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This is just an example of what is possible when you start to merge the concepts of Web 1.0 SEO and Web 2.0 user generated content.
In the old days, it was all about managing every last word on your own website to “optimize” your site for the search engines. The problem with this is that [...]

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As of midnight last night, Facebook added the new capability of customizing your web address.
Before that your address was a hard to remember series of numbers.
Now it can be as simple as http://www.facebook.com/dave.saunders
Here’s how to make a personal address on Facebook
To claim your name on Facebook, simply visit the address below and follow the instructions [...]

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Fun with Word Clouds

by Dave Saunders on June 4, 2009

I was playing with Word Clouds over at wordle.net and decided to paste chapters from different books into Wordle to see what came out.
Here’s chapter 2 from http://www.davesaunders.net/blog/tgr/.

Ok, that was fun. Here’s the first few pages from the book “Health, Success and Happiness for You.”

Another book “Using Charts to Improve Profits.”

The RSS [...]

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I was speaking to a former personal branding client the other day and I realized that this woman, while worthy, had not taken to heart my advice about keeping her brand current.
This person had worked very hard over a period of more than two years to transform her very highly regarded work experience into [...]

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As the Internet continues to grow and expand social Media Properties like twitter and Facebook have become destination sites for many people.  Fortune 500 companies are even beginning to shift some of their marketing dollars to social media marketing.  Artists and celebrities are also discovering social media.  While some media moguls clearly have no [...]

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There’s a lot of chatter these days.
People are constantly bombarded with communications from dozens of sources, and it doesn’t end when you leave the office.
More than ever, we are persistently on the job.
It’s exhausting. For me personally, I delete hundreds of emails unread every day, because I simply don’t have the time to [...]

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Are you suffering from the effects of continuous partial attention?
While reading an article from 4 Hour Workweek author Tim Ferris, I was struck by how pervasive multitasking has become in our culture and how much damage it is most likely doing to our personal productivity if not our sanity.
Given my background in [...]

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When you think of personal branding, you need to think small. Too many persona; brands are too broad, to vague – and that ends up being confusing to your audience.
It’s one thing to be a renaissance person – to have a lot of interests and skill sets. However, it’s no way to solidify a personal [...]

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Digg has released a new browser extension called DiggBar. It provides a significant uasbility improvement over the previous Digg Toolbar.
If you’re getting sick of toolbars taking up the top portion of your browser, DiggBar should make you happy. As you can see if the video, it only appears when you’re digging a page and [...]

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Social media can be very addictive. The simplicity of sites like Twitter and Facebook make it very easy to “hang out” online for long periods of time. There’s enough eye-candy on YouTube to watch video content for the rest of your life (until Comcast turns off your account for exceeding their bandwidth cap).
Are you a [...]

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