First up, just learned of the Annual Podcast Awards and  it would be awesome if you nominated the show for the 7th Annual Podcast Awards. (<– click that link to nominated Defining New Media) Next we have a few stories before we cover the week in review: Google Plus has released API access. Can [...]

  Would it surprise you if LinkedIn could use your picture and name in 3rd party advertising? I’m guessing it doesn’t surprise you but it’s already in place and it’s on by default. For those out there that might be concerned with this here’s how to turn it off: 1. Click on your name on [...]

  Google has release some new interesting search features. Now nothing new here but still very interesting. Check out the blog post or watch the videos below. First up is search by image. See video below: Next we have search by voice. I’ve tested this and it works great. Both of these features have been [...]

It sounds like Google is planning more significant changes to their algorithm this year to improve search quality and clear out spammy results, though none as large in scope as the Panda update. So how should SEOs prepare? To find out, I asked several SEO experts about recent reports that Google may consider adjusting the [...]

If it seems like American teens are texting all the time, it’s probably because on average they’re sending or receiving 3,339 texts a month. That’s more than six per every hour they’re awake – an 8 percent jump from last year. In focus groups conducted earlier this week as part of ExactTarget’s Subscribers, Fans and [...]

A new advertising platform will give consumers a bit more control over the advertising they are interest in. How? By allowing the consumer to ‘keep’ ads of interest. Called AdKeeper, the platform works by consumers pushing a ‘keep’ button, this saves the ad so that the consumer can return to it at a later time. [...]

Free Group Texting. GroupMe makes life easy for you and your groups. It’s your real-life network, in your pocket. Check out GroupMe.com, looks like cool new tool. With 500 million people using Facebook and Twitter seeing more than two billion tweets per month, one would assume that social media usage is skyrocketing. New research from [...]

Today we cover a few topics from mobile marketing, to new displays that can tell who is looking at them. I also suggest that we focus on Place-based marketing. Also, if you are in the twin cities area check out our Social media workshops. Out-of-home mall advertising specialist EYE and Ace Marketing & Promotions are [...]

When we talk about permission marketing what is the one strategy you should have in place. Above email marketing, social media marketing, even search? We talk about that today and I mention a great case study on MMS. The shoes that Julie Matlin recently saw on Zappos.com were kind of cute, or so she thought. [...]

Today we talk about mobile marketing and mobile technology. The first thing I mention is the new patent from Apple entitled: “Systems and Methods for Identifying Unauthorized Users of an Electronic Device.”, read more about that here. Also another great story from Clickz on the touch points you or a network has with you. How [...]