May 2012
6 posts
Hearst Gets More Social for Fathers Day
Our friends over at Hearst Digital making social fun in time for Fathers Day. Way to go Digital! Nice TC ups!
http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/23/hearsts-latest-social-launch-a-redbook-app-for-fathers-day/
Search Engine Land's take on Knowledge Graph →
February 2012
2 posts
Wikipedia has grown from 90% of searches to..... →
Finding Google Certified Professionals
January 2012
2 posts
Develop Productivity Rituals →
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Tony Schwartz, president and CEO of The Energy Project, lists the…
December 2011
3 posts
How To Track Emerging Search Engine Blekko In Web... →
More than a year has passed since search engine upstart blekko launched, yet Web marketing analysts using digital media measurement tools like Google Analytics won’t have seen any traffic attributed…
Developing Mindful Leaders →
Organizations invest billions annually on a success curriculum known as “leadership development,” which ends up leaving so much on the table. Training and development programs almost universally…
October 2011
19 posts
12 Tips For Using Press Releases In Local Online... →
Press releases have long been a preferred (and now a patented) part of optimizing sites; when done well, they can be a good method for link building on steroids. Larger corporations often use the…
Search In Pics: Bing Seahawks Ad, Yahoo Acting... →
In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys…
Anger as a Binding Force, in Chambers of Commerce... →
Managers draw on a wide range of human motivations. But anger is not usually included in the textbooks: angry workers are not usually reliable employees, and workers don’t usually like angry…
New Google+ Setting: Control Your Inbound... →
Google has just announced a new Google+ setting that I’m sure will be a big hit: the ability to control who can send you notifications. As Google’s Kathleen Ko explains in a Google+ post, this is…
On Dr. Ralph Steinman and Steve Jobs →
A visionary who influenced the lives of countless millions across the world has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He is Dr. Ralph Steinman, a biologist who on Monday, three days after…
Tweets About Steve Jobs Spike But Don’t Break... →
As with Google, Twitter saw a spike in activity related to the death of Steve Jobs. However, the company said that the number of tweets per second didn’t break new records.
The Peak Records
Twitter…
Steve Jobs: A Perfect CEO →
An interview with Steven Levy, senior writer at Wired and author of The Perfect Thing and Insanely Great. Download this podcast
Why Good Leaders Pass the Credit and Take the... →
A few years ago my colleague Flemming Norrgren and I asked a long-tenured European CEO how he came up with the idea for his company’s radical and new strategic direction. “Oh, that’s an interesting…
Apple’s Steve Jobs Has Died by @dannysullivan →
Apple cofounder, chairman and former CEO Steve Jobs has died today at age 56. Apple’s board issued the following statement about his death: We are deeply saddened to announce that Steve Jobs passed…
Remembering Steve Jobs and a Life Lived on His... →
My last encounter with Steve Jobs was in 2007, when he came to Time magazine, my former employer, to give us a peek at Apple’s newest gadget: the iPhone. He showed off the product, and then passed…
As Buyers Circle Yahoo, Will It Be Carved Up? by... →
Now that it’s for sale, there are several reports indicating multiple buyers are interested in some or all of Yahoo. Among the names mentioned are Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, Yahoo…
Keeping Your Clients Loyal, From Wherever You Are →
This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. For building the kind of enduring client relationships necessary for long-term growth, nothing replaces face-to-face contact….
