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Mark Birbeck did a presentation on using RDFa to expose the data on your website. This was at SemTech 2009 on RDFa, and the slides are above. The PowerPoint itself contain speakers notes which will explain quite a lot of what is going on, so if youre interested then its probably worth downloading:
via Slides for SemTech talk on RDFa: The Semantic Webs Missing Link | webBackplane.
Actually, despite the noise, the mundane, and the trivial, Twitter is extraordinarily effective as a viral broadcast channel.
Converging instant messaging, email, forums, chat rooms, photo sharing, social networking, and web collaboration, Google Wave will change the way we communicate. Conversations are all trees on a shared host, so you are never creating new copies of content as you reply to and share messages and other content. You just add people and content to the conversation. Everything is always in sync live because it is a hosted conversation, not content being sent to people’s inboxes. It’s open source and you can create your own Wave client and embed Wave in your own applications.
This should pull up a graph from Compete.com showing the amazing growth in monthly unique users for Twitter.
Anyone using Twitter should watch this video. Now that Twitter has nearly 20 million monthly unique visitors, a lot of marketers and scam artists are working this new channel. Careful who follows you!
Hi Google, just a note that you might want to tweak your ad targeting algorithm.
When someone writes about “viral” and “virality” in the context of blogging, web design, and social media, they usually are talking about how things can grow virally on the web, not biological viruses like H1N1 Swine Flu.
The ads to the left appeared when I first put up the “Viral by Design” post with the Slideshare presentation.
Maybe these keywords will help the ad targeting on this post:
Please leave a comment to let me know what you see in the Google adsense ads at the right.
Anyone interested in designing websites that engage users and grow virally would enjoy this presentation.
Anyone wishing to “friend” the U.S. Army now can, thanks to a new Facebook page and blog.
The Facebook page, which launched last Thursday, already has nearly 3,000 fans. Yelps of “Hooah” litter its wall.
“In just a weekend the Facebook site has become a vibrant community,” said Lindy Kyzer, a public affairs specialist in the online and social media division of Army public affairs. “We have soldiers, spouses, retirees, family members, even a grandmother whose granddaughter just signed up.”
Both the Facebook page and new blog, called “Army Live,” are meant to allow people inside and outside the service to speak informally about the Army. The Facebook page asks viewers to comment on such topics as “Why did you join the Army?” Or “Who is your favorite noncommissioned officer?” It also features podcasts, photos, links to other Army-related Web sites and even a way to follow the Army on Twitter.
“It’s a one-stop shop for people to connect to us,” Kyzer said.
via U.S. Army steps into networking world with Facebook profile | Stars and Stripes.
22 Smart, Inspirational Quotes From Bloggers in 2008 Compiled by Adam Singer Blog
With more than 120 million blogs in existence, how do people find YOUR content on the Internet? The key starts with great search engine optimization SEO, which is an art and a science that helps search engines discover your content and understand how relevant it is to specific search queries.
You can blog your heart out, but if you don’t have good SEO, then odds are you won’t have many readers. Luckily, the WordPress plugin community values SEO and has developed a number of plugins to help. Here are 20 of the best SEO plugins to help you choose the right tags, tell search robots what to work on, optimize your post titles and more.
We’re seeing growing interest from site owners in doing A/B split testing and multivariate / multivariable testing – for landing pages, for product pages, for buying processes, for e-mails and so on.
But who are the service providers out there specialising in offering such solutions?
via Multivariate Testing and A/B Split Testing – who provides it? | Blog | Econsultancy.
Two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit social networking or blogging sites, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, according to a new Nielsen report “Global Faces and Networked Places.” If data captured from December 2007 through December 2008 is any indication, that percentage is likely to grow as time spent on social network and blogging sites is growing more than three times the rate of overall Internet growth.
“Social networking has become a fundamental part of the global online experience,” commented John Burbank, CEO of Nielsen Online. “While two-thirds of the global online population already accesses member community sites, their vigorous adoption and the migration of time show no signs of slowing.”
via Social Networking’s New Global Footprint | Nielsen Wire.
Call it viral, buzz or word-of-mouth advertising: Getting customers to spread the word about a new product through their social or professional networks is a hot strategy in the marketing world. Its proponents insist that the technique — whether online or face-to-face — is sure to boost a companys return on investment ROI.
But how can companies find the right individuals to deliver the message? Marketers may wonder if they are finding the best “seeding points” — that is, well-connected people at the hub of social networks who will latch on to a product and promote it widely among the people they know.
New research led by Wharton marketing professors Raghuram Iyengar and Christophe Van den Bulte, working with University of Southern California preventive medicine professor Thomas W. Valente, has found that traditional targets may not be as influential as previously thought. The pharmaceutical firm that sponsored the research for their recently published paper, “Opinion Leadership and Social Contagion in New Product Diffusion,” had its “a-ha” moment when they found Physician No. 184 on a map.
via The Buzz Starts Here: Finding the First Mouth for Word-of-Mouth Marketing – Knowledge@Wharton.