Twitter is fairly unique in terms of allowing one to broadcast to many, on a subscription basis, in real time. That's really the heart of Twitter, and what we consider the core.

55 essential articles I’ve come across that have positively influenced my blog decision-making and will undoubtedly help you too. I’ve also included a select few of my own past articles that are of relevance in order to “pay it forward.”

If you observe your business closely, in most of the cases you find, only 20 percent of invested input is responsible for 80 percent of the results obtained.

Prompted by comment elsewhere, Team Staufenberger have been re-reading our tatty old copy of Stephen King's 1974 Planning Guide and its unofficial companion: a Jeremy Bullmore speech to a conference of Kraft bigwigs in 1972.

That’s the ironic thing about “personal branding.” The key to effectively building your profile is the value you provide to others and what they say in result, not what you say about yourself.

What’s the latest thinking in B2B marketing? What techniques and trends are today’s best practice B2B marketers using to drive more revenue and demonstrate accountability?

This is her explanation of the top nine types of stories that people like to talk about. If you’re pitching your company to investors, customers, partners, journalists, vendors, or employees and you don’t use at least one of these story lines, you probably have a problem. And most likely you’re too close to what you’re doing,

The blogosphere is buzzing about a provocative June 24 essay by U.C. Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd suggesting that MySpace and Facebook users are dividing along race and class lines.

Of course - this post doesn’t really illustrate that StumbleUpon is better than Digg or that Digg is better than StumbleUpon. In fact, if anything it shows how they compliment each other quite nicely - I wouldn’t say no to being featured heavily on both!

Once they were your printing presses; now that humble device, the blog, has given the press to us. That’s why blogs have been called little First Amendment machines. They extend freedom of the press to more actors. Once it was your radio station, broadcasting on your frequency. Now that brilliant invention, podcasting, gives radio to us. And we have found more uses for it than you did. Shooting, editing and distributing video once belonged to you, Big Media. Only you could afford to reach a TV audience built in your own image. Now video is coming into the user’s hands, and audience-building by former members of the audience is alive and well on the Web. You were once (exclusively) the editors of the news, choosing what ran on the front page. Now we can edit the news, and our choices send items to our own front pages. A highly centralized media system had connected people “up” to big social agencies and centers of power but not “across” to each other. Now the horizontal flow, citizen-to-citizen, is as real and consequential as the vertical one.

As Doc Searls once said, “There is no market for messages.”  This is a hub between the company and its customers. It’s the new customer service, fusing marcom, PR and customer relations, all in one department.

Social media describes the online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and perspectives.

I have yet to see any positive responses to this new feature, and believe me, I have looked.

We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven't yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader. We want to convert people and if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn't yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes.

This is the third part of a three part series of posts on different RSS to Email Solutions. You can read Part 1 which reviews Feedburner’s system here and Part 2, a review of Feedblitz here.

According to a new white paper from the Council of PR Firms, in the next five years, “social media must become part of the way public relations practitioners do business or they will become obsolete.” From “Relating to the Public: The Evolving Role of Public Relations in the Age of Social Media,” available as a PDF here.

In his comment Jason talks about a ‘points system’ which he’s developed for helping him to keep his blog achieving the momentum that he wants it to. His daily goal is 50 points and different tasks get him different amounts of posts. I’ll let him explain (note - I’ve slightly reformatted his comments):

It struck me how many jobs a solo-blogger has. Do you ever think about how many hats you have to wear as a blogger?

Today I’m going to give you an overview of what RSS-to-Email services are out there, and help you pick the right one for your blog.

Over the weekend I managed to increase the number of subscribers to my Digital Photography School RSS feed by around 15%. Before Friday it was sitting at around the 20,000 subscriber mark and 3 days later it’s just over 23,000 subscribers.