Creating a Social Media Command Center Using WordPress

Working with all different sizes of clients has taught me a few valuable lessons, there is one lesson though holds true through the largest organization to the smallest of  businesses. People want to be efficient. Well that is the nice way of saying it. One way to look at it is that people are inherently lazy and won’t do anything unless they have to. (See efficient sounds so much better, …

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 @ 11:39 am by Kevin

Consumer Trends for 2010

This year cemented Twitter as the king of real-time,  forever changing the way we share and absorb information.   Heading into 2010, the market research firm TrendSpotting just published a collaboration of consumer behavior trends by digital media experts.  This year they asked the participants to give their predictions and analysis  in a Tweet style format, 140 characters or less.  We wish everyone a happy and healthy New Year.  Good …

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009 @ 1:30 am by Tim

Tweeting for Visitors

After having a few days to relax over the Holidays, I’ve had some time to comb through and analyze our monthly Blog/Twitter traffic for November/December.  I’m happy to report a 451% increase in monthly visits to our site in December!  Analyzing how our web traffic relates to our presence on Twitter (twitter.com/convertiv) provided some interesting correlating metrics.  Not surprisingly, our top three days in terms of web traffic directly overlaped our top three …

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Sunday, December 27, 2009 @ 8:29 pm by Tim

A VC/Visionary's Recap of 2009

Forget the boring “Top 10 Lists,” listen to Rich Wong, investor in some of the hottest companies in mobile (Admob, Getjar) and social (Facebook, Groupon).  Below is a great interview via @scobleizer of Rich recapping 2009 and giving his predictions of 2010; covering topics such as the unexpected growth of social e-commerce, how apps vs mobile web is a non-argument, and the convergence of SEO/SEM and Social Media Optimization.

Tuesday, December 22, 2009 @ 6:55 am by Tim

What will the impact of WP Plugins be?

Yesterday I logged into WordPress and noticed that there were multiple updates available for my plugins. Nothing shocking considering the latest version of WordPress had just come out. When I upgraded the All in One SEO Pack plugin I noticed that there was a new update on the top of the plugin announcing that there was a “Pro Version” of the plugin through WP Plugins. I checked out the WP …

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Sunday, December 20, 2009 @ 10:10 am by Kevin

Google Goggles Review

Officially, I found out about the Google Goggles release on the MSNBC report last week along with the rest of the world.  Unofficially, I’ve known Google has been investing heavily in their image search technology for about 18 months.  In August of 2006

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 8:14 am by Tim

Seth Godin's eBook "What Matter's Now"

Seth Godin has recently published an eBook called What Matters Now, where he collaborated with 70 of today’s ‘big thinkers’such as, Jason Fried, Arianna Huffington, Tim O’Reilly, and Fred Wilson to create a must read for anyone intrigued by the possibilities of the year ahead. Godin released the eBook on his Blog yesterday in typical fashion, “Have fun. Here’s to a year with ideas even bigger than these.” With all …

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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 @ 7:31 am by Tim