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  • SWMSTweet & SWMS Facebook Group: Latest Feeds
    Monday, April 26, 2010 - 11:58

    From our subscriber-only feeds:

    * In a blog post last week, Jeremiah Owyang put his finger on another illness plaguing tech journalism today. See if you agree.

    * Wired.com senior editor Dylan Tweney saw our recent piece on virtual trade shows and contributed his two cents. It was an unexpected comment coming from a Wired guy.

    * Did you ever cut and paste text from a web site that knew you did, and admonished you for doing so? No? Then you've never been to AOL's DailyFinance.com.

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  • SWMS Analysis: MSM Phones It In
    Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 21:00

    We learned a lot this week from the Gizmodo/iPhone affair -- mostly that the blogs kicked MSM's ass.

    Looking for edit leadership? Look to the independents.

  • SWMSTweet: Weeks 4/5/10 and 4/12/10
    Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 13:40

    From our subscriber only feed @SWMSTweet:

  • SWMS Analysis: Twitter Analysis Our Way
    Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 21:00

    It's easy to follow an influencer on Twitter. But don't stop there. Who provides the biggest audience when others reply to that influencer or re-Tweet their material? Even better is to know who a given influencer replies to. That could lead you to entirely new influencers.

  • SWMS Alert: TechTarget Buys B-Eye Network
    Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 21:00

    TechTarget bought the B-eye Network today for an undisclosed sum.

  • SWMS Alert: Wake-Up Call -- Virtual Trade Shows
    Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 21:00


     

    Yes, that's InformationWeek editor-in-chief Rob Preston. Where the hell is he?

  • SWMS Alert: IDG's Social Media Task Force
    Tuesday, April 6, 2010 - 21:00
    Social media is serious business at IDG. Its reporters and editors must excel editorially. Starting in 2010, they also must excel at driving traffic to their stories.
    Says IDG chief content officer John Gallant:
  • SWMS Tweet: Google's Gaither & Eller
    Friday, April 2, 2010 - 11:29

    Spent time yesterday with Google PR's Chris Gaither and Kat Eller to discuss new Google projects...  3/30/09

  • SWMS Tweet & SWMS Online on Facebook: 3/11 – 3/28
    Monday, March 29, 2010 - 08:07

     Back from 2 months of travel, we have lots to catch up on. In case you missed the live feeds blow is the recap:

    PLEASE NOTE SWMS TELECONFERENCE SCHEDULE CHANGE: Mar. 30: Deb Donston and Jason Brooks discuss the new eWeek labs community site. "Social media monitoring tools" now 5/17.

  • SWMS Alert: Alchemy of Web Analytics
    Thursday, March 11, 2010 - 17:15
     Last week we asked Damon Darlin and Vindu Goel about web analytics. How many NYT editorial decisions are software-assisted?