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October 2006

Intro to Using AJAX

If you’re new here, you can subscribe to AIM Custom Media News and receive summary updates when new content is published by the editors (no updates, no email, no SPAM). Our blog subscribers also receive some premium content privileges. Thanks for visiting!SitePoint has released a detailed 17-minute video tutorial titled, “An Introduction to AJAX.” Produced [...]

Mastering Website and Blog Content, Resources

For the majority of websites, you'd swear the content evolved from a pool of mud. So how do you become a supreme content guru? What resources are available for writers, PR professionals and marketing managers? What do the experts recommend? And, what are the benefits? It is well known that quality content delivers a [...]

The Role of a Chief Learning Officer

The first official use of the term ‘Chief Learning Officer’ in reference to a position was in 1993.  Ever since then, the CLO role has been creeping into the corporate landscape and org chart.
In an ideal setting, a CLO aligns all of the learning and development activities of the organization with the organization’s strategic goals.  It’s not [...]

Movie Download Services Reviewed

Tired of waiting in lines at the video store? OK, who does that anymore anyway?
If you’re a movie junkie, you’ll want to read TechCrunch’s review of movie download services. Nick Gonzales provides a comprehensive review of Guba, CinemaNow, MovieLink, Amazon Unbox, and iTunes. He also provides a comparison chart for the services reviewed.
[tags] TechCrunch, Movie [...]

Using PR to Improve SEO Results

VIRGINIA, eoecho.com | PR News (Oct. 12): The use of PR to improve search engine optimization (SEO) is off the charts according to a recent survey conducted by Marketing Sherpa, Inc. The marketing strategy known as SEO PR – adding hotlinked press releases to search engine news feeds – is not only popular, it works.
PR [...]

List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available

If you’re looking for website stats, then this resource is pure gold:
SEOmoz Blog | A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
Admitedly, this is an ambitious list, but it’s also a worthwhile one. Below, I’ve attempted to lay the foundation for every piece of website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious. Competitive analysis [...]

Popular Firefox Extensions for Web Pros, Developers

Web developers are using a host of Firefox extensions to improve their efficiency. I use the “Web Developer” extension, which has just about everything within one addon.
Here’s a short-list and brief description of popular Firefox extensions:
HTML Validator
http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/

This is a Mozilla extension that adds HTML validation inside Firefox and Mozilla. The number of HTML errors [...]

Social Meter – Is Your Site Popular? Enter Your URL and Find Out

So you know your site is popular, but you would like some proof. Social meter scans the major social websites to analyze a webpage’s social popularity. Currently they scan Bloglines, Del.icio.us, Digg, Google, [...]