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@Biz – Hello World http://bit.ly/bpHYWH

@adamcahill - The iAd team visited @hillholliday yesterday and briefed us. @vedrashko wrote up a great summary of what we heard: http://bit.ly/bBYx9N

@steph38103 – I reckon I wanna go to @tribecamp

@louisgray -  Twazzup Opens Up Rich Twitter Web Client, Launches Insights http://goo.gl/fb/15nJE

@Alex – The Twitter Development Roadmap – Where Twitter Is Heading http://tnw.to/15xac

@RavenPratt - Really cool fan page poll application created by @nfusion – love seeing ways like this to encourage interaction http://kl.am/axRI

Overheard on Twitter This Past Week is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

Here are a few article that have caught my eye recently.

• Do Mobile Coupons Matter? – Forrester breaks down which consumers are using mobile coupons, what technologies are on the forefront and if your company should begin to support mobile coupons.
• Rapportive – a simple CRM tool built right into GMail (Firefox add-on)
• How to Create a Text Marketing Campaign – Straight-forward advice for small businesses along with some great tools to help you get started with your first SMS campaign.
• Landing Page Makeover Clinic from CopyBlogger
• Best Keyword Ranking Tools for SEO (video) – paid and free versions
• Keep your website up to date with these SEO Health Checks
• AlertRank is like Google Alerts on Steroids -  each site in your alert will be rated based on an algorithm that takes into account the overall value and influence of the source

Online Marketing Articles I’m Reading This Week is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

• 35 Beautiful and Effective E-commerce Sites. One of my predictions for 2010 is that “experience” will be the big web buzzword.  Smashing Magazine has put together a set of attractive online stores that try to do just that by creating an eye-catching look and also focusing on usability.
• Google SEO Resource for Beginners.  Straight from the mouth of the 800lb gorilla, Google hands out SEO bananas for you to make your site leaner and meaner in 2010.
• Posterous taps Post.ly to help share your media via Twitter. Attach photos, music, videos and docs to your tweets.  Post.ly takes care of the rest.
• Chris Guillebeau over at The Art of Non-Conformity kicks off his $100 business forum.  The premise being to teach individuals to start small businesses on a budget of less than $100.  I was lucky enough to get into the first class beginning in February.  I’ll keep you updated on how it works out.
• Microsoft makes learning Office fun (yes, you read that right).  Microsoft turns learning Office into a game where participants score points for unlocking challenges and achievements. Badges can then be shown off via Facebook.
• How to create custom YouTube, Twitter and MySpace backgrounds

If you’re interested in seeing more, check out my Google Reader Shared Items.

What are you reading this weekend? Let me know in the comments below.

Here’s What I’m Reading This Weekend is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

• Do-it-yourself iPhone applications – Great article covering a services such as Swebapps and GameSalad that help you get your iPhone app or game off the ground with little investment.  ReadWriteWeb also published 13 tools to build your own iPhone app.
• 100 Social Media and Content Marketing Predictions for 2010 and 10 Must-Do Marketing Tips for 2010
• Scobleizer’s challenge to start a 15-min Twitter business for $100
• 2010: The Year Marketing (as we know it) Dies – Forrester contemplates the next year being a time in which big brands will be forced to be transparent, open and focus on smaller niches. Campaigns will become relationships, impressions transform into experiences and you’ll be required to earn the trust of your customers.  If you’re short on time, just read the bottom 1/3 of the article.
• Screenshots of Facebook’s redesign
• 20 examples of creative WordPress sites

Weekend Reading List is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

How-to Make Your Own URL Shortening Service is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

SEOMoz yammers it up during Whiteboard Friday to talk about visualization.  I think visualization is one of those new and sexy fields that you’ll hear more and more about in the near future.

SEOmoz Whiteboard Friday – Visualization from Scott Willoughby on Vimeo.

12seconds is updating their iPhone app to take advantage of the new OS 3.0.  The app, which should be available soon, will allow you to send short video messages directly to your friends via twitter.

Back ‘dat thing up and pick up some great tips about landing page design through CopyBlogger’s Landing Page Makeover.  Their most recent tutorial covers CarsHelpingAmerica.org.

If you’re a fan of Indie Rock, I highly recommend The Veils – Sun Gangs. Rock out this weekend.

Facebook Universal Search, Visualization, 12Seconds and Landing Page Design is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

The fine folks at the Red Cross are working diligently on crafting a Social Media Policy Handbook.  They’ve got a great start and are light years ahead of even most for-profit businesses. As it should, its available online for your viewing pleasure.

Staying with the non-profit side of things, NPR has a great feature of The Extraordinaries.  Its a micro volunteering iPhone app that allows people to give small blocks of time (< 5 min) and knowledge to a non-profit. Some of the first tasks available are tagging images for the Brooklyn Museum building a map of childhood playgrounds.  It’s a beautiful concept.

SEOMoz updated their SEO Best Practices to account for new industry data.  They clear the air and a lot of confusion in regards to new search engine optimization standards.  The synopsis is H1 tags are not all that necessary anymore, stop trying to sculpt PageRank with nofollow, use footer links, java and flash sparingly, traffic to a site doesn’t determine its ranking and quite a bit more.

Smashing Magazine compiled a great list of web design checklists and resources that will help improve your writing skills.

Rumor has it that Google is experimenting with product ads that would would work very similar to AdWords, but display an image ad along the right hand side of the SERP when the user searches on a particular term.  These ads would run on a pay-per-action basis rather than a pay-per-click (PPC) basis.

Non-Profits Kicking Butt, New SEO Best Practices, Web Design Checklists and Google Advertising Rumors is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!

10 Web Applications for FriendFeed

Social Media Breakfast #6 Memphis and an update from Sharing at Work

Will it Matter in 5 Years?

On Demand WordPress Theme and a nice Thesis Update

The Most Brilliant Outdoor Campaign Ever

How Simple Web Design Helps Your Business and 40 Creative Design Layouts from Smashing Magazine

I also ordered two books: The Leader of the Future 2 and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

What I’m Reading this Week is a post from Bob Hazlett, a digital marketer who writes at One Half Amazing!