Infographics and data visualizations are all the rage on social media sites these days.  We’ve seen infographics about everything from the best times to post to Twitter and Facebook to interesting facts about farts (seriously!) and everyone goes crazy for them.  A well-crafted and effective infographic can easily draw hundreds (if not thousands) of tweets and likes.  But what exactly makes a well-crafted and effective infographic?  A new motion graphic from data visualization and design firm Col [...]

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I've been thinking a lot about Ragu and the "crisis" they created by tweeting their video to social dads in a very offensive, and spammy, way. Having read what C.C. Chapman (here, here, and here) and Adam Singer and Arik Hanson and Michael Schechter (on this very blog yesterday) wrote, I think everyone is missing [...]

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Oh Netflix. What are we to do with you? On one hand, we're pleased that your CEO, Reed Hastings, apologized by saying he "messed up." On the other hand, we're disturbed that you, by now, don't understand the online world well enough to know you should have checked to see if the name you've chosen [...]

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This guest post is by Chris The Traffic Blogger. Ebooks have played a vital part in my business for all three of the years I have been operating. From free offers to successful products, these handy publications enabled me to earn quite a bit of money in three years, as well as grow an audience [...]

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