Haha you've got to love Viktor Hertz's work, it's honest and teeny bit cheeky but brilliant. It's guaranteed to make you laugh - he's turned some of the most popular corporate brand logos into satirical designs. They're all honest, you'll find yourself agreeing with most of them unless you work at the company and are [...]

A few years ago, I put together a list of social media marketing examples. The list contains 324 examples of brands putting social media to use and at that point in the social media industry's evolution, it was the best of what was around (and still might be).

AOL Impact connects people with charities, makes it easy to get involved, and shares the missions of organizations simply doing amazing things.

This caught my eye as unique - if a little graphics heavy.

Oddly this was a list with no links.

Perhaps a case of less is more.

I've noticed a few great lists from KissMetrics.

Full screenshots grabbed my attention here. It's an old post, but got featured in a list of best posts on CMS Wire. A Meta List

There are no shortages of “predictions” articles, here I look at a dozen things that won’t happen in the world of online video in 2012, even though they should.

Interesting home page made from 3 lists. 2 that are scollable, 1 that's dynamic.

I liked the home page. Cute the way a list of items scrolls buy and the message changes

Cute post. I liked the visuals of the Tweets and the crowns as well as the fact the list is grouped by category.

Writing the day after Steve Jobs announced his resignation from Apple, Co.Design editor Cliff Kuang identifies what made the innovator special: his ability to look at tech as a user rather than as a line manager. When company executives talk strategy, the question, whether spoken or implicit, invariably is, How can we be more like Apple?

We proudly present to you the Top Ski Resorts In The World Of 2011. Resorts you can travel to in knowledge you have a good chance on fresh powder any given day. Data is up to 40 years of historic data gathered from meteorological institutes, not the resorts.

Inspired by Likeable media - and a similar effort by Brittany Berger - I started thinking about what I'd like to see in social media in 2012. Sticking to what I know, I've come up with three things for each of the four primary social networks I spend time on - Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn.

(or Hannukah Harry depending on your beliefs) It's that time of year again. Thanksgiving is over and everyone is in the holiday spirit. As I start to make my wish list, there's a few things the social media world would be happy to have.

Posted by Chad Pollitt on Thu, Dec 29, 2011 @ 06:37 AM There are over 200 attributes Google looks at in their search algorithm when determining where a website should rank. Many of them are known while others remain mysterious. Additionally, the weight assigned to the attributes in the algorithm and the relationships they have with each other are estimates.

What was the best of 2011’s blog posts? It’s a difficult question since, as Lisa Gerber points out, a lot depends on what’s happening at the time and what stands out on a particular subject. Further, take my word for it, writing strong, compelling content on a regular basis is hard work.

Look for Facebook to play a major role in what promises to an exciting year in politics. With the presidential race and congressional elections -- not to mention state and local races -- heating up in 2012, candidates and campaigns will be using Facebook in new and innovative ways.

I had the pleasure of having a great seat at Dreamforce a few weeks back, with Neil Young, MC Hammer, and a few other dignitaries seated just a few rows in front of me. I remember as I watched the opening keynote thinking, "I've got to blog about this."

(Left Photo Credit to: jirvinphotography) There's been some debate in the blogosphere about whether or not list posts make for good blog posts. On one hand, you have the advocates, who say that list posts earn them more traffic, and on the other, you have bloggers saying that list posts are boring and lazy.

So your out shopping for web hosting? Who are the best web hosting companies of 2011.Our#1 Web Hosting Pick is Hostgator and we offer a (1 CENT WEB HOSTING PROMO)

Happy new year! This is a new post format. Does this sort of once-a-week curation deliver any value, or is it just blog spam? Please let me know in the comments, on twitter (@robfitz), or via email (rob@thestartuptoolkit.com). Thanks! All the very best.

I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. Most were on paper and video; 20 were invited to pitch in person. You're probably making a lot of these errors too. Not that I blame you! After all, these became clear to me only after seeing hundreds of applications; you don't have the luxury of that perspective.

Regardless of your format of choice, hardcover, paperback or ebook, 2011 produced a bookshelf full of great marketing titles as well as more general business books. When it comes to marketing books, what's important is gathering input from a variety of sources and determining how to use the information to help move your business to the next level.

As we approach 2012 I thought I'd create a short post and provide some ideas for collaborative new years resolutions for organizations. Do you have another collaborative new years resolution to add? I'm really looking forward to 2012 with lots of exciting things just around the corner.