Can HP Change its DNA? →
I remember attending a Hewlett-Packard meeting for industry analysts in the early 1990s and hearing HP proudly declare that it was becoming a software company. Software had turned into a stronger…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, October 3, 2011 by... →
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Hot At Sphinn: Digg’s Irrelevance, Facebook’s Timeline,…
Africa's Growth Opportunity →
This post is part of the HBR Insight Center Growing the Top Line. In March 2000, The Economist featured what we consider to be one of the most shocking covers of our times. It had a child…
Why I'm Buying an iPhone5 →
If Tim Cook announces an iPhone 5 with only basic aesthetic changes, I will still shell out $299 to upgrade my iPhone 4 on launch day. This is not a fact that I am proud to admit, but it is…
Facebook Launches “People Talking About This”... →
Facebook is launching a new “People Talking About This” metric for fan pages this week, designed to show conversations happening about a brand or page owner across the web. It’s part of an upgraded…
Google Panda 2.5: Losers Include Today Show, The... →
Searchmetrics has a pretty good track record of figuring out who lost after one of Google’s Panda Updates. Among the latest victims of this week’s Panda Update 2.5, some unexpected surprises: popular…
Keep Listening, but Start Talking →
When we meet with prospective investors, I don’t speak much, and for good reason. There are three founding partners: Clayton Christensen, Matt Christensen, and me. When Clay is in the room,…
September 2011
17 posts
Chromezone: Google Opens A Retail Store In London →
Years from now, when we’re comparing the number of Google, Apple and Microsoft branded stores around the world, let’s remember that, for Google, it all began in late September 2011 with a small…
Google: No Longer Guessing About Celebrity Sexual... →
Wondering if some celebrity is Gay, Lesbian, Straight or Bisexual? Plenty of people do and turn to Google to find out. But the search engine just stopped offering direct answers about these…
Francis Ford Coppola on Family, Fulfillment, and... →
An interview with Francis Ford Coppola, acclaimed film director. For more, read the Life’s Work section in the October issue of HBR. Download this podcast
Holiday Season Countdown Kickoffs For Online... →
Driving back from work today, my lovely wife mentioned that she can’t wait to have a pumpkin spiced latte and then proceeded with the list of holiday gifts that she would like to receive. This can…
Build Your Team Like an Executive →
Virtually all leaders espouse the benefits of a strong management team. However, they use starkly different levers to build one. These differences in philosophy and approach frequently…
The Art Of Seductive Landing Pages →
People don’t just want to be educated about what you offer. They want to be seduced. Yes, seduced. Being seduced is an exhilarating experience. (If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend it.)…
Why You Still Haven't Gotten a Job →
They say, “If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always gotten.” So why do we repeat things that we know aren’t working? Take jobseekers who send out hundreds,…
Search Engines & 9/11: Remembrances Today; Some... →
The major search engines are all memorializing the 10th anniversary of 9/11 on their home pages today. Below, a recap, some some reflections on two major ways search engines have changed since that…
Bing “Easter Eggs” That Imply Google Is “Evil” And... →
Today on Google Plus, Andy Arnt – a software engineer at Google – posted about two Bing “Easter Eggs” that take shots at Google, searches that take digs at Google in the answers that show at the top…
Decisions, Not Events, Shaped Leaders After 9/11 →
Ten years after four airliner crashes in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, many are reflecting on how those events changed the course of history. But it was not 9/11 itself that changed…
One Year Later, Bing-Powered Search Takes 4%... →
It’s been a year since Bing began powering the natural search results on Yahoo and the combination has gained a little more than 4% market share in the U.S. since then. Google has dropped more than…
All Business Is Green Business →
Featured Guest: Jib Ellison, founder of Blu Skye and coauthor of the forthcoming HBR article The Sustainable Economy. Download this podcast
Stopping the Mid-Career Crisis →
Organizations need talent more than talent needs them. Mid-career professionals weigh this truism as they consider ways to align their desires with their future career aspirations. These…
Search Engine Land Coming to NYC – SMX East Starts... →
Panda-proof your content. Effectively retarget without backlash. Maximize mobile and local search opportunities. Attend Search Engine Land’s conference – SMX East for over 55 sessions covering search…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 2, 2011 →
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Nearly 90% Of Twitter Users Follow Brands & Just 10.9% Of…
Google Estimates How High You’ll Need To Bid To Be... →
Now that you know how your AdWords perform on the top of the page, versus on the side, the next question is how much it’ll cost you for that (presumably) better performance. Google aims to answer…
Exploiting Beauty in the Workplace →
Catherine Hakim, a professor of sociology at the London School of Economics, has shattered the last great taboo of the workplace: professional women should use their “erotic capital” — beauty, sex…
SearchCap: The Day In Search, August 31, 2011 →
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: Google Tightens Review Process For New AdSense Publishers…