The International Conference Glocal 2.0: Blogging: Evolution Treated as Revolution invites researchers and practitioners (bloggers) for a discussion and analysis, as well as for sharing thoughts and experiences on the emerging networked society we live in. We invite you to submit a paper proposal in the proposed areas of interest: 1. Blogging and Journalism 2. The information flow within the blogosphere 3. Topical clusters in the blogosphere 1. Topical blogs – sports, culinary, politics, etc. 2. PR blogs and blogs in education 4. Citizen...

Mr. David Reich, Interim Executive Director, IAOC , asked me to publish the announcement regarding the Internet marketing communications education hosted by International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC). IAOC is a nonprofit professional organization devoted to the sharing of knowledge and information among professionals, educators and students in the fields of online public relations and marketing communications. The program is called "This Week on IAOCblog.com" and takes place on www.iaocblog.com from Oct. 15 - Nov.16, 2007. Here is the complete announcement: Subject: Industry Experts Blog Hot Topics in Online Marketing The International Association of Online...

This writing is dedicated to the subject of taking the next level of online reputation, within the use of service level agreements (SLAs). If the responses are positive, I will write the separate articles regarding the particular SLA issues in areas of online PR and Internet marketing. Back to the basics and research... At the IBM Website there is the interesting article about Web services SLA and a competitive market of services, which drives the need for service level agreement adoption: “Many businesses (customers, clients) are demanding service-level agreements (SLAs) that guarantee the reliability of the online services they pay for.[...] SLAs offer service providers a...

In the TY Times article "In a Highly Complex World, Innovation From the Top Down", it is argued about new trends related to Social media: "Armed with inexpensive digital tools and networks, ordinary people can band together to push their own innovations. They also can hijack existing technologies, taking them in directions only dimly envisioned by the original creators." I do not thing that democracy is in open source communities and social media projects/sites, specially when it is about some business model. For example, there are plethora of 5 minutes created Web forums, but count how many of them have more than 1.000 subscribers, and of that number who has the real money from some Web...

Google Universal Search will change the SEO market landscape, and SEO activities has to be spread to variety of digital assets, as it is said by Lee Odden on Online Marketing Blog. I recommend to read the very detailed article about implications of Google Universal Search from Danny Sullivan. In brief, depending on what users search for, the results page on Google Universal Search could feature sections with images, video, links to book content, maps or local business listings. SEO implications for integrated search results were obvious before (this is not a new approach to the presentation of search results), but now, day-to-day activities of SEO people have to be spread with the...