Archive for June, 2010

Hiring A Product To Do A Job

June 19, 2010

Tony Ulwick, Founder and CEO, Strategyn describes his firm’s process for designing products to do specific jobs.

Advertising Fundamentals Exam Study Materials

June 18, 2010

Studying for the AdWords Certification program while also doing fifty other things can become a bit overwhelming.

To help me better understand Google’s study materials, I created the following mindmap.

AdWords Fundamentals Exam Study Materials

AdWords Fundamentals Exam Study Material

Edit Your Videos Online

June 17, 2010

Introducing YouTube’s new online editor:
http://youtube.com/editor

If you have any problems or questions relating to the editor, please post in the YouTube Help Forum:

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p…

The Cursor

June 16, 2010

The cursor:

The Cursor

The Cursor

Doesn’t the success or failure of your business to some degree rest on the tip of this tiny yet powerful device?

Oklahoma County Oklahoma Net Population Migration

June 15, 2010

Forbes.com has a great tool for visualizing Net Population Migration for every county in the United States during 2008.

Find out whether your county a was net population gainer or loser by visiting Forbes.com.

Oklahoma County, OK Net Population Migration

Oklahoma County, OK Net Population Migration

Forbes used IRS data to create its map.

From Forbes:

Source: Internal Revenue Service data. The IRS only reports inter-county moves for more than 10 people, so some moves are not shown on this map.

Making Connections?

June 14, 2010

How many new connections or reconnections are you making each and every day?

Makling Connections

Makling Connections?

Aren’t connections a requisite for producing results whether in your book of business or career?

What would connecting with ten known or yet as unknown people a day do for either?

Google Adwords Campaign Experiments

June 13, 2010

To improve the AdWords experience, Google is testing a new tool that helps advertisers optimize their account.

The AdWords Campaign Experiments, or ACE, does this by letting advertisers accurately test and measure changes to their keywords and bids, ad groups and placements.

This video describes step 1 of running an experiment: setting campaign experiment parameters.

Scrubbing Other People’s Tweets; Then Retweeting As Your Own

June 12, 2010

I wonder how often a Twitter user creates a Tweet that gets grabbed by another Twitter account and then gets retweeted as its own?

I noticed this happened with my one of my Tweets last week.

The tweet at the bottom of the following screen shot contains my headline with the poster’s Bit.ly link – not mine – to the story I wrote on my blog.

My Tweet Scrubbed; Retweeted

My Tweet Scrubbed; Retweeted

While my blog would get the benefit of any traffic this Tweet sent, the grab a tweet, scrub and retweet model seems dubious at best.

Google: Follow Your Team in The World Cup

June 11, 2010

Google is offering a customized World Cup Soccer experience via the browser and iGoogle home page.

Google Follow Your Team

Google Follow Your Team

With the World Cup being the world’s largest sporting event, Google’s offer will surely be widely embraced and adopted by its global audience.