links for 2009-03-12
Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Kimberly in delicious
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Listen up brand managers, have you have been trying to get your organization to experiment social media? Have your efforts been unsuccessful? Well it’s time to reverse the conversation, and explain to your organization that you need to defend your brand and marks within the social media world.
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One of the negative things with blogging is that blogging is mostly focused on new material. You must create new content regularly in a consistent blog posting schedule to keep your readers coming back, commenting on your articles, sharing it to friends.
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This plugin helps you solve duplicate content issues on your site. It's not the cure for all evil, but it will make it easier by preventing tagged URL's from being indexed.
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Mechanical Turk was launched in 2005, with the purpose of completing Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs) for Amazon's internal business processes. Over time, the marketplace for this kind of task completion grew and external companies were allowed to post projects, too. But other than the obscure needs of a handful of businesses, what other uses does Mechanical Turk have? I wondered this when I returned to the site recently to play with the application. I already knew the app could be used for less than great purposes such as spamming and social bookmarking, but I discovered that Mechanical Turk could also be useful for image tagging and transcription, like those from Casting Words.
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Microsoft and IBM, among others, are developing new software to help harried workers be more productive



Kimberly Beaven is a Web Designer and Creative Director of BlueWave Media. She is is truly a gadget girl who loves architecture, photography, design and coding. Learn more via twitter or her Google Profile. If you enjoyed this post, please subscribe to our RSS feed.