By Jeff Nolan on December 26, 2011 Gamification… the buzzword is all the rage and one thing I can't help but observe is that it means different things to everyone you talk with, even though the core concept of creating incentives for users of an app or service to do specific tasks is pretty well accepted.

I think this was one of the most web hyped products of 2011. In part due to the designer's background. I think this was one of the most web hyped products of 2011. In part due to the designer's background. My selection of best products from fastcodesign's best products.

After a week of torrid voting and much passionate support, along with a lot of gut-wrenching consideration and jostling during the judging round, I am proud to announce your Top 40 Innovation Bloggers of 2011: If your favorite didn't make the list, then next year try to rally more votes for them or convince them to become an Innovation Excellence contributing author and they'll earn more points based on the quality and the quantity of their contributions.

With the dawning of the new year, cities across the country are also getting a lot of new laws, as long planned changes in public policy on everything from fireworks sales to tobacco use to texting while driving finally go into effect.

Can't see the video? Click here! I'm making 2012 my year to do 12 things that, no matter the outcome, I will look back on the year proud of myself for having achieved them.

Tis the season for annual recaps and retrospectives. And while most such lists stem from a blogger's yearning for page views during the otherwise-quiet holiday season, some lists are actually interesting — even useful. One such list comes from Techmeme, one of the best tech news aggregators on the web, which releases an annual overview of the year's top stories.

Longtime readers will recall that in the early days of this blog, I would spend the last days of the year posting about music. I'd post a record every day for 10 to 14 days. These would be my top records of the year.

Posted on January 02, 2012 by Rob Petersen Forbes began this year with the prediction "2012 will be the year of content." They say "content marketing and social media marketing should be a part of every brand's marketing plan." But will your content be "share-worthy?"

By Jason Miller on January 3, 2012 Are you measuring your marketing efforts? As marketers in this day and age we should all be aware of the importance and growing pressure to measure and demonstrate marketing's ROI.

This service tweets your most played artists from last.fm to twitter once per week

2012 is going to be a big year for adoption of social media for B2B companies. We expect that early adopter companies will move even further out in front by becoming social in many areas of their business, while more of the second wave adopters will begin to see value in social media and move forward with planning and execution.

Every Monday we blog about writing, and Thursdays we post a collection of our favorite writing posts from the last week. Have a link to share - leave it in the comments. For great writing linkage every day (stuff we don't share here), ‘Like' the GWP Facebook page.

In the spirit of the new year, how many of you are starting up new book projects? Or dusting off an old project with more determination than ever to make it breakout novel quality?

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Facebook’s recent change to the News Feed has put greater pressure on Brands to feed more relevant content than ever before. Due to Facebook's distribution algorithm, Edge Rank, which is based on engagement; the majority of pages reach less than 1% of their fan base.  Big Problem!  In our recent post Social Ménage à Trois in Paid, Earned and Owned Media we addressed the fact that social is making a major impact in the way media is being integrated.

A couple of useful lists created by the #measure community on Twitter. Please vote & add to those lists!

Established in 2010 by James Agate, Skyrocket SEO is a thriving consultancy practice specialising in search engine optimisation (SEO). We offer big agency thinking and talent with a small consultancy hunger to deliver. We believe that the success of our clients is inextricably linked with our own success.

One year into blogging and 150 posts later, I've learned a lot. And you know what? The biggest lessons I've learned have come from personal experience, not from the countless blog posts I've read trying to figure out what I was "supposed to be doing" with a blog.

After a very successful HubSpot Twitter chat on Tuesday (join us for the next one on January 24th at 3:30 PM EST!) about business blogging and content creation, one discussion point stood out among the rest: everyone we spoke with acknowledged the importance of business blogging for inbound marketing success, but many people said that, despite their best efforts, it's really hard to find enough time to do so on a regular basis.

Curated content, or content aggregated from various sources into one comprehensive resource (be it a blog post, an ebook, a presentation, etc.) can be a valuable part of any marketer's content mix. That said, the process of actually curating it isn't easy.

I'm continuing to time shift my consumption of audio: instead of listening to the radio in the car/work, I download a week's worth of investing/finance/business podcasts on Sunday for my listening and learning. I load up iTunes, sync with my iPod, and have a listening library of great financial content for the whole week.

Last year, public relations executive was No. 2 on the annual list of stressful jobs.

