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George's site, PR140, is a URL-shortener for public relations professionals, focused on the idea that it would only be used for PR pitches and stories, making it easier for journalists to track. As the site catches on, "[j]ournalists and other web watchers following [these tweets] will see the pitch" and recognize it as such by the pr140.com portion of the link address.

Great rundown of social media and new media success in 2008

2008 was a newsworthy - albeit, topsy-turvy - year for marketers and researchers. Importantly, social media evolved from experimental sideline to a mainstream attraction. Twitter saw huge growth rates, Barack Obama rewrote the rules of digital marketing, and user-engagement, and "service is marketing" Zappos.com re-wrote new rules for building brands and rewiring e-commerce. Facebook trended upward, MySpace held steady, and reputation-broker Wikipedia continued marching to the top of Google search results.

Some quick hit items that may help you have a better web strategy in 2009.

Kind of a light hearted step by step for Internet Marketers. Usually I fly past any list of more than 10 items...but this one caught my eye thanks to Lisa Solomon at www.freemoneyhour.com.

Though registered via GoDaddy, the owner of this site (a GoDaddy affiliate) has lowered his prices to rock-bottom rates.

This seems darn good - run by Brian Johnson of Commission Ritual fame.

A list of niches at ezine-articles.com.

Earlier today we shared 5 Bing SEO Tips and how Bing is starting to generate a good amount of traffic to our websites. Compete.com says Bing is the #13 trafficked website on the web now so it's a good time to learn how to optimize your website for Bing.

The article provides a quick overview if you want to start optimizing pages for Microsoft's search engine. Especially I never used the Bing webmaster center in combination with Google's tool before.

Great new tool for recording online video interviews (free!). Thanks Dave Kaminski at www.webvideouniversity.com

Excellent hack using the ipad box! I can't wait for version 2 of the ipad because I'm on it.

The future of news is playing out. Why even have employed reporters? At some point, the news may be far BETTER when served up by a cadre of individuals. Who knows.

Great tool for bigger Search Engine Marketing campaigns

Clickable's immediate activation and intuitive user experience make it easy to manage pay-per-click marketing across all major ad networks. Powerful recommendations and reporting make you more efficient, effective and confident with your search advertising - even at first login.

Great post from Michael Fruchter on getting started in Social Media... Everything from personal branding to blogging to Twitter

Getting started with social media, whether for personal or professional use, requires learning the basic fundamentals. Social media is more than just creating a blog or Twitter account. The tools are great and give us big advantages, but they are simply extensions of how we engage and participate in social media, they are not the answers. The social in social media is all about the human element. This post touches upon 40 key elements to aid your success.

That is disturbing!

Some of these *really* do work.. I'm testing others on GetANewBrowser.com

Some of these are re-hashed but it's a great review on ways to optimize your website to increase RSS subscribers

New tool for Auto direct messages on Twitter, among other things. Still a little rough, but growing. Paul O'Mahoney (The Twitter King) is collaborating with the programmer setting this thing up and making it better.

What I liked about this was that they created a REAL, content-rich website to market each of their products.