Archive: January2011

Social Media Icons: Craig Kanalley on Twitter & breaking news

Craig Kanalley is the Huffington Post’s senior editor of traffic and trends. Previously Craig launched BreakingTweets.com and taught the nation’s first college class about Twitter. We recently spoke with Craig via email about how to use Twitter effectively during breaking news stories.

Yelp launches Yelp Deals in Chicago, Groupon’s hometown

Today Yelp, the social network for local business reviews, launched its first Yelp Deal in Chicago. Chicago is home to Groupon, the deal-of-the-day website that is now reportedly valued at $15 billion.

Ask an SEO: What are your best SEO tips for businesses?

This week, we turned to our peers on Twitter and asked for their best SEO tips for business owners–in under 140 characters, of course.

Content Strategy 101: What your business needs to know

It is essential to develop a content strategy for your online marketing campaign. We recently spoke with the authors of The Content Rules about why content strategy is so important and what steps every business should take.

Social Media Icon: @JayRosen_NYU explains how he tweets

Jay Rosen teaches journalism at NYU and is a leading media critic.He has almost 50,000 followers on Twitter. We recently spoke via email about Jay’s personal twitter strategy and the platform’s impact on the media.