In preparation for attending the Privacy Identify Innovation conference here in Seattle with peers, my recent conversations have been around the kind of data that Edward Snowden and related NSA leaks stirred up. These conversations live in another dimension almost as spooky as the Twilight Zone. While the NSA is in the center of this …
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This is one of those stories about WordPress you should read, because it affects you even if you don’t use (or even know about) WordPress. Why? On April 15th, the United States Department of Homeland Security, Computer Emergency Readiness Team issued a warning of an “ongoing campaign targeting the content management software WordPress…” On the …
As someone who has been involved in social media before it was social media, I’ve been doing a lot of learning. Roughly one-third of my day is learning. I read blogs, listen to audio casts, and play videos on my secondary monitors while I work. It’s hard to cut through all the noise, but if you …
If you read part I of Seattle News and Social Media, you are probably beginning to ask some of the right questions about how news drives traffic and attention. As we dive deeper on how Seattle News is consumed, we need to understand how keywords are related to it. This section will cover some strategies …
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As part of an on-going research study I’ve been monitoring and comparing all sorts of different media sources ranging from public television, stock markets, and local Seattle news. One of the interesting examples I can share for the local community happens to be the local news scene, an interesting mixture of news and syndication channels …
In order to apply social media for business: pull yourself out of the marketing buzz. This article gives a starting framework for developing a departmental matrix for on-going social media initiatives that is focused on revenue and business goals. It addresses the driving factors of why people make decisions and use certain tools (without focusing on …
When you think about online analytics tools, chances are you immediately think about a specific niche of your online model where a significant issue resides. Unfortunately this causes a lot of problems, as many of us become fixated on the problems in front of us and don’t realize that the problem is being caused by …
Lets face it… There is so much data that it is an incredible task to actually comprehend it. Like looking at a TV screen full of static… trying to rationalize if one pixel means something. In order to make the data actionable we need to really focus on tools to clarify what we are looking …
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Rather than go into how you do online competitive intelligence, I’m just going to run through a free list of tools that have earned themselves and honorable mention here and give you some awesome tidbits for finding information online. I review competitive information on a daily basis; Ihave to warn you that its a lot …
