Early birds catch the blogworms. Or so suggests research by blogging metrics maniac Dan Zarrella. You have the best chance of getting eyeballs to your posts if you get that content out before 10am US Eastern time. In a recent webinar hosted by Hubspot, Dan unleashed a torrent of findings from his surveys and research [...]

As always, some thought-provoking research is coming out of the Altimeter group around the maturing (and increasingly frustrating) role of the social media strategist. At the crux of Jeremiah Owyang’s report is the notion that the growing challenges of the social media strategist role could push him/her into a reactive corner, just responding to the [...]

Got caught up on a discussion around what screen resolutions most people use these days to view blogs. Made me dig into the trusty Google Analytics to see if I could discover anything for this very blog. This is what I found: Less than 10% of the audience use 1024×768 or less. Given that the [...]

If you’ve ever had a problem losing a blog post to an errant web-based WYSIWYG editor, or have struggled cutting and pasting from an MS Word document into a blog post, then you might want to take Windows Live Writer for a spin.   This small Windows desktop client plays nicely with all the major [...]

I currently use the Wibiya toolbar on Caged Ether to handle all my social bookmarking and to add other cool features such as the ability to instantly talk about my posts here through networks like Twitter. I noticed that they have recently added a social chat feature: I found this intriguing, although not necessarily life-changing. [...]

The SES team in conjunction with Hubspot recently hosted an excellent presentation by Karen Wikre , Google’s Sen ior Manager of Corporate Communications. Karen has been at Google for over 7 years and in that time has played a prominent part in bringing blogs…

The BPI Institute website have an article covering the problems of successfully implementing a business process management  (BPM) solution . Don’t know what a BPM is? Don’t worry – I only have the faintest idea. What was striking were the reasons for…

I manage a small coterie of blogs that on average receive about 20,000 page views per month. Somewhere between 16-19% of these visitors touch the homepage somewhere on their travels. The clear majority actually enter through the homepage. Bottom line: the homepage is pretty damned important. This recently brought me onto an argument on what [...]