For some reason (my wife), I got sucked into the annual Barbara Walters special featuring the most fascinating people of 2011. Some of the folks I do actually find fascinating (Simon Cowell, for example). Others, not so much (the Kardashians--are you kidding me? Aren't they the OPPOSITE of fascinating?).

Perspective: Embrace open source, hands-free, QR and VR technologies. My top 10 tech wish list for real estate agents in 2012: 1. MLS data becomes common The National Association of Realtors finally gets their act together to form a new committee to look at developing a common multiple listing service data model (not RPR) and a common data-sharing model (think XML feed).

How did you do this year? Did your blog attract new readers? Were you able to grow your email list? Did you try guest posting? After looking through my notes and google analytic reports I uncovered a few techniques that worked exceptionally well this year.

Making resolutions is easy. Keeping them is the hard part. If you made promises to yourself on New Year's Day, you may well have discovered (or rediscovered) that fact already. But as with so many tasks in modern life, there are now apps and online tools that can make those daunting promises a little more manageable.

Blog post at Social-able : Building a list is critical to succeed in business.  The saying

What are the hottest industry segments going into 2012? The overall economy may have a stubborn gray(ish) cloud above it, but there are a more than a few industries with significant expectations for growth in the new year.

Email marketing can be profitable for any business, no matter what kind of product or service you offer. It is significantly cheaper than other advertising methods and, if done right, helps build loyalty and trust with customers. As a result, you generate more sales and more profits!

What topped annual list?

Some careers are more depression-prone than others. Trust me, I've had a few of them myself. Here are 10 fields (out of 21 major job categories) in which full-time workers are most likely to report an episode of major depression in a given year. But if you want to be a nurse (No.

There's no doubt that 2012 is going to be a great year. Thus far, we've survived the Mayan Calendar prediction, but what's next to be excited about? This elite top 40 list, duh. Seriously, the people on this list are changing the way that fitness is done.

A list of the top blogs in the Marketing category based on 20+ different factors including RSS membership, Number of incoming links, social media, monthly visits.

It has come down to this. The final installment is here. Numbers 10-1 in The Footy Blog's top 100 footballers. Three months ago I came up with this project and thanks to the help of the panelists and you, the Footy Show fans, it has grown into something bigger than I ever could have imagined.

Congratulations to the companies ranked among the "Top 100 North American Employers Using Twitter To Recruit In 2011" . Great job using Social Media to attract, influence, engage and recruit! Top Ten Ranked Companies Using Social Media To Recruit (as of December 31, 2011): 9.

Your leads are only as good as the website that produces them. Fortunately, designing a landing page that's built for leads doesn't have to be overwhelming or time-consuming. By looking at examples of some of the best converting lead generation websites, you can learn precisely what works - and most importantly, why it works.

We received over 570 nominations for our third-annual Top 10 Social Media Blogs contest (the blogosphere’s biggest contest for social media blogs). The list of 20 finalists is pretty impressive! Take a look for yourself below.

Not every woman in comics has been killed, raped, depowered, crippled, turned evil, maimed, tortured, contracted a disease or had other life-derailing tragedies befall her, but given the following list (originally compiled by Gail, with later additions and changes), it's hard to think up exceptions: All of Savage Dragon's girlfriends (dead)Alysande Stuart (dead)Amethyst (blinded, merged with Gemworld, destroyed in LSH; became a power-hungry witch in Book of Fate)Apparition (one of her three bodies dead, soul bound to boyfriend)Aquagirl (dead)Arisia (dead)Aurora (Multiple Personality Disorder, depowered)Batgirl I (paralyzed)Batwoman (dead)Betty Banner (abused, changed into a harpy, multiple miscarriages, dead)Mrs.

This is my failure at avoiding list-making at the end of the year. I’ve loved mixing it up with leaders and innovators in my particular profession, but it’s the Clevelanders that make Twitter worthwhile and keep me checking my feed a few times a day.

These are not your moma's Christmas songs...

Welcome to the new High Scores! Following last year's debut, we polled our staff and contributing writers on their favorite videogames of 2011. Every writer received a pool of 100 points to distribute among up to 10 games, and this week we uncover the top 25 in the rankings.

The 3 Types of Interaction to Remember in Your Twitter Marketing Campaign Twitter is the one social networking site that remains very simple on the outside but still has a lot of depth to it. Marketing with Twitter gives you a bit more leverage in ways other social networks can restrain you.

