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Before you even click that green Create button, think about what you want to accomplish with a contest or competition. Do you want to raise awareness of your brand, introduce a new product or feature, engage and honor your existing customers, increase site traffic and attract new customers? Thinking about your goals will help you define the best type of contest for your business.

born of the multitude of mundane betrayals that mark my every relationship with a man—the casual rape joke, the use of a female slur,

@stukes, many people don't want to "forget about" their links. Some wants stats. Others want bookmarks. And a few want to measure results for companies, clients or themselves. In a "Link Economy," URL shorteners are like receipts.

Oddly enough, what remains of The P-I is also faring better than expected. The Hearst Corporation kept the paper’s Web site alive as a news operation with a small staff, heavily reliant on more than 200 unpaid bloggers who write on things as diverse as their neighborhoods, cooking and marathon running.

Oddly enough, what remains of The P-I is also faring better than expected. The Hearst Corporation kept the paper’s Web site alive as a news operation with a small staff, heavily reliant on more than 200 unpaid bloggers who write on things as diverse as their neighborhoods, cooking and marathon running.

Mindmapping software really lowers the barrier to getting things out of my head and without it the ideas and productivity would simply dry up.

I think Brian Eno was right: "Every collaboration helps you grow."

I think that regional news papers have no other chance in the long run than to become a social community online for their region if they want to succeed.

This dimension of creating demand is one that deserves more attention that it gets. Google can't do it. Yellow Pages can't do it. There's plenty of competition -- radio, TV, cable, other print media, even "if you lived here, you'd be home by now" billboards along the highway. But it's not something you can lose to a smarter algorithm. Not yet, anyway.

If truly concerned about the local business, they would say "what's the thing you make the most profit on? And what can we do to get people to want to buy that?"

Social media for small business is not just about driving sales. The reason customers buy from their local coffee shop over a Starbucks is the quality and culture, social media is a great way of sharing that expertise that might not be revealed in a early morning or lunch time rush lineup.

Online networking tools such as Twitter can be a great customer relationship tool to retain communications with that customer that drops by once for the first time, the person that picks up their signature order every morning at 8 am without fail or the person that had their order mixed up.

a customer obsession which is so easy for me to admire

I think that kind of unique culture is a very significant asset.