Link round-up (2/12/07)

• Positives About Negative Product Reviews
• Staff Picks: 10 Usability Favorites for 2006
• 39% of Viewers Accept Offers on ‘Thank You’ Pages
• The Substance of Marketing
• 55% Of People Regularly or Always Fake Their Web Identity
• The influence of word of mouth
• Inspiring your user-evangelists
• Experience design is not about brands
• What’s Wrong With Branding?
• Get it together

Link round-up (2/5/07)

• The One Strategy to Crush Your 2007 Email Goals
• The P.T. Barnum Guide to Online Publicity
• How Smart Ads = Smarter Advertising
• It’s in the Details: Seven Secrets of a Successful International Website
• The (Dis)integration of Mass Advertising Creative
• Do corporate-sponsored social networks work?
• New Agenda for Agencies
• 2006 Agency of the Year: Nobody
• The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption
• “Feature frenzy”- 10 tips to getting feature creep under control

Link round-up (1/24/07)

I think we’re going to have to update the old adage “there’s always a bigger fish” to “there’s always a new set of great articles to read on the Internet.”

• Why Instant Messaging is Better for Collaboration than Email
• TRUE BELIEVERS | article abstract
• PREDICTION in 2007 trading in digital will get more integrated with offline
• SiteVista launches a cool email testing service
• Reverse-engineering user reviews
• Microsoft takes email design back 5 years
• New Agenda for Agencies
• Prediction 4: The Advertising Backlash Grows
• How to Write Good Section Overview Pages
• Markup as a Craft

Link round-up (1/23/07)

• Is your online business model a secret?
• Some Random Thoughts on the Biz
• Should writers be held accountable for the performance of the web pages they write?
• public relations is “getting social media all wrong”
• Punk Rock Branding Lessons Vol 3
• Great Marketing is Killed by ADD
• Paper Prototyping
• All about email open rates
• B.L. Ochman’s 12 Tenets of Social Media Marketing
• why so many companies find the whole web 2.0, post-cluetrain world so painful

Link round-up (1/20/07)

• Personalization Desire Outweighs Security Concerns
• How to Grok Web Standards
• Ad Agency Of The Year - It’s You Again
• 30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen
• The Digital Generation Gap
• What’s triggering reviews these days?
• The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles
• Google Truths
• Great Managers End Censorship
• Wrong. It IS a credit card

Link round-up (1/11/07)

Should I start creating some non-link-roundup posts? Hmm…

• Flash and Accessibility
• The Classification of Links
• 15 tips to choose a good text type
• CarMax.com Redux
• Is the internet the only form of mass communication?
• Marketing on MySpace
• Understanding Behavior (hat tip: Jason Macemore)
• Your Customer and You
• The Entrepreneur’s New Year’s Resolution: “I Will Fix My Pitch”
• What’s triggering reviews these days?

Link round-up (1/5/07)

• Transmedia planning & brand communities
• All about “Citizen Marketers”
• Unfolding the Fold (Do Visitors Scroll to the Bottom of the Page?)
• Radical Trust’s Top 10 Social Media Applications
• The Dumbest Guys in the Room
• The Task Analysis Grid
• How to Be Different: “Dominant Selling Idea”
• Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design
• Crutchfield’s Tweak Week: Supporting the Post-Purchase Experience
• My 50 favorite blogging resources

Link round-up (1/4/07)

• In Game Advertising proven Ineffective
• Make Your Brand Part of the Conversation
• Top 7 Freshest Designs of 2006
• Circumventing browser connection limits for fun and profit
• Switchy McLayout: An Adaptive Layout Technique
• New York Times Validates CGM
• Top 7 Freshest Designs of 2006
• “Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
• Your Online Media Room as (free) Search Engine Optimization
• Web 2.0 how-to design style guide

Link round-up (1/3/07)

• One Great Insight is Worth a Thousand Good Ideas
• Consumers Trust Less in Traditional Media, More Online.
• Your “Viral Marketing”: Will it blend?
• Instead of throwing messages at them
• Design Stories: Character counters
• Radical Trust’s Top 10 Social Media Applications
• Design Psychology
• Top 5 myths about workplace stress
• The 50 loudest websites in 2006 and what made them successful
• Five Myths and Six Facts About Blog Advertising

Link round-up (1/2/07)

• In Web Traffic Tallies, Intruders Can Say You Visited Them
• Calling “Bull$#@!” on 3 Marketing Strategies
• The Online Media Room: Your front door for buyers (yes, buyers!)
• Two Ways to Learn More About Second Life
• Expert usability review vs. usability testin
• How to Be Different: Offer “Dramatic Difference”
• The Future of Advertising is Real Time Information (not real time interruption)
• Project Management Made Easy
• Become the thing that replaces you
• BlogKits Matches Writers To Advertisers