2011 has been a pretty incredible year and as this is my last planned blog post until January, I figured it would be a great time to curate some of the best posts I've read all year on SEO, content marketing, social media, conversion and more.

Greetings and Happy New Year! To kick off 2012, some of you may think of giving your Facebook Page a facelift. There may be some features you wish to add such as custom iframe tabs with fan gate option or ideas to encourage fans engagement on your Page.

While discussing possible names for a product recently, someone asked me if we were at the point where getting the perfect domain name was less important than it used to be. While I'm still a sucker for a clean .com, it does seem less important, and it will continue to become less important, for at least five reasons:

Let’s move on from bad examples and inflated egos, and instead look at social business ROI reporting in a more productive way. Here is a quick 5-step guide in case you ever want to publish your own report or list of social business ROI examples:

Ranking the top blogs and bloggers in advertising, marketing and media.

Thu, Jan 12 2012 10:06 AM A Best Practice of World Class Communities is to Encourage Ownership of the Community by Members One of the strategies Telligent encourages for building World Class Communities is to encourage a level of ownership of the community by its members.

There are many parts of the male anatomy that are more suitably covered by loose, draped fabrics. The lumpy bits, but also the other ones. Anything described as a "bit," in fact, should have its contours kept well away from prying eyes.

Dean is a Sr. Recruiter / Staffing Professional with over 16 years of experience at top companies such as Avanade, Microsoft, DMR, HP and more. Matt is a talent management and social media professional with expertise in social media recruiting and employer branding, employee engagement and retention, brand management, public relations, internal communications and process improvement/change management.

Meet the bloggers for the multi-author blog TalentCulture. A career management and workplace culture blog.

Ranking the top blogs and bloggers in advertising, marketing and media.

Writing the subject lines for your emails can be one of the most stressful steps of email marketing. Is it engaging? Too short? Too long? Too boring? Will people click 'delete' because of it? Or will they open it? Will it even get to them, or will it trigger SPAM filters?

Posted by Rachel Sprung on Wed, Jan 11, 2012 @ 08:00 AM Pitching to the press is no easy task. Every day, journalists receive thousands of emails from public relations professionals who are pitching their clients' ideas; sometimes hundreds of mass pitches are sent to unsuspecting journalists from just one person in a given day.

Almost every day I am asked "How can I get my design to look just like yours?" Here is the secret sauce….so have fun and obsess. That's the first thing to obsess over. This may be the most challenging to-do on the list…..you may get lost here!

"Brilliant and real and true." -Rosanne Cash "Filled with well-formed advice that applies to nearly any kind of work." -Lifehacker.com "Beautiful."

This chat is a great way to keep up with issues pertinent to the business world today, with a new trending topic featured each week. Simply sign on to Twitter at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays to take part. Where better to learn about the latest in business than from the Harvard Business Review?

Twitter, the minimalist-format social network that claims to have 100 million users, has built its reputation around its simplicity. Members can post to the service only in text messages of 140 characters or less. They can include a link to another site, or to a photo or video.

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I responded to the recent news of the resignation of RIM's Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis with mixed emotions. As a Blackberry user and fan, it signals a possible change in direction to what I saw as an arrogant disregard for my patronage and loyalty.

As we learned from the comments on our 10 Most Annoying Restaurant Trends post, it seems that more than a few of our readers have very strong opinions about annoying server behavior. But as it turns out, there are also more than a few obnoxious things that diners do that can really make your server wanna pie you in the face.

If you're considering a website redesign or are wondering how to generate more leads from your website, there are several critical elements you must never forget to include. Let's first take a look at the homepage. Ah yes, "thee page of all pages." It's undoubtedly one of the most important areas on a website.

What's wrong with corporate job interviews? Pretty much everything. Interviews are the second most used and "flawed" tool in HR (right after performance appraisals). They are used and relied on around the world for hiring, transfers, promotions, and for selecting leaders.

This isn't link bait and it wasn't created using Klout or any other influence measure. I wanted to share this list because these are really smart people, many of whom I know personally, that influence my thinking, writing and inspiration to learn.

Few ‘best of' lists are emboldened to go to the depths required of a Top 100, searching high and low for a well-rounded compilation of individuals who make the largest impressions. We took the bait and compiled our first ever Top 100 Social Influencers List.

