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. . . . To bless means to wish, unconditionally, total, unrestricted good for others and events from the deepest wellspring in the innermost chamber of your heart: it means to hallow, to hold in reverence, to behold with utter awe that which is always a gift from the Creator. He who is hallowed by your blessing is set aside, consecrated, holy, whole. To bless is yet to invoke divine care upon, to think or speak gratefully for, to confer happiness upon - although we ourselves are never the bestower, but simply the joyfull witnesses of Life's abundance . . . .Pierre Pradervand in The Gentle Art of Blessing: Living One's Spirituality in Everyday Life
The latest GMI Poll, found the virtual world of Second Life is a burgeoning market for real-life brands and product promotion. Fifty-six percent of users believe Second Life is a good promotional vehicle. Only 16 percent say they would not be more likely to buy or use a brand that is represented in the Internet-based virtual world.Twenty-four percent of respondents claim they go to Second Life to escape real life, with which they are not satisfied.
Looking for information about VoIP, which uses your computer and your Internet connection to allow you to place voice telephone calls? The Vonage website and forums provide news, reviews and discussion of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) service.
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. . . the last 18 months have seen axes fall on magazines both niche and broad, including Life, Child, Premiere, Elle Girl, FHM, Shop Etc., Teen People, Cargo, Official PlayStation Magazine, Weekend, Celebrity Living, Shape en Espanol and Shock.
What I find most interesting about the lack of connectivity between online and magazines is that little to no progress has been made about using digital extensions that could really elevate the user experience and brand loyalty.
AskPatty.com Moves to Second LifeBuying a car can be traumatizing for women. Whether you are a first-time car buyer or a seasoned buyer who still cringes when having to deal with an automotive salesperson, you need to visit AskPatty.com. On the website, you can search and find An AskPatty certified dealer, a dealership whose management has shown an interest in, and values, the woman who wants to make her own decision about buying a car.
Ask Patty is a comprehensive automotive website for women. While shopping for a vehicle, you can ask questions through the interactive section on Ask Patty’s Second Life Page and receive answers to your questions from the Ask Patty automotive expert panel of women. Find the trade-in value of your car, research safety issues and read automotive news. There is also an AskPatty blog where you may share your experiences with other women.
Teleport to Ask Patty in Second life on Pontiac's Motorati Island. There is a lounge area with music and virtual refreshments. If hanging out with Patty and chatting over virtual treats is not your bag, check out the $50,000 automotive shopping spree, learn about E85 alternative fuel, or get a t-shirt or pin.
Corporations are being forced by law to ensure their customers' personal information is protected, but what are customers - home computer users, like you, doing to protect their personal information? No one can better protect your personal information than you.Read the entire post and then check your computer for virus protection, firewall, spyware, adware and trojan checkers!
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Frequent Cookie Deletion by 3 out of 10 U.S. Internet Users Leads to Overstatements in Audience Sizes by a Factor as High as 2.5comScore released a study that analyzed the validity of using cookie-based data to measure unique visitors; moreover, to estimate the number of unique views of an advertisement. The results? Server logs that count unique cookies to measure unique visitors may be off as high as 2.5, for an overstatement of 150 percent.
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According to Jill Meyers of In-Stat:
In order for a social networking site to be successful, it must attain a critical mass, and competition is fierce to attract new members . . . So far, sites have focused their attention on a younger demographic, which is finite, fickle and limited in expendable incomeIn-Stat's Social Networking: Finding Friends Online report raises an important question: How can social networks best monetize their memberships? eMarketer estimates that 2007 ad spending on MySpace will outstrip spending on all other social networks combined.
One possibility is selling user data:
Each social networking site collects a plethora of personal and demographic data on each member . . . and while selling these data to target marketing groups may be unappealing to site members, it may be the best route to profitability for site operators.
Even Microsoft is offering advice on how to increase social networking ad revenue. The Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions Group commissioned a Metrix Lab study of how social networkers use the sites. The study concluded that creating brand profiles (spaces) that can be forwarded to friends is effective, with a quarter of social networkers posting views on specific ads and a third forwarding spaces, ads or links.
Sounds like Microsoft. Yeah, get a profile, add your picture or avatar. Let us paste our ads all over your profile and then you can send it to your friends. They are so 20th century!
What do you think is the one thing you have to do to be successful in blogging?As standalone entities, each of the key emerging targeting methodologies, demographic (which tells you WHO consumers are), behavioral (which tells you WHAT they like) and contextual (which tells you WHERE they are) each have signal strengths and weaknesses.This is a great article in which Phil Leggiere, (Behaviorial Insider, Wednesday, Apr 18, 2007) asks questions of Tim Vanderhook, CEO of Specific Media, about behavioral targeting.
In the new paradigm there are still three steps, but they're very different. Now it goes more like this. You (the advertiser) tell us what customers you're trying to reach. Then we identify them -- and finally, we report on the content.
Today we've unveiled Blogger translated into: Nederlands, Türkçe, Dansk, Norsk, Svenska, suomi, Русский, and ภาษาไทย. This is in addition to the eleven language choices we already offer, bringing the total to 19!It is funny how we take announcements like the one above, as cool, but routine. Think back 20 years to 1987 and remember the Internet. It was mostly the purview of educational institutions and governmental agencies in the USA.
Below is a list of bloggers who have taken the "no follow" off the comment sections on their blogs or have installed a "do follow" plugin. This means that when your comment is accepted, you will receive the link back to your site.
...Marketers looking to bring men into grocery and value retailers should target direct mail to young bachelors living alone. Similarly, as women become older and gain control over household purchasing decisions, they become more responsive to retail direct mail targeted toward them.Read more results of this study here (PDF).
Very Funny Ads.com is a great website for advertising videos. They have videos from all over the world.
Now this is funny!Here are the top 10 largest social bookmarking sites ranked by a combination of Compete and Quantcast data. For each site, we show unique U.S. monthly visitor data as well as respective rank. For entries where a wide range exists between the two data sets the highest numbers were used for ranking purposes. Although no traffic metrics are completely accurate we do believe the data below to be useful for gauging relative audience size.Well, I guess I backed the wrong social bookmarking site. I use Technorati! I have never heard of some of these sites. Slashdot? Blinklist? Shoutwire?
I love browsing coupon sites like www.mycoupons.com. They have a tag cloud and you may just pick a tag that describes for what you are searching. I just clicked on Dell Outlet and up popped a page that had nothing but Dell coupons: 20% off a digital camera and 10% off $100 purchase.
LoudLaunch - Compensating bloggers for their unbiased opinions, reviews, and analysis. View the LoudLaunch campaign release this post was based on.
Participating brands will benefit from the simplicity and cost-efficiency of the platform and from the cumulative site traffic generated by all brands. Participating ad creators will be able to interact with and expose their work to multiple leading American brands and their agencies at one web addressLook out, YouTube, the game is afoot.
The Carnival of the Blogging Chicks is up at the metablog for Blogging Chicks. The theme is Easter/Passover. Stop by and visit the blogs with posts that interest you. If you would like to join The Blogging Chicks; first, you have to be a chick/woman/female and complete this short form.
