1. Best Social Media Marketing Blog – Blue Focus Marketing blog
2. Best Copywriting Blog – Copyblogger
3. Best Optimization Blog – MarketingExperiments Blog
4. Best PPC (pay-per-click advertising) Blog – PPC Hero
5. Best Design Blog – Gnome Flash
6. Best E-commerce Blog – GetElastic
7. Best Email Marketing Blog – AWeber Communications blog
8. Best Marketing Strategy Blog – M4B Marketing blog
9. Best Marketing Operations Blog – Chief Marketing Technologist
10. Best B2B Marketing Blog – Webbiquity
11. Best Viral Marketing Blog – jeffbullas.com
12. Best SEO (search engine optimization) Blog – SEOmoz: The Daily SEO Blog
13. Best Inbound Blog – Kuno Creative blog

Technorati Tags: Email Marketing, Marketing and Advertising, PPC, SEO

Twitter and FaceBook:

• 48% of people check/update FaceBook and/or Twitter after they go to bed
• 18% of people under 25 years old can’t go more than a couple hours without checking in on FaceBook
• 61% of people under 25 have to check in on FaceBook at least once a day
• 11% of people over 25 years old can’t go more than a couple hours without checking in on FaceBook
• 55% of people over 25 have to check in on FaceBook at least once a day
• 16% of people under 25 years old rely on Twitter and/or FaceBook for the morning “news”

iPhone Users:

• 28% of iPhone users check/update Twitter before they get out of bed
• 26% of iPhone users check/update Twitter before they turn on their TV
• 23% of iPhone users rely on Twitter for their morning news

Electronic Messages:

• 11% of people under 25 years old can be interrupted by an electronic message during sex (The number drops to 6% of people over 25 years old)
• 24% of people under 25 can be interrupted by an electronic message while in the bathroom. (This number drops to 12% of people over age 25)
• 49% of people under 25 years old can be interrupted by an electronic message during a meal. (27% for people over 25 years of age)
• 22% of people under 25 years old can be interrupted by an electronic message during a meeting. (11% of people over 25 years of age)

I really think we might need to help the 11% and 24% in the last group.

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• Addicted to Social Media? (stealthmode.com)
• We’re Addicted to Social Networks: 48% of Us Check Them in Bed (pamorama.net)
• We’re Addicted to Social Networks (socialmediatoday.com)
• Commented on “Patrick Curl: Social Media Consultant” (theresabloginmysoup.com)
• We’re addicted to social media, even in bed (sfgate.com)
• We’re addicted to social media, even in bed (seattlepi.com)
• Story of a Social Media Addict (danalookadoo.com)

Technorati Tags: Addiction, Facebook, iPhone, Social Media, Twitter

The folks at ITDatabase took a closer look at how they cover the tech industry and surveyed a group of veterans from major tech PR agencies to see what their experiences were like. The resulting report yielded a few interesting tidbits:

• The New York Times’ David Pogue (@Pogue) and Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) top the most followed tech journalists on Twitter while NY Times’ Motoko Rich and Bit blogger Jenna Wortham get retweeted much more often (500 and 331 times per post on average respectively).
• According to the tech PR veterans surveyed, 46.4% thought that that business press tech coverage is worse than it was five years ago. Only 25% thought it was better.
• Business success is not an indicator of press coverage see how Twitter and Facebook rule the total number of clippings along with Google, Apple and Microsoft.

Intriguing research if you are interested in tech PR.

=hyperlink(”URL”,”Hyperlinked  Text”)

Beyond that to indicate a cell is hyperlinked you need to format it yourself or the cell will simply appear as having text in the box with no link. Mousing over gives you a little indicator that the cell is a link but you probably would want to format the text with a blue color and underline so you know that it’s a link. My other pet peeve is that the context sensitive help doesn’t indicate that you need the quotes around your pair so entering the example:

=hyperlink(www.socializedSoftware.com, Socialized Software)

This would yield an #ERROR!. See the example below for some of the things I am talking about.

Okay I am done griping it has just been a very big inconvenience for me today.  I hope this helps someone.

via  Copyblogger on Twitter.

Technorati Tags: Humor, marketing