a link to Shopzilla on…
Outsell has an excellent analysis of New York Times Select. Their blog post looks at what future moves the NYT online might make and has an early evaluation of the movement to paid content for parts of the site from the Times’ own Martin Nisenholtz.
Google has launched an app called Sidebar that sits on your desktop and monitors news, email, weather and other things. It self customizes based on what you browse. I just installed it to test it out and will let you know what I find. [via TechCrunch]