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Tune Your Brand Content Strategy for Success with Google Hummingbird

The Hummingbird is known not only for its hum-like chirp but also for its love of sweet nectar. But thanks to Google, it may also now be known in the digital world for its love of high-quality content. Earlier this month, Google unfurled the biggest change to its search engine since the company launched 15 years ago.The Hummingbird update brings about major changes to the way Google ranks search results. Hummingbird makes it more important than ever before for brands to hone their content marketing to draw users (and the Hummingbird) into deeper brand engagement.Read More >> BOB GOODMAN

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Videos for SMBs: Don't Be Intimidated

Creating a business video has never been easier. Vine and Instagram let business owners become mini-James Camerons by shooting 6-second and 15-second videos with a smartphone. And longer form videos (30 seconds to 60 seconds) need not break the bank, as video creation services such as Animoto.com enable content creators to make unlimited videos for less than the price of an iPad mini, a small fraction of the $5,000 that a professionally produced video would cost. Yet challenges remain for small and medium business owners who want reasonably priced, quality video on their websites. Small and medium businesses (SMBs) are wary of video, afraid that it will cost too much and not turn out the way they expected it to.Read More >> MON 28 OCTOBER 2013 | ROBERT SPRINGER

EContent Live: Jose Castillo, Val Swisher, and Scott Abel

Join content experts Val Swisher, Scott Abel, and Jose Castillo to talk about global content strategy, iPad Air, and whether or not news bundles are worth paying for. Read More >> FRI 25 OCTOBER 2013

Maintaining Digital Communities During a Crisis

Social media stops for no man, but what if resources are suddenly scarce due to an unforeseen crisis? Here are four things you can do to keep digital communities humming along even if the "front office" is temporarily closed.Read More >> WED 23 OCTOBER 2013 | JESSICA PAYNE

How HuffPost Live Is Changing the Social Video Model

In August of 1981, a fledgling cable TV channel launched that forever changed music, television, advertising, marketing, and pop culture. The format was pretty simple: play popular videos around the clock that are introduced and commented on by live hosts and fill around the edges with original programming. Now, 32 years after MTV's arrival, the focus is on social, not music videos, and another revolution is underway that may completely redefine how we think about, consume, and interact with live and prerecorded visual content-courtesy of HuffPost Live (HPL).Read More >> MON 21 OCTOBER 2013 | ERIK J. MARTIN

A Vertical Guide to Content Marketing

Content marketing is becoming an increasingly important part of the marketing strategy for companies across a wide variety of industries. Establishing yourself as a source of authoritative content is more important than ever on the web, but each industry has its own challenges, concerns, and potential benefits when it comes to content marketing. Jessica Davis of Godot Media has addressed these issues in an ongoing series of posts on econtentmag.com. In this article, we have highlighted some of Davis' best advice for four of the most prominent industries in content marketing, but no matter your industry, many of these tips will help make you a better marketer.Read More >> FRI 18 OCTOBER 2013 | JESSICA DAVIS

Fortune 100 Mobile "Report Card" Provides Insights into Mobile Best Practices

As the migration of consumers from desktop to mobile devices continues with little indication of abating, it remains as much of a concern as ever for companies to represent their products, services, and brands in a mobile environment. The Search Agency, a global online marketing firm founded in 2002 and based in Los Angeles, delivered a progress report on the country's biggest companies' mobile presence-in the interest of providing a rubric of best practices and mistakes to companies of all sizes-with its "Mobile Experience Scorecard: Fortune 100 Companies" report.Read More >> FRI 18 OCTOBER 2013 | MICHAEL LOPRESTI

Is News Bundling the Answer to Failing Paywalls? Jeff Bezos Thinks So

With his recent acquisition of the Washington Post, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos believes he can persuade readers to pony up for a daily bundle of news on a tablet, similar to traditional print bundles. "People will buy a package. They will not pay for a story," Bezos said recently during a meeting with editors and reporters. If his plan works, it could serve as a viable business strategy for other digital publishers going forward-especially if paywalls aren't working and if those news bundles are personalized for readers, say the experts.Read More >> WED 16 OCTOBER 2013 | ERIK J. MARTIN

Next-Generation White Papers: Content Marketing With Ebooks

Remember the days when the white paper was the go-to (if not only) content marketing tool? Those days are such a distant memory that the term "content marketing" didn't even exist during the white paper's heyday in the 1990s. In its place have emerged a whole array of content channels-blogs, magazines, videos, social networking campaigns, and so on-and a new collective term for them, that delivers dynamic and engaging branded information, the ultimate intention of which is to drive sales. Read More >> MON 14 OCTOBER 2013 | MICHAEL LOPRESTI

An Interview with Mia Quagliarello, Head of Curation, Flipboard

As head of curation for Flipboard--which allows users to easily create, edit, and share magazines using content from the web--Mia Quagliarello works to make great content easily discoverable to readers all over the world. "When news breaks, we curate magazines that go deep into current events, with content from different platforms and media types. We might include articles from The New York Times and the BBC, prominent tweets, photos on Instagram, and videos from YouTube," Quagliarello says. She also manages Flipboard's company blog, for which she sometimes gets to interview thought-leaders and celebrities, including Larry King and Jessica Alba. "I also contribute to our social media posts, and create tutorial videos that explain how to use Flipboard," Quagliarello says.Read More >> FRI 11 OCTOBER 2013 | NANCY DAVIS KHO

4shared: A Case of Complex Ad Serving

In order to support its mission to provide free hosting, 4shared sells advertising, allowing companies to capitalize on 4shared's roughly 132 million visitors per month. However, running a variety of dynamic advertising campaigns was proving to be a problem. Dealing directly with advertisers as well as with ad servers was too labor-intensive, and the company needed a better solution.Read More >> WED 09 OCTOBER 2013 | THERESA CRAMER
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