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Richard Millington is the founder of FeverBee Limited, an online community consultancy, and The Pillar Summit, an exclusive course in Professional Community Management. Richard's clients have included the United Nations, The Global Fund, Novartis, Oracle, OECD, BAE Systems, AMD and several youth & entertainment brands.

SBI: Measuring the Future of Social Business

Don't let all the hearts and flowers floating around on Pinterest fool you. Behind all that beauty, Pinterest is fast becoming a heavy hitting marketing tool.

Don't send a boring card to your sweetie this year, send a geeky one! We've picked our 10 favorites.

Don’t wait for people to smile.  Show them how. Let your guard down.  Talk to someone you don’t know straight from your heart.  Compliment them.  ...

Over the last couple of years I've been practicing 'ambush guerilla user testing', which is basically the art of pouncing on lone people in cafes and public spaces, and quickly filming them whilst they use a website for a couple of minutes.

18 Best Tools To Analyze Your Twitter Hotness Pretty much everyone that joins Twitter has a certain plan in mind to conquer this highly respected social media networking tool. Of course, it's not the easiest thing in the world to master the ins and outs of Twitter, but there are plenty of guides out there that will teach you how to do it.

There are so many everyday accessories and toiletries we take for granted - toothbrushes, toothpaste, soap, shampoo, deodorant. Read more Like this. 43 people liked this.See all Share your own idea Hold the Door Open for Someone Holding the door open for someone is something they just do in old movies, right?

18 Best Tools To Analyze Your Twitter Hotness Pretty much everyone that joins Twitter has a certain plan in mind to conquer this highly respected social media networking tool. Of course, it's not the easiest thing in the world to master the ins and outs of Twitter, but there are plenty of guides out there that will teach you how to do it.

Six years ago I first set foot in Silicon Valley to attend one of the early "Hack Day" events that are now perpetual. It was an event where fellow nerds were creating web-apps using whatever technology they could get their hands on. VC's and Valley luminaries were judging and dishing out fat prizes.

An unexpected and, to some of our panel, controversial number one, the founder of Virgin Group (or "the smiley man with the beard", as he's styled on his blog) is a bigger force in social media than many people realise.

Are you a beginner when it comes to crowdsourcing? Don't worry; you're not alone. To many business and entrepreneurs, crowdsourcing seems like an elusive concept. Have the public do the work for you? How does that work? Isn't it cheating? Even if you're familiar with crowdsourcing, you might not realize how simple and sensible it really is.

The crowdsourcing and crowdfunding industry is picking up momentum at an exceptional rate: venture capitalists invested over $280 million dollars in crowdsourcing and crowdfunding platforms in 2011.

Last night, Apple reached the expected milestone of 25 billion apps downloaded from the App Store since the official opening in 2008. Whilst we're waiting for the company to announce the winner of a $10,000 App Store gift card, Apple has updated its App Store page that lists the all-time top paid and free apps to reflect the changes occurred in the past 12 months. You may remember Apple posted a similar page in January of last year ahead of 10 billion downloads, and has been tweaking the entries ever since, keeping track of overall downloads in the App Store. We've compiled the charts (which include 25 apps each) below.

Editor's Note: More hot-off-the-press live coverage from the Affiliate Management Days conference. The science of influence and persuasion is the topic in

This was just so brilliant I had to re-post it here in its entirety. The 12 most powerful words in business from Ragans PR daily. Office conference rooms, cubicles, corner offices, and common areas...

Like moths being drawn to a Martha Stewart decorative candle, brands are flocking to Pinterest. Whether you think they should or not doesn't really matter.

WordPress is used by 49% of the Technorati Top 100 blogs. It is the dominating blogging tool and is increasingly used as a CMS as well.

157 of the Most Useful Websites on the Internet

Todo (o casi todo) lo que necesites saber sobre el SEO de Pinterest, lo escribió Fernando Tellado en este gran post que, sin duda, os recomiendo: Pinterest y el SEO que lo crió. Partimos de un pager

Welcome to everyone in the Radical Nation. This week I have looked at a couple of cool programs that may allow productivity to spread through the team, or you can sit and watch interaction right before your eyes. Last week I received a call from Nick Kellet over at List.ly. For those who haven’t

Social media plays an important role in search. Therefore, marketers should ensure that their social media marketing is optimized for their key search terms. Here are fifteen search experts' recommendations for social media.