The Buzz-o-Meter meets the Quote-of-the-Day in this gem from Steven Marder of Eurekster: "Swickis [Eurekster's social search product] provide navigation and discovery through connection...

Bill Flitter of Pheedo listed these 3 keys to participating in Social Media: 1. Listen and Repsond - with authenticity, compassion, transparency (bzzzzz), integrity and truthfulness 2. T...

Lee Odden of Top Rank Online Marketing shared some best practices for leveraging social media: What Not To Do 1. Submit press releases to social news sites (they don't want to hear from...

Bill Flitter from Pheedo is one of my favorite speakers and moderators, and he's living up to the hype here. He's got a white board on stage and is starting the session by asking for questions from the audience. Some moderators neglect to ask the ...

Having served at program chair for three of these Search Insider Summits now, I'm struck by the relationship of the planned elements to what attendees get out of it. The sessions are a critical part of the show. They bring out brilliant speakers w...

If this were the Zeitgeist-o-Meter (reflecting not just most popular buzzwords but top gainers) then branding would claim the top spot this morning. Interestingly, this hasn't bee...

Roger Barnette (SearchIgnite), Lindsay Rinehart (Avenue A/Razorfish), Maura Lewis (DoubleClick Performics), Chrysi Pilalithes (MIVA) and John Rodkin take on the question of brand and search this morning. Lindsay shares some compelling brand lift m...

Had to go with this one... "Never teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig." -Craig Macdonald, SEMDirector. Craig conjured up this analagy to describe why it's a bad idea to take content/messaging created for the...

So what happens when a week of travel catches up with you and you can't sleep..you say, hey, maybe I'll do a blog post. Aaron and David already did posts on the Search Insiders Tell All panel, but I just wanted to recap that it was a lot of fun an...

It's been a bit of a blogging frenzy this week but limiting conference coverage to plain old text would be oh so boring. There are photos and videos (but more so photos) uploaded daily for your viewing pleasure. Whether it's David Vise channelin...